The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
288 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780486421162
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One of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language,The Anatomy of Melancholy is an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes, symptoms, and cures — as well as a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.
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