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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.

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 think at my next doctor's visit I'm going to use terminology from this book as if I'm quoting a recent article in JAMA

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.