In disposition is that transitory melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow need sickness trouble fear grief passion or perturbation of the mind any manner of care discontent or thought which causes anguish dulness heaviness and vexation of spirit any ways opposite to pleasure mirth joy delight causing forwardness in us or a dislike in which equivocal and improper sense we call him melancholy that is dull sad sour lumpish ill disposed . Anatomie der melancholie englisch the anatomy of melancholy what it is with all the kinds causes symptomes prognostices several cures of it in three partitions with their several sections members and subsections. The anatomy of melancholy full title 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 is a book by robert burton first published in 1621 but republished four more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions on its surface the book is . Anatomy of melancholy what it is with all the kinds causes symptoms prognostics and several cures of it in three partitions with their several sections members and subsections philosophically medicinally historically opened and cut up by democritus junior robert burton with a satirical preface conducing to the following discourse. The anatomy of melancholy what it is with all the kinds causes symptomes prognostics and several cures of it in three partitions with their several sections members and subsections philosophically medicinally historically opened and cut up by burton robert 1577 1640 n 50033773