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.

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.

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