60 Chapters
- 1 THE AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT OF MELANCHOLY, Διαλογῶς
- 2 DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR TO THE READER.
- 3 THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION.
- 4 SUBSECT. V.—Melancholy in Disposition, improperly so called, Equivocations.
- 5 SUBSECT. XI.—Of the Will.
- 6 SUBSECT. IV.—Of the species or kinds of Melancholy.
- 7 SUBSECT. II.—A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
- 8 SUBSECT. VI.—Parents a cause by Propagation.
- 9 SUBSECT. III.—Custom of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder.
- 10 SUBSECT. VI.—Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
- 11 SUBSECT. VII.—Sleeping and Waking, Causes.
- 12 SUBSECT. VI.—Shame and Disgrace, Causes.
- 13 SUBSECT. X.—Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c. Causes.
- 14 SUBSECT. XIV.—Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, &c., Causes.
- 15 SUBSECT. XV.—Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
- 16 SUBSECT. V.—Loss of Liberty, Servitude, Imprisonment, how they cause Melancholy.
- 17 SUBSECT. VII.—A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, &c.
- 18 SUBSECT. V.—Causes of Melancholy from the whole Body.
- 19 SUBSECT. IV.—Symptoms from Education, Custom, continuance of Time, our Condition, mixed with other Diseases, by Fits, Inclination, &c.
- 20 Immediate cause of these precedent Symptoms.
- 21 Prognostics of Melancholy.
- 22 THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PARTITION.
- 23 SUBSECT. III.—Concerning Physic.
- 24 Retention and Evacuation rectified.
- 25 Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
- 26 Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
- 27 SUBSECT. IV.—Mirth and merry company, fair objects, remedies.
- 28 Deformity of body, sickness, baseness of birth, peculiar discontents.
- 29 Against Poverty and Want, with such other Adversities.
- 30 Against Envy, Livor, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections.
- 31 Against Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Contempts, Disgraces, Contumelies, Slanders, Scoffs, &c.
- 32 Against Melancholy itself.
- 33 Chirurgical Remedies.
- 34 SUBSECT. II.—Correctors to expel Wind. Against Costiveness, &c.
- 35 THE SYNOPSIS OF THE THIRD PARTITION.
- 36 THE THIRD PARTITION, LOVE-MELANCHOLY.
- 37 SUBSECT. III.—Honest Objects of Love.
- 38 Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest.
- 39 SUBSECT. II.—How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
- 40 SUBSECT. II.—Other causes of Love-Melancholy, Sight, Being from the Face, Eyes, other parts, and how it pierceth.
- 41 SUBSECT. III.—Artificial allurements of Love, Causes and Provocations to Lust; Gestures, Clothes, Dower, &c.
- 42 SUBSECT. IV.—Importunity and Opportunity of Time, Place, Conference, Discourse, Singing, Dancing, Music, Amorous Tales, Objects, Kissing, Familiarity, Tokens, Presents, Bribes, Promises, Protestations, Tears, &c.
- 43 SUBSECT. V.—Bawds, Philters, Causes.
- 44 Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c.
- 45 Prognostics of Love-Melancholy.
- 46 SUBSECT. II.—Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.
- 47 SUBSECT. III.—By counsel and persuasion, foulness of the fact, men's, women's faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, &c.
- 48 SUBSECT. V.—The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire.
- 49 SUBSECT. II.—Causes of Jealousy. Who are most apt. Idleness, melancholy, impotency, long absence, beauty, wantonness, naught themselves. Allurements, from time, place, persons, bad usage, causes.
- 50 Prognostics of Jealousy. Despair, Madness, to make away themselves and others.
- 51 SUBSECT. II.—By prevention before, or after Marriage, Plato's Community, marry a Courtesan, Philters, Stews, to marry one equal in years, fortunes, of a good family, education, good place, to use them well, &c.
- 52 SUBSECT. I.—Religious Melancholy. Its object God; what his beauty is; How it allures. The parts and parties affected.
- 53 SUBSECT. II.—Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, p
- 54 SUBSECT. III.—Symptoms general, love to their own sect, hate of all other religions, obstinacy, peevishness, ready to undergo any danger or cross for it; Martyrs, blind zeal, blind obedience, fastings, vows, belief of incredibilities, impossibilities: Par
- 55 SUBSECT. V.—Cure of Religious Melancholy.
- 56 SUBSECT. II.—Despair. Despairs, Equivocations, Definitions, Parties and Parts affected.
- 57 SUBSECT. V.—Prognostics of Despair, Atheism, Blasphemy, violent death, &c.
- 58 SUBSECT. VI.—Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, &c.
- 59 INDEX.
- 60 Notes