In diseases consider Sect. 1. THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION. Their Cau-Impulsive; sinne, concupiscence, &c. ses. Subs. 1. Instrumentall; intemperance, all second causes, &C. Of the bo- (Epidemicall; as Plague, Plica, &c. which are Particular; as Gout, Dropsie, &c. Or Or Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c. Subsect. 5. r Melancho ly: in which consider Memb. 3. Its definition, name, difference, Sub. 1. Indefinite; as Love melancholy, the subject of the third partition. Its Causes in generall. Sect. 2. A. Its Symptomes or signes. Sect. 3. B. Its Prognosticks or indications. Sect 4. 4. Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition. General, as Memb. 1. turall As from God immediately, or by second causes, Sub. 1. Or Congenite, disease, Sub. 6. Necessary, see Ŏ Nurses, Sub. 1. A Sect. 2. Melancholy Education, Sub. Evident, remote, ad- as, Or Contingent nearest. Not necessary, as M. 4. S. 2. 2. Terrors, affrights, Sub. 3. Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, Sub. 4. Loss of liberty, servitude,imprisonment, Sub. 5. Poverty and want, Sub. 6. An heap of other accidents,death of friends, losse, &c. Sub. 7. In which the hody works on the mind, and this malady is caused by precedent diseases; as agues, pox, &c. or temperature innate, Sub. 1. Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, mesentery, Pylorus, Outward, or adventitious, which are stomack, &c. Sub. 2. Innate humor,or from distemperature adust, Agues, or some precedent disease. A blow on the head. Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlick, onions, hot baths, overmuch waking, &c. Idlenesse, solitarinesse, or overmuch study, vehement labour, &c. Passions, perturbations, &c. Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomack, mesentery, miseriack veines, liver, &c. Months, or hemrods stopt, or any other ordinary evacuation. "Those six non-naturall things abused. Liver distempered, stopped, over-hot,apt to ingender melancholy,temperature innate. Bad diet, suppression of hemrods, &c. and such evacuations,passions, cares,&c, those six non- naturall things abused. Quantity. Retention and Disorder in eating, immoderate eating, or at unseasonable times, &c. Subsec. 2. Custom; delight, appetite, altered, &c. Subs. 3. Costivenesse, hot baths, sweating, issues stopped, Venus in excesse, or in defect, phlebotomy, purging, &c. Aire; hot, cold, tempestuous, dark, thick, foggy, moorish, &c. Subs. 5. Exercise, Unseasonable, excessive or defective of body or minde, Sleep and waking, unseasonable, inordinate, overmuch, overlittle, &c. Subs. 7. B. Symptomes of melancholy are either Sect. 3. General, as of Memb. 1. Body, as ill digestion, crudity, winde, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heavinesse and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c. Sub. 1. or Minde Common (Fear and sorrow without a just cause, susto all or pition, jealousie, discontent, solitarinesse, irksomenesse, continual cogitations, restlesse thoughts, vain imagina most. tions, &c. Subs. 2. By fits, or continuate, as the object varies, pleasing or displeasing. Simple, or as it is mixt with other diseases, Apoplexies, Gout, Headach, binding, and heavinesse, vertigo, Continual fear, sorrow, suspition, discontent, Winde, rumbling in the guts, belly-ake, heat in Fearful, sad, suspicious, discontent, anxiety, &c. Lascivious by reason of much winde, troublesome dreams, affected by fits, &c. mind { In body Memb. 2. Over all the body. Sub. 3. In с Prognostics of melancholy. Sect. 4. Or. mind. Black, most part lean, broad veins, grosse, thick blood, their hemrods commonly stopped, &c. S Fearful, sad, solitary, hate light, averse from company, fearful dreams, &c. Symptoms of Nuns, Maids, and widows melancholy, in body and minde, &c. A rea- symp- Why they are so fearful, sad, suspitious without a cause, why solitary, why melancholy men are witty, why they suppose they hear and see strange voices, visions, apparitions. Why they prophesie, and speak strange languages, whence comes their crudity, rumbling, convulsions, cold sweat, heavinesse of heart, palpitation, cardiaca, fearful dreams, much waking, prodigious phantasics. Te"ding to good, as Tending to evil, as Corollaries and Morphew, Scabs, Itch, Breaking out, &c. If the Hemrods voluntarily open. If varices appear. Leannesse, drinesse, hollow-eyed, &c.. If cold, it degenerates often into Epilepsie, If hot, into madnesse, despair, and violent The grievousnesse of this above all other diseases. Whether it be lawful in this case of melancho- |