In diseases, consider Sect. 1.  Memb. 1.

  Their Causes. Subs. 1.

      Impulsive;
          Sin, concupiscence, &c.

      Instrumental;
          Intemperance, all second causes, &c.

Or Definition, Member, Division. Subs. 2.

Of the body 300, which are
Epidemical, as Plague, Plica, &c. 
Or Particular as Gout, Dropsy, &c.

Or Of the head or mind. Subs. 3.
In disposition; as all perturbations, evil affection, &c. 
Or Habits, as Subs. 4.
Dotage
Frenzy. 
Madness. 
Ecstasy. 
Lycanthropia. 
Chorus sancti Viti. 
Hydrophobia. 
Possession or obsession of Devils. 
Melancholy.  See [Symbol:  Aries].

[Symbol:  Aries] Melancholy:  in which consider

Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c. Subsect. 5.

Memb. 2.
To its explication, a digression of anatomy, in which observe parts of
Subs. 1.
Body hath parts Subs. 2.
contained as
Humours, 4.  Blood, Phlegm, &c. 
Spirits; vital, natural, animal.

or containing
Similar; spermatical, or flesh, bones, nerves, &c. Subs. 3.
Dissimilar; brain, heart, liver, &c. Subs. 4.

Soul and its faculties, as
Vegetal. Subs. 5.
Sensible. Subs. 6, 7, 8.
Rational. Subsect. 9, 10, 11.

Memb. 3.
Its definition, name, difference, Subs. 1.
The part and parties affected, affection, &c. Subs. 2.
The matter of melancholy, natural, &c. Subs. 3.
Species, or kinds [Subs. 4.], which are
Proper to parts, as
Of the head alone, hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy.  Of the
whole body.
with their several causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures

Or Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the third
Partition.

Its Causes in general. Sect. 2. A.
Its Symptoms or signs. Sect. 3. B.
Its Prognostics or indications. Sect. 4. C.
Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition.

A. Sect. 2. Causes of Melancholy are either

General, as Memb. 1.

Supernatural
As from God immediately, or by second causes. Subs. 1.

Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of
spirits and devils. Subs. 2.

Or mediately, by magicians, witches. Subs. 3.

Or Natural

Primary, as stars, proved by aphorisms, signs from physiognomy,
metoposcopy, chiromancy. Subs. 4.

Or Secondary, as

Congenite, inward from
Old age, temperament, Subs. 5.
Parents, it being an hereditary disease, Subs. 6.

Or Outward or adventitious, which are
Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as,
Necessary, see [Symbol:  Taurus].