Section 3. Member 1. Subsection 1. Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the Body.
Their urine is most part pale, and low coloured, urina pauca, acris, biliosa, (Areteus) Not much in quantity: But this in my judgement, is all out as uncertain as the other, varying so often according to severall persons, habits, & other occasions not to be respected in Chronick diseases.
Their Melancholy excrements in some very much, in others little, as the spleen plays his part, and thence proceeds winde, palpitation of the heart, short breath, plenty of humidity in the stomack, heavines of heart & heartake, & intolerable stupidity and dulnes of spirits. Their excrements or stool hard, black to some & little.
If the heart, brain, liver, spleen, be misaffected, as usually they are, many inconveniences proceed from them, many diseases accompany, as Incubus, Apoplexy, Epilepsie, Vertigo, those frequent wakings and terrible dreams, intempestive laughing, weeping, sighing, sobbing, bashfulnesse, blushing, trembling, sweating, swouning, &c. All their senses are troubled, they think they see, hear, smell, and touch that which they do not, as shall be proved in the following discourse.