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Of retention and evacuation, there be divers kinds, which are either concomitant, assisting, or sole causes many times of melancholy.... In the first rank of these, I may well reckon up costiveness, and keeping in of our ordinary excrements, which as it often causeth other diseases, so this of melancholy in particular."

Eyw.

A whole lot of this text is more convincing than the copy in pharmaceutical ads.

This book makes one wonder if the complex foundations upon which modern science is built are as limiting as they are enabling. This guy reaches some serious peaks of rational thought with so little to go on.

I have to face the fact that I will likely never give this a cover-to-cover reading. But I'll give it a shot. Future page-updates will be skip-around LIES.