The Anatomy of Melancholy

nepenthe — Nepenthe.

never had any scruple — Conscience.

nightmare oppression — Incubus.

no discipline — Art.

no dowries — Dowry and jointure.

no occupation — Calling.

no skill can cultivate — Manure.

noble courage — Generous.

noble fields of knowledge — Science.

noble minds — Generous.

noble spirits — Generous.

not outright atheists — Simple.

not the unmixed humour — Humour; Simple.

notorious procurer — Bawd.

obstructions — Oppilation.

on black bile — Bile and boil.

on satyriasis and priapism — Satyriasis and priapism.

once it has become established — Habit and disposition.

one branch of learning — Science.

one drachm of each — Apothecaries measures.

one of her female friends — Gossip.

open sores made in different parts for different purposes — Issue.

operations requiring concentration — Intention and remission.

oppositions, quartiles — Astrological aspects.

optical glasses — Catoptrics and perspectives.

optics — Catoptrics and perspectives.

or they concern some future evil, as fear does — Fear.

ordinary courtesies — Complement.

ordinary litigants — Suit.

ordinary looks and humble standing — Favour and feature.

organs — Organical parts.

organs, or instruments — Organical parts.

originates in the head itself — Consent and essence.

others are middling — Indifferent.

our clergy — Divine.

our imaginations — Imagination.

our little world, the human being — Microcosm.

our own unstable condition — Estate.

our writers on cases of conscience condemn — Casuists.

over-scrupulous — Curiosity.

overfilling and emptying the body — Plethora and repletion.

pad themselves out — Fustian and bombast.

painstaking — Curiosity.

painstaking philosopher of universal learning — Painful.

palmistry — Divination.

passionate declaration — Pathetical.

patience and courage — Magnanimity and pusillanimity.

patrons who trade in church livings — Church patronage.

pay her no more attention than the rest — Intention and remission.

people seized by inspiration — Enthusiasm.

people seized by prophetic frenzy — Enthusiasm.

people who believe themselves inspired — Enthusiasm.

people who pretend to be mute — Abraham men.

perfectly in love — Love.

perhaps through his counsel — Happily.

peripatetics — Schoolmen.

perpetual corrosive — Corrosive.

perverts judgement — Reason.

pharmaceutical treatment — Simples.

pharmaceutics — Physick.

phlegm — Phlegm.

phrenitis — Phrenitis.

pine cone — Pine apple.

pineapples — Pine apple.

plainly dressed — Homely.

planted wildernesses — Artificial.

plants and creatures with senses — Animal and vegetal.

pleasure — Pleasure.

polished and splendid — Brave.

political body — Commonwealth.

politically shrewd commynes — Policy.

possessions and wealth — Estate.

potions — Apothecaries measures.

powerful imagination — Apprehension.

practitioners of astrological medicine — Astrology.

prepared by chemical methods — Paracelsian.

prime matter — Matter.

prior lapse of the right of appointment — Church patronage.

privies and drains — Privy.

prognoses — Prognostics.

propagated from the parent — Ex traduce.

properly prepared — Corrected medicines.

properties of herbs, plants, stones, minerals — Virtue.

protecting the places — Secure.

provide a way out of the trial — Issue.

pursue pleasure — Epicure.

pursuing a petition — Suit.

quacks — Mountebank.

quartan ague — Calenture and ague.

quartan fever — Calenture and ague.

quiet mental derangement — Dotage.

quirks and quiddities — Quiddity and quodlibet.

rational in potential, though not in its exercise — Actuality.

rational soul — Soul.

raving without fever — Madness.

reading the forehead — Divination.

ready for advancement — Living and preferment.

reason another — Reason.

receives visitors — Entertain.

recollection or remembering — Memory and recollection.

refresh and restore his distressed soul — Mirth; Recreate.

regimen of health — Diet and regimen.

regions beneath the ribs — Hypochondria.

regular preacher — Ordinary.

rejected by god — Election and reprobation.

rejection of hope and comfort for a time — Despair.

rejoice in other people’s misfortunes — Epichairekakia.

religion and government — Policy.

religion is of two kinds, true or false — Religion and superstition.

religious melancholy from deficiency — Religion and superstition; Religious melancholy.

religious rigorists — Precise.

religious scrupulosity — Precise.

remedies learned from experience — Experimental.