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Section 2. Heroic or love melancholy, in which consider:
Sections: 3.2.
Member 1. Its origin, power and extension to plants and sentient creatures, as well as human beings, spirits, devils and so on. Subsection 1. Its name, definition, object, the part affected and its tyranny. Subsection 2.
Causes. Member 2. The stars, bodily temperament, rich diet, place, country, climate, condition and idleness. Subsection 1. Natural attractions and causes of love, such as beauty, its praise and how it attracts. Good looks and grace, arising from the whole person or particular parts, such as the face, eyes, hair and hands. Subsection 2.
Further causes. Member 3. Artificial attractions and incitements to lust and love: gestures, clothing, dowry, money, and so on. Question: Does beauty owe more to art or nature? Subsection 3. Favourable time and place, conversation, discourse, music, singing, dancing, love stories, sexually enticing sights, familiarity, gifts, promises, and so on. Subsection 4. Procurers and love potions. Subsection 5.
Sections: 3.2.3.3; 3.2.3.4; 3.2.3.5.
Symptoms or signs. Member 4. Of the body: Dryness, pallor, thinness, sleeplessness, sighing, and so on. Question: Is there a distinctive lover’s pulse? Or of the mind: Bad, such as: Fear, sorrow, suspicion, anxiety, and so on. A hell, torment, fire, blindness, and so on. Infatuation, enslavement, neglect of business. Or good, such as: Smartness, neatness, courage, readiness to learn music, singing, dancing, poetry, and so on.
Sections: 3.2.4.1.
Prognosis: despair, madness, frenzy, death. Member 5.
Sections: 3.2.5.1.
Treatments. Member 6. By work, diet, medicine and abstinence. Subsection 1. Resist it at the outset; avoid occasions; use fair means and foul, change of place, an opposing passion, ingenious devices; disparage the former beloved and introduce another. Subsection 2. By good advice and persuasion, drawing on future miseries, disadvantages and so forth. Subsection 3. By love potions, magical and poetic cures. Subsection 4. Allowing lovers to have their desire, debated for and against; obstacles removed; reasons in favour. Subsection 5.