ABSTRACT
Jacques Ferrand was a French physician famous for his treatise on lovesickness, Traicte de l’essence et guerison de l’amour ou de la melancholie erotique. For the prevention of any disease, it is necessary, saith Galen, in the first place, to remove the disposition of the body, which is nothing else but the internal cause of the disease: and which cannot be rooted out, except the external cause, that nourishes and preserves it, bee first taken away. Vitruvius says, that the length of the face from the end of the chinne, to the top of the forehead, is the tenth part of a mans height. For the Senate having forbidden them to further themselves, and threatening them, that if they did, their naked bodies should be exposed to the open view of all men: they changed their Minds, and by this means were deterred from running mad up and own the streets, or being their own Executioners.
