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A Treatise of Melancholie /

An early examination of the nature and cause of melancholy as a disease. Looks at how diet can effect this condition and the role of the soul.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bright, T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1940]
Colección:The Facsimile Text Society ; 50
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • A Treatise of Melancholie. Facsimile
  • Dedication to Peter Osbourne and friend M.
  • Contents
  • Chap. I. How diverslie the word melancholy is take
  • Chap. II. The causes of naturall melancholie and of excess thereof
  • Chap. III. Whether good nourishmente breede melancholie by fault of the bodie turning it into melancholie
  • Chap. IIII. The answer to the former obiections
  • Chap. V. A more particular and farther answer to the former obiections
  • Chap. VI. Th causes of the increase and excess of melancholicke humour
  • Chap. VII. Of the melancholicke excrement
  • Chap. VIII. What burnt choller is, and the causes of it
  • Chap. IX. How melancholoe worketh fearfull passions in the mind
  • Chap. X. How the bodie affecteth the soule
  • Chap. XI. Obiections against the manner how the bodie affecteth the soule with answer thereto
  • Chap. XII. The answere to the former obiections and of the simple facultie of the soule and only organicall of spirit and bodie
  • Chap. XIII. How the soule by one simple facultie performeth so many and diverse actions
  • Chap. XIIII. The particular answere to the obiections made in the II Chapter.
  • Chap. XV. Whether perturbations rise of humor or not
  • Chap. XVI. Whether perturbations which are not moved by outward occasion rise on humour, or not , and how.
  • Chap. XVII. How melancholy procureth feare, sadness, dispaire, and such other passions
  • Chap. XVIII. Of the unnnaturall melancholy rising by adustion, how it affecteth us with diverse passions
  • Chap. XIX. How sicknes, and yeares seeme to alter the mind, and the cause, and hoe the soule hath practice of senses separated fro the bodie
  • Chap. XX. The accidentes which besall melancholic persons
  • Chap. XXI. How melancholy altereth the quallities of the body
  • Chap XXII. How the melancholie altereth those actions which rise out the braine
  • Chap. XXIII. How affections be altered
  • Chap. XXIIII. The causes of tears, and their saltnes
  • Chap. XXV. Why and how one weepesh for joy, and laughesh for griefe, why tears and weeping indure not all the time of the cause, and why the finger is put in the eye
  • Chap. XXVI. Of other parts of weeping; why the conntenance is cast downe, the forehead loureth, the nose dropeth, the lippe tremblesh, the cheeks are drawn, and the speech is interrupted
  • Chap. XXVII. The causes of subbing and sighing and how weeping affects the heart
  • Chap. XXVIII. How melancholie causesh both weeping and laughing and the reasons how
  • Chap. XXIX. The cause of blushing and bashfulness and how melancholicke performs and given thereunto
  • Chap. XXX. Of the naturall actions altered by melancholy
  • Chap. XXXI. How melancholie altereth naturall works of the bodie, iuyce and excrements
  • Chap. XXXII. Of the affliction of conscience for sinne
  • Chap. XXXIII. Where the conscience of sinne and the affliction thereof by melancholy or not
  • Chap. XXXIIII. The particular difference betwixs melancholy, and the distressed conscience in the same person
  • Chap. XXXV. The afflicition of mind to what persons is befallesh and by what meanes
  • Chap. XXXVI. A consolation onto she affected conscience
  • Chap. XXXVII. The cure of melancholy, and how melancholicke persons are to order them selves in actions of the mind, sense and emotion
  • Chap. XXXVIII. How melancholicke persons are to order themselves in their affections
  • Chap. XXXIX. How melancholick persons are to order themselves in their affections
  • Chap XL. The cure by medicine, meese for melancholic persons
  • Chap XLI. The maner of strengthning melancholick persons after purging with correction of some of their accidents
  • Faults escaped in the printing, wherein the first number signifiesh the page, the 2. the line