Here's another good one:
"When the weather is myelde and calme, and the Countrey temperate, I
myslike not (as touchinge healthynesse of body) shavingeg of the crowne
of the head. For thereby grosse vapours which hurt the Memory have more
scope and liberty to evaporate and fume out."
Levitus Lemnius (1561)
Lemnius, L. 1561, The touchstone of complexions. Translated R. Hunter &
I. Macalpine, eds, 1963, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry: 1535-1860,
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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