Love of learning, study in excess, with a digression, of the misery of scholars, and why the Muses are melancholy, Subs. 15. B. Symptoms of melancholy are either Sect. 3. General, as of Memb. 1. Body, as ill digestion, crudity, wind, dry brains, hard belly, thick blood, much waking, heaviness, and palpitation of heart, leaping in many places, &c., Subs. 1. or Mind Common to all or most. Fear and sorrow without a just cause, suspicion, jealousy, discontent, solitariness, irksomeness, continual cogitations, restless thoughts, vain imaginations, &c. Subs. 2. Or Particular to private persons, according to Subs. 3. 4. Celestial influences, as ♄ ♃ ♂, &c. parts of the body, heart, brain, liver, spleen, stomach, &c. Humours Sanguine are merry still, laughing, pleasant, meditating on plays, women, music, &c. Phlegmatic, slothful, dull, heavy, &c. Choleric, furious, impatient, subject to hear and see strange apparitions, &c. Black, solitary, sad; they think they are bewitched, dead, &c. Or mixed of these four humours adust, or not adust, infinitely varied. Their several customs, conditions, inclinations, discipline, &c. Ambitious, thinks himself a king, a lord; covetous, runs on his money; lascivious on his mistress; religious, hath revelations, visions, is a prophet, or troubled in mind; a scholar on his book, &c. Continuance of time as the humour is intended or remitted, &c. Pleasant at first, hardly discerned; afterwards harsh and intolerable, if inveterate. Hence some make three degrees, 1. Falsa cogitatio. 2. Cogitata loqui. 3. Exequi loquutum. By fits, or continuate, as the object varies, pleasing, or displeasing. Simple, or as it is mixed with other diseases, apoplexies, gout, caninus appetitus, &c. so the symptoms are various. ♋ Particular symptoms to the three distinct species. Sect. 3. Memb. 2. Head melancholy. Subs. 1. In body Headache, binding and heaviness, vertigo, lightness, singing of the ears, much waking, fixed eyes, high colour, red eyes, hard belly, dry body; no great sign of melancholy in the other parts. Or In mind. Continual fear, sorrow, suspicion, discontent, superfluous cares, solicitude, anxiety, perpetual cogitation of such toys they are possessed with, thoughts like dreams, &c. Hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy. Subs. 2. In body Wind, rumbling in the guts, bellyache, heat in the bowels, convulsions, crudities, short wind, sour and sharp belchings, cold sweat, pain in the left side, suffocation, palpitation, heaviness of the heart, singing in the ears, much spittle, and moist, &c. Or In mind. Fearful, sad, suspicious, discontent, anxiety, &c. Lascivious by reason of much wind, troublesome dreams, affected by fits, &c. Over all the body. Subs. 3. In body Black, most part lean, broad veins, gross, thick blood, their hemorrhoids commonly stopped, &c. Or In mind. Fearful, sad, solitary, hate light, averse from company, fearful dreams, &c.