In fact, early modern medicine did consider “psychological” illnesses—at least in part— physically treatable (Clark 302). In “The Anatomy of Melancholy,” first published in 1621, Robert Burton suggests that “the distraction of the mind, amongst other outward causes and perturbations, alters the temperature of the body.” Indeed, Macbeth’s physician exhibits empirical methodology; as soon as he enters the ante-room, his first impulse is to gather a quick symptomatic history from the Gentlewoman: “In this slumbery agitation, besides her / walking and other actual performances, what, at any / time, have you heard her say?” (4.1.9-11). Then, anticipating a potential diagnosis, he exclaims: “Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly” (4.1.28-29).