A new book entitled the government of health
1558 AD
WILLIAM BULLEIN ( ?-1576)
Divine, physician and botanist

1. In 1558 AD, William Bullein stated that coveting, love and greed are the cause of madness, and he clearly rejects madness as having a physical cause. He says that talking it the only hope a cure: "The syckenes of the body must have medicine, the passions of the mind, must have good counsel. What pleasure hath a condemned man in music, or a dead man in phisicke? Nothing at all God knoweth. 0 'how many men have been caste away by thought, and most for loss of estimation, and some of other affections of the mind, as inordinate love, or coveting things that they can not gain, or obtaining those things that they can not keep, or ire of men's prosperity or good happy." (William Bullein, A new book entitled the government of health, 1558 AD)

WILLIAM BULLEIN ( ?-1576)

Divine, physician and botanist

FOR THE PASSIONS OF THE MYNDE GOOD COUNSEL

The great pains and secrete grieves that disquieted minds, do daily sustain, bee not muche unlike unto the infernal torments, that the wicked do feel: Physicke unto an extreme troubled mind (say what they list:) helpeth as little, as to apply a plaister to the breaste, or head, of a dead body, to revocate the spirites of life or soul again. The syckenes of the body must have medicine, the passions of the mind, must have good counsel. What pleasure hath a condemned man in music, or a dead man in phisicke? Nothing at all God knoweth. 0 'howe many men have bene caste awaye by thoughte, and moste for losse of estimacion, and some of other affections of the mind, as inordinate love, or coveting things that they can not gain, or obtaining those things that they can not keep, or ire of men's prosperity or good happy.

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