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Definition of Melancholics
1. melancholic [n] - See also: melancholic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melancholics
Literary usage of Melancholics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psyche: A Concise and Easily Comprehensible Treatise on the Elements of by Max Talmey (1910)
"Through certain devices melancholics refusing food may be influenced to take ...
It is advisable to keep melancholics in bed for some time to spare their ..."
2. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"Lateral ventricles in 29 very full of serum, in 23 ready to burst; in 10 among
24 melancholics astonishingly distended. Third ventricle quite full in 57 of ..."
3. Clinical Studies in Vice and in Insanity by George Robert Wilson (1899)
"We are all familiar with the insane phthisical patient who never coughs, the
indifference with which melancholics pull out hairs, the insensibility to huge ..."
4. Unsoundness of Mind by Thomas Smith Clouston (1911)
"In regard to fresh air, we cannot have too much of it for our melancholics ; they
should, when put to bed, be in the fresh air or partly so. ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1897)
"... are still under treatment and are chronic. Of the women 8 recovered, 1 died,
and 2 have become chronic. All the melancholics recovered except one woman, ..."
6. Alienist and Neurologist (1893)
"In the melancholics attacked by cholera, the effect of this disease was very much
less marked than in the maniacs, nor was it as general. ..."
7. The science and practice of medicine in relation to mind, the pathology of by John Thompson Dickson (1874)
"... because a large proportion of the melancholics whose malady is traceable to
heart disease recover. Statistics on this question must be based upon ..."
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