Pleasant at first, hardly discerned; afterwards harsh and
intolerable, if inveterate.  Hence some make three
degrees,
1. Falsa cogitatio.
2. Cogitata loqui.
3. Exequi loquutum.

By fits, or continuate, as the object varies, pleasing,
or displeasing.

Simple, or as it is mixed with other diseases, apoplexies, gout, caninus
appetitus, &c. so the symptoms are various.

[Symbol:  Cancer] Particular symptoms to the three distinct species. Sect. 3.  Memb. 2.

Head melancholy. Subs. 1.

      In body
          Headache, binding and heaviness, vertigo, lightness, singing of
          the ears, much waking, fixed eyes, high colour, red eyes, hard
          belly, dry body; no great sign of melancholy in the other parts.

      Or In mind. 
          Continual fear, sorrow, suspicion, discontent, superfluous cares,
          solicitude, anxiety, perpetual cogitation of such toys they are
          possessed with, thoughts like dreams, &c.

  Hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy. Subs. 2.

      In body
          Wind, rumbling in the guts, bellyache, heat in the bowels,
          convulsions, crudities, short wind, sour and sharp belchings,
          cold sweat, pain in the left side, suffocation, palpitation,
          heaviness of the heart, singing in the ears, much spittle, and
          moist, &c.

      Or In mind. 
          Fearful, sad, suspicious, discontent, anxiety, &c.  Lascivious by
          reason of much wind, troublesome dreams, affected by fits, &c.

  Over all the body. Subs. 3.

      In body
          Black, most part lean, broad veins, gross, thick blood, their
          hemorrhoids commonly stopped, &c.

      Or In mind. 
          Fearful, sad, solitary, hate light, averse from company, fearful
          dreams, &c.

  Symptoms of nuns, maids, and widows melancholy, in body and mind, &c.
  [Subs. 4]

  A reason of these symptoms. Memb. 3.

      Why they are so fearful, sad, suspicious without a cause, why
        solitary, why melancholy men are witty, why they suppose they hear
        and see strange voices, visions, apparitions.

      Why they prophesy, and speak strange languages; whence comes their
        crudity, rumbling, convulsions, cold sweat, heaviness of heart,
        palpitation, cardiaca, fearful dreams, much waking, prodigious
        fantasies.

C. Prognostics of melancholy. Sect. 4.

  Tending to good, as
      Morphew, scabs, itch, breaking out, &c. 
      Black jaundice. 
      If the hemorrhoids voluntarily open. 
      If varices appear.