may understand better.

MR. POUR. What great reasoning is there wanted to eat a mouthful?

1ST PHY. Since it is a fact that we cannot cure any disease without
first knowing it perfectly, and that we cannot know it perfectly
without first establishing its exact nature and its true species by
its diagnosis and prognosis, you will give me leave, you, my senior,
to enter upon the consideration of the disease that is in question,
before we think of the therapeutics and the remedies that we must
decide upon in order to effect a perfect cure. I say then, Sir, if
you will allow me, that our patient here present is unhappily
attacked, affected, possessed, and disordered by that kind of madness
which we properly name hypochondriac melancholy; a very trying kind
of madness, and which requires no less than an Aesculapius deeply
versed in our art like you; you, I say, who have become grey in
harness, as the saying hath it; and through whose hands so much
business of all sorts has passed. I call it hypochondriac melancholy,
to distinguish it from the other two; for the celebrated Galen
establishes and decides in a most learned manner, as is usual with
him, that there are three species of the disease which we call
melancholy, so called, not only by the Latins, but also by the
Greeks; which in this case is worthy of remark: the first, which
arises from a direct disease of the brain; the second, which proceeds
from the whole of the blood, made and rendered atrabilious; and the
third, termed hypochondriac, which is our case here, and which
proceeds from some lower part of the abdomen; and from the inferior
regions, but particularly the spleen; the heat and inflammation
whereof sends up to the brain of our patient abundance of thick and
foul fuliginosities; of which the black and gross vapours cause