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The aid of saints rejected in treating melancholy. 224
Salads criticized. 67
Signs of sanguine melancholy. 191
Squill, or sea onion, as a purge for melancholy. 376
Scipio’s sexual self-restraint. 551
How mockery, slander and bitter jokes cause melancholy, 148; their antidote, 359.
The miseries of scholars. 129
Scripture misunderstood as a cause of religious melancholy, 713; Scripture as a cure for melancholy, 284.
Scorzonera as a remedy for melancholy. 368
Seasickness as beneficial treatment for melancholy. 369
Self-love as a cause of melancholy; its effects. 121
The sensitive soul and its parts. 22
Why and how the senses are deceived in melancholy. 210
Maxims selected from secular authors. 359
Servitude as a cause of melancholy, 152; servitude and imprisonment alleviated, 338.
The pleasures and recreations of different people. 264
Harsh tutors and guardians as causes of melancholy. 144
How shame and disgrace cause melancholy; their effects. 99
Sickness as a means to our good. 313
Sighs and tears as symptoms of love melancholy. 503
Sight as a principal cause of love melancholy. 452
Signs of honourable love. 623
Simple medicines for melancholy evaluated, 366; those worth knowing, 367; medicines that purge melancholy upwards, 376; simple medicines that purge downwards, 378.
Singing as a symptom of being in love, 532; as a cause of love melancholy, 484.
Sin as the impelling cause of human misery. 2
The single life and virginity commended, 570; their advantages, same page.
The slavery of lovers. 523
Sleep and wakefulness as causes of melancholy, 88; ways of inducing sleep and relieving sleeplessness, 396.
Small bodies have the greatest intelligence. 313
What smell is. 23
Smiling as a cause of love melancholy. 471
Sodomy. 441
Soldiers are mostly lustful. 603
Solitude as a cause of melancholy, 87; forced and voluntary solitude, and how it is beneficial, 88; as a sign of melancholy, 188.
Sorrow: its effect, 96; a cause of melancholy, 96; a symptom of melancholy, 183; relieved by counsel, 340.
The soul defined; its faculties, 20; transmitted through generation, as some maintain, 26.
The spleen’s position, 17; how its disorders cause melancholy, 174.
How spices cause melancholy. 70
What the bodily spirits are. 14,15
Spirits and devils: their orders, kinds, power and so forth. 43
Spots on the sun. 257
Smartness of dress as a symptom of being in love. 534
How the stars are causes or signs of melancholy, 57; of love melancholy, 443; of jealousy, 596.
The harm caused by a stepmother. 169
A disordered stomach as a cause of melancholy. 174
Stones resembling birds, beasts, fish and so forth. 244
Why brothels are permitted. 634
When nurses from outside the family are best. 143
Excessive study as a cause of melancholy, 125; why and how, 126,193,207. Study as a remedy for melancholy, 278,279.
Subterranean devils. 50
Supernatural causes of melancholy. 37
Suspicion and jealousy as symptoms of melancholy, 185; how they are caused, 206.
The effects and symptoms of superstition, 665; how it dominates, 640,667.
Overeating and drunkenness criticized. 72
Where swallows, cuckoos and other birds are in winter. 242
Sweet melodies and singing as causes of love melancholy. 484
Symptoms or signs of melancholy in the body, 178; in the mind, 180; from the stars and bodily parts, 190; from upbringing, habit and the passage of time, mixed with other diseases, 194. Symptoms of melancholy of the head, 198; hypochondriacal melancholy, 199; melancholy throughout the body, 201. Symptoms of melancholy in nuns, unmarried women and widows, 202; immediate causes of melancholic symptoms, 205. Symptoms of love melancholy, 503; causes of these symptoms, 299; symptoms of a happy lover, 511; of a dejected lover, same page; of a great man in love, 36; symptoms of jealousy, 608; of religious melancholy, 660; of despair, 701.
Syrup of hellebore. 395