In diseases, consider Sect. 1. Memb. 1. Their Causes. Subs. 1. Impulsive; Sin, concupiscence, &c. Instrumental; Intemperance, all second causes, &c. Or Definition, Member, Division. Subs. 2. Of the body 300, which are Epidemical, as Plague, Plica, &c. Or Particular as Gout, Dropsy, &c. Or Of the head or mind. Subs. 3. In disposition; as all perturbations, evil affection, &c. Or Habits, as Subs. 4. Dotage Frenzy. Madness. Ecstasy. Lycanthropia. Chorus sancti Viti. Hydrophobia. Possession or obsession of Devils. Melancholy. See ♈. ♈ Melancholy: in which consider Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c. Subsect. 5. Memb. 2. To its explication, a digression of anatomy, in which observe parts of Subs. 1. Body hath parts Subs. 2. contained as Humours, 4. Blood, Phlegm, &c. Spirits; vital, natural, animal. or containing Similar; spermatical, or flesh, bones, nerves, &c. Subs. 3. Dissimilar; brain, heart, liver, &c. Subs. 4 Soul and its faculties, as Vegetal. Subs. 5. Sensible. Subs. 6, 7, 8. Rational. Subsect. 9, 10, 11. Memb. 3. Its definition, name, difference, Subs. 1. The part and parties affected, affection, &c. Subs. 2. The matter of melancholy, natural, &c. Subs. 3. Species, or kinds [Subs. 4.], which are Proper to parts, as Of the head alone, hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy. Of the whole body. with their several causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures Or Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the third Partition. Its Causes in general. Sect. 2. A. Its Symptoms or signs. Sect. 3. B. Its Prognostics or indications. Sect. 4. C. Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition. A. Sect. 2. Causes of Melancholy are either General, as Memb. 1. Supernatural As from God immediately, or by second causes. Subs. 1. Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of spirits and devils. Subs. 2. Or mediately, by magicians, witches. Subs. 3. Or Natural Primary, as stars, proved by aphorisms, signs from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy. Subs. 4. Or Secondary, as Congenite, inward from Old age, temperament, Subs. 5. Parents, it being an hereditary disease, Subs. 6. Or Outward or adventitious, which are Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as, Necessary, see ♉. Not necessary, as M. 4. S. 2. Nurses, Subs. 1. Education, Subs. 2. Terrors, affrights, Subs. 3. Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, Subs. 4. Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, Subs. 5. Poverty and want, Subs. 6. A heap of other accidents, death of friends, loss, &c. Subs. 7. Or Contingent, inward, antecedent, nearest. Memb. 5. Sect. 2. In which the body works on the mind, and this malady is caused by precedent diseases; as agues, pox, &c., or temperature, innate Subs. 1. Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, mesentery, pylorus, stomach &c. Subs. 2. Particular to the three species. See ♊.