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Madness described, 8. The extent of melancholy, 213. Madness as a symptom and effect of love melancholy, 542.
Elaborately prepared dishes as a cause of melancholy. 70
Melancholy in unmarried women, nuns and widows. 202
How magicians cause melancholy, 53; how they cure it, 220.
Human excellence and misery. 1
Humankind as its own greatest enemy. 4 and 5
Many ways to distract lovers, 549; to cure them, 556.
Unhappy marriage as a cause of melancholy, 168; marriage as the best cure for love melancholy, 573. Aids to marriage, 627; its miseries, 565; benefits and praise, 590.
Mathematical studies commended. 281
Selected medicines for melancholy, 362; for wind and constipation, 401; for love melancholy, 543.
Melancholy as a disposition; the different meanings of melancholy, 11; its definition, name and distinctions, 31; the part and people affected, and the nature of the disorder, 32; its material substance, 34; species or kinds, 35. Melancholy as a hereditary disease, 61; foods that cause it, 65,66,67; antecedent causes in particular organs, 174; its symptoms, 178; excessive passions and peculiar moods, 186; symptoms of adust melancholy, 192; symptoms mixed with those of other diseases, 194. Melancholy as a cause of jealousy, 631; of despair, 695. Why melancholic people are clever, 207; so prone to laugh, weep, swear and blush, same page; why they see visions, hear strange noises, speak languages they have never learned, prophesy and so forth, 208,209.
Intercourse during menstruation as a cause of melancholy. 63
The seat of memory. 23
People led astray by spirits at night. 48
The transmigration of souls. 26
Metals and minerals for melancholy. 370
How strange meteors are caused. 250
Forehead-reading as a way of predicting melancholy. 59
Milk as a food that produces melancholy. 67
How the mind affects the body. 89
Minerals as remedies for melancholy. 370
How ministers cause despair. 698
The mirach, mesentery, womb and mesenteric veins as causes of melancholy. 175
Myrobalans as purges for melancholy. 378
Mirth and cheerful company as excellent remedies for melancholy, 281; their abuses, 305.
Human miseries, 1; how they cause melancholy, 106,284; common miseries, 105; miseries of both kinds, 346. No one is free from them; their effects on us, and how they are sent for our good, 310. The miseries of students and scholars, 127.
Ways of alleviating melancholy. 360
The advantages of money. 418
The moon inhabited, 254; the moon in love, 444.
The faculty of movement described. 25
How the mother causes melancholy. 62
Music as an immediate remedy for melancholy; its effects, 299; a symptom of being in love, 535; a cause of love melancholy, 493.