♋ Particular symptomes to the three distinct species. Sect. 3. Memb. 2.

Head-melancholy. Sub. 1. In body Headach, binding, heavinesse, vertigo, lightnesse, 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, suspition, discontent, superfluous cares, solicitude, anxiety, perpetual cogitation of such toyes they are possessed with, thoughts like dreams, &c.

Hypocondriacal or windie melancholy. Sub. 2. In body Winde, rumbling in the guts, belly-ake, heat in the bowels, convulsions, crudities, short winde, sowr and sharp belchings, cold sweat, pain in the left side, suffocation, palpitation, heavinesse 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 winde, troublesome dreams, affected by fits, &c.

Over all the body. Sub. 3. In body Black, most part lean, broad veins, grosse, thick blood, their hemrods commonly stopped, &c. Or In mind Fearful, sad, solitary, hate light, averse from company, fearful dreams, &c.

Symptoms of Nuns, Maids, and widows melancholy, in body and minde, &c.

A reason of these symptome. Memb. 3. Why they are so fearful, sad, suspitious without a cause, why solitary, why melancholy men are witty, why they suppose they hear and see strange voices, visions, apparitions. Why they prophesie, and speak strange languages, whence comes their crudity, rumbling, convulsions, cold sweat, heavinesse of heart, palpitation, cardiaca, fearful dreams, much waking, prodigious phantasies.

C Prognosticks of melancholy. Sect. 4. Tending to good, as Morphew, Scabs, Itch, Breaking out, &c. Black Jandise. If the Hemrods voluntarily open. If varices appear.

Tending to evil, as Leannesse, drinesse, hollow-eyed, &c. Inveterate melancholy is incurable. If cold, it degenerates often into Epilepsie, Apoplexy, dotage, or into blindnesse. If hot, into madnesse, despair, and violent death.

Corollaries and questions. The grievousnesse of this above all other diseases. The diseases of the minde are more grievous then those of the body. Whether it be lawful in this case of melancholy, for for a man to offer violence to himself. Neg. How a melancholy or mad man offering violence to himself, is to be censured.