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
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
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
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
found under what Planet the Patient is most afflicted as instance Mars then take herbs under Venus if under Saturn then take herbs under Jupiter if both Saturn and Mars afflict as sometimes 't will fall out then let your herbs be under Jupiter and Venus but if Saturn and Mars be strong in the Heavens and more strong than the fortunes Jupiter and Venus then their own herbs will do it alwayes provided that one of the smallest numbers of herbs under one or both the fortunes together with herbs of the Sun be used together with the rest but if the infortunes be weak then the smallest number attributed unto them and the greater number of the fortunes together with a select number of herbs under the Sun will do it for the Dyet-drink you may together with the herbs aforesaid add Raisons Currants Liquorish Aniseed Sweet fennel-seed or Coryander-seed to make the Dyet-drink nutrative as also more pleasant and good to expel wind the Dyet-drink is made by way of decoction and given to the Patient three times a day viz. morning afternoon and night I have cured many only by Dyet-drink and herbs suitable as aforesaid laid to the hand-wrests made up by way of Cataplasm The herbs which you lay to the hand-wrests must be shred very small and pounded in a Morter with Raisons and white Salt you may add a little Venus-Turpentine to make it hold together you must use the quantity of two walnuts it must be laid on hot and bound fast to the hand-wrest if the Patient doth not mend after one or two fits tryal then you must give the Patient a vomit just when the fit doth begin as followeth Take one dram of Stibium more or less according unto the strength and age of the Patient beat it into a very fine powder with a Pestel and Morter then warm a quarter of a pint of white wine and put the powder into it keep this in a glass twenty four hours and shake it often and when the Ague is ready to come put forth the wine into so much new milk but leave the dregs behind and give it the Patient blood warme and let them take posset drink after every vomit if the Patient doth not amend after one or two fits tryal then you must let the patient blood for after the Patient hath been afflicted above a Moneth 't will get into the blood also if need require you must give the Patient another vomit more especially if the Ague have been of long continuance and I have sometimes been inforced to let blood more than once you must â—â—ill give them dyet drink until they are well If you heed well what I have written you need not doubt of curing all kind of Agues although of long continuance as also from what cause soever it had its beginning By the Rules aforesaid I cured a Woman who had a Tertian Ague nine years as aforesaid Another way whereby to Cure all kinds of Agues Astrologically together with other infirmities which are in the Blood or Vital Spirits as I have oftentimes proved is as followeth VVHen you let the Patient blood take a small thimble full of Sympathetical powder and the like quantity of the powders of such herbs which are sutable to the cure as aforesaid mix them well together and put a small quantity of the blood into this powder and be careful that it take no cold for both the powder and blood must be put together warm and let the Patient wear it next their skin you must be careful that the herbs used be gathered at the right Planetary hours according unto their numbers as formerly mentioned by this way I have cured both Agues and other infirmities There is yet another way whereby to cure Agues THis way is performed only by a certain writing which the Patient weareth Now whether there were any such words passed between our Saviour and the Jews as the writing mentioneth who can tell for without question there were many memorable actions things and words said and done by our blessed Saviour which are not recorded in holy writ and we find words in Scripture tending unto that purpose The words are as followeth When Jesus went up to the Cross to be Crucified the Jews asked him saying art thou afraid or hast thou the Ague Jesus answered and said I am not afraid neither have I the Ague All those which beareth the Name of Jesus about them shall not be afraid nor yet have the Ague Amen sweet Jesus Amen sweet Jehova Amen I have known many who have been cured of the Ague by this writing only worn about them and I had the receipt from one whose Daughter was cured thereby who had the Ague upon her two years Concerning several kinds of madness with the true Astrological way of Cure as followeth I shall not enter upon any large discourse hereof nor yet take notice of Authors who without question have written Learnedly hereupon My intent being only to write what I find by my own daily Practice and experience herein according unto which I find that there are several causes of madness and several kinds of madness I mean in relation to their actions and behaviour whilst they are in this condition First concerning the Cause for except it be known its impossible except by accident to work a cure which for to find you must erect a Figure either for the time of the first fit or any other more than ordinary strong fit and to be sure so to vary your ascendant that it together with its Lord may exactly personate the sick and then by the Rules of Art examine whether the grief be Natural or otherwise from Witchcraft or Sorcery if Natural then from what original cause as whether from love loss of honour friends estate or any other more than ordinary vexation and such like for then the distemper will be wholly in the Animal and vital spirits for we may be assured that whatsoever the external or internal sences do comprehend which proceed from the brain the Vital spirits which proceedeth from the heart doth immediately put into action be it mirth or sorrow in curing these kinds of madness you must heed the Complexion and Temper of the Patient for as in Drunkenness so in Madness you will assuredly discover their Elementall Qualities and Natural Conditions If Choler abounds then they will be violent in their Actions and very apt to quarrel If they are by nature Sanguine then they will be inclined unto mirth as singing dancing and the like And such who are by nature Melancholy and Mad usually are given unto sadness sighing and much silence seldom pleased And those who are by nature Flegmatick mad are usually sluggish and idle not careing to do any thing except forced thereunto and much given to sleep they will lye in bed two or three days together if not disturbed The way to cure all these kinds of distempers before mentioned must be by decoctions made of such
one degree in two hours wherefore we must set the Moon in nine degreeâ— Sagitary you must do the like in all other figures Had he took his bed at midnight you must have added six degrees and then the Moon would have been fourteen degrees thirty one minutes entred Sagitary Now having set the signs on the cuspes of every house and the Planets in those signs as by the figure appeareth I shall in the next place shew how to give judgement thereupon and so thereby discover the grief as followeth How to give Judgement by the Figure of twelve Houses THe general way especially in acute griefs is to give iudgment by the Moon being in any of the twelve signs and by the infirmities afflicted as I have already declared And this being an acute grief judgment must be given accordingly yet notwithstanding I shall by this figure set forth his natural infirmities or griefs and so instruct â—â—e Learner how to give judgement in any other chronick griefs by the signs on the ascendant sixth house and their Lords afflicted For some lasting and obscure griefs cannot be discovered by the Sun and Moon afflicted In the first place you must observe whether the ascendant which is the first house or the sixth house or their Lords be any way afflicted by the malevolent planets Saturn Mars Mercury or the Sun for sometimes the Sun may and will afflict more especially if the grief lieâ—h about the heart or in the arteries or vital spirits In the neâ—t place it will be necessary to know whether the grief be natural or whether it came by Witchcraft or Sorcery Now if you find the Lord of the twelfth house in the ascendant or if the Lord of the twelfth being in the sixth or Lord of the sixth in the twelfth or if the Lord of the ascendant be combust that is when the Sun is not above eight degrees thirty minutes distant from him or if one planet be Lord of the ascendant and twelfth house and an infortune then you may conclude that the grief is more than natural more especially where there is any just suspition thereof which may be somewhat deferred by heeding well the nature of their distempers as I have shewed elsewhere But in this Figure I find no such thing wherefore I did conclude the grief was natural occasioned by his own disorder of body as shall be shewed in order Sometimes I have known the ascendent the sixth house or their Lords have been afflicted by the Lord of the twelfth house and yet the sickness was not from Witchcraft notwithstanding those suspected evils for if Jupiter and Venus or the Sun do cast their friendly aspects unto the afflicted Planet or Cusp of the House aforesaid that then the grief came by some disorder of body Also if that Lord of the ascendant be in the twelfth or in the sixth the grief is natural For from the twelfth house we give judgment of self-undoing so well as otherwise but any rational experienced practitioner may easily distinguish the natural diseases from the unnatural by heeding well the manner of their distempers as aforesaid And generally I find that those who are taken in this snare of Witchcraft that at the time of any strong fit or when they are more than usually tormented that then the ascendant together with its Lord doth exactly personate the sick and at that very time the Lord of the twelfth house doth one way or other afflict either the ascendant or its Lord or that an infortune Lord of the ascendant and twelfth house which may so happen when the proper ascendant is intercepted in the first house as I have oft times experimented I shall now proceed to give judgment upon the decumbiture figure before mentioned and in the first place describe the person of the sick Secondly y rules discover whether the sick shall live or die if live how long time before recovery Thirdly I shall by rules set forth what the grief is and from what came Fourthly How and which way he was recovered The mans person is described by the ascendant Capricorn and Saturn his being therein who is Lord thereof viz. one of a middle stature full and well set of a dark or swartish complection â—ad brown hair as you may find more at large in this book Signes of recovery was first Saturn Lord of the ascendant being his significator is strong as being in his own house and is more strong than Mars who is the afflicting Planet Secondly the Moon doth separate from Mars and apply first unto Venus and from thence to the Sun and Jupiter all fortunes Thirdly the Sun is increasing in light Fourthly neither the Moon or Saturn are combust Planets are said to be combust when they are not elongated eight deg thirty min from the Sun Fifthly she is not in that part of the Zodiack called via combusta which is from the middle of Libra to the midst of Scorpio Lastly Venus Lady of the fourth house which usually sheweth the end of all things of this nature was in friendly aspect to the Moon at the time of decumbiture all which are arguments of recovery The time when followeth First the angles of the figure are part fixt and part common Secondly the Moon was in a common sign which argueth that the grief was not perfectly acute nor yet chronick but between both and so it proved for upon the last critical day the feaver left him at which time the Moon came to the place she was in at the decumbiture viz. unto the ninth deg of Sagitarius yet notwithstanding at the last critical time he had a very strong fit the Moon being then in square to Mars but Venus fortune and Lady of the fourth house being in friendly aspect to the Moon and she together with Saturn being both more strong than Mars who was the afflicting Planet put an end to this sickness at the time aforesaid The next thing considerable is to discover the grief and from what cause and likewise what infirmities she was naturally subject unto from the birth Now concerning the present acute grief I found the Moon being in the sign Sagitary was the platick square of Mars afflicted for between the sign Virgo the place where Mars is and the sign Sagitary the place where the Moon is containeth ninety deg which number maketh a square had the Moon been but one degree in the sign Sagitary yet that would have been a platick square for if we consider the moity of each Orb there will be ten deg allotted at which time and distance the influence of those Planets doth operate both before and after any aspect Now to know what the present distemper was by reason it was an acute grief you must find out the place in this book entituled the Moon in Sagitary of Mars oppressed which argueth a high and strong fever with the flux or lask and cholerick passions the pulses few and taint heating slowly his blood over heated The
bright Star of the Harp and the Star called the Swans-bill both of the nature of Mars and Jupiter in the a cendant made the fever the more violent The cause of this sickness was from inordinate exercise surfeiting or too much repletion as you may find more at large at the place aforesaid The way of recovery was by application antipathetical unto Mars the afflicting planet by reason that Venu was more strong in essential dignities as being in her house Now in regard that Mars is by nature hot and dry I made choice of such herbs and other remedies which were cold and moist wherefore I advised that such decoctions syrrups or cordials which were administred should be cooling and cleansing also glisters the like ever remembring as in this so in all other cures to fortifie the heart and vital spirits with herbs under the dominion of the Sun Would the Patient have been perswaded to let blood the fever would without question have left him upon the second critical time the Moon meeting then with the friendly aspect of Venus a fortune and strong Note That as we give judgement by the Sun and Moon afflicted in acute and chronick griefs so by the same rules you may give judgement by the Lord of the ascendant or sixth house afflicted Example In the last figure Mercury being Lord of the sixth house and in the sign Libra is in platick square to Saturn and conjunction of the Sun who is much of the nature of Mars only the Sun striketh more upon the vital spirits Now according unto the rule in giving judgement by the Moon afflicted in the sign Libra it sheweth a severish distemper and blood over heated occasioned from surfeiting The next thing considerable is to know what infirmities naturally he was subject unto from the birth In this question judgement must be given from the ascendant sixth house and their Lords afflicted first the ascendant is no way afflicted save onely by the presence of Saturn who is Lord thereof Now in this question Saturn is not accounted an enemy notwithstanding he is naturally evil as being in his own house and Lord of the sick mans person for according unto the old saying the devil will not hurt his own Also the sixth house is no way afflicted wherefore we have onely Mercury Lord of the sixth considerable herein and he I find is in Libra in platick coniunction of Venus Lady of the fourth Now any planet although he be naturally a fortune may afflict so well as the infortunes being Lord or Lady of the fourth sixth eighth or twelfth houses for every planet must do his Office to know what the grief is you must take notice of the sign where Mercury Lord of the sixth house is videl in Libra and what parts of the body is signified thereby also what griefs or infirmities are under the dominion of Venus First under the sign Libra is reins and loyns and under Venus is also the reins together with back belly and members of generation and passages of urine To my knowledge he hath for many years past been oft-times perplexed with difficulty of making water and with pains in his reins back and belly What I have written I presume will be sufficient to instruct the learner but practice and experience will be the only means to inlarge the practitioners â—â—dgement herein for 't is impossible for any man to write be he never so curious and exact in any art but that somewhat may be added unto it Observations concerning the Ascendant THat which I have found by daily practice and experience is carefully so to erect your figure either for the time of decumbiture or the time of any strong fit or when the Patient was more than ordinarily sick or afflicted or for the time when the urine is brought or when you go to visit the patient that the Ascendant together with its Lord may exactly personate the Sick for if neither the ascendant nor the Lord thereof doth agree in shape complexion and hair with the body of the Sick you cannot safely give judgement by a figure of twelve houses especially in many infirmities as I have often experienced for the first fourth sixth eighth and twelfth houses will be especially concerned therein wherefore if you fail in the first foundation the whole building must needs be obstructed and out of order Example In the decumbiture figure before mentioned haâ— I erected the figure but for one hour sooner Sagitary would have ascended whereof Jupiter is Lord and then the person of the sick must have been described accordingly Now Jupiter signifies a man of an upright and tall stature complexion ruddy face oval full and fleshy and a kind of a bourn brown hair Also the sign Sagitary represents a man much after the same shape and likeness by which it appears what a vast difference it might produce by takeing a wrong ascendant both in regard of the personal shape and likewise in the discovery of the grief of the sick Whereas it appears by taking the true ascendant that it doth not on-only dilineate his person as is before expressed but doth exactly discover his present distemper and natural infirmities For let the time of decumbiture or the time for receipt of the urine or the time of any strong fit be brought and the Artist never so curious by enquiry except by chance he shall not get the true ascendant for many reasons may be objected to the contrary First clocks may fail and so sick persons will hold out longer then others before complaint and the urine may by the messenger be hastened or retarded you see one hour maketh a mighty alteration I shall quote another Example Suppose a Man or Woman who is under the dominion of Sol Lord of Leo should fall sick which represents one of a large stature fat full and fleshy complexion sanguine and yellowish hair Now perhaps when the urine is brought or through mistakes of clocks or time Gemini should ascend whereof Mercury is Lord what a mighty difference could this produce For the planet Mercury represents one of an upright and tall stature spare body long face and nose of a dark swarthy complexion and sad hair Also the sign Gemini signifies a tall body a dark and obscure complexion and sad or black hair I could instance many more wherefore advise all practitioners in this art so to vary their ascendant that it together with its Lord or planet posited in the ascendant may exactly personate the Sick without which no true judgment can be given especially in many chronick griefs or infirmities and in case of Witchcraft and Sorcery Some brief Rules concerning long and short sicknesses and whether the Patient is like to live or die First of long or short Sickness i A Fixt sign on the Cusp of the sixt or the Lord of the sixt or Lord of the Ascendant or the Moon in accute or Sun in Chronick griefs be in fixt signs afflicted by the malevolent