A Sect. 2. Causes of Melancholy are neither

General, as Memb. 1. Supernaturall As from God immediately, or by second causes, Sub. 1. Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of spirits and devils, Sub. 2. Or mediately by Magicians, Witches, Sub. 3.

Or Natural Primary as stars, proved by Aphorisms, signs from Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Cheiromancy, Subs. 4.

Secondary, as Congenite, inward from Old age, temperament, Sub. 5. Parents, it being an hereditary disease, Sub. 6.

or Outward, or adventitious, which are Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as, Necessary, see ♉

Not necessary, as M. 4. S. 2. Nurses, Sub. 1. Education, Sub. 2. Terrors, affrights, Sub. 3. Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, Sub. 4. Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, Sub. 5. Poverty and want, Sub. 6. An heap of other accidents, death of friends, losse, &c. Sub. 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, Sub. 1. Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, Mesentery, Pylorus, stomack, &c. Sub. 2.

Particular to the three species. See ♊

♊ Particular causes. Sect. 2. Memb. 5. Of head-Melancholy are. Sub. 3. Inward Innate humor, or from distemperature adust. A hot braine, corrupted bloud in the braine. Excesse of Venery, or defect. Agues, or some precedent disease. Fumes arising from the stomack, &c.

Or Outward Heat of the Sunne immoderate. A blow on the head. Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlick, onions, hot baths, overmuch waking, &c. Idlenesse, solitarinesse, or overmuch study. vehement labour, &c. Passions, perturbations, &c.

Of hypocondriacall, or windie melancholy are, Inward Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomack, mesentery, miseriack veins, liver, &c. Months, or hemrods stopt, or any other ordinary evacuation. Or Outward Those six non-naturall things abused.

Over all the body are, Subs. 5. Inward Liver distempered, stopped, over-hot, apt to ingender melancholy, temperature innate. Or Outward Bad diet, suppression of hemrods, &c. and such evacuations, passions, cares, &c. those six non-naturall things abused.