catus, as I have elsewhere signified,) or any other
evacuation stopped, I have already spoken. Only this I will add, that this
melancholy which shall be caused by such infirmities, deserves to be pitied
of all men, and to be respected with a more tender compassion, according to
Laurentius, as coming from a more inevitable cause.

SUBSECT. II.--_Distemperature of particular Parts, causes_.

There is almost no part of the body, which being distempered, doth not
cause this malady, as the brain and his parts, heart, liver, spleen,
stomach, matrix or womb, pylorus, mirach, mesentery, hypochondries,
mesaraic veins; and in a word, saith [2412]Arculanus, "there is no part
which causeth not melancholy, either because it is adust, or doth not expel
the superfluity of the nutriment." Savanarola _Pract. major. rubric. 11.
Tract. 6. cap. 1._ is of the same opinion, that melancholy is engendered in
each particular part, and [2413]Crato _in consil. 17. lib. 2._ Gordonius,
who is _instar omnium, lib. med. partic. 2. cap. 19._ confirms as much,
putting the [2414]"matter of melancholy, sometimes in the stomach, liver,
heart, brain, spleen, mirach, hypochondries, when as the melancholy humour
resides there, or the liver is not well cleansed from melancholy blood."

The brain is a familiar and frequent cause, too hot, or too cold, [2415]
"through adust blood so caused," as Mercurialis will have it, "within or
without the head," the brain itself being distempered. Those are most apt
to this disease, [2416]"that have a hot heart and moist brain," which
Montaltus _cap. 11. de Melanch._ approves out of Halyabbas, Rhasis, and
Avicenna. Mercurialis _consil. 11._ assigns the coldness of the brain a
cause, and Salustius Salvianus _med. lect. l. 2. c. 1._ [2417]will have it
"arise from a cold and dry distemperature of the brain." Piso, Benedictus
Victorius Faventinus, will have it proceed from a [2418]"hot distemperature
of the brain;" and [2419]Montaltus _cap. 10._ from the brain's heat,
scorching the blood. The brain is still distempered by himself, or by
consent: by himself or his proper affection, as Faventinus calls it,
[2420]"or by vapours which arise from the other parts, and fume up into the
head, altering the animal facilities."

Hildesheim _spicel. 2. de Mania_, thinks it may be caused from a [2421]
"distemperature of the heart; sometimes hot; sometimes cold." A hot liver,
and a cold stomach, are put for usual causes of melancholy: Mer