Chap. XXIII. How affections be altered

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction V
3. A Treatise of Melancholie. Facsimile XXIII
4. Dedication to Peter Osbourne and friend M. XXVII
5. Contents XLIII
6. Chap. I. How diverslie the word melancholy is take 1
7. Chap. II. The causes of naturall melancholie and of excess thereof 4
8. Chap. III. Whether good nourishmente breede melancholie by fault of the bodie turning it into melancholie 7
9. Chap. IIII. The answer to the former obiections 10
10. Chap. V. A more particular and farther answer to the former obiections 22
11. Chap. VI. Th causes of the increase and excess of melancholicke humour 25
12. Chap. VII. Of the melancholicke excrement 31
13. Chap. VIII. What burnt choller is, and the causes of it 32
14. Chap. IX. How melancholoe worketh fearfull passions in the mind 33
15. Chap. X. How the bodie affecteth the soule 39
16. Chap. XI. Obiections against the manner how the bodie affecteth the soule with answer thereto 49
17. Chap. XII. The answere to the former obiections and of the simple facultie of the soule and only organicall of spirit and bodie 55
18. Chap. XIII. How the soule by one simple facultie performeth so many and diverse actions 67
19. Chap. XIIII. The particular answere to the obiections made in the II Chapter. 72
20. Chap. XV. Whether perturbations rise of humor or not 80
21. Chap. XVI. Whether perturbations which are not moved by outward occasion rise on humour, or not , and how. 90
22. Chap. XVII. How melancholy procureth feare, sadness, dispaire, and such other passions 101
23. Chap. XVIII. Of the unnnaturall melancholy rising by adustion, how it affecteth us with diverse passions 110
24. Chap. XIX. How sicknes, and yeares seeme to alter the mind, and the cause, and hoe the soule hath practice of senses separated fro the bodie 116
25. Chap. XX. The accidentes which besall melancholic persons 123
26. Chap. XXI. How melancholy altereth the quallities of the body 125
27. Chap XXII. How the melancholie altereth those actions which rise out the braine 129
28. Chap. XXIII. How affections be altered 132
29. Chap. XXIIII. The causes of tears, and their saltnes 135
30. Chap. XXV. Why and how one weepesh for joy, and laughesh for griefe, why tears and weeping indure not all the time of the cause, and why the finger is put in the eye 148
31. Chap. XXVI. Of other parts of weeping; why the conntenance is cast downe, the forehead loureth, the nose dropeth, the lippe tremblesh, the cheeks are drawn, and the speech is interrupted 153
32. Chap. XXVII. The causes of subbing and sighing and how weeping affects the heart 157
33. Chap. XXVIII. How melancholie causesh both weeping and laughing and the reasons how 161
34. Chap. XXIX. The cause of blushing and bashfulness and how melancholicke performs and given thereunto 166
35. Chap. XXX. Of the naturall actions altered by melancholy 173
36. Chap. XXXI. How melancholie altereth naturall works of the bodie, iuyce and excrements 178
37. Chap. XXXII. Of the affliction of conscience for sinne 184
38. Chap. XXXIII. Where the conscience of sinne and the affliction thereof by melancholy or not 187
39. Chap. XXXIIII. The particular difference betwixs melancholy, and the distressed conscience in the same person 193
40. Chap. XXXV. The afflicition of mind to what persons is befallesh and by what meanes 198
41. Chap. XXXVI. A consolation onto she affected conscience 207
42. Chap. XXXVII. The cure of melancholy, and how melancholicke persons are to order them selves in actions of the mind, sense and emotion 244
43. Chap. XXXVIII. How melancholicke persons are to order themselves in their affections 251
44. Chap. XXXIX. How melancholick persons are to order themselves in their affections 259
45. Chap XL. The cure by medicine, meese for melancholic persons 267
46. Chap XLI. The maner of strengthning melancholick persons after purging with correction of some of their accidents 279
47. Faults escaped in the printing, wherein the first number signifiesh the page, the 2. the line 287