Some Anatomies of Melancholy Quotes

“This material melancholy is either simple or mixed; offending in quantity or quality, varying according to his place, where it settleth, as brain, spleen, meseraic veins, heart, womb, and”
― Robert Burton, Some Anatomies of Melancholy

“Of the matter of melancholy, there is much question betwixt Avicenna and Galen, as you may read in Cardan’s Contradictions, Valesius’ Controversies, Montanus, Prosper Calenus, Capivaccius, Bright, Ficinus, that have written either whole tracts, or copiously of it in their several treatises of this subject. ‘What”
― Robert Burton, Some Anatomies of Melancholy