which the body works on the mind, and this malady
is caused by precedent diseases; as agues, pox,
&c., or temperature, innate Subs. 1.
Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart,
spleen, liver, mesentery, pylorus, stomach &c.
Subs. 2.
Particular to the three species. See [Symbol: Gemini].
[Symbol: Gemini] Particular causes. Sect. 2. Memb. 5.
Of head Melancholy are Subs. 3.
Inward
Innate humour, or from temperature adjust.
A hot brain, corrupted blood in the brain
Excess of venery, or defect
Agues, or some precedent disease
Fumes arising from the stomach, &c.
Or Outward
Heat of the sun, immoderate
A blow on the head
Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlic, onions, hot baths,
overmuch waking, &c.
Idleness, solitariness, or overmuch study, vehement labour, &c.
Passions, perturbations, &c.
Of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy are, [Subs. 4.]
Inward
Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomach, mesentery, miseraic
veins, liver, &c.
Months or hemorrhoids stopped, or any other ordinary evacuation
or Outward
Those six non-natural things abused.
Over all the body are, Subs. 5.
Inward
Liver distempered, stopped, over-hot, apt to engender melancholy,
temperature innate.
or Outward
Bad diet, suppression of hemorrhoids &c. and such evacuations,
passions, cares, &c. those six non-natural things abused.
[Symbol: Taurus] Necessary causes, as those six non-natural things, which are, Sect. 2 Memb. 2.
Diet offending in Subs. 1.
Substance
Bread; course and black, &c.
Drink; thick, thin, sour, &c.
Water unclean, milk, oil, vinegar, wine, spices &c.
Flesh
Parts: heads, feet, entrails, fat, bacon, blood, &c.
Kinds:
Beef, pork, venison, hares, goats, pigeons, peacocks,
fen-fowl, &c.
Herbs, Fish, &c.
Of fish; all shellfish, hard and slimy fish, &c.
Of herbs; pulse, cabbage, melons, garlic, onions, &c.
All roots, raw fruits, hard and windy meats
Quality, as in
Preparing, dressing, sharp sauces, salt meats, indurate, soused,
fried, broiled or made-dishes, &c.
Quantity
Disorder in eating, immoderate eating, or at unseasonable times,
&c. Subs. 2 Custom; delight, appetite, altered, &c. Subs. 3.
Retention and evacuation, Subs. 4. Costiveness, hot baths, sweating, issues stopped, Venus in excess, or in defect, phlebotomy, purging, &c.
Air; hot, cold, tempestuous, dark, thick, foggy, moorish, &c. Subs. 5.
Exercise, Subs. 6. Unseasonable, excessive, or defective, of body or mind, solitariness, idleness, a life out of action, &c.
Sleep and waking, unseasonable, inordinate, overmuch, overlittle, &c.
Subs. 7.
Memb. 3. Sect. 2.
Passions and perturbations of the mind, Subs. 1. With a digression of the force of imagination. Subs. 2. and division of passions into Subs. 3.
Irascible,
Sorrow, cause and symptom, Subs. 4. Fear, cause and symptom, Subs. 5. Shame, repulse, disgrace, &c. Subs. 6. Envy and malice, Subs. 7. Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, Subs. 8. Anger a cause, Subs. 9. Discontents, cares, miseries, &c. Subs. 10.
or concupiscible.
Vehement desires, ambition, Subs. 11. Covetousness, [Greek: philargurian], Subs. 12. Love of pleasures, gaming in excess, &c. Subs. 13. Desire of praise, pride, vainglory, &c. Subs. 14. Love of learning, study in excess, with a digression, of the misery of scholars, and why the Muses are melancholy, Subs. 15.
B. Symptoms of melancholy are either Sect. 3.
General, as of Memb. 1.
Body, as ill digestion, crudity, wind, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heaviness, and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c., Subs. 1.
or Mind
Common to all or most.
Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspicion, jealousy,
discontent, solitariness, irksomeness, continual cogitations,
restless thoughts, vain imaginations, &c. Subs. 2.
Or Particular to private persons, according to Subs. 3. 4. Celestial influences, as [Symbol: Saturn] [Symbol: Jupiter] [Symbol: Mars], &c. parts of the body, heart, brain, liver, spleen, stomach, &c.
Humours
Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating
on plays, women, music, &c.
Phlegmatic, slothful, dull, heavy, &c.
Choleric, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see
strange apparitions, &c.
Black, solitary, sad; they think they are bewitched,
dead, &c.
Or mixed of these four humours adust, or not adust,
infinitely varied.
Their several customs, conditions, inclinations, discipline,
&c.
Ambitious, thinks himself a king, a lord; covetous, runs on his money; lascivious on his mistress; religious, hath revelations, visions, is a prophet, or troubled in mind; a scholar on his book, &c.
Continuance of time as the humour is intended or remitted,
&c.
Pleasant at first, hardly discerned; afterwards harsh and
intolerable, if inveterate. Hence some make three
degrees,
1. Falsa cogitatio. 2. Cogitata loqui. 3. Exequi loquutum.
By fits, or continuate, as the object varies, pleasing,
or displeasing.
Simple, or as it is mixed with other diseases, apoplexies, gout, caninus appetitus, &c. so the symptoms are various.
[Symbol: Cancer] Particular