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Les Diverses leçons de Loys Guyon (...) suivans celles de Pierre Messie (...)
Avant que clorre ce chapitre, je veux amener deux experiences de l'efficace de la Musique, que j'ay veu practiquer sur deux Damoiselles, l'une desquelles estoit de la Marche, près de Garet, jeune, vertueuse, & de passable beauté, qui tomba en telle furie, par un rapport qu'on luy avoit fait, que son…
Tags: extraordinary cures, love, lovesickness, melancholy, music, music therapy
To this grave doctor millions do resort
Satirical broadside on folly that is to be found in all ranks of society: the interior of an apothecary's shop, with the doctor purging with a dose of wisdom a countryman seated on a close-stool who defecates foolish notions represented by asses and geese; a wealthy city merchant waits to be given a dose of…
Tags: alchemy, broadsheet, delusion, extraordinary cures, melancholy
Discours des maladies mélancoliques
The most pleasent dotage [madness] that ever I read, was of one Sienois, a Gentleman, who had resolved with himself not to piss, but to die rather, and that because he imagined, that when he first pissed, all his town would be drowned. The Physicians showing him, that all his body, and ten thousand more such as his,…
Discours des maladies mélancoliques et du moyen de les guérir
Par tous ces signes ce grand Medecin Erasistrate recogneut la passion d’Antiochus fils du Roy Seleucus, qui s’en alloit mourant de l’amour de Stratonique sa belle mere, car le voyant rougir, pallir, redoubler ses souspirs, & changer si souvent de pouls à la seule veüe de Stratonique,…
La Maladie d'Antiochus
Type: Still Image
Author:Lairesse, Gérard de
Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rate rises whenever he sees her. Engraving by P. Baquoy (1759-1829) after a drawing prepared A. Desenne (1785-1827) itself based on a painting by G. de Lairesse (1640-1711).