A Treatise of Melancholie / T. Bright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bright, Timothie, 1550-1615, author.

Series:

Facsimile Text Society (Series) ; Volume 50.

The Facsimile Text Society Series ; Volume 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bipolar disorder.

Depression, Mental.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1940]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An early examination of the nature and cause of melancholy as a disease. Looks at how diet can effect this condition and the role of the soul.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

A Treatise of Melancholie. Facsimile

Dedication to Peter Osbourne and friend M.

Contents

Chap. I. How diverslie the word melancholy is take

Chap. II. The causes of naturall melancholie and of excess thereof

Chap. III. Whether good nourishmente breede melancholie by fault of the bodie turning it into melancholie

Chap. IIII. The answer to the former obiections

Chap. V. A more particular and farther answer to the former obiections

Chap. VI. Th causes of the increase and excess of melancholicke humour

Chap. VII. Of the melancholicke excrement

Chap. VIII. What burnt choller is, and the causes of it

Chap. IX. How melancholoe worketh fearfull passions in the mind

Chap. X. How the bodie affecteth the soule

Chap. XI. Obiections against the manner how the bodie affecteth the soule with answer thereto

Chap. XII. The answere to the former obiections and of the simple facultie of the soule and only organicall of spirit and bodie

Chap. XIII. How the soule by one simple facultie performeth so many and diverse actions

Chap. XIIII. The particular answere to the obiections made in the II Chapter.

Chap. XV. Whether perturbations rise of humor or not

Chap. XVI. Whether perturbations which are not moved by outward occasion rise on humour, or not , and how.

Chap. XVII. How melancholy procureth feare, sadness, dispaire, and such other passions

Chap. XVIII. Of the unnnaturall melancholy rising by adustion, how it affecteth us with diverse passions

Chap. XIX. How sicknes, and yeares seeme to alter the mind, and the cause, and hoe the soule hath practice of senses separated fro the bodie

Chap. XX. The accidentes which besall melancholic persons

Chap. XXI. How melancholy altereth the quallities of the body

Chap XXII. How the melancholie altereth those actions which rise out the braine

Chap. XXIII. How affections be altered

Chap. XXIIII. The causes of tears, and their saltnes

Chap. XXV. Why and how one weepesh for joy, and laughesh for griefe, why tears and weeping indure not all the time of the cause, and why the finger is put in the eye

Chap. XXVI. Of other parts of weeping; why the conntenance is cast downe, the forehead loureth, the nose dropeth, the lippe tremblesh, the cheeks are drawn, and the speech is interrupted

Chap. XXVII. The causes of subbing and sighing and how weeping affects the heart

Chap. XXVIII. How melancholie causesh both weeping and laughing and the reasons how

Chap. XXIX. The cause of blushing and bashfulness and how melancholicke performs and given thereunto

Chap. XXX. Of the naturall actions altered by melancholy

Chap. XXXI. How melancholie altereth naturall works of the bodie, iuyce and excrements

Chap. XXXII. Of the affliction of conscience for sinne

Chap. XXXIII. Where the conscience of sinne and the affliction thereof by melancholy or not

Chap. XXXIIII. The particular difference betwixs melancholy, and the distressed conscience in the same person

Chap. XXXV. The afflicition of mind to what persons is befallesh and by what meanes

Chap. XXXVI. A consolation onto she affected conscience

Chap. XXXVII. The cure of melancholy, and how melancholicke persons are to order them selves in actions of the mind, sense and emotion

Chap. XXXVIII. How melancholicke persons are to order themselves in their affections

Chap. XXXIX. How melancholick persons are to order themselves in their affections

Chap XL. The cure by medicine, meese for melancholic persons

Chap XLI. The maner of strengthning melancholick persons after purging with correction of some of their accidents

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Notes:

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ISBN:

9780231877381

0231877382

OCLC:

1100440540