THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY WHAT IT IS WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, PROGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURES OF IT IN THREE PARTITIONS; WITH THEIR SEVERAL SECTIONS, MEMBERS, AND SUBSECTIONS, PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICINALLY, HISTORICALLY OPENED AND CUT UP BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR [ROBERT BURTON] WITH A SATIRICAL PREFACE, CONDUCING TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE PART I – The Cause of Melancholy Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2009 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain ROBERT BURTON ROBERT BURTON - 2 - THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY CONTENTS Bibliographic and Editorial Note...................................................................................6 Dedication......................................................................................................................7 ADVERTISEMENT. .....................................................................................................8 MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.......................................................................................9 DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO HIS BOOK ..................................................................17 THE ARGUMENT OF THE FRONTISPIECE. .........................................................20 THE AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT OF MELANCHOLY, . [Dialogos]..........29 DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO THE READER. ...........................................................32 TO THE READER AT LEISURE.............................................................................107 PROEM......................................................................................................................108 THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION.......................................................109 THE FIRST PARTITION. THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION. Man's Excellency, Fall, Miseries, Infirmities; The causes of them............................116 SUBSECT. II. -- The Definition, Number, Division of Diseases...............................121 SUBSECT. III. -- Division of the Diseases of the Head............................................123 SUBSECT. IV. -- Dotage, Phrensy, Madness, Hydrophobia, Lycanthropia, Chorus sancti Viti, Extasis......................................................................................................124 SUBSECT. V.-- Melancholy in Disposition, improperly so called, Equivocations..127 SECT. I. MEMB. II....................................................................................................129 SUBSECT. I.-- Digression of Anatomy. ....................................................................129 SUBSECT. II.-- Division of the Body, Humours, Spirits...........................................130 SUBSECT. III.-- Similar Parts..................................................................................132 SUBSECT. IV.-- Dissimilar Parts.............................................................................134 SUBSECT. V.-- Of the Soul and her Faculties. ........................................................137 SUBSECT. VI -- Of the sensible Soul. ......................................................................140 SUBSECT. VII.-- Of the Inward Senses....................................................................142 SUBSECT. IX.-- Of the Rational Soul. .....................................................................145 SUBSECT. X.-- Of the Understanding......................................................................147 MEMB. III. ................................................................................................................151 SUBSECT. I.-- Definition of Melancholy, Name, Difference....................................151 SUBSECT. II.-- Of the Part affected. Affection. Parties affected. ............................153 SUBSECT. III.-- Of the Matter of Melancholy..........................................................155 SUBSECT. IV.-- Of the species or kinds of Melancholy...........................................157 SECT. II. MEMB. I....................................................................................................159 SUBSECT. I.-- Causes of Melancholy. God a cause. ...............................................159 SUBSECT. II.-- A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy...............................................................................................161 SUBSECT. III.-- Of Witches and Magicians, how they cause Melancholy. .............175 SUBSECT. IV.-- Stars a cause. Signs from Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Chiromancy. ....................................................................................................................................178 SUBSECT. V.-- Old Age a Cause .............................................................................181 SUBSECT. VI.-- Parents a cause by Propagation....................................................182 MEMB. II...................................................................................................................186 SUBSECT. I.-- Bad Diet a cause. Substance. Quality of Meats. ..............................186 SUBSECT. II.-- Quantity of Diet a Cause.................................................................193 - 3 - ROBERT BURTON SUBSECT. III.-- Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder. ........................................................................................................................197 SUBSECT. IV.-- Retention and Evacuation a cause, and how.................................200 SUBSECT. V.-- Bad Air, a Cause of Melancholy.....................................................203 SUBSECT. VI.-- Immoderate Exercise a Cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness. ..206 SUBSECT. VII.-- Sleeping and Waking, Causes. .....................................................212 SUBSECT. II.-- Of the force of Imagination.............................................................216 SUBSECT. III.-- Division of Perturbations. .............................................................220 SUBSECT. IV.-- Sorrow a cause of Melancholy. .....................................................221 SUBSECT. V.-- Fear, a Cause..................................................................................223 SUBSECT. VI.-- Shame and Disgrace, Causes. .......................................................225 SUBSECT. VII.-- Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes......................................................227 SUBSECT. VIII.-- Emulation, Hatred, Faction, Desire of Revenge, Causes. ..........229 SUBSECT. IX.-- Anger, a Cause. .............................................................................232 SUBSECT. X.-- Discontent, Cares, Miseries, &c. Causes. ......................................234 SUBSECT. XI.-- Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.................241 SUBSECT. XII.-- Φιλαργυρια [Philargyria], Covetousness, a Cause.......................243 SUBSECT. XIV.-- Philautia, or Self-love, Vain-glory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, over-much Joy, &c., Causes...........................................................250 SUBSECT. XV.-- Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression on the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy...........................................256 MEMB. IV .................................................................................................................274 SUBSECT. I.-- Non-necessary, remote, outward adventitious, or accidental causes: as first from the Nurse................................................................................................274 SUBSECT. II.-- Education a Cause of Melancholy. .................................................276 SUBSECT. III.-- Terrors and Affrights, Causes of Melancholy................................278 SUBSECT. IV.-- Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how they cause Melancholy........281 SUBSECT. V.-- Loss of Liberty, Servitude, Imprisonment, how they cause Melancholy.................................................................................................................285 SUBSECT. VI.-- Poverty and Want, Causes of Melancholy.....................................287 SUBSECT. VII.-- A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c..................................................................................................................295 MEMB. V. .................................................................................................................307 SUBSECT. 1.-- Continent, inward, antecedent, next causes, and how the Body works on the Mind. ...............................................................................................................307 SUBSECT. II.-- Distemperature of particular Parts, Causes...................................309 SUBSECT. III.-- Causes of Head-Melancholy..........................................................311 SUBSECT. IV.-- Causes of Hypochondriacal or Windy Melancholy.......................312 SUBSECT. V.-- Causes of Melancholy from the whole Body...................................314 SECT. III. MEMB. I. .................................................................................................315 SUBSECT. I.-- Symptoms, or Signs of Melancholy in the Body. ..............................315 SUBSECT. II.-- Symptoms or Signs in the Mind.......................................................317 SUBSECT. III.-- Particular Symptoms from the influence of Stars, parts of the Body, and Humours..............................................................................................................326