Oliva Sabuco, Nueva filosofia de la naturaleza del hombre (read in the fourth Madrid impression, 1728)

A treatise on human nature published under the name of Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera of Alcaraz, dedicated to Philip II, still being reprinted at Madrid a century and a half later. It argues that sadness makes a juice fall from the brain and dries people up without fever, and asks the king to try its doctrine for one year against two thousand years of Hippocrates and Galen. The impression read is expurgated by order of the Holy Office.