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.
Pleasant at first, hardly discerned; afterwards harsh and intolerable, if inveterate.
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.
♋ Particular symptoms to the three distinct species. Sect. 3. Memb. 2.
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.
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.
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.
Fearful, sad, suspicious, discontent, anxiety, &c. Lascivious by reason of much wind, troublesome dreams, affected by fits, &c.
Black, most part lean, broad veins, gross, thick blood, their hemorrhoids commonly stopped, &c.
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]
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.
If cold, it degenerates often into epilepsy, apoplexy, dotage, or into blindness.
If hot, into madness, despair, and violent death.
The grievousness of this above all other diseases.