3. Or, take daily an ounce of distilled vinegar.
4. Or, boil juice of ground ivy with sweet oil and white wine into an ointment. Shave the head anointed therewith, and chafe it in, warm, every other day for three weeks; bruise also the leaves and bind them on the head, and give three spoonfuls of the juice warm every morning.
☞ This generally cures melancholy. The juice alone taken twice a day will cure.
5. Or, electrify. Tried.
For Raving Madness:
1. It is a sure rule that all madmen are cowards, and may be conquered by binding only, without beating (Dr. Mead). He also observes that blistering the head does more harm than good. Keep the head close shaved, and frequently wash it with vinegar.
2. Apply to the head clothes dipt in cold water.
3. Or, set the patient with his head under a great waterfall, as long as his strength will bear; or pour water on his head out of a tea-kettle.
4. Or, let him eat nothing but apples for a month.
5. Or, nothing but bread and milk. Tried."