The Anatomy of Melancholy

Melancholy: consider Its different meanings: as a disposition, in a figurative sense, etc. Subsection 5.

Sections: 1.1.1.5.

Member 2. To explain it, a digression on anatomy, considering the constituent parts. Subsection 1. The body has parts. Subsection 2.

Sections: 1.1.2.1; 1.1.2.2.

Parts contained within it: The four humours: blood, phlegm, etc. The spirits: vital, natural, animal.

Sections: 1.1.2.2.

Or parts that contain them: Uniform parts: those formed from seed, or flesh, bones, nerves, etc. Subsection 3. Composite parts: brain, heart, liver, etc. Subsection 4.

Sections: 1.1.2.3; 1.1.2.4.

Or the soul and its faculties: Nutritive and reproductive. Subsection 5. Sensitive. Subsections 6, 7, 8. Rational. Subsections 9, 10, 11.

Sections: 1.1.2.5; 1.1.2.6; 1.1.2.7; 1.1.2.8; 1.1.2.9; 1.1.2.10; 1.1.2.11.

Member 3. Its definition, name, and distinguishing characteristics. Subsection 1. The part and persons affected; the condition itself, etc. Subsection 2. The material of melancholy, natural and unnatural, etc. Subsection 3.

Sections: 1.1.3.1; 1.1.3.2; 1.1.3.3.

Its species, or kinds. Subsection 4: Those associated with bodily regions: Melancholy of the head alone; hypochondriacal, or windy, melancholy; melancholy of the whole body. Each has its own causes, symptoms, prognoses, and cures. Or those not restricted in this way, such as love melancholy, the subject of the Third Partition.

Sections: 1.1.3.4; 3.

Its causes in general. Section 2: A. Its symptoms or signs. Section 3: B. Its prognoses or indications. Section 4: C. Its cures: the subject of the Second Partition.

Sections: 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 2.