Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. AdamsDiseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams

Head-ache is divers, say Physicians, according to the causes; proceeding some of cold, some of hot; of dryness, of moisture, of blood, of choler, of flegme, windiness, drunkenness, of an offending stomach. There is an Head-ache called the Megrim, Hemicrania, possessing lightly one side of the Head, and distinguished by a seam that runs along in the skull. There is a disease in the Soul not unlike this, and they that labour of it, are called Brain-sick men. They may have some pretty understanding in part of their heads, but the other part is strangely sick of crochets, singularities, and toyish inventions; wherein because they frolic themselves, they think all the world fools that admire them not. They are ever troubling themselves with unnecessary thoughtfulness of long or short, white or black, round or square; confounding their wits with Geometrical dimensions, & studying of Measure out of measure. A square cap on another mans head, puts their head out of square, and they turn their brains into dry wool, with storming against a garment of linen. New Albutij to moot the reasons, why if a Cap fell down, it brake; if a Sponge, it brake not; why Eagles fly, and not Elephants. There be such students in the Schools of Rome; what shall be done with an Ass, if he get into the Church to the Font uncovered, and drink the water of Baptism: upon the strange hazard of a Clerk's negligence, and an Asses thirst entering the Church, which are uncertain, ⟨p. 4⟩they make themselves Asses in certain. Or if a hungry Mouse filch the Body of our Lord, &c. Brave wits to invent Mouse-traps. These curiosities in humane, but much more in divine things, prove men brain-sick.