Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c. Subsect. 5.
To its explication, a digression of anatomy, in which observe parts of Subs. 1.
Similar; spermatical, or flesh, bones, nerves, &c. Subs. 3.
Dissimilar; brain, heart, liver, &c. Subs. 4
Its definition, name, difference, Subs. 1.
The part and parties affected, affection, &c. Subs. 2.
The matter of melancholy, natural, &c. Subs. 3.
Of the head alone, hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy. Of the whole body.
with their several causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures
Or Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the third Partition.
Its Prognostics or indications. Sect. 4. C.
Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition.
A. Sect. 2. Causes of Melancholy are either
As from God immediately, or by second causes. Subs. 1.
Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of spirits and devils. Subs. 2.
Or mediately, by magicians, witches. Subs. 3.
Primary, as stars, proved by aphorisms, signs from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy. Subs. 4.
Parents, it being an hereditary disease, Subs. 6.
Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as,
Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, Subs. 4.
Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, Subs. 5.
A heap of other accidents, death of friends, loss, &c. Subs. 7.
Or Contingent, inward, antecedent, nearest. Memb. 5. Sect. 2.
In which the body works on the mind, and this malady is caused by precedent diseases; as agues, pox, &c., or temperature, innate Subs. 1.
Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, mesentery, pylorus, stomach &c. Subs. 2.
Innate humour, or from temperature adjust.
A hot brain, corrupted blood in the brain
Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlic, onions, hot baths, overmuch waking, &c.
Idleness, solitariness, or overmuch study, vehement labour, &c.
Of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy are, [Subs. 4.]
Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomach, mesentery, miseraic veins, liver, &c.
Months or hemorrhoids stopped, or any other ordinary evacuation
Liver distempered, stopped, over-hot, apt to engender melancholy, temperature innate.
Bad diet, suppression of hemorrhoids &c. and such evacuations, passions, cares, &c. those six non-natural things abused.
♉ Necessary causes, as those six non-natural things, which are, Sect. 2 Memb. 2.