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.
dy 300.
Or

which are

Particular; as Gout, Dropsie, &c.
In disposition; as all perturbations,
evil affection, &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.
The part and parties, affected, affectation, &c. Sub. 2.
The matter of melancholy, natural, unnaturall, &c. Sub. 4.

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.
Superna- Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of
the nature of spirits and devils, Sub. 2.
Or mediately by Magicians, Witches, Sub. 3.
Primary as stars, proved by Aphorisms, signs from
Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Cheiromancy,Subs. 4.
Old age, temperament, Sub. 5.
Parents, it being an hereditary

Or

Congenite,
inward from

disease, Sub. 6.

Necessary, see Ŏ

Nurses, Sub. 1.

A

Sect. 2.
Causes of

Melancholy
are neither

Education, Sub.

Evident,
outward,

remote, ad-
ventitious,

as,

Or

Contingent
inward, an-
tecedent,

nearest.
Memb. 5.
Sect. 2.

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,
A hot braine, corrupted bloud in the braine.
Excesse of Venery, or defect,

Agues, or some precedent disease.
Fumes arising from the stomack, &c.
Heat of the Sunne immoderate.

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
evacuation,
Subs. 4.

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,
Sub. 6. solitarinesse, idlenesse, a life out of action, &c.

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,
Caninus appetitus, &c. so the symptomes are various.

Headach, binding, and heavinesse, vertigo,
lightnesse, 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, suspition, discontent,
superfluous cares, solicitude, anxiety, perpe.
tual cogitation of such toys they are posses-
sed with, thoughts like dreams, &c.

Winde, rumbling in the guts, belly-ake, heat in
the bowels, convulsions, crudities, short
winde, sowr and sharp belchings, cold sweat,
pain in the left side, suffocation, palpitation,
heavinesse of the heart, singing in the ears,
much spittle, and moist, &c.

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-
son of
these

symp-
tomes.
Memb. 3.

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
questions.

Morphew, Scabs, Itch, Breaking out, &c.
Black Jandise.

If the Hemrods voluntarily open.

If varices appear.

Leannesse, drinesse, hollow-eyed, &c..
Inveterate melancholy is incurable.

If cold, it degenerates often into Epilepsie,
Apoplexy, dotage, or into blindnesse.

If hot, into madnesse, despair, and violent
death.

The grievousnesse of this above all other diseases.
The diseases of the mind are more grievous
then those of the body.

Whether it be lawful in this case of melancho-
ly, for a man to offer violence to himself.
Neg.
How a melancholy or mad man offering vio-
lence to himself, is to be censured.