Bibliographic and Editorial Note.
Title Page
Dedication
ADVERTISEMENT.
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO HIS BOOK
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FRONTISPIECE.
THE AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT OF MELANCHOLY, D i a l o g v z . [Dialogos]
DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO THE READER.
TO THE READER AT LEISURE
PROEM
THE FIRST PARTITION -- The Causes of Melancholy.
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION
SECT I. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I. -- Man's Excellency, Fall, Miseries, Infirmities; The causes of them.
SUBSECT. II. -- The Definition, Number, Division of Diseases.
SUBSECT. III. -- Division of the Diseases of the Head
SUBSECT. IV. -- Dotage, Phrensy, Madness, Hydrophobia, Lycanthropia, Chorus sancti Viti, Extasis
SUBSECT. V.-- Melancholy in Disposition, improperly so called, Equivocations
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. I.-- Digression of Anatomy
SUBSECT. II.-- Division of the Body, Humours, Spirits.
SUBSECT. III.-- Similar Parts.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Dissimilar Parts.
SUBSECT. V.-- Of the Soul and her Faculties.
SUBSECT. VI -- Of the sensible Soul.
SUBSECT. VII.-- Of the Inward Senses.
SUBSECT. VIII.-- Of the Moving Faculty.
SUBSECT. IX.-- Of the Rational Soul.
SUBSECT. X.-- Of the Understanding.
SUBSECT. XI.-- Of the Will.
MEMB. III.
SUBSECT. I.-- Definition of Melancholy, Name, Difference.
SUBSECT. II.-- Of the Part affected. Affection. Parties affected.
SUBSECT. III.-- Of the Matter of Melancholy
SUBSECT. IV.-- Of the species or kinds of Melancholy
SECT. II. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Causes of Melancholy. God a cause.
SUBSECT. II.-- A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
SUBSECT. III.-- Of Witches and Magicians, how they cause Melancholy.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Stars a cause. Signs from Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Chiromancy
SUBSECT. V.-- Old Age a Cause
SUBSECT. VI.-- Parents a cause by Propagation.
MEMB. II
SUBSECT. I.-- Bad Diet a cause. Substance. Quality of Meats.
SUBSECT. II.-- Quantity of Diet a Cause.
SUBSECT. III.-- Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Retention and Evacuation a cause, and how.
SUBSECT. V.-- Bad Air, a Cause of Melancholy.
SUBSECT. VI.-- Immoderate Exercise a Cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness
SUBSECT. VII.-- Sleeping and Waking, Causes.
MEMB. III
SUBSECT. I.-- Passions and Perturbations of the Mind, how they cause Melancholy
SUBSECT. II.-- Of the force of Imagination
SUBSECT. III.-- Division of Perturbations.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Sorrow a cause of Melancholy.
SUBSECT. V.-- Fear, a Cause.
SUBSECT. VI.-- Shame and Disgrace, Causes
SUBSECT. VII.-- Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
SUBSECT. VIII.-- Emulation, Hatred, Faction, Desire of Revenge, Causes.
SUBSECT. IX.-- Anger, a Cause.
SUBSECT. X.-- Discontent, Cares, Miseries, &c. Causes.
SUBSECT. XI.-- Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.
SUBSECT. XII.-- Φιλαργυρια [Philargyria], Covetousness, a Cause
SUBSECT. XIV.-- Philautia, or Self-love, Vain-glory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, over-much Joy, &c., Causes.
SUBSECT. XV.-- Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression on the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
MEMB. IV
SUBSECT. I.-- Non-necessary, remote, outward adventitious, or accidental causes: as first from the Nurse.
SUBSECT. II.-- Education a Cause of Melancholy.
SUBSECT. III.-- Terrors and Affrights, Causes of Melancholy.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how they cause Melancholy
SUBSECT. V.-- Loss of Liberty, Servitude, Imprisonment, how they cause Melancholy.
SUBSECT. VI.-- Poverty and Want, Causes of Melancholy.
SUBSECT. VII.-- A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c.
MEMB. V.
SUBSECT. 1.-- Continent, inward, antecedent, next causes, and how the Body works on the Mind.
SUBSECT. II.-- Distemperature of particular Parts, Causes.
SUBSECT. III.-- Causes of Head-Melancholy.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Causes of Hypochondriacal or Windy Melancholy.
SUBSECT. V.-- Causes of Melancholy from the whole Body.
SECT. III. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Symptoms, or Signs of Melancholy in the Body.
SUBSECT. II.-- Symptoms or Signs in the Mind.
SUBSECT. III.-- Particular Symptoms from the influence of Stars, parts of the Body, and Humours
SUBSECT. IV.-- Symptoms from Education, Custom, Continuance of Time, our Condition, mixed with other Diseases, by Fits, Inclination, &c.
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. I.-- Symptoms of Head-Melancholy.
SUBSECT. II.-- Symptoms of windy Hypochondriacal Melancholy.
SUBSECT. III.-- Symptoms of Melancholy abounding in the whole body.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Symptoms of Maids, Nuns, and Widows' Melancholy.
MEMB. III.
SECT. I. -- Immediate cause of these precedent Symptoms.
SECT. IV. MEMB. I.
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PARTITION.
THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION.
MEMB. II.
MEMB. III.
Whether it be lawful to seek to Saints for Aid in this Disease.
MEMB. IV.
SUBSECT. I.-- Physician, Patient, Physic.
SUBSECT. II.-- Concerning the Patient.
SUBSECT. III.-- Concerning Physic.
SUBSECT. I.-- Diet rectified in substance.
SUBSECT. II.-- Diet rectified in quantity.
MEMB. II.
Retention and Evacuation rectified.
MEMB. III.
Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
MEMB. IV.
Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
MEMB. V.
Waking and terrible Dreams rectified.
MEMB. VI.
SUBSECT. I.-- Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, &c.
SUBSECT. III.-- Music a remedy.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Mirth and merry company, fair objects, remedies.
SECT. III. MEMB. I.
A Consolatory Digression, containing the Remedies of all manner of Discontents.
MEMB. II.
Deformity of body, sickness, baseness of birth, peculiar discontents.
MEMB. III.
Against Poverty and Want, with such other Adversities.
MEMB. IV.
Against Servitude, Loss of Liberty, Imprisonment, Banishment.
MEMB. V.
Against Sorrow for Death of Friends or otherwise, vain Fear, &c.
MEMB. VI.
Against Envy, Livor, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections.
MEMB. VII.
Against Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Contempts, Disgraces, Contumelies, Slanders, Scoffs, &c.
MEMB. VIII.
SECT. IV. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Of Physic which cureth with Medicines.
SUBSECT. II.-- Simples proper to Melancholy, against Exotic Simples.
SUBSECT. III.-- Alteratives, Herbs, other Vegetables, &c.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Precious Stones, Metals, Minerals, Alteratives.
SUBSECT. V.-- Compound Alteratives; censure of Compounds, and mixed Physic.
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. I.-- Purging Simples upward.
SUBSECT. II.-- Simples purging Melancholy downward.
SUBSECT. III.-- Compound Purgers.
MEMB. III.
SECT. V. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Particular Cure of the three several Kinds; of Head-Melancholy.
SUBSECT. II.-- Bloodletting.
SUBSECT. III.-- Preparatives and Purgers.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Averters.
SUBSECT. V.-- Alteratives and Cordials, corroborating, resolving the Reliques, and mending the Temperament.
SUBSECT. VI.-- Correctors of Accidents to procure Sleep. Against fearful Dreams, Redness, &c.
MEMB. II.
Cure of Melancholy over all the Body.
MEMB. III.
SUBSECT. I.-- Cure of Hypochondriacal Melancholy.
SUBSECT. II.-- Correctors to expel Wind. Against Costiveness, &c.
THE SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PARTITION.
THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION.:-- The Preface
SUBSECT. II.-- Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. I.-- Love of Men, which varies as his Objects, Profitable, Pleasant, Honest
SUBSECT. II.-- Pleasant Objects of Love
SUBSECT. III.-- Honest Objects of Love
MEMB. III.-- Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest
SECT. II.
MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Heroical love causeth Melancholy. His Pedigree, Power, and Extent
SUBSECT. II.-- How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. I.-- Causes of Heroical Love, Temperature, full Diet, Idleness, Place, Climate, &c.
SUBSECT. II.-- Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth
SUBSECT. III.-- Artificial allurements of Love, Causes and Provocations to Lust; Gestures, Clothes, Dower, &c.
SUBSECT. V.-- Bawds, Philters, Causes
MEMB. III.
Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c.
MEMB. IV.
Prognostics of Love-Melancholy
MEMB. V.
SUBSECT. 1.-- Cure of Love-Melancholy, by Labour, Diet, Physic, Fasting, &c.
SUBSECT. III.-- By counsel and persuasion, foulness of the fact, men's, women's faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, &c.
SUBSECT. IV.-- Philters, Magical and Pœtical Cures
SUBSECT. V.-- The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire
SECT. III.
MEMB. I.
MEMB. II.
MEMB. III.
Prognostics of Jealousy. Despair, Madness, to make away themselves and others
MEMB. IV.
SECT. IV.
MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.-- Religious Melancholy. Its object God; what his beauty is; How it allures. The parts and parties affected
SUBSECT. IV.-- Prognostics of Religious Melancholy
SUBSECT. V.-- Cure of Religious Melancholy
MEMB. II.
SUBSECT. II.-- Despair. Despairs, Equivocations, Definitions, Parties and Parts affected
SUBSECT. IV.-- Symptoms of Despair, Fear, Sorrow, Suspicion, Anxiety, Horror of Conscience, Fearful Dreams and Visions
SUBSECT. V.-- Prognostics of Despair, Atheism, Blasphemy, violent death, &c.
SUBSECT. VI.-- Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, &c.