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.