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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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8. If other means will not do, neglect not Physic; and though they will be averse to it, as believing that the Disease is only in the mind they must be persuaded or forced to it. I have known the Lady deep in Melancholy, who a long time would neither speak nor take Physic, nor endure her Husband to go out of the room; and with the restraint and grief he dyed, and she was cured by Physic put down her throat with a Pipe by force.
8. If other means will not do, neglect not Physick; and though they will be averse to it, as believing that the Disease is only in the mind they must be perswaded or forced to it. I have known the Lady deep in Melancholly, who a long time would neither speak nor take Physick, nor endure her Husband to go out of the room; and with the restraint and grief he dyed, and she was cured by Physick put down her •hroat with a Pipe by force.
If it were as some of them fancy, a possession of the Devil, its possible Physic might cast him out: For if you cure the Melancholy, his Bed is taken away, and the advantage gone by which he worketh: Cure the Choler and the Choleric Operations of the Devil cease. It is by means and humours in us that he worketh.
If it were as some of them fancy, a possession of the Devil, its possible Phisick might cast him out: For if you cure the Melancholly, his Bed is taken away, and the advantage gone by which he worketh: Cure the Choler and the Cholerick Operations of the Devil cease. It is by means and humours in us that he worketh.
But choose a Physician that is specially skilled in this Disease, and hath cured many others; meddle not with Women and ignorant boasters; nor with young, unexperienced men, nor with hasty, busy, overdoing, venturous men, that cannot have time to study the Patients Temper and Disease; but choose experienced, cautelous men.