I Have a Friend at London, whose Son is under your Care for the Cure of his Melancholly: I am glad he is under the Management of so Experienced a Physi­tian. I hear you have Blooded him several times, and shaved his Head, and Blistered [Page 4] him, and given him many Purges, which I believe are very proper: I beg leave to re­commend an Admirable Specifick in this Di­stemper, and that is the Banella's which come to us from the Indies, a Tincture, Spirit and Extract drawn out of them are of excellent Use in this young Man's Case.

They have been often tryed, and found serviceable, when other Means and Methods have failed: They wonderfully chear the Heart, and relieve the Animal Spirits, when oppress'd with Hypocondriacal Fumes from the Spleen. They refine the Blood, and clear the Brain, and disperse Melancholly Winds and black Humours, which if let a­lone would end in distraction.

A Minister about Fifty Years of Age, a Grave, Serious and Devout Man, who fell into profound Melancholly, occasion'd by hard Study and deep thoughts about the Pro­phetical part of Scripture, relating unto the future State of the Church. He could re­member whole Nights wherein he had not [Page 5] slept, and whole Weeks wherein he had not Dined: He had been let Blood several times in the Jugular Veins with a Lancet, and in the Hemorroide Veins with Leaches; his Head shaved, and Anointed with Cephalick Oyls; he had been Vomitted and Purged very of­ten, and taken Mineral Waters, but all in vain; at length I gave him the Banella Mixture in Whey for one Month, and he is perfectly Recover'd, and Preaches very judiciously and vigorously, to the great Satisfaction of his Auditory.

A young Gentlewoman who had a very great Respect for a Person whom her Rela­tions had no good Opinion of, being unwil­ling to Disoblige her Friends, and yet desi­rous to comply with her own Inclinations, she fell into great Melancholly, and that sower'd her Blood, and caused Obstructions, and altered the whole Habit of the Body, and brought her into a Consumptive lan­guishing Condition: Much Advice was ta­ken for her, and many Methods prescribed by Learned Physitians, at length she was told [Page 6] of this Specifick Mixture, and took it three Months together in Spaw-Waters, and sometimes in Purging Waters, and she is now in a good State of Health of Body, and en­joys great Tranquility of Mind.

A Gentleman of a tender Mind and Reli­gious Disposition, upon the Breach of a Vow and Scruples of Conscience, was attended with great Melancholly, which at length de­generated into a Maniacal Distemper of the Brain, wherein the Spiritous Parts of the Nervous Juice being debased, and the Saline parts exalted, and brought to a Fluor, which which being mixed with Sulpherous Particles, derived from feculent Blood, at length produ­ced delirous Phantasms and depraved Imagi­nations, which perverted his Understanding, and qualified him for Bedlam every Full Moon; and indeed which made him the more subject to Relapses into his Distemper, was its being somewhat Hereditary on the Mothers side; yet notwithstanding this fre­quent returns, and great Rage and Disorder of the Animal Spirits, this Person was Cured [Page 7] by the use of the Mixture, and now con­tinues cloathed in his right Mind, to the Praise of the Omnipotent Physitian.

An Ancient Gentlewoman, whose Husband fell into a Decay in his Estate, was much disappointed thereby, and hereby her Mind much disturbed, which totter'd her Under­standing, which at some certain times put her upon very unseemly extravagant Actions and Discourses, very disagreeable unto her former Pious ane Prudent Behaviour, to the great Grief of her Children, and other Rela­tions. Much Advise was taken, and all to no purpose; at length I resolved to give her the Specifick Mixture of the Spirit, Tin­cture and Extract drawn out of the Banellas Bean; for its shape it resembles a French Bean, and contains a Seed as that doth, and was much used in Chocolate, but being dear, is frequently left out of late, as the Makers of it tell us. I gave this Gentlewoman Morn­ing, Noon and Night 30 Drops of this Mix­ture at a time, she took it in small Beer six Months, and thro' God's Mercy it brought [Page 8] her to the free Exercise of her Reason. I could give many more Examples if it were needfull.