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Robert Burton

This educated and multi-lingual person bases his works on great philosophers.

Rhasis the Arabian

This highly respectable physician/psychologist and theorist in psychology is known for his contributions to the knowledge of the melancholic disorders.

William Gass

This person was a scholar who offers clarity to readers on the context for the treatise.

Aristotle

This natural philosopher is the father of the modern sciences who made advances in the cures for maladies.

Democritus Junior

Accused of trying to dominate his predecessors, this person made great strides on thoughts on melancholy.

King Persius

This person is used as an example to show the effects of poverty and want on melancholy.

Hercules

This person is used as an example of how emotional losses can cause melancholy.

Claudia Valesia

This person is used as an example of grief caused by the loss of friends.

Vesalius

This person is an...

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