A reason of these symptoms. _Memb. 3._

Why they are so fearful, sad, suspicious without a cause, why
solitary, why melancholy men are witty, why they suppose they hear
and see strange voices, visions, apparitions.

Why they prophesy, and speak strange languages; whence comes their
crudity, rumbling, convulsions, cold sweat, heaviness of heart,
palpitation, cardiaca, fearful dreams, much waking, prodigious
fantasies.

C. Prognostics of melancholy. _Sect. 4._

Tending to good, as
Morphew, scabs, itch, breaking out, &c.
Black jaundice.
If the hemorrhoids voluntarily open.
If varices appear.

Tending to evil, as
Leanness, dryness, hollow-eyed, &c.
Inveterate melancholy is incurable.
If cold, it degenerates often into epilepsy, apoplexy, dotage, or
into blindness.
If hot, into madness, despair, and violent death.

Corollaries and questions.
The grievousness of this above all other diseases.
The diseases of the mind are more grievous than those of the body.
Whether it be lawful, in this case of melancholy, for a man to offer