They said they were magical horns capable of curing poisoning and melancholia.

他们说，它们神奇的角能治愈中毒和忧郁症。

And therefore we need better ways of separating out the biological type of depression, melancholia, from the other conditions.

所以我们要把生理学抑郁症和其它病症。

It sort of advances are clinical observation that we've long known for over 2,000 years that there was this depression called melancholia or the black dog.

两千多年以来，我们对“黑狗”抑郁症的临床观察又有了新的突破。

Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and " violent contest with experience" -and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

他们没有试图重建自己的命运，而是了一场痛苦的“与经验的激烈较量”——最终成为被称为忧郁症的沉思固着的受害者。