restrain us — Continence.

rheum — Distillation and rheum.

ridicule many of their customs — Explode.

right hypochondrium — Hypochondria.

rights of patronage over appointments — Church patronage.

rivalry — Emulation.

roasting — Concoction.

ros and gluten — Radical moisture.

rubbing all over the body — Friction and embrocation.

rulers of the nativity — Geniture.

rustic shyness — Shame.

safest, mildest and least severe — Intention and remission.

sanguification — Concoction.

sanguine melancholy — Blood and sanguine.

saturnian, jovian, martian — Jovial and martial.

satyriasis, priapism — Satyriasis and priapism.

savage vices — Feral.

scholastic theology — Schoolmen.

scholastics — Schoolmen.

scorched — Adust.

scrupulously — Curiosity.

seat of the common sense — Common sense.

secular learning and theology — Humane learning.

security and reassurance — Remedy by diversion.

self-love — Self love.

self-restraint — Continence.

self-styled paracelsians — Paracelsian.

semen retained too long — Seed.

seminal vessels — Seed.

sensitive — Sensible.

sensitive soul — Sensible.

sensitive to what is happening — Apprehension.

sensory forms of things — Species in perception.

sentient love — Love.

separate substances — Daemon and genius.

settled melancholy — Habit and disposition.

severe mental derangement — Madness.

sexual activity properly regulated — Rectification.

sexual incontinence — Continence.

sexually unrestrained — Continence.

shabby appearance — Homely.

sham invalids — Abraham men.

signs stamped — Characters.

silent rhetoric — Still.

similar love potions — Philter.

similar treatment — Rectification.

simony — Church patronage.

simple substances that alter melancholy — Simples.

six non-natural things — Non naturals.

skeletons — Anatomy.

skill and effort — Art.

sleepless — Waking.

sleepwalking — Waking.

small courtesy — Complement.

so reckless — Desperate.

sodomy, buggery — Sodomy.

soil and smear — Bewray.

solitude, sleeplessness — Waking.

some foul deed — Fact.

some lending at interest — Usury.

some of his close friends — Familiar.

soothing remedies — Lenitive.

speech suited to the occasion — Nepenthe.

speech, performance, or gesture — Action.

spent his capital — Estate.

splendid clothes — Brave.

splenic — Spleen.

spout grandiose nonsense — Fustian and bombast.

squill oxymel — Oxymel.

starving his own appetite for enjoyment — Daemon and genius.

states of inspiration — Enthusiasm.

staying awake at night — Waking.

steadfastly — Constancy.

steadfastness — Constancy.

strange attacks and convulsions — Passion.

strange claims of divine inspiration — Enthusiasm.

strangury — Strangury.

strictly religious — Religious melancholy.

strong idea or impression — Conceit.

strong spirits — Aqua vitae.

studied medicine — Physick.

studies and occupations — Calling.

studies of birth horoscopes — Geniture.

stumble through a legal document — Legal evidence.

stupefied women — Stupid.

substance and matter — Essence and quintessence.

such a discharge — Issue.

such temptations — Temptation.

suddenly seized with diarrhoea — Flux and lask.

suffice to make satisfaction — Satisfaction.

summon and dismiss these spirits — Demonic apparitions.

surgical remedies — Chirurgery.

symbols, devices and emblems — Emblem.

synderesis — Synderesis.

tablets, inscriptions — Tables.

take him into his household — Entertain.

take possession immediately — Present.

teach another — Custom and education.

temporary affliction — Passion.

temptation and misery — Temptation.

tension proceeds from disturbances — Intention and remission.

terrifying apparitions — Bugbear.

that it happens spontaneously — Voluntary.

the balance of their bodies — Humoral qualities.

the bond of conjugal love is unbreakable — Lodestone and adamant.

the chief magnet — Lodestone and adamant.

the crowd hissed and jeered them off — Explode.

the dictate of reason — Synderesis.

the different meanings of melancholy — Melancholy.

the disorder called “the mother” — Matrix and mother.

the estimative or cogitative faculty — Faculty.

the first moving sphere of all the other affections — Prime mover.

the harmony of musicians — Music and harmony.

the imagination stirs the appetite — Appetite.

the nurse of intelligence and courage — Wit.

the offensive sweat — Fulsome.

the other complacency — Secure.

the parish is well provided for — Cure.

the poor shepherd — Silly.

the pretended corpse — Counterfeit.

the safest — Secure.

the same deed — Fact.

the sin of sodomy — Sodomy.

the slightest disturbance of the emotions — Perturbation.

the usual outcome — Prognostics.

the very same water — Inseparable and individual.

their desires could never be satisfied — Lust and lusty.

their emblem — Emblem.

their imagination is impaired — Faculty.

their inhabitants are idle and dissolute — Luxurious and riot.

their own flesh and blood, their very children — Bowels.

their stupefaction — Stupid.

their very frequent sexual activity — Lust and lusty.

they are changeable beyond all measure — Humour.

they forestalled death — Prevent.

they pay their debt — Venery.

they would not ransom his life — Soul.

thick humours — Humour.

this faculty is free — Faculty.

this judgment — Judgment.

this nobility of spirit — Generous.

this opportunistic age — Temporize.

this patchwork — Cento.

this scrupulous conscience — Scruple.

this suspension of the senses — Ligation and ligature.

those governed by mercury — Astrological significators.

those parasites — Parasite.

those who profess christianity — Professor.

three ounces — Apothecaries measures.

through sympathy with another part, rather than through a disorder originating in itself — Consent and essence.

through their mutual sympathy — Consent and essence.

to censure it and deter others from it — Tax.

to feel the lack of grace within ourselves — Grace.

to indulge in melancholy like this — Melancholy.

to kill himself — Make away.

to kill themselves — Make away.

to perform works beyond duty — Supererogation.

to strengthen hearing — Intention and remission.

too much being alone — Idleness; Solitude.

too scrupulously — Nice.

torments the soul — Sorrow.

toughest labourers — Clown.

training — Custom and education.

trance — Ecstasy.

transfers of property and guarantees — Legal evidence.

transmigration and rebirth — Metempsychosis.

treated me with contempt — Baffle.

treatment with hellebore — Helleborism.

trim their conduct to circumstances as others do — Temporize.

turn his mind elsewhere — Remedy by diversion.

two common emetics — Purging.

two full treatises — Just.

ugly souls — Soul.

undertakings and conduct — Carriage.

undigested matter — Concoction.

ungovernable and insane desire — Impotent.

unhealthy air — Air.

uniform parts — Organical parts.

unlearned — Idiot.

unruly appetite — Concupiscence.

unsuspecting travellers — Silly.

untrained practitioners — Empiric.

untrained practitioners of politics — Empiric.

upwards or downwards — Purging.

usual winter recreations — Ordinary.

utterly mortified and mad — Mortification.

utterly numb — Stupid.

vegetative, sensitive and rational — Animal and vegetal.

venosal artery — Anatomical arteries.

very shy — Shame.

very strengthening to the heart — Cordial.

very vigorous — Lust and lusty.

vileness of his deed — Fact.

voluntary poverty — Voluntary.

wasted by cares and discontents — Macerate.

wasting ill health — Plethora and repletion.

weak and helpless — Silly.

wear away their minds — Macerate.

wear themselves out — Macerate.

weariness of life — Tædium vitae.

wearing themselves away — Macerate.

what is morally honourable — Honest.

what middle state can be found — Mediocrity.

wheedling — Collogue.

whether he is among the elect — Election and reprobation.

whether things come into being and pass away in the heavens — Generation and corruption.

wholesome merriment — Honest.

whose age had made him a little foolish — Fond.

whose wit surpassed the wits of men — Wit.

will-o’-the-wisp, imagination — Meteors.

will-o’-the-wisps — Meteors.

willing and refusing — Will and nill.

willing or unwilling — Will and nill.

windpipe — Anatomical arteries.

witches and enchantments — Fascination.

with or without scarification — Chirurgery.

without a dowry — Dowry and jointure.

without knowledge — Zeal.

witty — Conceit.

wives’ breaths smell very foul — Soul.

wolf-madness — Lycanthropy.

worldly, complacent — Secure.

worried thoughts — Careful.

written symbols — Characters.

zealous — Zeal.

zopyrus the reader of faces — Physiognomy.

Thematic index

Learning and authorship. Action; Antick; Art; Cento; Century; Clerk; Emblem; Equivocation; Exhibition; Fustian and bombast; Humane learning; Neoterics; Parrhesia; Pathetical; Quiddity and quodlibet; Science.