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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Textual Introduction | |
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| The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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| The Argument of the Frontispeice | |
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| Frontispiece | |
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| Dedication | |
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| Democritus Junior ad Librum suum | |
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| The Authors Abstract of Melancholy | |
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| Democritus Junior to the Reader | |
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| Lectori male feriato | |
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| Heraclite fleas, misero sic convenit aevo | |
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| The Synopsis of the First Partition | |
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| The First Partition | |
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| Mans Excellency, Fall, Miseries, Infirmities, The causes of them | |
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| The Definition, Number, Division of Diseases | |
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| Division of the Diseases of the Head | |
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| Dotage, Phrensie, Madnesse, Hydrophobia, Lycanthropia; Chorus sancti Viti, Extasis | |
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| Melancholy in disposition, improperly so called, AEquivocations | |
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| Digression of Anatomy | |
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| Division of the Body. Humours, Spirits | |
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| Similar Parts | |
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| Dissimilar Parts | |
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| Of the Soule and her Faculties | |
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| Of the Sensible Soule | |
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| Of the Inward Senses | |
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| Of the Moving Faculty | |
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| Of the Rationall Soule | |
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| Of the Understanding | |
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| Of the Will | |
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| Definition of Melancholy, Name, Difference | |
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| Of the part affected. Affection. Parties affected | |
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| Of the Matter of Melancholy | |
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| Of the Species or Kindes of Melancholy | |
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| Causes of Melancholy. GOD a Cause | |
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| A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, bad Angels or Divels, and how they cause Melancholy | |
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| Of Witches and Magitians, how they cause Melancholy | |
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| Starres a Cause. Signes from Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Chiromancy | |
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| Old Age a Cause | |
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| Parents a Cause by Propagation | |
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| Bad Diet a Cause. Substance. Quality of Meats | |
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| Quantity of Diet a Cause | |
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| Custome of Diet, Delight, Appetite, Necessity, how they cause or hinder | |
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| Retention and Evacuation a Cause, and how | |
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| Bad Aire a Cause of Melancholy | |
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| Immoderate Exercise a Cause, and how. Solitarinesse, Idlenesse | |
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| Sleeping and Waking Causes | |
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| Passions and Perturbations of the Minde, how they cause Melancholy | |
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| Of the Force of Imagination | |
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| Division of Perturbations | |
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| Sorrow a Cause of Melancholy | |
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| Feare a Cause | |
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| Shame and Disgrace Causes | |
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| Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes | |
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| AEmulation, Hatred, Faction, Desire of Revenge Causes | |
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| Anger a Cause | |
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| Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c. Causes | |
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| Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes | |
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| [characters not reproducible]. Covetousnesse a Cause | |
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| Love of Gaming, &c. and Pleasures, immoderate: Causes | |
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| Philautia, or Selfe-love, Vaine-glory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, over-much Joy, &c. Causes | |
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| Love of Learning, or overmuch Study. With a Digression of the Misery of Schollers, and why the Muses are Melancholy | |
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| Non-necessary, remote, outward, adventitious, or accidentall Causes: as first from the Nurse | |
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| Education a Cause of Melancholy | |
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| Terrors and Affrights Causes of Melancholy | |
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| Scoffs, Calumnies, bitter Jests, how they cause Melancholy | |
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| Losse of Liberty, Servitude, Imprisonment, how they cause Melancholy | |
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| Poverty and Want, Causes of Melancholy | |
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| An Heape of other Accidents causing Melancholy. Death of Friends, Losses, &c. | |
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| Continent, inward, antecedent, next Causes, and how the Body workes on the Minde | |
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| Distemperature of particular Parts, Causes | |
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| Causes of Head Melancholy | |
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| Causes of Hypocondriacall or Windie Melancholy | |
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| Causes of Melancholy from the whole Body | |
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| Symptomes, or Signes of Melancholy in the Body | |
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| Symptomes or Signes in the Minde | |
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| Particular Symptomes from the Influence of Starres. Parts of the Body, and Humours | |
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| Symptomes from Education, Custome, Continuance of Time, our Condition, mixt with other Diseases, by Fits, Inclination, &c. | |
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| Symptomes of Head Melancholy | |
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| Symptomes of windy Hypocondriacall Melancholy | |
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| Symptomes of Melancholy abounding in the whole Body | |
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| Symptomes of Maides, Nunnes, and Widowes Melancholy | |
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| Immediate Cause of these precedent Symptomes | |
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| Prognosticks of Melancholy | |
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| Textual Notes | |
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| Democritus Junior to the Reader | |
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| The First Partition | |
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| Index of Persons | |