AS CAUSAS DO AUMENTO DA MELANCOLIA (The causes of an increase in melancholia)

THE CAUSES OF AN INCREASE IN MELANCHOLIA BY WILLIAM MORRIS, M.D., BROOKLYN, N.Y. “No creature so miserable as man,” said an ancient writer; “so generally molested, in miseries of body, in miseries of mind, miseries of heart; in miseries asleep, in miseries awake, in miseries where-so-ever he turns.” “All his days are sorrow and his travels, griefs; his heart also taketh not rest in the night.” “All that is in it is sorrow and vexation of spirit”. This wail of despair, borne to us from the earliest pages of the world’s history, is re-echoed to-day in the cry of every melancholiac. This cry has swept through the centuries. However much brightness and sunshine, joy and gladness, there may be in the world, there are...