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The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy a boy with an almostEnglish churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1577 1640) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science the whole of human knowledge. This witty and eloquent genius devoted most of this life to writing The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language. Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states their causes, symptoms, and cures