proper to comfort the heart and arteries with cataplasms to the hand-wrests sometimes when I found the veins high I let her blood fearing the arteries might be oppressed thereby for as I have already declared the arteries and nerves run both under the veins I likewise for a time accustomed her to eat hearts â—oyled baked or stewed which might by sympathy help to fortify her heart I also gave her water-grewel made with such herbs which were agreeable to her condition to be taken an hour after she had taken her dyet-drink every morning as indeed we usually do in all distempers according unto which rules before going this maid was well and perfectly cured within ten weeks notwithstanding she was above twelve moneths in this condition before she came unto me and notwithstanding her Father as he told me had tryed many Doctors to his great charge for as in this so in all other kinds of evils the more they are tampered with the worse the patient will be except they had the knowledge by the rules of Astrology and Philosophy to understand the way of Cure Another kind of Evil which cometh from Sorcery I find by experience that there is another kind of Evil wherewith many are infected and I shall instance one example A woman living at a place called Nutbeam within a mile of Way-hill where once a year the great fair is kept was taken with this kind of evil as followeth the cause of this womans distemper was from Sorcery as by my Figure was discovered and the party suspected was the Minister of the Parish by my Figure described to be a man of Saturn in the times of Mercury which signifies a man of reasonable stature swarthy complection and of a lumpish countenance and sad or black hair he was a man of small wealth only hired to execute the office or Function for the time being the occasion which moved him to do it was as the woman told me because she would not trust him for mault whereupon he threatned revenge and at a gossiping feast he had the opportunity to do it as followeth First he moved to have a health go round the table and so did undertake to spice every ones cup but when it came unto this womans turn to drink she did observe that he took spice out of another paper which he had prepared pretending that it was all one this woman told me she was not willing to take it fearing least he should do her some mischief but being unwilling to disturbe the company well-hoping that his malice would not have lasted so long she drank it after which before the day was ended she began to be very ill being taken with a great pain and griping in her belly and likewise every day encreased in bigness of body being grown so big as three ordinary women insomuch at length a reasonable horse could not well carry her she tryed many Doctors and spent much money but could find no help at length hearing of me her husband brought her unto me she was above two years in this condition before I did undertake the cure yet notwithstanding I did recover her in about three moneths time staying not only her griping pains in her belly but also did very much lessen the extream groth of her body The way which I used for her recovery was by decoctions oyntments bathes sweats and glisters she was taken under Saturn who was Lord of the twelfth house and in the ascendant the cure was performed by antipathy viz. with herbs under the Sun Mars and Jupiter what herbs are good for Dropsical humours under the Planets before mentioned you may find in this Book and likewise how to make decoctions bathes oyls and glisters suitable unto her condition Now concerning this Minister I shall relate what followed I having by my Art made some discovery and this woman for the reasons aforesaid justly suspecting him both she and her husband were minded to have him before a Justice but that I somewhat disheartned them and told them that the discovery which I had made could be no evidence against him whereby to implead but not long after this Priest having upon some other occasion differed with an other of his Parishioners after Prayers ended his Son standing in the Church-yard this Minister came unto him took off his hatt and gave him a tap on the head saying before some of the Neighbours Thou shalt lye by it some time for thy Fathers sake immediately after this Boy being very sick took his bed and came no more abroad in a long time whereupon this Womans Husband and the Boys Father resolves to prosecute against him and accordingly sent for a Warrant intending to have him before a Justice but the Priest having some notice thereof fled and as I am informed was never heard of unto this day Another Cure done upon a Boy living at Throxford in the County of Berks who was suddenly struck dumb and so continued during the space of three years I Shall in the first place relate the manner how this Boy was taken in this condition as followeth This Boy living with his Unckle his Father being dead was imployed to drive and fetch home milch beasts being kept for a dairy now in a morning being holy day having on his best array being somewhat pleasant meets with a woman who was very much suspected to be a Witch and minding to make sport with her calls her old witch demanding whether she was going she not answering he threw several stones at her with that she began to be angry and saith unto him as the boy after he could speak related sirrah I will make you hold your tongue using many threatning speeches and indeavoured to run after the boy who was too nimble on foot for her After which time during three years as abovesaid he became speechless and seeming simple and so might without question have continued unto this day without miracle had not the Astrological way been used both for the discovery and recovery of his distemper The Friends of this boy told me they had spent much mony about his cure but to no purpose having as they said tryed many Doctors and others insomuch that they thought him uncureable But by accident hearing of me and of the many cures by me done the friends of this boy came unto me desiring to know whether I would undertake to help him to his speech again I ask'd them if they could tell the time when he first lost his speech which they readily told me It being done upon a holy day they could the better do it whereupon having erected a figure according unto the day or time given I quickly found the cause of his distemper without which there could be no cure wrought and told them that I was confident through Gods blessing that I could help them The Planet afflicting was ♄ a cold dry melancholly earthy evil Planet the defect lay wholly in the Vvula or Gargarean and as men who are
the grief or infirmity out of which you must take a select number according unto their elemental qualities and virtues being rightly appropriated unto their severall planets and gathered at the right planetary hours which this Book will sufficiently instruct you dry them so that you may pound them and searce them into fine powder Then take the quantity of half a dram thereof and the like quantity of the Sympathetical powder and mix them well together in a Mortar ever after keeping the powder warm and dry and when you are minded to cure thereby you must warm the powder very well over a few coals and while its warm put a small quantity of the Patients blood into it and mix it very well together always keeping it warm and so make it up in a little bag and let the Patient wear it next their skin that so it may always be kept warm I have by virtue of this powder done many very great cures and should have still continued in this way of practice but that I found many were unsatisfied concerning the legality thereof taking it for a kind of charm by reason I ordered the patient to wear it about their necks and I believe they did the rather conceipt so in regard I did use to resolve many questions in Astrology as Thefts Strays Fugitives c. There is but one danger in this way of cure which is as followeth If the Patient happen to lose this mixture from their necks or body wheresoever worn or otherwise let it take cold the grief will be apt to return aâ—ain more especially if the Patient be not perfectly recovered But when the Patient is through well than they may burn it I could have inserted many cures which I have effected by vertue of this powder I shall only mention one for example as followeth about nine years ago there lived a woman in Newbery in the County of Berks she was daily troubled with fits which at the first would begin with a kind of trembling about the heart and from thence by degrees set al the arteries to work throughout her whole body after which for some hours she would be as seemingly dead and could wagg neither arm or leg for cure whereof I let her blood in the heart vein and having my powders made in readiness according unto what is before expressed I mixt some of her blood with the powder and while it was warm made it up into a little bag which I caused her to wear about her neck by vertue of which not omitting dyet-drink suitable to her condition she was in about a months space recovered notwithstanding she was near twelve moneths in this condition before she came unto me The cure being perfected her husband according unto our agreement paid me for the cure but it so chanced that within some small time after she carelesly lost this from her neck whereupon her fits began to mind her again and more and more increased insomuch that she was almost so bad as at the first for as I said before except the patient be for some time perfectly well at least a moneth the grief will be apt to return especially when the principal matter of cure is lost or neglected for it s not sufficient in any distemper whatsoever only to cure except for a time there be a perfect settlement for we daily find that relapses are very dangerous and apt to befall many who think themselves well recovered This womans husband came to me again and told me that his Wife was so bad as ever being much discontented he not knowing the reason I askt him whether she had not lost the little bag from her neck which I gave her to wear he told me he thought she had the truth is through carelessness she had lost it whereupon I once more let her blood and did as is before expressed desiring her to take care of it which she did after which she became well again and her fits left her and so hath continued well ever since as I am informed This cure being effected about eight or nine years ago The Vnguent or wonderful Oyntment for Wounds Composed of the four Elemental parts of Mans Body The Seven Planets being applyed thereunto It s making and use followeth The Ingredients The Moss of a dead Mans Scull 2. ounces Of Mans Grease 2. ounces Of Mummy ½ ounce Of Mans Blood ½ ounce Oyl of Lindseed 2. ounces Oyl of Roses 2. ounces Bolearmeniack ½ ounce The three last ingredients are the rather added unto it because it helpeth to bring it unto a subtile oyntment and without question there is also great vertue in them Elements Nature Complection Planets Water Cold and Moist Flegm Venus and Luna Fier Hot and Dry. Choller Sol and Mars Earth Cold and Dry. Melancholy Saturn Mercury Ayr. Hot and Moist Sanguine Jupiter ALL these things before mentioned must be mixt together and beaten well in a morter until it become an oyntment then keep it in a close thing from ayr for your use The way to use this Unguent whereby to cure is as followeth Take the blood or matter of the Wound upon the Weapon or Instrument which made the Wound or otherwise dry it upon a piece of wood then put the wood into the oyntment or else anoint the blood being kept dry upon the wood with the oyntment and keep it from air you must every day wet a fresh linnen rag with the Urine of the Patient and so bind up the wound do it early every morning Also you must be very careful that the oyntment which is applyed to the blood take no cold with this Unguent wonderful things may be done if it be rightly managed according unto the directions aforesaid I shall quote one example concerning the tryal of this Unguent as followeth One day being at dinner with Sir Humphrey Forrester of Aldermaston in the County of Berks. The Gentlewoman who usually waited on his Lady was extreamly tormented with the tooth-ach we caused her to prick her teeth with a tooth pick and to blood it immediately we put the tooth-pick into the ointment and the Gentlewoman had present ease after some short time we took forth the tooth-pick and put it into vinegar whereupon she was presently in extream pain We took the tooth-pick forth of the vinegar and applyed it to the unguent and she was immediately well and so continued I could have inserted many great cures done by virtue of this unguent which for brevities sake onely I am willing to omit Concerning Witchcraft and Sorcery with the cure thereof as followeth THe way to know whether the patient be bewitched or not I have already set down elsewhere in this Book I find by experience that those who are taken in the snare of witchcraft are usually afflicted in some outward limb or member of the body caused by an image made in the likeness of man or beast and through the subtilty of the Devil made at such hours and times
let blood Concerning the way how to cure each distemper is set down elsewhere in this book The Moon in Taurus of Mars afflicted Those that take their bed under such configuration as aforesaid shall be afflicted with a continued Fever the whole frame of the body obstructed with an inflammation of the Throat Neck and hinder part thereof and ach of the bones also insomniation or inordinate watching very thirsty longing after cooling things Oft time the sick will be afflicted with the Strangury or Stone with Gravel in the Reins and Kidneys pestilent sore throats or hoarsness or some ill matter setled there The cause is from much ill blood choler and sweet flegm The Moon in Gemini of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall he afflicted with a violent burning Fever and with obstructions their blood extreme windy and corrupted some great pains or lameness in their arms or joynts the pulses long and inordinate oft-times the Patient is troubled with the Stone or heat in the Reins and sometimes spitting of blood The cause of this distemper usually is from ingurgitation or too much drinking of strong Wine or Beer and some cholerick matter The Moon in Cancer of Mars oppressed Those that take their bed when the ☽ is in Cancer of Mars afflicted the sick will be troubled with much flegm and ill matter setled at their Breast and Stomack also with eversion and turning of the Ventricle oft-times desiring to vomit with some defect in the blood This disease cometh from surfeiting or too much ingurgitation and oft-times turneth unto a loosness or a rotten Cough and sometimes spitting blood The Moon in Leo of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Leo of Mars afflicted shall be subject unto a strong Fever with a disturbed brain and strong raging fits also they will be subject unto much drowsiness and heaviness all over their body also the heart oppressed with faintness and swounding fits and the party almost raging mad with little or no appetite The cause of this distemper is from excess of choler and blood abounding over-heated The Moon in Virgo of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall be subject unto a Flux in the belly small Fevers the Pulse remiss avertion of the Ventricle also tormented with wind in the Belly or Guts and Chollick bad stomack many times weakness or pains in the legs near the anckles the cause from original choler melancholly and sharp fretting humors The Moon in Libra of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in ♎ of ♂ oppressed will be subject unto an inflammation all over the body also Fevourish unapt to sleep their Pulses high troubled with wind and plenitude of blood many times they have the stone or gravel in the kidneys or great heat therein The cause is from surfeiting or disorder in diet also plenitude of blood The Moon in Scorpio of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Scorpio of Mars oppressed argueth that the sick is afflicted or hath some grievous infirmity in their privy parts If children or Young-people then it argueth the small-pox or measles Also it sheweth more especially in times of pestilential diseases the pestilence or some poisonous or pestilential grief many times it causeth boiles or scabiness to break forth The cause is from blood extreamly corrupted or from some infectious and poisonous grief accidentally taken into the body by smell or taste The Moon in Sagitary of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Sagitary of Mars oppressed shall be tormented with high fevers and cholerick passions with the flux or lask the pulses few and faint the sick burns extreamly many times it sheweth the hand and foot gout with breaking out and sore throats sometimes sharp rheums offend their eyes The cause is from surfeiting or gluttony or too much repletion Also from inordinate exercise and blood over-heated The Moon in Capricorn of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Capricorn of Mars oppressed shall be troubled with excesse of choller and with great desire to vomit no perfect concoction and oft returning fevers a puffing up the sinews and a flux of the belly immediately followes an inflamation of the breast some exulceration in a Cholerick humour offends the party in his hands or joynts of his fingers also the sick is inclining unto the yellow jaundies Their blood all over the body disaffected The cause is from choller and evil digestion and blood corrupted The Moon in Aquary of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Aquary of Mars oppressed are troubled with swooning fits and pained at the heart and are very feaverish pulses are high and the blood swelling in all their veins oft-times complaining of great pain in their breast drawing their wind with great difficulty The cause is from most sharp and violent affections or vehement passions The Moon in Pisces of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Pisces of Mars afflicted shall be tormented with sharp burning feavers and vehement thirst and usually oppressed with a violent looseness complaining of great pain in their bellies or an extraordinary rotten cough also a deflux of rhuem falling from the head to the throat they being near suffocated therewith their bellies swolne and in danger of a dropsie oft-times they are troubled with itching and a salt humor in the blood The cause of the distemper is from two much ingurgitation and drinking of wine and strong drinks and the body abounding with choller and salt flegm and bloud corrupted occasioned by disorder Concerning what effects the Moon worketh in any of the twelve Signs upon the body of the Sick She being afflicted by the Conjunction Square or Opposition of Saturn at the time of decumbiture Note That Mercury afflicting the Moon worketh the same effects onely be striketh somewhat more upon the brain and nerves The Moon in Aries of Saturn or Mercury oppressed THose who take their bed the Moon being in Aries of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be troubled with head-ach and a distillation of Rhuems falling from the head into the throat and wind-pipe also a stuffing in the head with dulness of the eyes inordinate drowsiness and dulness of mind and bad stomach intemperate sweats being hot within and cold without more afflicted in the night then by day The occasion of this distemper is from great cold taken and want of exercise and sometimes by eating trash contraâ—â— to Nature The Moon in Taurus of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Taurus of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be feaverish proceeding from obstructions aod distempers of the precordiacks and arteries viz. of the inward parts near the heart liver and lungs some ulceration there abouts their pulses are lofty and high and an inflamation of the whole body The disease
ear Mustard Mercury â—edge-mustard Nettles Nep. Onyons Osmond royal both flags Osmond water both flags Park-leavs or Tudson Poppey red flowers Pilewort Pepperwort Radish Ragwort Rocket Rhubarb Bostard-rhubard Rupturewort Sawwort Savin Saxifrage Sciatica cresses Scabious Scorpion-grass Spurge Self heal Sene. Shepheards needle Sheapheards purse Sneesewort Sopewort Spearwort Solomo's seal Swallowwort Tamaris Thistles Tarragon Toothwort or dentory Our Ladies thistle Wake Robin Cuckow pint Wormwood Wood waxon Woad Wallwort Wood sage Sun Ale cost or costmary Angelica Anise Ash-tree Almonds Allgood Atens Bazil-street Birds eye Burnet Bugle Calamint Cammomil Centory Chervil or sweet Cicely Celandine Clary Catmint Cowslips Comfrey with yellow flowers Crown imperial good for palsies Daffydils or Daffydowndilly Dill. Ditany Eglantine Elecampane Eye-bright Fennel Figwort Golden rod. Gilly-flowers sweet Herbs ears Holly rose Higâ—aler flowers yellow with woolley leavs Saint Katherines flower Saint Johnswort Saint Jameswort Ladies bed-straw with yellow flowers Juriper Lavender Lavender cotten Ladies manâ—le Lovage Lillies yellowish flowers Mary golds Marjerome sweet Maudlin sweet Masterwort May weed Meliloâ— Mints garden Misletoe Mugwort Motherwort Mallein One blade or herb true love Oxlips Parsly Saint Peters wort Palma bristi Peny royal Pimpernel Piony Roses red Rosa solis Rosemary Roses damask Rue Saffron Sanicle Sage Sampire Saunders Scordium Setwall Savory summer Southern wood Sun-flower Sundew Spignel Tansey Tree of life Tormentil Valerian Vervain Walnut leaves Woodbine flowers or honey suckles Wood-rose Vipers bugloss Venus Adders tongue Apples Arrach stinking Arch-angel white-flowers Arrow head Artechokes Alkanet Barley Beans-white Bears-breach Beech-leavs Blites-flowers white Beets white Bucks horn plantane Cleavers or Goose-grass Colis foot Columbines with white flowers Crab tree Cherry-tree and fruit Cranes-bil Cud-weed Comphrey roots Daisies Dandeliâ—n Ducks meat Eâ—deâ— flowers Flea-worâ— â—elli-â—ryâ— Flixweed Groundsel Gourds Harts-ease or herb of the Trinity Herb True love Herb two pence or money wort Hounds tongue Larks spur with white flowers Lillies with white-flowers Maiden hair Moss on Apple-trees or crab-trees Mulberries leaves Navel wort Orrach flowers white Peach flowers Pellitory of the wall Plantane Perwinckle wild Pond weed Poppy flowers white Pauls bettony Primrose Ribwort Roses white Rushes Saunders flow white Snakeweed Sorrelwood Sowthistle Stich-wort Spinach Staw berries Sycomore tree Throâ—â—-wort or bell flower Three leav'd grass Turnip root Vine leavs Violets leavs roots Water cresses Mercury Alkanet All good Barberries Blood wort Bell flower Blew bottle Dog grass â—ndive Fluellin Liver-wort Loose-strife Loose-wort Lung-wort Mede-sweet Medlar tree Maddir Millet Privet Quinces Succory Rampion Sorrel-garden Star-wort Whâ—râ—e-berries Willow-tree Wood bine-leavs Wild Tansey Yarrow Moon Cabbage Chick-weed Coleworts Cucumber Housleek or sengreen Lettuce Mellions Orpine Pompions Pompions Purslane Moon wort General Rules to know under what Planet every Herb or Plant is governed by the only use of an Herbal with the true reason thereof according unto the Author's experience and practice for many years as followeth THe first thing considerable is to take n◠〈◊〉 of the Elemental Qualities of each Planet viz. whether hot and dry hot and moist cold and dry or cold and moist and of what decrees as first second third or fourth Secondly we must by an Herbal find the nature or Elemental quality of the plants if you find that both the Planet and plant do accord in Elemental qualities then we may conclude that such an herb or plant is under such a Planet for any reasonable Philosopher well knoweth that every Element doth naturally sympathize with its own like even as the actions of men doth naturally sympathize with their complexion and condition of that Planet which hath predominancy over them as I have elsewhere expressed Example ♄ Saturn is a Planet cold and dry in the third and fourth degree Now by the Herbal I find that hemlock henbane night-shade and such like are cold and dry in the third and fourth degree and therefore may justly be attributed unto the Planet Saturn ♃ Jupiter is by nature hot and moist Now by the Herbal I find that burrage mallows and the herb or plant called dog-stones are by nature hot and moist and therefore may justly be attributed unto Jupiter ♂ Mars is by nature hot and dry in the third and fourth degree Now by the Herbal I find that carduus wormwood tobacco rhubarb hellebore box and such like are all under the dominion of Mars as being hot and dry in the third and fourth degree ☉ The Sun is by nature hot and dry in the first and second degree and near unto the third Now by the Herbal I find that angelica baum marigolds rue sweet marjoram and such like are all hot and dry in the first and second degree perhaps rear unto the third and therefore are all attributed unto the Sun ♀ Venus is by nature cold and moist in the first and second degree Now by the Herbal I find that violets spinage white beets white beans and such like are all under the dominion of Venus as being cold and moist in the first and second degree accordingly ☿ Mercury is by nature cold and dry in the first and second degree Now by the Herbal I find that endive succory woodbine lung-wort liver-wort and such like are all cold and dry in the first and second degree and are therefore under the dominion of Mercury ☽ The Moon is by nature cold and moist in the third and fourth degree and by the Herbal I find that cabbage sea-green chickweed orpine purslain and such like are all cold and moist in the third and fourth degree and therefore are under the dominion of the Moon Another way whereby to attribute each herb or plant aright unto the Planet that so hey may agree both in elemental qualities and virtues more especially of the first part in the degrees of heat or cold it being the way of my practice and that with good success FIrst having by an Herbal found the virtue of the plant which is approved for the curing of such infirmities or diseases which are under the dominion of such a planet as causes them although the herb or plant agree but in the first elemental quality of heat or cold yet the herb or plant may justly and rationally be attributed unto the Planet which owns the grief and so thereby make a sympathetick cure As instance Jupiter who is by nature hot and moist and hath predominancy over the liver lungs blood veins plurisies and the like Now by the Herbal we find that lung-wort wood-bittany agremony scurvigrass and such like are all good to cure such infirmities notwithstanding they are all hot and dry in the first and second degree yet having the first elemental quality of heat together with virtue to cure such defects which Jupiter causeth they may justly be attributed unto Jupiter and so plantane white beets and dandelion accounted by Authors cold and dry may justly be attributed unto Venus as having the first elemental quality of being cold â—n the first or second
fountain of life Fourthly the Moon is free from combustion of the Sun A Planet is under combustion when he is not fully elongated 7 deg 30 min. from him We have only two Testimonies of Death which is first Saturns being in opposition of the Moon at the time of decumbiture Secondly his being more strong then the Moon yet commonly a Planet strong is not so malicious as those which are weak and peregrine however it appeareth that there is foure testimonies of Life and but two 〈◊〉 Death wherefore we may conclude according to the Rules of Art that the Sick shall recover Now to know the 〈◊〉 when you must by a Critical figure of 16 equal parts 〈…〉 when the Moon upon any Intercidental Judicial 〈…〉 day doth meet with any benevolent aspect of the 〈…〉 be it Sun â—upiter Venus or Dragons head no evil 〈◊〉 interposing their bad Influence for then the Sick shall 〈◊〉 which according unto the Critical figure will be upon the 12th day of April about one a Clock at night at which time the Moon will be in 14 deg of the Signe Virgo and Jupiter in 14 deg of Taurus making a partile Trine to each other but the sick shall begin to recover sooner at the first intercidental time which is about six a clock in the morning at which time the Moon will be 5 deg 20 min. in Virgo which is 22 deg 30 min. distance from the place she was in at the decumbiture for as I have already declared the influence of the Moon doth begin to opperate when she is ten degrees distant from any aspect of the planets Concerning Acute Griefs Note That at the time of decumbiture of any sick person if the Moon be free from the bad aspects of the infortunes which is Saturn Mars Mercury or Dragons tail that then more especially if the infortunes Jupiter or Venus attend upon the next judicial or critical day or time that the Moon meeteth with any friendly aspect of the fortunes no ill planet opposing the Sick shall recover but commonly acute griefs are seldom ended before the first critical time at which time the Moon maketh a Quartile aspect unto the place she was in at the decumbiture consisting of 90 deg The Moon alwayes goeth this 90 deg or fourth part of the Zodiack in lesse than eight dayes sometimes acute griefs last untill the Moon hath passed over three critical days or times Viz. until she returneth unto the place she was in at the decumbiture making the fourth crisis An Example hereof is of my friend before mentioned and if by the Rules aforesaid you find that the grief is mortal then you must proceed forward round the critical figure until you find the mortal time according unto the rules before mentioned and you must do the like upon the rules for the time of recovery Concerning Peracute griefs There are are also some Infirmities and Sicknesses which end usually before the first judicial time is over called peracute griefs at which time the Moon maketh a Semi-quartile aspect to the place she was in at the decumbiture consisting of 45 deg now this aspect is not so pernicious as the Quartile yet oft-times the Sick dyeth before this aspect is over more especially when the Moon at that time meeteth with the infortunes and no fortune interposing their friendly rayes This Semi Quartile aspect or judicial time the Moon finisheth in less than four days likewise on the contrary by the rules aforesaid the Sick may recover at the said judicial time Concerning Perperacute Sicknesses There are also some Sicknesses perperacute and such griefs commonly terminate before the first intercedental time is over at which time the Moon maketh a Semi Semi Quartile aspect to the place she was in at the decumbiture which consisteth of 22 deg 30 min. containing the 16th part of the critical figure more especially when the infortunes doth afflict the Moon at that time no fortune attending It was observable that in the time of the plague that many thousands died before the first intercidental time was over which number or time the Moon finisheth in less than two dayes And many lived not one day dying immediately so soon as they were struck which we call the time of decumbiture or first mortal time I have known the like both in Appoplexies and Convulsions mother fits and risings in the throat and such like griefs Another Judgement given upon a decumbiture Figure I shall take an imaginary time and so give judgement thereupon for the better informing of young Students herein I could have inserted many exemplary figures of my own but considering that new Almanacks may be had when happily old ones may be lost I therefore thought this way most profitable to instruct the learner I shall instance the 22 day of April 1668 about nine a clock at night at which time I will suppose one took his bed Now the question is what the grief is and whether the Sick will live or die And when either death or recovery may be expected you must in the first place by an Almanack find in what sign the Moon is and how aspected Now at the hour and time aforesaid the Moon will be in 5 deg 48 min. of the sign Aquarius and at the same time I find Mars to be in 5 deg 48 min. of the sign Scorpio which maketh a partile Square aspect consisting of 90 deg Now to find what the grief is you must repair unto the place in this book where it is written The Moon in Aquarius of Mars oppressed which argueth that the Sick shall be troubled with great pain at the heart and with swooning fits also very feavourish likewise a pain in the breast with difficulty of breathing and the blood swelling in all the veins the cause of this sickness proceeding from violent affections and vehement passions c. Now the next thing considerable is to know whether the Sick be like to live or die and the time when either death or recovery may be expected First the Moon is decreasing in light Secondly the Moon departeth from the Square of Mars and applyed unto the Conjunction of Saturn both enemical planets Thirdly neither Sol Jupiter or Venus doth cast their friendly rayes or influence at the time aforesaid unto the Moon wherefore according unto the rules aforesaid the sick person will die To find the time when you must frame a critical figure of sixteen equal parts as aforesaid begining at the place where the Moon was at the decumbiture making that the first critical or mortal time which if the Sick escape then at the next critical or mortal time you must observe how the Moon is aspected at which time you shall find the Moon meeteth with the opposition of ♂ being upon the 29th day of April in the Month aforesaid at one a clock after noon Now in regard there is no fortunate planet interposing their friendly rays at that time we may conclude that the sick wil
proceedeth from too much luxury or from surfeiting or inordinate repletion also melancholly and ill diet The Moon in Gemini of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall be indanger of a feaver and the pain disperses it self all over the body but principally in the Arteries and joynts Also the Sick is inclinable to a Consumption the vitals much afflicted the pulse low and little also they will be subject unto frequent sweatings with Symptomes of the Spleen The disease more troublesome in the night than in the day The cause of this distemper is from much waiting weariness of the mind and overburdening with multiplicity of affairs excess of labour or violent exercise The Moon in Cancer of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Cancer of Saturn oppressed shall be afflicted in the breast with tough melancholly matter or thick flegm also troubled with Coughs Catharrs hoarseness and a distillation of Rhuems or Humours falling into the breast their pipes are narrow and obstructed inordinate feavers pulses little and low oft-times a Quotidian but now especially a Quartane Ague followes with belly-ake or some infirmness in the reins or Secrets If the Moon be decreasing and near the body of Saturn the sickness is like to be long and lasting The cause is from great cold and inordinate eating or drinking and want of moderate exercise The Moon in Leo of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Leo of Saturn oppressed shall be oppressed with much heat in the breast and intension of the heart-strings with augmenting feavers the pulses keeping no course annoyed with external and internal heat also great faintness of heart or swooning fits after some time if not cured the sick will be subject unto the black jaundies The cause it from grief taken and ill melancholly blood The Moon in Virgo of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their beds when the Moon is in Virgo of Saturn oppressed shall be troubled with in ordinate feavers pricking or shooting under the ribs also viscous flegm obstructing the bowels sometimes the wind chollick afflicts them also the gout and aches in the thighs and feet I oft-times find they are much troubled with wormes The cause of this distemper is usually from crudities and evill digestion in the stomack and contrary diet The Moon in Libra of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Libra of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be troubled with pains of the head breast and stomach disaffected the cough hoarsness and distillation of rhuems shall afflict them and losse of Appetite small fevers troubling them by night oft-times great pains in their joynts knees and thighs also some defect in their reins kidneys and bladder The cause is originally from surfeting or glutton and meat not fully digested or excess of Venery The Moon in Scorpio of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Scorpio of Saturn afflicted shall be subject unto some defects in their secret parts hemorhoids piles or some exulceration their no retention of urine oft-times vexed with the stone or stop in the bladder sometimes if a man the gonorrea if a woman too much of menstrues The cause is of corrupt flegm or disorder of body The Moon in Sagitary of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Sagitary of Saturn oppressed shall be tormented with defluction of thin sharp humors and aches of the sinews and arteries extreamities of heat and cold and oft-times a double access of a feaver and most commonly a violent burning feaver at the first being ill The cause is from blood infected with choler and melancholy and sometimes by great pains taking or violent exercise and cold taken thereupon The Moon in Capricorn of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed whilst the Moon is in Capricorn of Saturn oppressed shall be afflicted with heaviness at the breast and stomach and difficulty of breathing and dry Coughs their lungs oppressed more pained by night than day with intended feavers oft times troubled with head-ach and noise in their head The Cause is from great cold melancholy and disorderly dyet The Moon in Aquary of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in the sign Aquary of Saturn or Mercury afflicted shall be troubled with much melancholy winds coagulated in the veins the malady ceaseth on them unequally with remission and intension their heads pained with wind or noise Also troubled with faint fits or passion of the heart sometimes a sore throat or troubled with a rising there being in danger of suffocation The cause is from excess of labour want of sleep whereby to refresh nature and much trouble of mind The Moon in Pisces of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Pisces of Saturn oppressed shall be troubled with much sighing and pricking or shooting of the breast and under the paps and continual augmenting feavers with extensions of the precordiacks and heart-strings or arteries also their throat is oppressed with thick flegm and their breast with a rotten cough and store of watry matter lodging there The cause is from extreamity of cold taken by bathing or otherwise by much wet The Way to make diet drinks by decoctions or to extract the Spirits of Plants or Herbs Also to make Syrups Lohochs or Lambetives Pills Glyâ—â—ers Fumes Suffumigations Cataplasms Oyntments Bathes Also the making and administrating of Purgations and vomits and concerning blood-letting c. Concerning Decoctions and Dyet-drinks HAving by the Rules elsewhere expressed in this Book collected the herbs together suitable to the cure according unto their virtues and numbers alwaies remembring in all cures to fortifie the heart with herbs proper you must take the herbs and chop them small But unto all diet drinks I usually add as followeth to make it the more strong and useful viz. raisons currants sometimes figs liquorish and aniseed and if the Patient be much troubled with wind then you may also put into it sweet fennil-seed coliander-seed and such like which are good to expel wind These additions must be bruised well in a mortar and so boiled with the herbs when its boiling you must keep them close covered whereby to keep in the spirit you may boil these herbs with the addition in bear or ale If you desire to make it strong and nutritive then when it is new boiled you may put into it white-wine muscadel or brandy according unto the temper of the Patient A good handful of all sorts of herbs put together will be sufficient for three or four gallons of liliquor you may let it boil until a forth part or thereabouts be wasted for if you keep it close covered it will not waste very much in the boiling Now of this diet drink we usually give the
wood or gum called Guiacum and Fraxinus The herbs which makes the oyles or oyntmenes must be good to resist poyson cooling and healing such as rew angelica cowslip damask-roses plantany violets prim roseâ— henbane hemlock c. in this distemper you must let blood in the neither vein of the yard by this rule you may cure if begun in time but after long continuance in this condition fluxing and other extremities must be used Fundament falling to remedy snake-weed gals blew pimpernel star-wort cuckowpint wake-robin G. G. Gall to open asarabacca buggle calamint rubarb hemp-seed bitter-sweet celandine centory endive saffron ale-hoof or ground ivy cammomil dandelion dodder of time or other dodders quich-grass Green-sickness to cure asarabacca broom centory marygolds rubarb maudlin vine powder of steel Guts stopt or the illiack passion to cure ivy mints sheapheards needle plantane mallowes southernwood summer savory Gout to cure see aches hot and cold H. H. Head-ach to cure aloes bazil betony bryany butchers-broom cudweed cummin dodder fluellin frankinsence hellebore housleek ironwort medesweet melilot mints mugwort moss night-shade enny-royal spickneard roses sycamore tobacco time vine vervain woodroof Head-ach to draw unto the feet by way of cataplasm rue smallage bryony henbane worm-woo cardus mallowes lavinder hissop hactaper By this way I cured one Mrs. Forrest in Oxon a Stationers wife who was a long time pained after she had tryed many others Heads giddiness and swimmings to cure aniseed catmint bryony fennel bears-ears beets severfew pellitory peniroyal sene solomons seal maudlin master-wort olives saffron box time tobacco wolfs bane vipers-grass vine Head to purge celandine elder-buds stinking gladdon lawrel sweet-marjoram maudlin costmary dragons pimpernel rosemary sene sneeze-wort solomons seal sow-bread clary vine Heart to fortifie against infection and likewise to comfort angelica rosemary marigolds bawm borrage bugloss carnations saffron rue sage sene zedoary mother-wort cinamon damask roses lavender Hearts fainting or palpetations to cure angelica marigolds borrage bawm rosemary bay-berries costmary burnet cinamon cloves endive sage saffron nutmeg strawberries damask roses spikenard galingale harts tongue lavender saunders vipers grass Also the hearts of creatures which are good to eat Hearing lost to cure bawm lavender bay briony henbane wood-bittony rocket southern-wood tobacco worm-wood rue cardus sweet-marjoram eye-bright cocks head turpentine woodbind Hickock to stay birth-wort fennel harts tongue marjoram shepherds needle time skirrets woodbind dill Hemorhoids or piles to cure pilewort cuckopint plantany wall peniroyal pelatory of the wall chickweed catmint stinking gladdon gout-wort hounds tongue lawrel leeks tobacco lupine fig-wort fig-tree garlick vine fumitory The root of hounds tongue dried under embers in paste or wet paper made into a suppository gives present ease Hoarsness and loss of voice to help burdock-root cherry-tree gum chervil cinkfoil liquorish horehound violets leeks rosemary saffron colts-foot turnop tobacco lavender Humors gross to expel aloes bay camomil costmary calamint centory catmint fox-gloves fumitory garlick hyssop juniper lavender liquorish misleto mother-wort sage rue scurvigrass southern-wood sycamore parsley heart-wort fennel nettle scabious turbith vine horse-radish lovage spearmint peach-tree peniroyal St. Peters wort pollipody of the oak roses I I Iaundies yellow to cure aloes agremony the inner yellow bark of black elder asarabacca bay wood-bittony calamint doder of time flower de-luce furz-bush flowers hemp mouse-ear hedge-mustard eringo and sea-holly hops horehound madder rosemary rupture-wort succory roots wormwood bazil butchers broom briony centory docks liver-wort marjerom roses rubarb rue saffron spikenard tormentil tamarisk vine broom-blossoms fumitory Inflamations to asswage apples barley beets bugloss claver colewort colts foot endive succory gooseberries hemlock henbane horsetail housleek Saint Johns wort knot-grass ladies mantle lilly liquorish liverwort melilot moss mulberries night-shade orpine pimpernel purslane ribwort saunders Solomons-seal sorrel sowthistle violets wheat woad madder marjerom clavers Joynts pained See Aches hot and cold Illiack passion See Guts stopt Itches to cure alehoof or ground ivy bay calendine chick-weed cuckow-pit dock fumitory vinegar hyssop hops plantane roses cockle elecompane mugwort rhubarb sene tobacco wormwood vine stinking gladdon madder pondweed K Kernals and knots in the flesh to cure archangel cinquesoil mandrake mugwort mustard lupine pondweed rib-wort rue spikenard tormentil woad figwort white-lilly root Kidneys to cleanse kidneywort or wall peny-royal garden-tansey furz-bush-flowers dodder elder fluellin hops juniper maiden-hair parsley piony plantane fennel broom-blossoms southernwood saxifrage shepheards-needle time spignel Kings-Evil to cure angelica bay-berries cammonil baume burnet eye-bright marigold primrose costmary celandine clary wood bittony burrage sweet marjerom arch-angel melilot lavender bugloss endive misletoe sorrel hearts-tongue fox-gloves pimpernel southernwood barley flower or meal pilewort rosemary or the lesser celandine cleavers figwort or throat-wort stinking-gladdon burdock mints broom-blossoms L Lasks or Looseness to stay agrimony barberries bulleis burnet Chesnuts couslips barley black-cherries cinnamon clivers darnel St. Johns-wort mints nutmeg quinces yarrow sage harts-tongue furzbush flowers hazel-nuts filberds oake wheat prewons hot red wine red pibles broke into powder rupture-wort Leprosie to cure ash-tree-bark bryany stinking gladdon black-helebore darnel the mealior flower calamint elm-tree-bark or leaves flaxweed mustard bay saffron tamarinds time vine virgins-bower viper-wine a snake first rosted with salt and afterwards burnt and brought into powder of which give the Patient a dram every morning in liquor convenient Lethergy or drousie evil to cure sow-fennel water-cresses lavender mustard onions penny-royal rosemary sage summer savory iack by the hedge time vine Liver obstructed to open and purge liverwort agrimony dandelion asarabacca bay wood-bittany angelica celandine centory costmary daisiees harts-tongue dodder elder-buds cammomel elecompane broom-blossoms furz-bush-flowers horehound hemp sea-holly sweet marjerom plantain saffron sorrel scurvy-grass sene tormentil juniper liquerish fox-gloves germander peach spicknel shepheards-needle vine Lungs to open and cleanse longwort hounds-tongue pollipody of the oak hissop alexanders borrage chervil cinquefoile cudweed horehound colts-foot burdock vervain St. James-wort rubarb sundew liquerish bay tormentil angelica apples feverfew sweet marjerom saffron sene dodder alexander birth-wort figs time vine rubarb zedoary M. M. Melancholy to repress and purge apples bacom angelica burrage bugloss elecompane arch-angel flowers cowslips costmary burnet dandelion feverfew fumitory madder penny-royal bazil dodder frankincense lavender saffron marygolds tyme scurvy-grass tormentil sene vine Mirth to cause angelica bawm burrage burnet carnations chervile rosemary marygolds saffron time rise arch-angel blossoms sweet marjerom also all pleasant fumes Mother-fits suffocation or rising to cure motherwort stinking arrach bawm bay burdock cammomil mugwort ele-companie sparment rosemary wood-bittany bishops-weed burnet butter-bur caraway fetherfew masterwort catmint pellitory of the wall peony summer savory walnut-tree fennel germander jack by the hedge juniper lovage marigolds mustard peny-royal rosemary rhubarb tobacco southernwood spignel wolf-bane vine Milk to cause in womens breast burrage buglos lettuce vipers bugloss barley cabbage purslane rocket sow-thistle turnip milk-wort trefoile anemony herb-frankincense
pain and pricking at her heart and then immediately sounding fits followed lasting two or three hours she was above twelve moneths in this condition before I undertook the cure and as her Father told me he had been at great charge going after many Doctors and yet notwithstanding was rather worse than any whit amended and no marvel for how can any Doctor cure such distempers when they are ignorant of the cause for Witchcraft or Sorcery can no way be discovered nor yet cured but by the way of Astrology except a Miracle be wrought 't is true God can do what he pleaseth but I never knew or heard of any Man or Beast that was cured since the Apostles times that were bewitched any other way than by the Astrological way of Physick and 't is a great mercy that God is pleased to raise up and to give knowledge unto a mortal man to do it for although the afflictions of this kind cometh from the Devil and his instruments which we commonly call evils or takes yet the cure cometh by and through Gods blessing upon the honest industry of the Astrologers and Philosophers who are the men only acquainted with these kinds of cures and as it pleaseth God to suffer the Devil and his Instruments the Witches to afflict his people by reason of their neglect of duty and Prayer so again it pleaseth God through Prayers joyned with lawful means to take off their power and to return the evil back from whence it came and so to have their infirmities and diseases cured these cures are not done as many foolishly do imagine by such who are called white Witches for the white Witches and the black Witches are all one as I shall make appear and t is but a mâ—e cheat or delusion for the one Witch by image or meddel afflicts the Patient by thorn pin or needle prickt into it The other Witch being Confederate gives forth that she can cure whereupon when the Patient cometh these two confederate Witches divides the gain and the cure is quickly done for t is but pulling forth the thorn or pin out of the image and the Patient is cured but I have known sometimes when the Patients have been ill of long Continuance and so the grief being gotten into the flesh bones blood nerves arteries and the like that then they could not cure them for then Remedies proper made with planetary herbs as dyet-drinks bathes oyntments and such like remedies as I have elsewhere expressed must be used for 't is not enough when gotten into the flesh and blood to take out the thorn or pin and those who go unto such cunning women if they stay too long as aforesaid are afterwards inforced to come unto me or some others who are skilled in the Art of Astrology and Philosophy for cure for Witches cannot help them and I have known sometimes that suspected Witches when they could not help their Patients have come unto me for remedies and I have cured them I shall relate the manner how the Cure was effected upon the Maid before mentioned with some passages which happened thereupon IN the first place for the incouragement of all such who are conversant in daily Prayer unto God I shall relate what I have proved by many examples for in all my Practice I could never find that ever any man or woman that did daily pray especially in the morning were ever taken in the snare of Witchcraft that day and this maid now in question was as a man may say taken napping I shall relate the manner how she became insnared but first I shall declare what happened between her father and my self concerning her devotion after her father and my self were agreed about the Cure I told him 't was pitty that she did neglect her duty towards God for if she had used daily Prayer she had never been brought into this condition he answered that to his knowledge that could not be the cause for she did usually every morning pray before she went forth of her Chamber then I told him that if she would affirm it upon oath if called thereunto would cure her for nothing more especially if she prayed that day she was took in this condition whereupon he called in the maid and after some exhortations given I askt her the question she answered that she did not pray that morning when she was taken in this condition and desired her father not to be angry and she would declare the reason of her neglect which was as followeth her Mother being minded to brew called her up very early in the morning to fetch water from the Conduit now the custom is first come first served it so fell out that this maid and another maid meeting at the place fell together by the ears concerning who should be first served whereupon the other maid being worsted vowed revenge and the same day immediately after she was taken in this condition as I shall relate now her Father told me that the other maid lived with one who was much suspected to be a Witch and according unto my Figure which was set for the day and hour when she was first taken in this condition I found that she was afflicted by the Planet Saturn Lord of the twelfth which is the house of Witchcraft which Planet according unto the rules of Astrology did exactly personate the suspected Witch The power of Witchcraft was so strongly wrought upon this maid that for twelve moneths together she could not go into any bed until after midnight besides her daily fits which usually took her near one hour of the day as followeth first when the fit began it would prick about her heart as if needles were thrust into her and then immediately after it would disperse throughout her whole body by the arteries and then for some hours she would seem dead and further the power of Witchcraft was so strong upon her that if at any time of the day or night before midnight she did but touch any bed she would immediately fall into a fit as I at her first coming did make several tryals I conceive that the Witch did not only work by Witchcraft alone by Image prickt into the heart which by sympathy through the subtilty of the Devil did work upon the heart and arteries of the maid but also did use some way of Sorcery whereby to aflict her inward parts for she was much troubled with griping pains in her belly and stomack whereas formerly she was healthful now the way used for the curing of this maid was as followeth first according unto the rules hereafter mentioned I did endeavour to afflict the Witch to the end she might forbear to act any farther in her villany Secondly I made her dyet drinks by decoctions with such herbs being gathered at their right planetary hours which were under the dominion of the Sun and Jupiter being antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet Saturn and likewise with those herbs I made oyntments
is described by that Planet which is peregrine in an Angle if no peregrine Planet be in an Angle or second house then the Lord of the seventh house shall be significator of the thief sometimes the Lord of the hour will do it when the time of losing is certainly known if many peregrine Planets be in Angles more especially when a double bodied Sign ascends then it shews so many thieves A Planet is said to be peregrine when he is out of all essential dignities viz. neither in his house exaltation triplicity term or face having found by Ptolomies Table in the Almanack what Planet or Planets are peregrine you may describe their persons in this Book under the title of the Bodily Shape and which of the Planets generally rule The way of the goods if found thus if the Lord of the second house and significator of the thief be joyned together or have any friendly Aspect unto each other or be in one triplicity or if the significator of the thief doth dispose of the Querents part of Fortune or the Lord of the second house or the significator of the goods Then we may conclude that the goods are with the thief and at his disposing but if the significator of the Thief be separated from what is aforesaid and doth apply or if the Moon or any other other inferiour planet doth separate from the significator of the Thief and apply unto another planet he shall be the receiver which is signified by that planet you must judge the way and distance of the theif according unto the signs and quarters of Heaven where the significator of the thief is accounting from the ascendant as is before expressed Of Fugitives AS in questions of thefts and strays so the like in Fugitives judgement is given either by erecting a scheam for the time of straying or going away or otherwise for the time of the querents coming If you have the exact time of the fugitives going away Then the Ascendant its Lord the Moon and Planet posited in the ascendant or angle especially if he personate the fugitive shall be significators of the fugitive and according unto the Nature of the Signs and places by them signified and quarters of heaven wheresoever we find them together with their applications unto other Planets judgements is usually given If those significators be in or apply unto the sign Gemini then we conclude they are travelled towards London if in Capricorn then Oxford if in Virgo Reading if Cancer â—cotland if Taurus Ireland if the principal significator as in the ninth house or joyned to the Lord of the ninth then we conclude they are for a voyage or long intended journy north signs shew northward East Signs castward West signs westward South signs southward Alwayes observing the quarter of heaven if the planets concerned be swift in motion and in movable signs then they go apace if in fixt signs and slow in motion then they go but slow but if the time of flying be not perfectly known then we erect the figure according unto the time when the question was propounded and so the Lord of the seventh house joyning there with Mercury and the Moon but more especially that planet which doth own the fugitive according unto shape and profession also we must consider what relation the fugitive hath to the querent whether wife or husband kindred or servant and the like and if the personal shape of the fugitive doth correspond with the planet which is Lord of the house inquired after you may with the more confidence give judgement thereby I have oft-times given judgement upon these questions and I find they will hold true if well heeded Of Vrines THe Astrological way whereby to give judgement at the view or first sight of the urine both in acute and chronick griefs is immediately to erect a figure and so to vary your ascendant that it may be radical and that the ascendant together with its Lord may personate the sick and if the griefs be acute then the time of decumbiture or first falling ill must be inquired after that so the assured place of the Moon in any of the twelve Signs may be obtained for by the Moon in any of the twelve Signs afflicted of the infortunes the grief is discovered together with its cause and termination But if the grief be chronick that is of above a Months standing then from the Sun the ascendant sixth house and their Lords afflicted judgment is usually given In regard I have already at large set forth my way of practice herein I shall in this place onely in brief set down what I find concerning my experience in urins for although an exact judgement both concerning the grief together with its cause and termination by urine cannot be obtained yet some general judgements thereby may be given which may well serve for a four penny reward First if the urin be of an amber colour and the patient ill for generally that coloured urine sheweth health of body Then the grief or infirmity lyeth in the vital and animal spirits from whence doth proceed palsies palpetations and convulsions and such like distempers In this condition the urine is not concerned by reason the blood and those passages from whence the urine doth proceed are not infected for the urine is but the excrement of blood if the urine be white or paleish it sheweth great weakness both in stomach and body and if the urine be high coloured and red it argueth a fever or that some extraordinary pain doth afflict the Sick but the place where and cause why cannot be known without a figure sometimes it sheweth plenitude of blood especially if the veins be high if gravel or red sand appear at the bottom it sheweth the Stone in the reins kidnies or bladder If the urine be of a light sandy colour and somewhat thick it sheweth great cold taken and oft times it turneth unto an ague and if the urine be slimy and somwhat thick it threatneth worms in young people and consumptions in elder but if the urine be green or black coloured it usually sheweth death to ensue also if the urine be of a sad brown colour it threatneth death I question not but that Authors have largely and learnedly written hereupon unto whom I shall I do seldom trust or rely upon my judgment herein neither do I administer any Physick thereby for the Astrological Sympathetical and antipathetical way of administring Physick cannot be done without a Figure for the strength and weakness of the Planets afflicting and afflicted must first be discovered those who are well versed in the Art of Astrology need no urine for I my self oft times when the urine hath been brought in a stone bottle have described what kind of urine it was and how coloured by my figure more especially in acute griefs when the time of decumbiture or first falling ill have been known Concerning the casting forth of Devils out of such who