The shackles provoke a descent into deep melancholy, a darkness that seeds itself firmly in the soil of her being, consuming her from within. Her descent complicates a rigid moral universe.

Dr. Chase, now a Providence surgeon, gives his diagnosis in the current issue of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine ... about Johnson’s “vile melancholy” and his eccentric mannerisms.

Medicine for Melancholy is a romance drama about Micaha and Joanne, who wake up after hooking up last night. The film is about their romance developing as they learn more about one another. Here ...

How’s your blood and bile? Are you melancholic or phlegmatic? In early medicine, those questions were keys to the bodily humors — four substances linking physical illness to emotional states ...

The slightly whimsical but unfortunately realistic "melancholy of anatomy" was discussed ... and professor of the history of medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; consultant, New England ...

Anatomy, or, in a more accurate sense, bioanatomy, "the art of dissecting... the different parts of any animal or plant, to ascertain their position, relations, structure and function," is the ...