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    The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of...
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    Robert Burton (category History of mental health in the United Kingdom)
    and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry...
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    hallucinations and delusions. Melancholy was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. Until the 18th century, doctors and other...
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    16. "BOOK I, tr. John Clarke". R. Burton (2023 [1651]), The Anatomy of Melancholy, Penguin, pp. 713-714. R. Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 715....
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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy is a live album by the British gothic metal band Paradise Lost. It was recorded on 12 April 2007 at the Koko (London). The album...
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  • Present and Future. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 9781847558121. Burton, Robert (1857) [1621]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: William Tegg. p. 324...
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  • Simon Grahame (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
    the latter of which is believed to have suggested to Robert Burton his The Anatomy of Melancholy. He became an austere Franciscan. A sonnet of Grahame's...
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    key to the sources Burton used in The Anatomy of Melancholy. He collected books relating to Burton, and after Sarah died, he gave the core of his collection...
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  • was an English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy. Robert Burton may also refer to:...
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  • subjection." (Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published 1621) "The pontifex maximus Scævola thought it expedient that the people should be deceived...
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