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Pallor and thinness as symptoms of love melancholy. 503
The religious symptoms of papists. 671
Paracelsus’s defence of mineral medicines. 372
How parents wrong their children, 578; how they cause melancholy through generation, 61; through laxity and indulgence, 145.
Passions and emotional disturbances as causes of melancholy, 89; how they affect the body, 90; their classifications, 97; how they are regulated and relieved, 289.
Particular cures for all three kinds of melancholy. 482
How disorders in particular organs cause melancholy. 174
People affected by religious melancholy. 641
The passions of lovers. 418,419
Patience as a cure for misery. 352
The qualities required of a patient who wishes to be cured, 228: patience, confidence and generosity; he should not prescribe for himself, 230. What he must do himself, 291; disclose his grief to a friend, 293.
An exhortatory address to those troubled in mind. 706
Pennyroyal as a remedy for melancholy. 378
Persuasion as a means of curing love melancholy, 564; other melancholy, 296.
Lovers’ perjury, 501; forgiven, 496.
The perversity and pride of lovers. 581
What imagination is. 24
How Philip the Good treated a countryman. 278
Philosophers criticized, 122; their errors, same page.
Love potions as a cause of love melancholy, 498; how they cure melancholy, 572.
Bloodletting as a cause of melancholy, 80; how and when it should be used for melancholy, 393; for melancholy of the head, 397.
Frenzy described. 8
The physician’s miseries, 133; the qualities of a good physician, 227.
Medicine criticized, 359; commended, 364; when it should be used, same page.
Signs of melancholy in bodily appearance. 59
Pictures as remedies for melancholy, 279; as causes of love melancholy, 494.
The planets inhabited. 253
The effects of plague. 4
Notable plays and public spectacles. 274
Pleasant palaces. 267
Pleasant objects of love. 419
A pleasing tone and voice as a cause of love melancholy. 492
Why poets are poor. 132
Poetry as a symptom of being in love. 539
Poetic cures for love melancholy. 577
The miseries of the poor, 157; their happiness, 337; they are dear to God, 343.
Politicians’ tricks. 647
Pork as a food that produces melancholy. 66
The mockery of Pope Leo X. 149
Possession by devils. 10
The power of spirits. 50
Poverty and want as causes of melancholy; their effects, 154. Being poor is no great misery, 319.
Preparatory medicines and purges for melancholy. 385
Predestination misunderstood as a cause of despair. 713
How priests cause religious melancholy. 649
The discontents of princes. 110
Pride and praise as causes of melancholy. 121
Preventive measures in treating jealousy. 623
The progress of love melancholy illustrated. 487
Prognoses or outcomes of love melancholy, 549; of despair, 630; of jealousy, 616; of melancholy, 212.
The disturbances caused by precedence. 102
Precious stones and metals as alteratives for melancholy. 370
A view as a remedy for melancholy. 262
Prosperity as a cause of misery. 347
Profitable objects of love. 417
Lovers’ declarations and deceptive promises. 496
False prophets: their tricks, 653; their symptoms, 672.
Pulses, peas and beans as causes of melancholy. 68
How the pulse is affected in melancholic people. 179
The pulse as a sign of love melancholy. 505
Purges and preparatory medicines for melancholy of the head. 385
Simple medicines that purge upwards, 376; downwards, 378.
How purging causes melancholy. 79