This was Aristotle's opinion (De Part. Anim. II. 7), refuted by Galen, who, like Plato, made the brain the seat of the soul and the generator of the animal spirits. See II. p. [45].
Page 100, ll. 112, 114. Gold is Restorative ... 'tis cordiall. 'Most men say as much of gold, and some other minerals, as these have done of precious stones. Erastus still maintaineth the opposite part, Disput. in Paracelsum, cap. 4, fol. 196, he confesseth of gold, that it makes the heart merry, but in no other sense but as it is in a miser's chest:
——at mihi plaudo
——simulac nummos contemplor in arcâ
as he said in the poet: it so revives the spirits, and is an excellent receipt against melancholy,
For gold in phisik is a cordial,
Therefore he lovede gold in special.'
Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. 2, Sub. 4.
Elegie XII.
Page 101, l. 37. And mad'st us sigh and glow: 'sigh and blow' has been the somewhat inelegant reading of all editions hitherto.