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Cardan’s father summoned seven devils at once, 41; had a spirit bound to his service, 46.
Cards and dice criticized and approved. 274
The nature of the carp. 68
The effects of worry. 107
Poultices and wax ointments for melancholy. 375
The cause of diseases. 2
The immediate cause of the symptoms of melancholy. 205
Causes of virtuous love, 420; of passionate love, 443; of jealousy, 600.
Precautions against jealousy. 629
Centaury as a remedy for melancholy. 367
Charlemagne compelled by a love potion to love unworthily. 481
A change of expression as a sign of love melancholy. 506
Charity described, 424; failures of charity, 429.
A portrait of a greedy man. 114
Charles VI, king of France, driven mad by anger. 105
Chess criticized. 274
Signs of melancholy found in palm-reading. 59
Surgical remedies for melancholy. 382
Signs of choleric melancholy. 192
St Vitus’s dance, a disease. 10
Chemical medicine criticized. 387
Circumstances that increase jealousy. 602
Recreations in cities. 274
The miseries of civil lawyers. 134
How climates and particular places cause love melancholy. 449
Clothing alone as a reason for being respected. 156
Clothing as a cause of love melancholy. 473
Enemas as a remedy for melancholy. 400
Coffee, a Turkish restorative drink. 392
Cold air as a cause of melancholy. 83
Where colonies should be sent. 591
Combats. 68
Comets above the moon. 251
Compound alterative medicines criticized and approved, 368; compound purges for melancholy, 377; compound medicinal wines for melancholy, 583.
Wives held in common as a cure for jealousy. 622
Polite attentions and graceful conduct as causes of love melancholy. 471
Medicinal confections and preserves against melancholy. 374
Confiding one’s grief to a friend as a principal cure for melancholy. 293
Confidence in one’s physician is half the cure. 229
Married love is best. 443
Continually thinking of one’s beloved as a symptom of love melancholy. 512
A troubled conscience as a cause of despair. 699
What conscience is. 29
The effects of disputes, quarrelling and lawsuits. 169
Underlying or internal causes of melancholy. 172
Cookery criticized. 70
Contentment above all, 325; where to find it, same page.
The cure for quarrelling. 357
Constipation as a cause of melancholy in some people. 78
Constipation relieved. 401
Remedies for accompanying symptoms of melancholy. 394
Remedies to expel wind and relieve constipation. 401
Restorative medicines against melancholy. 388
Greed defined and described; how it causes melancholy. 114
Counsel against melancholy, 289 and 556; to cure jealousy, 619; despair, 705.
Cuckolds common in every age. 616
Country recreations. 273
Jealousy in crocodiles. 599
Cupid’s two arrows, which cause and cure love. 175
How and when cupping glasses and cauteries are used for melancholy. 388
How established eating habits and the preferences of the appetite should be respected and indulged. 79
Cures for melancholy: unlawful ones rejected, 219; those from God, 222. Cures for melancholy of the head, 370; throughout the body, 494; hypochondriacal melancholy, 395; love melancholy, 543; jealousy, 618; despair, 705.
Curing melancholy through one’s own efforts, 286; or through friends, 294.
Curiosity described; its effects. 166