Not necessary,
as M. 4. S. 2.
Nurses, Subs. 1.
Education, Subs. 2.
Terrors, affrights, Subs.
3.
Scoffs, calumnies, bitter
jests, Subs. 4.
Loss of liberty, servitude,
imprisonment, Subs.
5.
Poverty and want, Subs.
6.
A heap of other accidents,
death of friends,
loss, &c. Subs. 7._
Or Contingent, inward,
antecedent, nearest. Memb. 5.
Sect. 2.
In 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.