The Anatomy of Melancholy

ß — Apothecaries measures.

æquivocations — Equivocation.

æstimative — Faculty.

ʒ — Apothecaries measures.

κακοζηλίαν — Emulation.

πυρομαντεία — Divination.

ἐντελέχεια — Actuality.

ἐπιχαιρεκακία — Epichairekakia.

ὑδρομαντεία — Divination.

℥ — Apothecaries measures.

Modern rendering index

a bad bodily condition — Habit and disposition.

a cautery wound — Cautery.

a conceit of holiness — Self love.

a destructive inquisitiveness — Jealousy.

a divine melancholy — Religion and superstition.

a full and sweet harmony — Music and harmony.

a god, a spirit — Daemon and genius.

a great accumulation of waste matter — Excrements.

a handsome man — Proper.

a hare sitting in its form — Form.

a hospital, a shelter for the sick — Hospital.

a kind of abscess in my head — Impostume.

a knowing cuckold — Wittal and cuckold.

a liquid dressing for the heart — Epithemes.

a lucrative prebend — Living and preferment.

a mirror was lowered on a thread — Glass.

a mistress still to come — Mistress.

a nonentity — Matter.

a passing disposition, in another an established condition — Habit and disposition.

a person’s nativity — Geniture.

a poor sinful soul — Silly.

a puck — Demonic apparitions.

a scrupulous conscience — Conscience; Scruple.

a settled condition — Habit and disposition.

a simple surgeon — Silly.

a single catarrhal discharge — Distillation and rheum.

a slattern — Quean and slut.

a strict puritan — Precise.

a student of literature or a poet — Humane learning.

a substantial volume — Just.

a theologian — Divine.

a true professing believer — Professor.

a wasted constitution — Plethora and repletion.

a well-cultivated country — Manure.

a well-engraved herbal — Herbal.

a willing cuckold — Wittal and cuckold.

a woman rules him — Mistress.

abdominal membrane — Anatomical membranes.

abdominal wall — Myrach.

accompanying symptoms — Accident.

acquired — Accident.

acquired disease — Artificial.

acquired melancholy — Melancholy.

actions and emotions — Passion.

active and passive — Intellect.

active intellect — Intellect.

acts of satisfaction — Satisfaction.

admixture of blood — Blood and sanguine.

advantage — Commodity.

affection — Love.

agonising torture — Exquisite.

all bodily decay — Generation and corruption.

all food — Meat.

all the later writers — Neoterics.

already distraught — Distraction.

alterative treatment — Alteratives.

alteratives and cordials — Alteratives.

ambulones, “wanderers,” — Demonic apparitions.

among familiar companions — Gossip.

amplified impressions — Species in perception.

amusing tale — Conceit.

an accidental property — Accident.

an emetic — Purging.

an empiric — Empiric.

an established disposition to melancholy — Habit and disposition.

an excess of humours — Plethora and repletion.

an illegitimate offshoot or kind of love melancholy — Jealousy.

an immediate diversion — Present.

an immediate recovery — Present.

an immediate remedy — Present.

an impaired imagination — Imagination.

an overpowering object of sense — Sensible.

an uncontrolled and raging lust — Impotent.

an unfamiliar guise — Habit and disposition.

an unhealthy condition of the body — Habit and disposition.

anchorites — Anchorite.

and low fellows — Proletary.

anger, a desire for revenge — Anger.

animal faculties — Animal faculties.

animal spirits — Spirits.

antimony, or stibium — Stibium.

apophlegmatisms, or masticatories — Apophlegmatisms.

apothecaries’ medicines — Physick.

apparitions — Demonic apparitions.

applications of liquid remedies — Friction and embrocation.

aqua vitae — Aqua vitae.

are driven to prostitution — Quean and slut.

argues at length — Just.

art or to nature — Art.

as erasmus justly reproaches them — Tax.

as inseparable as saints cosmas and damian — Inseparable and individual.

as matter desires form — Form.

as outspoken as i am unrestrained — Parrhesia.

as sorrow does: it contracts the heart — Sorrow.

as the substance itself or as an infusion — Stibium.

ascendant — Astrological significators.

asinine melancholy — Melancholy.

associate familiarly with human beings — Conversation.

assured of their salvation — Salvation.

astrological indicators — Astrological significators.

atmospheric disturbances — Meteors.

attack them in his satires — Tax.

awkward shyness — Shame.

bad conduct — Conversation.

balanced bodily constitution — Complexion and temperament.

beggar’s clothes — Tires and weeds.

being — Matter.