Empirics have a myriad of medicines, as to swallow a bullet of lead, etc., which I voluntarily omit. Amatus Lusitanus, cent. 4, curat. 54, for an hypochondriacal person that was extremely tormented with wind, prescribes a strange remedy. Put a pair of bellows' end into a clyster pipe, and applying it into the fundament, open the bowels, so draw forth the wind, natura non admittit vacuum [nature does not allow a vacuum]. He vaunts he was the first invented this remedy, and by means of it speedily eased a melancholy man. Of the cure of this flatuous melancholy, read more in Fienus, de flatibus, cap. 26, et passim alias [and elsewhere passim].

Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Second Partition (The Cure of Melancholy) - Cure of the Hypochondriacal Melancholy - Correctors to expel Wind. Against Costiveness, etc.