The Anatomy of Melancholy

ilishi — Heroical love.

images — Simulacra.

images of love — Species in perception.

imagination — Conceit; Imagination.

imaginative in conversation — Conceit.

immediate relief — Present.

immediate, internal, antecedent and proximate causes — Cause.

impaired — Crased.

impaired imagination — Imagination.

impelling cause — Cause.

improving the air — Air; Rectification.

in despair — Despair.

in disorders of the spleen — Spleen.

in her form — Habit and disposition.

in its substance — Organical parts.

in mutual aspect — Astrological aspects.

incestuous sodomites — Sodomy.

incidental causes — Accident.

incomplete roasting — Concoction.

incubus, or “witch-ridden,” — Incubus.

indigestion — Concoction.

infirm — Crased.

inflated titles — Fustian and bombast.

ingratiate themselves — Collogue.

inherent constitution — Complexion and temperament.

innate moisture — Radical moisture.

innate or acquired — Adventitious.

inscribed signs — Characters.

insensible for the time — Stupid.

inseparable condition — Accident.

inspired possession — Enthusiasm.

instant death — Present.

institutions of every kind — Hospital.

instrumental causes — Cause.

intellectual habits — Habit and disposition.

intelligence to give it life or motion — Intelligence.

intelligent child — Wit.

intensified or diminished — Intention and remission.

intensify or lessen — Intention and remission.

intervenes — Prevent.

inveterate anger — Anger.

irascible — Concupiscible and irascible.

irascible appetite — Concupiscible and irascible.

issues — Issue.

its severity generally varies from person to person — Intention and remission.

jealousy — Jealousy.

jointures — Dowry and jointure.

judge — Censure.

judge or governor — Common sense.

judgement — Censure.

judicial astrology — Astrology.

judiciously comparing one condition with another — Judicial and judicious.

jugular veins — Anatomical arteries.

kind of solitude — Solitude.

kinship by marriage or blood — Affinity and consanguinity.

kitchen remedies — Physick.

knight’s melancholy — Heroical love.

lacking lungs — Lights.

large dowries — Dowry and jointure.

laxative electuaries — Electuaries; Lenitive.

left hypochondrium — Hypochondria.

less apprehensive — Apprehension.

life and very essence of medicine — Essence and quintessence.

like a magnet drawing iron — Lodestone and adamant.

lips of the womb — Matrix and mother.

liquid dressings — Epithemes.

living anatomical specimen — Anatomy.

long and frequent periods of wakefulness — Waking.

loose and imprecise sense — Equivocation.

lose so much of her beauty — Favour and feature.

love melancholy — Heroical love.

love potion — Philter.

love potions — Philter.

love presupposes knowledge, faith and hope — Love.

lower opening of the stomach — Ventricle.

lucid intervals — Lucid intervals.

lucrative — Commodity.

lustful, sexually unrestrained — Luxurious and riot.

lycanthropy — Lycanthropy.

lying and wheedling — Collogue.

mad, sybaritic squanderers — Luxurious and riot.

made the people complacent — Secure.

magical bindings — Ligation and ligature.

magnificent dress — Tires and weeds.

maintain jesters — Entertain.

maintained with such labour — Painful.

make you complete — Absolute.

making experiments — Experimental.

malicious joy — Epichairekakia.

marriage tie — Affinity and consanguinity.

martial spirit — Spirits.

matrix or womb — Matrix and mother.

medical theory — Science.

medicinal lotions — Epithemes.

medicines taken by licking, or linctuses — Eclegme.

melancholic to the eighth degree — Melancholy.

melancholizing — Melancholy.

melancholy people are intellectually gifted — Wit.

membranes and coverings — Anatomical membranes.

mental images of objects — Species in perception.

merely disposed that way — Habit and disposition.

mesenteric veins — Meseraic.

meticulous modern writers — Neoterics.

metoposcopy and chiromancy — Divination.

middle region of the air — Air.

middle ventricle — Cerebral chambers; Ventricle.

mirach — Myrach.

misguided imitation — Emulation.

mizaldus, fifth century, item 77 — Century.

mortmain — Mortmain.

most readily available and easiest — Parable.

most sensitive — Sensible.

mountebanks, quacks — Mountebank.

my assurance — Carnal presumption.

my birth chart — Geniture.

myrach — Myrach.

myrachial — Myrach.

natal promissors — Astrological significators.

natural concupiscence — Concupiscence.

naturally cold and dry — Humoral qualities.