A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

As to Diet, it must as Physic be fitted to the case of the body.

As to Diet, it must as Physick be fitted to the case of the body.

The Disease is sometimes in dry bodies, and sometime in those that are moist and fat. It is sometime in overheated blood, and sometime in that which is overcold and sluggish; And these must have quite different cures. You may thus perceive the differences in the main: One sort of Melancholy Persons are only sad, misgiving, fearful of troubled thoughts, despairing, as undone, and solitary musing, and cannot be satisfied and comforted, much silent and dull to action, and will hardly stir, rather over cold, than hot, troubled with wind and ill digestion.

The Disease is sometimes in dry bodies, and sometime in those that are moist and fat. It is sometime in overheated blood, and sometime in that which is overcold and sluggish; And these must have quite different cures. You may thus perceive the differences in the main: One sort of Melancholly Persons are only sad, misgiving, fearful of troubled thoughts, despairing, as undone, and solitary musing, and cannot be satisfied and comforted, much silent and dull to action, and will hardly stir, rather over cold, than hot, troubled with wind and ill dige••ion.

But there is another sort that have overheated blood, that are fierce, talkative, bold, boasting, laughing, that have seeming visions and raptures, unruly, confident, and these must have another manner of remedy, and are almost mad already.