Abstract
SUMMARY. — This is a side issue in Aristotle's work. The Hippocratic and Aristotelian notions are interdependent on the whole. The concept of Melancholia is bound up with the notion of black bile. Black bile appears to be responsible for tables that fluctuate between the greatest inhibition and the most uncontrolled excitation, or the two at the same time as in epilepsy, for example, according to its quality, quantity and localization. Thus the symptomatology covers a far wider range of pathologies than what is called Melancholia today. On the ethical plane, a melancholic seems above all to be a "hothead" and Melancholia a variety of intemperance caused by impetuousness. The power of the imagination dominates all other mental faculties, thereby putting, for example, the intellect and sensitivity in general between brackets so to speak. Madness seems to result from this.
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