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A35396	Semeiotica uranica, or, An astrological judgment of diseases from the decumbiture of the sick (1) from Aven Ezra by the way of introduction, (2) from Noel Duret by way of direction ... : to which is added, The signs of life or death by the body of the sick party according to the judgment of Hippocrates / by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. ...; Semeiotica uranica	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Hippocrates. Prognostica.; Duret, Noël, ca. 1590-ca. 1650.; Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167.	1651 (1651)	Wing C7547; ESTC R7964	79,136	212

would take this matter into consideration and take a little care for the lives of the poor Commonalty that a poor man that wants money to buy his wife and Children bread may not perish for want of an angel to fee a proud insulting domineering Physitian to give him a Visit I think it is a duty belonging to the Keepers of the Liberty of England I would help my poor brethren in this particular if I could but I cannot Whosoever reads what I have here written and approves of it let him joyn with me in a Petition to the State for the rectifying of this disorder Those which approve not of it let them answer me to this question who made a difference between the Rich and the poore was it God or the world If the world as is most certain then wil it not stand for the fashion of the world passeth away 3 If many good signs appear at the beginning of a Fever note the sign and degree the moon is in at the Decumbiture And the party will recover when the moon comes to the Sextile of the place she was in then Hippocrates was against Astrologers as appears by this Aphorism And our Colledge the Physitians hug his writing under their arms But follow him as much as the Pope follows Saint Peter 4. Note the place the moon is in at the Decumbiture then view the sick body when the moon comes to the Sextile of that place If you find ill Symptoms of the sick body then you may fear death when she comes to the Quartile of that place and you have cause enough 5. Short Maladies are better judged of then long a great deale of time may produce more alteration then a little 6. If Fevers happen to women in child-bed begin the Calculation at the time of her delivery and not at the Initiation of the sicknesse and take their Crisis that way 7. If the Fever continue to the third Crisis which is not often you may presage bleeding at the Nose and it is twenty to one it comes not upon the day of the third Crisis or near it 8. If the Patient bleed not at the Nose be sure he hath an Inpostume in some of the infetiour parts of his body 9. Flux of blood in such a case most usually haps to people that are under thirty years of age Impostumes to them that are older 10. If the sick find a vehement pain about his fore-head or places near it he is very subject to bleed at the Nose and that may save his life 11. Young persons oftener dye at the first Crisis in Fevers then ancient and the reason is becanse their nature is hotter and the more subject to take fire for he that knows but his A. B. C. in Physick knows a Fever comes of heat 12. Old persons sooner dye upon relapses then young and the reason is because their bodies are weaker 13. Ulcerations in the throat are usually mortal in hot diseases 14 Fevers continue longer in ancient people then they do in young and the reason is because the bodyes of ancient people are colder dry wood will burn most violently it is confest but wet wood will be longer a burning 15 Ancient people are more subject to quarten Agues then young and the reason is because Saturn causeth them a child wil leave playing with his Father to play with it 's equals CHAP. II. Presages of the Quinsey 1. ALL Quinses are extream dangerous and sometimes mortal 2. The most dangerous signes in a Quinsey are great pain great difficulty in breathing yet no swelling outwardly appearing for if the swelling appear the external part of the throat is most afflicted And if you do not believe better to have the External part of the throat afflicted then the Internal I wish you did 3. Here you find that in the Quinsey it is better when they appear outwardly then when they do not 4. If the swelling appear not outwardly they usually kill within four days at the furthest although no Crisis come at that time My own opinion is though I hold an absolute truth in the Crisis as I have laid them down in this book yet withall I know as well that there is a difference to be made between the time that the disease overcomes the vitals and the time of the dissolution as also That in a proper acute disease The moon to the semie Sextile of the place she was in at the Decumbiture often kills because she is then in a signe opposite in respect of nature sex and time 5. If a red tumour appear outwardly and fall in again the danger of death is great Life may borrow a little time and so forth but 't is to be feared must be forced to yeild to her enemy Death at last 6. If the tumour in a Quinsey increase upon a Critical day and break neither inwardly nor outwardly death or a relapse or some thing as bad is to be feared though the Patient feel case for the time CHAP. III. Presages by the Vvula THe presages are but few happily honest Hippocrates whom Authors call divine for his ingenuity rather then his religion because the diseases in this part of the body are but few and those few appear but seldome 1 Incision in the Uvula Gargarion or Columella when it is swoln red or grosse is dangerous Physicians love to trouble your pates with hard words for if they would write plaine English they could not make silly people believe wonders and then their Diana would downe you shall find an explanation of all such words which he that can but read his Primmer shall find at the latter end of the book 2 If the Uvula look pale or livid and the upper part not swelled you may make an incision without danger 3 Be sure you purge the belly before you be too busie in making incision in those parts Thus Hippocrates The truth is I cannot find any reason why any incision at all should be made there a man may as well plead Excise as Custome for ought I know If there be an inflammation there blood-letting in the arme will serve the turne if putrefaction or ulcer as sometimes happen to such as our company of Chyrurgeons Flux for the French pox either for want of care or skill or something else clensing medicines will do the deed I do not in this Treatise professe to write an Anatomy if I did I could tell you what the use of the Uvula was and how difficult an incision there is and how dangerous the effects of it may prove but I passe it and come to CHAP. IV. Presages of Vomiting in Feavers FIrst of all when there appears blacke things or things like flies before the eyes of him that hath a Feaver viz. when he thinks he sees flies when ther 's no such thing neer him be sure the sick will vomit yellow choler and the surer if withall he find an ilnesse at his stomack 2 If there be a stiffnesse and chillinesse in those parts neer the Hypocondria the vomiting will the sooner be hastened 3 My Author doth not tell whether this vomiting be good or bad in a Feaver therefore I le tell it you for him it shews strength of nature therefore take it as a hopefull signe the choler which is vomited up lies in the stomack and that 's not the place dame nature hath provided to hold choler Dame nature iis like a Prince in the body and holds in tenure by Soccage under Almighty God and if the can expell her enemy out of her dominions doth she not doe well 4 If together with what was mentioned before there happen swelling or ringings by reason of wind under one of the sides be not too hasty to predict vomiting it is more probable to be onely bleeding at the nose 5 Bleeding at the nose in such a case usually happens to people under 30 yeares of age vomiting to such as are older 6 These presages hath Hippocrates left to posterity verified by his owne experience I have ordered them for your owne good as well as I can I haue given you the reasons of some of them because I would instruct you of others I have not because I would incourage you to study for take this for an absolute truth my writings may teach you but it is your selves must make your selves Physicians Doctor Reason told me these presages were true And Experience tells you by my penne that you shall find them so I now take my leave of you for this time and withall tell you that if you be not so free to do good to others as I am to you look to answer for it another day at the generall acount I remaine Yours to do you good whilst I remain amongst the Living Nich. Culpepper 15. Aprilis 1651. Imprimatur JOHN BOOKER Kinds of Crisis

Semeiotica Vranica OR AN ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENT OF DISEASES From the Decumbiture of the Sick 1. From Aven Ezra by way of Introduction 2. From Noel Duret by way of Direction Wherein is layd down The way and manner of finding out the Cause Change and End of a Disease Also whether the Sick be likely to live or dye and the Time when Recovery or Death is to be expected To which is added The Signs of Life or Death by the body of the Sick Party according to the judgment of Hippocrates By NICHOLAS CULPEPER Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology PERSIUS Disce sed ira cadat naso rugosaque sanna London Printed for Nathaniell Brookes at the golden Angel on Cornhill near the Exchange 1651. TO THE ASTROLOGERS OF ENGLAND Nicholas Culpeper wisheth peace and Prosperity in this world and eternall beatitude in that which is to come Dear Souls TO you all and to you especially that heard these Lectures do I dedicate them and present them to you not to look upon onely for then I had as good have sent you a picture and as much it would have pleased your eye Man was made not only for Speculation but also for Practice Speculation brings onely pleasure to a mans selfe its Practice which benefits others And I hope I need not tell you that Man was not born for himself alone These Rules will serve if heedfully observed by the eye of Reason to ballance your judgment in sayling through the Prognosticall part of Physick that so you may steer your course by the Card of Truth and not float unsetledly upon the waves of Errour Ignorance or Opinion To you rather then to any that I know belongs the practice of Physick and that Practice may be perfect Judgement ought to be sound and to make judgement sound is required an exquisite knowledge Judgement is perfected by knowledge knowledge by experience whence it appeares that the more communicative knowledge is so much the more excellent it is Of all the men in the world I hate a drone most that sucks the sweetnesse of other mens labours but doth no good himselfe and will as soon teach Physick or Astrology to an Oake as to a creature the center of whose actions is terminated in himselfe Surely surely If God had not made the nature of man communicative he would not have made one man to stand in continuall need of another but we see the contrary and the sons of wisedome know how to pick out the meaning of God from it I have given you here all my Prognostications from the Decumbiture of the sick party And although I ingenuously confesse the greatest part of them will hold true in a Horarie Question erected upon the sight of the Urine yet this is my judgement at present That next the Nativity the Decumbiture is the safest surest ground for you to build your judgement upon and you shall always find it by experience Together with this I have given you the presages of Hippocrates all which never decline from the Zodiack of the sick person And thus much I can say of them by experience I never found one of them false Make use of them both together God hath given you two eyes why may you not look upon the Macrocosme with the one and upon the Microcosme with the other In both I desired to be as plaine as I could because all Artists are not Schollers Thus have you what I have done and you know for whose sakes I did it What now remains but that you labour with might and main for your owne goods and the increase of your owne knowledge to make experience of them For as the diligent hand maketh rich so the diligent mind increaseth knowledg and for my owne particular never feare but during the time I am amongst the living I shall never cease to do you good in what I may or can Spittle-fields next door to the Red-Lion Nich. Culpeper TO THE READER EXcellent and true was that Motto of Hermes Tresmegistus Quod est superius est sicut inferius and this will appeare to the eye of every one that deserves the name of a reasonable man if he do but consider That his body is made of the same materials that the whole Universe is made of though not in the same forme namely of a composition of contrary Elements There is scarce a man breathing that knows his right hand from his left but knows that if you sett bottles of hott water to a mans feet it will make his head to sweat and the reason is the mutual harmony of one part of the body with another why then as well should not the actions of one part of the Creation produce as well effects in another that being also one entire body composed of the same Elements and in as great Harmonie What 's the reason that a man will do more for his brother then hee will for a stranger Is is not because he is formed by the blood of the same Mother and begotten by the seed of the same Father Why then should not the Celestiall bodies act upon the Terrestriall they being made of the same matter and by the finger of the same God He that will not beleeve Reason let him beleeve Experience he that will believe neither is little better then an Infidel I confesse this was of Judicature hath been desired by many promised by some but hitherto performed by none which was the motive cause I now took the taske in hand my selfe In performing which in many places I corrected the faylings of my Author What was srivolous I left out as being unwilling to blot paper and trouble your braines with impertinencies where he was too large I abbreviated him and where he was deficient I supplied him both with Precept and Example If there be any failings consider 1 Nemo sine crimine vivit That man nev'r breathed yet nor never shall That did all well and had no fault at all 2 My failings if any be were not intentionall but accidentall together with this Astrological Judgement I have also given you the Judgment of Hippocrates The rules whereof are drawne from the person of the sick which although they have been often printed before yet I have compared them with the originall Copy and brought them into a plainer method so that you may have your desire at one single ingresse If you make use of both these wayes together in judging of the disease without a miracle you can hardly faile If any find fault with the shortnesse of my rules let them learne to walk worthie of those they have first their own Experience will bring them more he 's but an apish Physician that builds all his practice upon other mens foundations Man was borne to look after knowledge and in this particular you are set in the way how to find it by one that desires to remaine a friend to all honest and ingenuous Arts Nich. Culpeper Courteous Reader These Books following

are Printed for Nathaniel Brooks and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel on Cornehill PLanometria or the whole Art of Survey of Land shewing the use of all Instruments but especially the plain Table whereunto is added an Appendix to measure regular Solides as Timber Stone and the like and to 〈◊〉 the contents of Timber tree as it groweth usefull for all that intend either to sell or purchase by Ol. Wallingby 8. 2. An Arithmetick discovering the secrets of that Art in Number and Species in two Books 1. Teaching by precept and example the operation in Numbers whole and broken 〈◊〉 Decimals a new practise and use of the Logarithms 〈◊〉 bones with new Propositions touching the Quantities Qualities and Rules of Medicines 2. The great Rule of Algebra in Species resolving all Arithmetical Questions by opposition with a Canon of the powers of Numbers fitted to the meanest capacity by Jonas Moor late of Durham 8. 3. Tactometria or the Geometry of Regulars after a new 〈◊〉 exact and expedious manner in Solids not onely in respect of magnitude or dimension but also of gravity or 〈◊〉 according to any metal assigned with usefull Experiments 〈◊〉 in by the way of measure and weight And withall the like artificial Practical Geometry of Regular-like Solids and of a Cylindrir body for liquid or Vessel Measure with sundry new Experiments never before extant for gauging a work very usefull for all that are imployed in the Art Metricall by John Wiberd Doctor in Physick 4. Records Arithmetick or the grounds of Art teaching the Practises of Numbers and Fractions after an easie manner 5. Stella Nova Or a new Starre leading wise men unto Christ Preached before the learned Society of Astrologers August 8. 1649. in the Church of Saint Alderniary London by Robert Gell Doctor in Divinity 6. An Astrological discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations proving the powerful and Harmonical influence of the Planets and fixed Stars upon Elementary Bodies in justification of the Validity of Astrologie By Sir Christopher Heydon Knight 7. Magick and Astrologie Vindicated from those false aspersions and calumnies which the ignorance of some have cast upon them in which is contained the true definitions of the said Arts and the justification of their practise proved by the authority of Scripture and the experience of ancient and modern Authors By Hardick Warren Histories with curious Discourse of Humane Learning 1. The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman both couehed in one Volum with the Ladies love Lecture and a Supplement called the Turtles Triumph fitted for the Education and training up of both Sex by Richard Braithwait Esq Folio 2. The History of the Golden Ass. 3. The Painting of the Ancients the beginning progress and Consummating of that Noble Art and how those ancient Artificers attained to their still so much admired Excellency 5. Israels Redemption or the Prophetical History of our Saviours Kingdom on Earth that is the Church Catholike and Triumphant with a Discourse of Gog and Migog or the Battle of the great Day of God Almighty by Robert Maton of Exon-Colledg in Oxon. 8. 6. An Introduction to the Teutonick Philosophy being a determination of the original of the Soul at a Dispute held in the publike School at Cambridg at the Commencement March 3. 1646. by Charls Hotham Fellow of Peter House 12. 7. Oedipus 〈◊〉 a Resolver being a Clew that leads to the chief Secrets and true Resolution of Amorus Naturall Moral and Political Problems by G. M. 12. 8. The Celestial Lamp enlightening every distressed soule from the depth of everlosting Darkenesse to the height of eternal Light by Tho. Fettisplace 12. Choyce Poems with severall excellent Tragedies and Comedies 1. Fons Lachrymarum or a Fountain of Tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lomentations with an Elegie upon that Son of Valour Sir Charls Lucas by John Quarls 8. 2. Nocturnal Lucubrations or Meditations Divine and Moral with Epigrams and Epitaphs by Robert Chamberlin 3. The Vnfortunate Mother a Tragedy by Tho. Nabbs 4 The Rebellion of Comedy by Tho Raulins 5. The Tragedy of Messalina by Nathaniel Richards 8. Excellent Peeces of Divinity of certain Orthodox Divines with other Sermons viz. 1. The remedy of Discontentment or a Treatise of contentation in whatsoever condition fit for these sad and troubled times by the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall late Bishop of Exon and Norwich 12. 2. The Grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome in taking away the sacred Cup from the Laiety at the Lords Table by the late Reverend Daniel Featly Doctor in Divinity 4. 3 The cause and cure of Ignorance Error Enmity Athiesm and Profaneness or a most hopefull way to Grace and Salvation by R. Young 8. 4. A 〈◊〉 for the Times tending to still the Murmuring to settle the Wavering to stay the Wandring to Strengthen the Fainting by John Brinsley Minister of Gods Word at Yarmouth 5. Comforts against the feare of Death being short Meditations of that precious Gentlexoman Mrs Anne Skelton of Norwich wherein are several Evidences of the worke of Grace in her own soul which were the stay of her Heart against the feare of Death by John Collings of Norwich 6. Jacobs seed or the Excellency of seeking God by Prayer by Jeremiah Burroughs Minìster of the Gospel to the two greatest Congregations about London Stepney and Criplegate 12. 10. The Zealous Magistrate a Sermon by Tho. Trescot 11. Britania Rediviva or a Soveraigne Remedy to cure a sick Common-wealth in a Sermon preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize August 9. 1649. by John Shaw Minister of Hull 9. The Princes Royal or a Sermon preached in the Minster in York before the Judges March 24. 1650. by John Shaw Minister of Hull 10. Anatomy of Mortality divided inio eight Heads 1 The Certainty of Death 2. Meditations of Death 3. Preparations for Death 4. The right Behaviour in Death 5. The Comfort in our own Death 6. The Comfort against the death of Friends 7. The Cases wherein its lawfull or unlawfull to desire death 8. The glorious estate of Gods children after death By George Stronde 11. THRATOLOGIA Or Adiscovery of Gods wonders manifested in the former and moderne times by bloody Raine and waters By I. S. LUX VERITATIS Or Christian Judiciall Astrology Vindicated and Demonology Confuted in answer to Nath. Holmes Dr. D. By W. Ramesey Gent. A Synopsis of the Worke ABraham Aven Ezra of Criticall dayes being an introduction to the worke Page 1. Necessary questions answered page 7. CHAP. I. The definition of the word Crisis it's use cause kinds division and difference p. 17 CHAP. II. How to find out the Decumbiture and Criticall dayes both by ancient and modern writers p. 27. CHAP. III. Of the Sympathy and Antipathy of the Signes and Planets p. 29. The Authors opinion p. 30. Writers confuted p. 34. CHAP. IV. The way to set a figure of Crisis consisting of eight houses p. 36. CHAP. V.

dyed altogether in one and the same day of the small pox Thirdly if the Nativity cannot be gotten view the urine and erect a caelestiall Scheme upon the sight of it and if you have a decumbiture compasse the decumbitures with the caelestiall Scheme at the view of the urine and you may judge clearly of the Crisis To proceed to the matter if the Moon be strong when she comes to the Quartile or opposition of the place she was in at the decumbiture viz. in her house or exaltation the sick recovers if she be aspected to no Planet Judge the like of the Sun in Chronical diseases but judge the contrary if either of them be in detriments or fals for there is as much difference between them as there is between the Zenith the Narder if the Moone be void of course at the beginning of a disease the signe is neither good nor bad Look then to the Signe ascending at the beginning of a disease and let the Moon alone for a time If the Moon be anguler at the decumbiture and in the Ascendent judge of her alone and make use of no other signification if she be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord of the Ascendent with 'T is very dangerous when the Moon is Eclipsed when she comes to the quartile or opposition of the place she was in at the decumbiture so usually at such a time death turnes Physician If in the beginning of a sicknesse the Moon be in a moveable signe the sicknesse soone moves to an end one way or other fixed signes prolong sicknesse and common signes set a stop to the wisest braine in the world Also this is a certaine rule as sure as the Sun is up at noon day that diseases of plenitude are very dangerous when a man is taken sick upon a full Moon Diseases of fasting or emptinesse are most dangerous when a man is taken sick upon a new Moon Let me intreat you to give Physick for a disease of emptines when she is neer the full And for diseases of fulnesse when the Moon hath lost her light Diminish a Humor when the Moon diminisheth in light Increase when she increaseth in light Flegme opposeth Choler Meiancholy opposeth Blood 't is none of the worst ways to diminish choler by increasing flegme a word is enough to the wise 'T is very bad when in the beginning of a sicknesse the Moone is in a signe of the nature if the quartile offending Naturally wen she is in a fiery signe amend a disease of flegme but if choles abound 't is very good if she be in a watery signe you may know by a penny how a shilling is coined If the moone be in conjunction or aspect with any Planet and neither of them Latitude the Crisis will be firme if they differ much in Latitude the Crisis will be weake The Moon in conjunction with Saturne at the decumbiture shewes long sicknesse and if Saturne be slow in motion so much the worse and bad is the best at all times in such a case If Saturne be retrograde when he comes to the opposition of the Sun beware of a Relaps If Saturn have North Latitude be sure the sick is bound much in body If the Moon be joyned to a retrograde Planet the sick vomits up his Physick Venus helps more in the sicknesses of young men and women then she doth in old If the desease come of heat Venus helps more then Jupiter if the disease comes more of cold Jupiter helps more then Venus If the disease comes of Love there is not a more pestilent Planet in the heavens then Venus then call help of Jupiter in persecutions of Religion Jupiter is little better then the Devil call helpe of Venus in such a case Mercury accidentall and strong signifies good in diseases If Mars cause the disease Venus helps more then Jupiter if Saturne then Jupiter more then Venus If in the beginning of a sicknesse the Moon be in conjunction with any fixed stars of the first magnitude whose Latitude from the Ecliptick is but small you may safely judge of diseases by the nature of that Star she is joyned to suppose he be of the nature of a Planet good or bad take him according to his nature When the Moon is joyned to any planet by body or aspect in the beginning of any sicknesse if she aspect that Planet when she comes to the quartile or opposition of the place the Crisis will be firme and stable and t will move no faster then a house and t wil not be altered be it good or bad But if when she comes to quartile or opposition she meets with another Planet be sure the disease changes either to better or worse according to the nature of that star she meets withall And this will appeare in the sick party or else in the Physician or in the course of Physicke See what house the Planets she meets withall at the Crisis is Iord of the decumbiture and judge accordingly and so a sick person may happen to have more witt then an old doting Physician If it be a fixed starre of an other nature to that fixed star she was withall at the decumbiture it will not alter so much or at least there will not be a universall alteration of the disease and my reason is because the fixed stars are so far from the earth And the last the thing is Whatsoever is said of the Moon in acute diseases will hold as true of the Sun in Chronick Diseases LIB. II. Astrologicall Judgement upon DISEASES OR A Methodical way to find out the Cause Nature Symptoms and change of a Disease together with the parts of the afflicted the exact time of recovery or dissolutions by the Decumbiture Amplified by Examples THe Basis of the Story was borrowed from Noel Duryet Cosmographer to the King of France and the most excellent Cardinall the Duke of Richelieu 'T is confest in some place I have abreviated him in others corrected him let another doe the like by me What I have done I have done and am not ashamed the world should see it Through the never failing mercies of God I had an oppertunity put into my hands to finish this so much desired so long wished-for work if there be any weaknesse in it it is my owne if their be any excellency in it give God the glory He that writes ignominie upon the backside of an other mans book never setting forth any of his own let the name of ignominy be branded and not ingraven upon his Sepulcher I would fain see the piss Prophets of this age deliver such a judgement of diseases by the Urine he that can doe so Erit mibi magnus Apollo Why doe I trouble my head with the Physicians whose Covetousnesse or Lazinesse or both or something worse will not suffer them to study those Arts which are Essentiall to their Monopolized calling but I will be silent for their fall is approaching by reason of their pride if

the Moon to the Sun as they are in Almanacks or Ephemerides which is but the Father of an Almanacke but from the place in which the Moon was found at the Decumbiture as shall appear by a few examples hereafter There are acute and Chronick diseases Of Acute diseases some are simply acute others are peracute others are very acute per-per-acute or exceeding acute Those which are simply acute are finished in 8. 10. 11. 14. 20. 21. dayes and they are called Monthly diseases by some and Lunary by others and they none of the greatest fools neither they are terminated in the time the Moon traceth the 12. Celestiall signes of the Zodiack which is in 27 dayes some odd houres and some odd minutes Thoseacute diseases which suffer changes or degenerate are to be judged of by an imperfect way as for them sometimes they increase sometimes they are remitted they are as fickle as a weather Cock according as the Moon meets with the beames either of good or evill Planets and that is not all the trick they have neither For sometimes they change out of acute diseases into Chronick diseases and so a continued Fever may change into a Hecktick Fever or an intermitting Fever into a continued Fever and these diseases terminate in forty dayes very acute diseases such as are concluded in 5. 6. 7. 8. dayes among which are the Fevers the Greeks call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an inflamation of the Lungs In exceeding acute diseases they are such which end in three or four dayes at furthest as Pestilencies Apoplexies c. Chronick diseases follow the motion of the Sun and 't is about nine dayes before the first Crisis appears for in that time the Sun comes to the proper Quartile of the place he was in at the Decumbiture as appeares in Hecktick Fevers Dropsies but when he comes to his Sextile or Trine aspect of the place he was in at the Decumbiture some motion appeares whereby a man if he have any guts in his braines may judge of the Crisis to come It falls out well if the Sun be well aspected by good Planets and worse if to evill Planets and this holds true if you consider it from the Nativity throughout all the whole course of a mans life for diseases are particularly attendants on a mans life if Dr. Experience tell truth Moreover of the Crises some are perfect some are imperfect A perfect Crisis is when the disease appeares intirely and perfectly to be judged of and this is sometimes hopefull sometimes desperate hopefull when there is great probability of health and recovery desperate when there is palpable signes of death An imperfect Crisis is when the disease is changed upon every light occasion and if Mars be Author of the disease and in a sign of a double body upon my life you shall not faile for the Critis happens as true as the Weather-cock Your safest way then to judge of the disease is by the Aspects of the Moon to the Planets when the Moon meets with the Inimicall or hostil beames of Saturne or Mars have a care of your Patient And if you know what hinders by the same reason you may know what helps Physitians in former when they were wise and minded the common good and not their own gain they distinguished the Crisis of diseases thus Some were safe some doubtfull some fit to be judged and some not fit to be judged That Crisis is safe which comes without great and pernitious aspects It is doubtful suspitious I had almost said dangerous which comes with great pernitious aspects The disease is fit to be judged when signes of Concoction come the fourth day and then certainly the Crisis will appear the 9th The Moon moves not upon a equal motion therefore you had best trust to her motion rather then the dayes The Sun hath domination in Chronick diseases the Moon in acute if you be a wise man your judgement shall be as sure as the Sun and that never failes without a miracle In times of yore when knowledge was scant men went a begging for it and they that had gotten knowledge monopolized it A few glimpses of Adams happinesse in Paradise which happinesse all the World have been reaching after ever since They knew well enough the Moon moved so many degrees in so many dayes an evill Angell I had almost said the Devill perceiving there was want of knowledge in the World goes and transformes himself into an Angel of light and taught men to count the time by dayes 'T is no great marvail the Egyptians should worship Garlick and Onyons for Gods when we defie Christmas-day though perhaps it may be cloudy What I have spoken I have onely spoken to shew that it is the motion of Sun and Moon that produceth the Crisis in diseases and not the number of dayes I must return to the place I intended Of dayes some are called by their own name Criticall dayes other are called Judiciall dayes and they are so called because upon them dame Nature and her Son Doctor Reason would make manifest what the disease is and Doctor Experience tels me 't is true Another time is called Intercidental which is a time falls out between the judicial dayes and Criticall Upon these Intercidental dayes the disease is usually remitted if so then a good Crisis may be expected if not an evill I shall explain these terms before I go further a man fals sick there is the first Crisis let the cause of the disease be what you will when the Moon comes to the same degree of the next figue she was in at the Decumbiture there is the judiciall dayes for in that time the disease shews it self in its colours with bag and baggage When the Moon comes to her Sextile it brings the Intercidental Day and should mitigate the disease if she do not she is aspected to evill Planets and if she be aspected to ill Planets an ill Crisis is to be expected and so the contrary and you shall never find this faile CHAP. II. The way to finde out the Critical dayes as also the Decumbiture both by Ancient and Modern Writers ANcient Physitians because they were ignorant of the motion of the Moon though not of her operation as many of our modern are made their account by number of dayes and in so doing erred egregiously And although Durate my Author counts their opinions I hold it not worth time to recite mens failings But of the certain term or time when the Criticall dayes begin I shall quote these few words When any notable disease comes if you would discern whether it tends to Health Death Mutation or Continuance it is necessary that you begin at the first punct of time of the invasion of the disease This Galen saith is very hard if not impossible to find 't is taken proconfesso that it may be easily known when a man takes his bed in his sicknesse but when the beginning of the sicknesse is