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Melancholy Anatomy Paramedical Treatise Robert Burton Main Parts

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton is a scholarly work detailing the causes, cures, and types of melancholy, blending serious analysis with comic elements.

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton is a treatise divided into three parts: causes and symptoms of melancholy, cures for it, and specific types like love and religious melancholy.

Front Anatomy of Melancholy
Back paramedical treatise
Robert Burton
1621
three main parts
first; causes and symptoms of melancholy
second; cures
third; specific melancholies attached to love and religion
serious and comic
using Bible, classics and contemporaries

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