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LECTORI MALÈ FERIATO.

Tu vero cavesis edico quisquis es, ne temere sugilles Auctorem hujusce operis, aut cavillator irrideas. Imo ne vel ex aliorum censura tacite obloquaris (vis dicam verbo) ne quid nasutulus inepte improbes, aut falso fingas. Nam si talis reverâ sit, qualem præ se fert Junior Democritus, seniori Democrito saltem affinis, aut ejus Genium vel tantillum sapiat; actum de te, censorem æque ac delatorem aget e contra (petulanti splene cum sit), sufflabit te in jocos, comminuet in sales, addo etiam, et deo risui te sacrificabit.

Iterum moneo, ne quid cavillere, nedum Democritum Juniorem conviciis infames, aut ignominiose vituperes, de te non male sentientem: tu idem audias ab amico cordato, quod olim vulgus Abderitanum ab Hippocrate, concivem bene meritum et popularem suum Democritum, pro insano habens. Ne tu Democrite sapis, stulti autem et insani Abderitæ.

"Abderitanæ pectora plebis habes."

Hæc te paucis admonitum volo (malè feriate Lector), abi

TO THE READER AT LEISURE.

WHOEVER you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him. Nay, do not silently reproach him in consequence of others' censure, nor employ your wit in foolish disapproval, or false accusation. For, should Democritus Junior prove to be what he professes, even a kinsman of his elder namesake, or be ever so little of the same kidney, it is all over with you: he will become both accuser and judge of you in your spleen, will dissipate you in jests, pulverise you into salt, and sacrifice you, I can promise you, to the god of Mirth.

I further advise you, not to asperse, or calumniate, or slander, Democritus Junior, who possibly does not think ill of you, lest you may hear from some discreet friend, the same remark the people of Abdera did from Hippocrates, of their meritorious and popular fellow-citizen, whom they had looked on as a madman; "It is not that you, Democritus, that art wise, but that the people of Abdera are fools and madmen." "You have yourself an Abderitian soul;" and having just given you, gentle reader, these few words of admonition, farewell.

Si me commôrit, melius non tangere clamo. Hor. Hippoc. epist. Damageto. Accersitus sum ut Democritum tanquam insanum curarem, sed postquam conveni, non per Jovem desipientiæ negotium, sed rerum omnium receptaculum deprehendi, ejusque ingenium demiratus sum. Abderitanos vero tanquam non sanos accusavi, veratri potione ipsos potius eguisse dicens. © Mart.

HERACLITE fleas, misero sic convenit 8370,

Nil nisi turpe vides, nil nisi triste vides.
Ride etiam, quantumque lubet, Democrite ride,
Non nisi vana vides, non nisi stulta vides.
Is fletu, hic risu modò gaudeat, unus utrique
Sit licet usque labor, sit licet usque dolor.
Nunc opus est (nam totus eheu jam desipit orbis)
Mille Heraclitis, milleque Democritis.

Nunc opus est (tanta est insania) transeat omnis
Mundus in Anticyras, gramen in Helleborum.

Weep, O Heraclitus, it suits the age,

Unless you see nothing base, nothing sad. Laugh, O Democritus, as much as you please, Unless you see nothing either vain or foolish.

Let one rejoice in smiles, the other in tears;

Let the same labour or pain be the office of both. Now (for alas! how foolish the world has become),

A thousand Heraclitus', a thousand Democritus' are required. Now (so much does madness prevail), all the world must be Sent to Anticyra, to graze on Hellebore.

Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c. Subsect. 5.

Memb. 2.

Humours, 4. Blood, Phlegm, &c
Spirits; vital, natural, animal.
Similar; sperinatical, or flesh,
bones, nerves, &c. Subs. 3.
Dissimilar; brain, heart, liver, &c.
Subs, 4.

contained as

or

digression

parts

of anatomy, Subs. 2.

containing

in which

Memb. 3.

Vegetal. Subs. 5.

Its definition, name, difference, Subs. 1.

Melancholy: The part and parties affected, affectation, &c. Subs. 2.
The matter of melancholy, natural, unnatural, &c. Subs. 4.

in which consider

Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the thir‍d Partition.

Particular to the three species. See П.

Inward

Of head Me-
lancholy are,
Subs. 3.

or

Necessary, see 8.

Not necessary, as M. 4. S. 2.

Nurses, Subs. 1.
Education, Subs. 2.
Terrors, affrights,
Subs. 3.

Scoffs, calumnies,
bitter jests, Subs. 4.
Loss of liberty, ser-
vitude, imprison-
ment, Subs. 5.

Poverty and want,
Subs. 6.

A heap of other ac-
cidents, death of
friends, loss, &c

Subs. 7.

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 distemperature adust.
A hot brain, corrupted blood in the brain.
Excess of venery, or defect.

Agues, or some precedent disease.

Fumes arising from the stomach, &c.

Heat of the sun immoderate.

A blow on the head.

Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlic, onions,

hot baths, overmuch waking, &c.

Outward Idleness, solitariness, or overmuch study, vehement labour, &c.

Of hypochon- (Inward
driacal, or

Sect. 2.

Memb. 5.

windy Melan-
choly are,

Over all the

body are,
Subs. 5.

or

Passions, perturbations, &c.

Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomach, mesentery, miseraic veins, liver, &c.

Months or hemorrhoids stopped, or any other
ordinary evacuation.

Outward Those six non-natural things abused.
{

(Inward

or

Outward.

Liver distempered, stopped, over-hot, apt to en-
gender melancholy, temperature innate.
Bad diet, suppression of hemorrhoids, &c., and
such evacuations, passions, cares, &c., those
six non-natural things abused.

Diet

offend

ing in

Sub

Bread; coarse and black, &c.
Drink; thick, thin, sour, &c.

Water unclean, milk, oil, vinegar, wine, spices, &c.

Flesh

stance

Herbs,
Fish,
&c.

Of fish; all shell-fish, hard and slimy fish, &c.

Of herbs; pulse, cabbage, melons, garlick, onions, &c.
All roots, raw fruits, hard and windy meats.

Subs.3. Quali- (Preparing, dressing, sharp sauces, salt meats, indurate, soused,
ty,asin fried, broiled, or made dishes, &c.

Quan

tity

Neces- Retention and evacuation, Subs. 4.

sary causes,

as

those six

non

Disorder in eating, immoderate eating, or at unseasonable

times, &c., Subs. 2.

Custom; delight, appetite, altered, &c., Subs. 3.

Costiveness, hot baths, sweating, issues stopped, Venus in
excess, or in defect, phlebotomy, purging, &c.

Air; hot, cold, tempestuous, dark, thick, foggy, moorish, &c., Subs. 5.
Exercise, Unseasonable, excessive, or defective, of body or mind, solitariness,
Subs. 6. 2 idleness, a life out of action, &c.

natural Sleep and waking, unseasonable, inordinate, overmuch, overlittle, &c., Subs. 7.

perturbations of Irascible
the mind.

things,

which

Memb. 3. Sect. 2.

Passions and

B.

Symp

toms

of me

lanchoIv are

either Sect. 3.

imagination.

General, as of Memb. 1.

concupis-
cible.

Sorrow, cause and symptom, Subs. 4. Fear, cause and symptom, Subs. 5. Shame, repulse, disgrace, &c., Subs. 6. Envy and malice, Subs. 7. Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, Subs. 8. Anger a cause, Subs. 9. Discontents, cares, miseries, &c., Subs. 10.

Vehement desires, ambition, Subs. 11. Covetousness, pinapyupiav, Subs. 12. Love of pleasures, gaming in excess, &c., Subs. 13. Desire of praise, pride, vainglory, &c., Subs. 14. Love of learning, study in excess, with a digression of the misery of scholars, and why the muses are melancholy, Subs. 15.

[Body, as ill digestion, crudity, wind, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heaviness and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c., Subs.l. Common (Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspicion, jealousy, discontent, solitariness, irksomeness, continual cogitations, restless thoughts, vain imaginations, &c., Subs. 2.

Celestial influences, as h 2 d, &c., parts of the body, heart, brain, liver, spleen, stomach, &c.

Hu

mours

Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating on plays, women, music, &c.

Phlegmatic, slothful, dull, heavy, &c.

Choleric, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see strange apparitions, &c.

Black, solitary, sad; they think they are bewitchod, dead, &c.

Or mixed of these four humours adust, or not adust, infinitely varied, &c.

Their several

lar to
private
persons,
accord-
ing to
customs, con-
Subs.3 4. ditions, incli-
nations, disci-
pline, &c.

Continuance
of time as the
humour is in-

tended or re-
mitted, &c.

Simple, or as it is mixed with other diseases, apoplexies, gout, caninus appetitus,

&c., so the symptoms are various.