A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

But sometimes persons that are sound, are suddenly cast into Melancholy by a fright, or by the death of a friend, or by some great loss or cross, or some sad Tidings, even in an hour; which shows that it cometh not always from any humour called Melancholy, nor for any foregoing Disease at all.

But sometimes persons that are sound, are suddenly cast into Melancholly by a fright, or by the death of a friend, or by some great loss or cross, or some sad Tydings, even in an hour; which shews that it cometh not always from any humour called Melancholly, nor for any foregoing Disease at all.

But the very act of the mind doth suddenly disorder the passions, and perturb the Spirits, and the Disturbed Spirits in time vitiate the blood which containeth them, and the vitiated blood doth in time vitiate the Viscera and parts which it passeth through; and so the disease beginning in the Senses and Soul, doth draw first the Spirits, and then the humours, and then the parts, into the Fellowship, and Soul and Body are sick together.

But the very act of the mind doth suddenly disorder the passions, and perturbe the Spirits, and the Disturbed Spirits in time vitiate the blood which containeth them, and the vitiated blood doth in time vitiate the Viscera and parts which it passeth through; and so the disease begining in the Senses and Soul, doth draw first the Spirits, and then the humors, and then the parts, into the Fellowship, and Soul and Body are sick together.

And it is of great use to the Physician to know where the Depravation did begin, whether in the mind or in the body, and if in the body, whether in the blood or in the Viscera, for the cure must be fitted accordingly.