Melancholic affection
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black bile · melancholic · melancholic affection · melancholic affections · melancholic causes
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Aphorisms
A humoral disease category (melancholy/black bile) with defining symptoms and consequences
Crude dejections are the product of black bile;
Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections are favorable.
If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
De diaeta acutorum
A humoral/temperamental category (melancholia, black bile-related) used to explain symptoms and predict outcomes.
Most such patients pluck at flocks and pick at their noses, and answer briefly what is asked, but of themselves say nothing collected;
In tetanus of the loins, and when from melancholic causes there are suppressions of the breaths through the vessels, bloodletting delivers the patient.
and if the patient be in the prime of life and have the body in good flesh from exercises, or be melancholic, or have tremulous hands from drinking, it is well to foretell delirium or convulsion;