Exhibition: The Golden Age of Melancholy, Royal Society of Medicine Library: A new exhibition of historical medical literature opens today at the Royal Society of Medicine, offering a glimpse into the many ways in which melancholy was understood during the early modern period (1550-1750). With increased attention on mental health in recent decades, melancholy or depression might be considered to be a modern phenomenon. However, the exhibition shows that this is not the case. The key symptoms of melancholy reported in the early modern period were the pensive sadness and apprehension that is still associated with the term today. Drawn from
The Golden Age of Melancholy, Royal Society of Medicine Library as seen on The Hippocratic Post.