| Passions and perturbations of
what persons it befalleth, and by | the mind; how they cause
what means. | melancholy.
|
36. A consolation to the afflicted |
conscience. |
|
37. The cure of melancholie; | Cure of melancholy over all the
and how melancholicke persons | body.
are to order themselves in actions |
of minde, sense, and motion. |
|
38. How melancholicke persons | Perturbations of the mind
are to order themselves in their | rectified.
affections. |
|
39. How melancholicke persons | Dyet rectified; ayre rectified, &c.
are to order themselves in the rest |
of their diet, and what choice they |
are to make of ayre, meate, and |
drinke, house, and apparell. |
|
40. The cure by medicine meete | Of physick which cureth with
for melancholicke persons. | medicines.
|
41. The manner of strengthening | Correctors of accidents to procure
melancholicke persons after | sleep.
purging: with correction of some |
of their accidents. |

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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*** Transcriber's note: in the following item the Greek omega is
transcribed as oo to distinguish it from o = omicron

"[Greek: Aioon]," ITS DERIVATION.

As the old postulate respecting the etymology of this important word, from
[Greek: aeioon], however superficial, is too attractive to be surrendered,
even in the present day, by some respectable authorities, the judgment of
your classical correspondents is requested, as to the accuracy of the more
philosophical origin of the term which has been adopted by commentators of
unquestionable erudition and undisputed eminence.

The rule by which those distinguished scholars, Lennep and Scheidius,
determine the etymology of [Greek: Aioon], is as follows:

"Nomina in [Greek: oon] desinentia, formata ab aliis nominibus,
_collectiva_ sunt, sive _copiam_ earum rerum, quae _primitivo_
designantur notant--ut sunt [Greek: dendroon], a [Greek: dendron],
arboretum; [Greek: Elaioon], olivetum, ab [Greek: Elaion]; [Greek:
Rhodoon], r