whole body.
with their several causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures
Or Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the third
Partition.
Its Causes in general. _Sect. 2._ A.
Its Symptoms or signs. _Sect. 3._ B.
Its Prognostics or indications. _Sect. 4._ C.
Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition.
A. _Sect. 2._ Causes of Melancholy are either
General, as _Memb. 1._
Supernatural
As from God immediately, or by second causes. _Subs. 1._
Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of
spirits and devils. _Subs. 2._
Or mediately, by magicians, witches. _Subs. 3._
Or Natural
Primary, as stars, proved by aphorisms, signs from physiognomy,
metoposcopy, chiromancy. _Subs. 4._
Or Secondary, as
Congenite, inward from
Old age, temperament, _Subs. 5._
Parents, it being an hereditary disease, _Subs. 6._
Or Outward or adventitious, which are
Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as,
Necessary, see [Symbol: Taurus].
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, servitude, imprisonment, _Subs.
5._
Poverty and want, _Subs. 6.
A heap of other accidents, death of friends,
loss, &c. _Subs. 7._
Or Contingent, inward, antecedent, nearest. _Memb. 5.
Sect. 2._
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._
Particular to the three species. See [Symbol: Gemini].
[Symbol: Gemini] Particular causes. _Sect. 2. Memb. 5._
Of head Melancholy are _Subs. 3._
Inward
Innate humour,
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