The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it : in three partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior.

  • Robert Burton
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1868
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it : in three partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    « The archness which BtrnToir displays occasionally, and his indulgence of playful digressions from the most serious discussions, often give his style an air of ^miliar conversation, notwith- standing the laborious collections which supply his text. He was capable of writing excellent poetry, but he seems to have cultivated this talent too little. The English verses prefixed to his book, which possess beautiful imagery, and great sweetness of versification, have been frequentlj published. His Latin elegiac verses addressed to his book, shew a very agreeable turn fbr raillery.—J6irf. p. 58. When the force of the subject opeiis his own vein of prose, we discover valuable sense and brilliant expression. Such is his account of the first feelings of melancholy persons, written, probably, from his own experience. [See p. 154, of the present edition.]—Ibid. p. 60. During a pedantic agie, like that in which BtTRToir's production appeared, it roust have been emrnently serviceable to writers of many descriptions. Hence the unlearned might furnish them- selves with appropriate scraps of Greek and Latin, whilst men of letters would find their enquiries shortened, by knowing where they might look for what both ancients and moderns had advanced on the subject of human passions. I confess my inability to point but any other English author who has so largely dealt in apt and original quotation. — Manuscript note of the late George Sieevens, Esq., in his copy of The Anatomt of M£i.AircHoi.T.
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