The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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.

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