Posted: 1/14/2017
This brief blog post is about Robert Burton’s classic book “The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up” (full book title; first published in 1621).
This voluminous book comes with about 900 pages, later editions added more pages.
In his satirical preface to the reader, Burton's persona Democritus Junior explains, "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy."
Busy Mr. Burton was indeed! :-)
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