The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it : in Three Partitions. With Yheir Several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut UpB. Blake, 1838 - 743 pages |
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aëre affected alii amongst amor animi Apuleius Aristotle atque Avicenna body brain calls Cardan cause causeth choly cold commends consil countrey Crato cured dæmon dayes Democritus devils discontent diseases divine dote doth drink ejus enim Epist fair fear Felix Plater fools friends Galen grief habet hæc hath heart hellebor Hippocrates hist homines honour humours Idem idle Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind king Laurentius live Lucian lust mad men meat melan melancholy MEMB mihi mind misery Montaltus morbis musick nihil nisi nunc oculis omnes omnia Ovid Paracelsus passion Philostratus physician physick Plato Plautus pleasant Plutarch poet potest quæ quam quid quis quod quum rest Rhasis sæpe saith Seneca shew sibi sick sine sorrow soul spirits SUBSECT sunt sweet symptomes thee things thou art Tract Tully unto Venus vertue wise yong
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