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This chapter highlights an early seventeenth-century incursion into mainstream symbolic discourse of the ancient Hippocratic view of the sea as beneficial to mental health. The context of Ben Jonson’s understanding and use of the Galenic humoral model of the body informs a reading of his play Volpone and shows the satirical uses to which the dramatist puts the growing enthusiasm for both the pose of melancholy and its treatment.

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Gestational Sea Therapy Makes Its Bow: Ben Jonson and the Staged Cure

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    2026年

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  • Ian D. Copestake

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This chapter highlights an early seventeenth-century incursion into mainstream symbolic discourse of the ancient Hippocratic view of the sea as beneficial to mental health. The context of Ben Jonson’s understanding and use of the Galenic humoral model of the body informs a reading of his play Volpone and shows the satirical uses to which the dramatist puts the growing enthusiasm for both the pose of melancholy and its treatment.