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A00527	Speculum ægrotorum. The sicke-mens glasse or, A plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.	Fage, John, student in phisicke.	1606 (1606)	STC 10665; ESTC S114685	34,615	72

Speculum Aegrotorum THE SICKE-mens Glasse OR A plaine Jntroduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement of the life or death of a sicke bodie the originall cause of the griefe how he is tormented and afflicted what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person and the day and houre in which he shall recouer or surrender his vitall breath Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is and the operation that eating drinking rest and exercise worketh in euery person with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight Composed by Iohn Fage Student in Phisicke and practitioner in Astrologie LONDON Printed for VVilliam Lugger and are to be solde at his Shop vpon Holborne-bridge 1606. To the worthy and renowned Company of Students and professors of the excellent science of Phisicke Iohn Fage wisheth health IVdicious Doctors and professors of the famous and laudable science of Phisicke in token of the inestimable loue good will I beare to this worthy faculty I haue vnto you as the chiefe patrons thereof committed this little Glasse of sick men wherein you may beholde the state and condition of the diseased person soe truely and infallibly as the Arte of Astrologie can certifie being aswel correspondent and agreeable to the sayings of auncient and approoued Authors as by experience and dayly obseruations verified whereof I my selfe haue made sufficient triall as many of my familiar friendes and associates can testifie insomuch that hee which compareth these documents with the iudicials of vrine shall thereby not onely decerne and perceiue the true cause of the disease but also the augmentation relaxation continuance and alteration thereof to good or euill both to the praise and estimation of the arte also the credit profit of the expert Physition assuring you that heerein is nothing written but onely that which hath been taken out of the groundes of Astrologie and agreeable to the sentences of the moste excellentest Physitions And although peraduenture this methode and manner of iudgement dooth seeme hard and difficile to some men at the first aparance yet let no mā be discouraged for with a little reading and perusing it wil soone appeare both plaine easie which being once obtained the commoditie therof will bee verie delectable and profitable And so to conclude if this my labour be acceptable to your learned eares it will encourage me to endeauour to the vtermost of my power both to examplefie this introduction and also to supply you with another treatise which shall fully and largely detect and lay open this manner of Iudicials so in the meane time I commit you and your industrious actions to the protection of the Almightie At Midhurst this 24. of Aprill 1606. * ⁎ * To the Reader LEauing thee diuers and sundrie opinions of many Authors with their mistaken axiomes and vnaprooued sayings as well as the rash boldenesse and presumptuous iudgements of those ignorant persons which eyther by the day of the month the age of the Moone or Plannet then raygning onely doe giue iudgement on the life or death of a sicke person or of the manner of his disease which by their erronious opinions haue brought this famous arte into such and so greate contempt that of the moste part of men it is supposed to be rather a recreatiue inuention then any true and vnfained asscertion I haue Gentle Reader by the helpe of those two excellent Astonomers Ptholomeus and Hermes nourished and brought vp this prole or issue which although it be yet young naked weake and tender yet I hope in consequence of time when it is come to ripenesse of age well cloathed and to his full strength that it will be able to stop the mouth of this hidious monster ignorance which with his violent sting and venemous biting seeketh vtterly to destroy science and learning according to the old prouerbe scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignoranciam So committing this little one into thy fauorable protection I hope thou wilt rather charitably foster it in the lappe of pittie then tyranically and cruelly to destroy it in his infancie Yours to the vttermost of his power Iohn Fage The Contentes of this Booke OF the significator of the sicke body A Table to finde out the Criticall Iudiciall and Mortall diaes Of the Aspects of the Moone with the Planets To knowe whether the sicke person shall liue or dye To knowe when and at what time the sicke person shall amend or recouer To knowe when and at what time the sicke person shall depart or be grieuously tormented Of the cause of the disease What opperation the Moone worketh in euery of the 12. signes being afflicted by the ill fortunes The manner to knowe of what humor or humors the griefe proceedeth The quality of the foure humors and times appropriated vnto them How the 4. humors are distributed in our humaine bodies Infallible signes to discerne of what complection any man What operation eating drinking rest exercise worketh is in each compelexion The names of the Caracters which are heerin written for abridgement sake Planets ♄ Saturne ♃ Iupiter ♂ Mars ☉ Sol ♀ Venus ☿ Mercury ☽ Luna Aspects ☌ Coniunction ⚹ sextile △ Trine □ Quartile ☍ Opposition Signes ♈ Aries ♉ Taurus ♊ Gemini ♋ Cancer ♌ Leo ♍ Virgo ♎ Libra ♏ Scorpio ♐ Sagitarius ♑ Capricornus ♒ Aquarius ♓ Pisces Of the significator of the sicke body IT hath beene an order and a custome amongst the most excellentest and wisest Physitions to choose the Moone for the principall significatrix of the sicke person and according vnto her motion scituation and configuration with other Plannets haue giuen iudgment on the increasing mittigation and alteration of the disease For Hippocrates in principio Prognosticorum speaketh of the Moone and sayth in this manner There is a certaine Starre of heauen on which a Phisition must take heed and mark the purueiance thereof is wonderfull and dreadfull Also Galen in commento de diebus criticis saith a Phisition must take heed aduise himselfe of a certaine thing that fayleth not neither deceiueth which the Astronomers of Aegipt taught that is to say when the body of the Moone is ioyned with fortunate starres dreadful and fearfull sicknesse commeth to good end Likewise Astronomers say that among all the other plannets the Moone in ruling hath most power and maistry of mens bodies for as Ptolomeus saith in Libro de iudicijs Astrorum vnder the Moon is contained sicknes losse feare harme and domage therfore about the alteration of mans body the Moone worketh most principally and not with out good cause for as Astronomers affirme she hath dominion and goernment of all liquid moist substances as the water oyle sappe of trées c As the thrice learned Clark Doctor d ee in the 103. Apkorisme of his Booke intituled Libro

afflicted eyther by the Coniunction Quartile or Opposition of the ill fortunes Saturne Mars the sicke shal die chiefly if Iupiter or Venus doe not assist the moone or if she be combust and decreasing in light and motion Also the Dragons taile is of the nature of the ill fortunes but of himselfe hath not the interficient force of Saturne or Mars for as much as it is a line and not a Starre Likewise if the moone be in the via combusta which is from the middest of Libra vntill the middest of Scorpio or vnder the Sunne beames and decreasing in light or motion and applying to Saturne and Mars eyther by coniunction or any aspect chiefly by Quartile or Opposition aspect although their semidiameters onely beholde the semibeames of the moone it threatneth death An example A certaine man fell sicke and tooke his bed the mooone beeing three degrees in Scorpio decreasing in light and motion Mars 13. degrees in Libra and Saturne 27. degrees in Sagitarius and departed when the moone came to the 13. degres of Capricornus To know the times in which the sicke person shall feele ease of his paine or recouer his health HAuing found by the Doctrine aforesaid that the sicke person shall not departe then as often as the moone méeteth with●●● bodie or aspect of the fortunes Iupiter or Venus during the 〈◊〉 of the disease at that instant the sicke person shall bee 〈…〉 eased of his dolorous paines the ill fortunes the contrari● 〈…〉 first obuiating or meeting of Luna with Iupiter or Venus 〈◊〉 a Criticall Iudiciall or Mortall day the diseased person shall beg●● to recouer his health An example Anno Dom. 1605. the 28. of May about 7. of the 〈…〉 the forenoone a certaine friend of mine fell sicke in his Bed th●… Moone being then in the 2. degr of Pisc●s decreasing Mars 18. degrees in Gemini Saturne 23. degrees in Sagitarius Iupiter 26. in Capricornus and Venus 4. degrees in Gemini Now for as much as I finde the Moone to be free from the interficient force of the ill fortunes I iudge the sicke shall not depart yet he was grieuously tormented and afflicted for because the hatefull beames of Mars his Quartile aspect was within the semidiameter of the Moone none of the fortunes did intermeddle their fauorable beames And when the Moone came to the 19. deg of Pisces meeting the Opposition of furious Mars he had a great and mighty fitte of sicknesse almost absolutely depriuing sence and motion Also he was sorely tormented when the Moone came to the 24. degree of Pisces because she then beheld Saturne with a spitefull Quartile aspect after that he began to amend forasmuch as that was a mortall day and Iupiter enuironed the Moone with a friendly Sextile aspect To knowe when and what time the sicke Person shall depart and be grieuously tormented NOW if you finde by the afliction of the Moone at the time the partie fell sicke that he shall dye then on the next mortall day that the Moone meeteth with eyther of the ill fortunes Saturne or Mars by coniunctiō Quartile or Opposition applying to thē either corporally or radiationally the sick shall dye at that day hours in which she commeth to the interficient point of the Zodiake which agreeth to the saying of Ptholomeus in the 16. Aphorisme of his Centiloquiums wherein he saith we must behold the motion of the Moone as she passeth through the Criticall Iudiciall and Mortall daies for if she be in them fortunate it will fall out well vnfortunate the contrarie An example The 17. day of May Anno Dom. 1605. A man fell sicke about a 〈◊〉 of the clocke at night the Moone being then in the 2. degree of Libra Sol in the 6. degree of Gemini Saturne in the 24. deg of Sagitarius Iupiter in the 27. degree of Capricornus Mars in the 10. degree of Gemini and Venus in the 22. degree of Taurus Now I 〈◊〉 the Moone aflicted by the hatefull Quartile aspect of Saturne being scituated within the maleuolous beames of the semidiameter of froward Saturne wherby I iudge that the sicke shall depa●t then entring into the Table of Criticall Iudiciall and Mortall dayes I finde the first mortall day to bee when the Moone commeth to the 27. deg of the said signe of Libra yet for asmuch as that degree is free from the oppression of the ill fortunes I affirme that the sicke shall not dye at that time the Moone commeth to the said signe and degree Therfore I seeke the next dying day which is when the moone commeth to the 12. degree of Sagitarius which being aflicted by the Opposition of Mars collocated in the 14. degree of Gemini I iudge he shall dye when the Moone commeth to the 12. degrée of Sagitarius and so he did Note that during the time and permanence of the sicknesse as often as the Moone meeteth the bodies or ill aspects of the distroyers of nature so often the diseased person shal feele and sustaine very sore panges Furthermore some Astronomers affirme that as long as the Moone decreaseth in motion so long the griefe shal aggrauate and waxe greater and greater But Hyppocrates in Libro de Iudicijs infirmitat secundum lunam saith thus when the sick person taketh his bed you must consider whether the moone departeth out of combustion for then the sicknesse shall increase vntil Luna commeth to Opposition by reason that humors increase in mens bodies and if shee be then with good Plannets it falleth out well with euill the contrarie Of the cause of the disease TO knowe the cause of the disease you must looke with what Plannet the moone is configurated or adioyned eyther by coniunction or aspect and according to the nature and influence of that planet iudge the disease that afflicted the moone The coniuction or any aspect of the ill fortunes doth afflict the Moone and the Quartile and Opposition of Sol and Mercury Now if Sa●●rne or Mercury oppresse the Moone the disease shal be slowe and slacke with lassitude and heauinesse of the limbes insomuch that the sicke shall scarce bee able to stirre his bodie and the disease shall shew it selfe by little and little by coldnes of the bodie with defluction debillitie and obstruction causing the sicke to awake out of his sleepe sodainly or by starts c. The sicke person also as Hermes saith shall be sollitarie silent and fearefull desiring heate warme cloathes and darknesse with often sighing and continual oscitation and yawning the whole superficies of the body will be colde and dry and the pulses little and slow The cure of such is by thinges that disolue and binde But if the Moone at that time the person fell sicke bée afflicted by Mars or the Sunne all the superficies and vpper parts of the body shall be in extreame heat as if they were incensed and kindled with fire The party shall bée very prone and apt to anger crying-out with scritches

and fearce lookes sometimes inordinately with rauing and franticke fits as when choller rauisheth vp into the head perturbating the braine with violent heat c. Also they are very dry thirsty desiring colde drinke with spitting and aridity drines of the tongue with losse of appetite and desire of meate continually saporing and tasting with the tongue The visage and face as red as fire and all the body loaden with superfluity the pulses are little pressed downe and inordinate Blood-letting vntill the fift day and such things as are refrigeratiue repercussiue and auoid superfluity are medicinable to the sicke persō Likewise Hermes saith that they in whose decumbiture the moon was afflicted of Sol or Mars shall féele loathsomnesse in the mouth and stomacke with paine in the heart veines and artires But continuall-Feauers Plurisies Exulceration and inflamation of the Lungs take their originall of Saturne and Mercury afflicting the Moone in fierie signes The fortunes Saturne and Venus in my opinion do neuer vexe and torment the sicke body although they beholde the Moone with hatefull aspects or at the least wise neuer in such sorte that they cause the sicke to take his bed for séeing that they are adi●tors and restorers of nature it is vnlikely that they should become enemies destroyers thereof although sometimes by accidents as by hatefull aspect their friendship and familiaritie is refrained Of the effects that the Moone operateth and worketh in euerie signe when shee is afflicted by the ill fortunes ☽ in ♈ of ♄ oppressed WHosoeuer taketh his bed the moone being in the signe of Aries chiefly decreasing in light and motion and applying to Saturne or Mars especially by Coniunction Quartile or Opposition the disease shall take his originall and beginning of a colde cause with heauines of the head and debillation and weakenesse of the eyes with distillation and falling downe of humors into the breast by meanes of a rumeticke head stuffing of the throate and pipes with fleame and catarre The vehemency rage of the griefe shall chiefly extend it selfe by night all the intrailes and inward parts shall be exceeding hot but the superficies and extreame par●es shall shiner with colde with languishing and sounding and losse of appetite and sweating in the dead of the night the Pulses are weak and inordinate Thinges that heate mollifie and lose the belly doe cepresse the cause of the griefe but bloud letting is vnprofitable And if the moone applie to none of the fortunes but is within the Semediameter of the bodie of Saturne or Mars or their ill aspectes then on the next mortall day in which the moone méeteth with Saturne or Mars the sicke shall departe but if the moone be not within the beames of Saturne and Mars nor their malicious aspects especially increasing in light and motion and applying to Iupiter or Venus then on the next time that Luna meeteth with Iupiter or Venus vpon a criticall day c. The sicknesse shall abate or at least wise turne out of one disease into another But if Mars likewise ob●iateth the moone in manner aforesaid then the griefe shall be mortal and inuincible for when the moone doth come to his diameter he shall die after the opinion of Hermes ☽ in ♈ of ♂ aflicted BUT hee that lyeth downe the Moone being in Aries and applying to Mars or Sol the griefe shal take his originall from the head with pricking and aking in the pellices of the braine those persons shall be tormented with continuall Feauers neither can they take any rest or sleepe except somtimes a little flumbring Their mouth is hot with intollerable thirst the tongue dry and troubled with heate with callidity and drynesse of the brest and inflamation of the Liuer tending to a phrensy and alienation of minde The pulses are sublated high inordinate The helping and healing of those persons is by letting of blood and vsing of thinge● that refrigerate and mittigate But if the Moone especially decreasing in light and motion be either corporally or radiationally ioyned with Saturne or Mars or their enuious aspects then the sicke shall die contrarily if the moone be● free from their semidiameters both corporally raditionally chieflie augmenting in light and motion and applying to Iupiter or Venus then the sicke man shall recouer his health as aforesaid The ☽ in ♉ of ♄ oppressed IF the Moon at the encreasing of the disease runneth through the celestiall signe of Taurus be afflicted by the diameter Aspect Quartile or Opposition of Saturne chiefly slow in motion and decreasing the sicknes shall proceed of much drinking ebrosity or else repleation with Feauers comming of obstruction and ach of the precordiackes and artires with inflamation of the whole body and exulceration of the lunges the pulses are lofty high and inordinate Blood letting and such things as open and disolue profiteth And if the Moone bee ioyned to Saturne or Mars or afflicted by their ill aspects especially diminishing in light and motion then when the Moone obuiateth or meeteth with Saturne or Mars on a mortall day the sicke person shall perrish But if she be free from their bodies or ill aspects chiefly augmenting in light and motion and applying to the fortunes then on the next criticall day c. That the Moone concurreth with Iupiter or Venus the sicke shall amend The Moone in ♉ of ♂ afflicted But if the Moone be configurated to Mars either by Conjunction or aspect the sicke shall take his bed by the meanes of a disease proceeding of blood and be vexed with continuall Feauers and obstruction of the whole body with inflamation of the necke and pole ache of the bones with inordinate watch insomniation and desire of drinke and coole things Blood letting and things that extenuat mittigate and aswage are good against the cause of the griefe And if the violence of Mars be not resisted by the fauourable beames of the fortunes but the the moon must needs suffer his malicious influence then on the next meeting of her and the ill fortunes vpon a dying day the sicke shall depart But if the moone be deliuered from the intercidentical force of Mars chiefly increasing in light motion and adiuted by the amiable beames of Iupiter or Venus then th● disease shall slake after the next Iudiciall c. concourse with the Moone and the fortunes The Moone in ♊ of ♄ oppressed THe Moone in Gemini afflicted by the maleuolous influence of Saturne especially deminishing in light and motion shall cause the disease to take his beginning and original by reason of vigillation and much watch or by lassitude and wearinesse of the bodie with trauelling or excesse of labour and violent exercise The arti●s and sinewes shal as though they were losed scarce cleaue together with much debillation and wearinesse of the bodye the griefe shall soone shew it selfe or as Hermes saith after three daies vntill the 30. day the disease shall increase with small Feauers and consumption and

some dominion and those I call Melancholly chollericke In some Melancholy soly excéeds such persens I terme Melanchollicke In other Melancholy hath the superioritie and blood-some dominion and they I call melanchol●ike Sanguine In other blood surmounteth and melancholy hath the next dominion and such persons I nominate sanguine Melancholike And in other Blood only raigneth and such I call Sanguine But in other Blood excéedes and Fleame hath perticipation with it and those I call Sanguine flegmaticke Also in some Fleame surpasseth and Blood hath some dominion such I call flegmaticke Sanguine In other some Fleame onely hath the preheminence and such I call Flegmaticke And in other some Fleame hath mastery and choller some domination such persons I call Flegmaticke cholericke Also in sone mens bodyes Choller hath the principall soueraigntie and Fleame somewhat excéedeth the rest and such I call cholericke Flegmaticke Hereat the ignorant perchaunce will finde some matter to spurne because I haue deuided the complexions of men into so many sundry proportions yet he that is acquainted with the secret operations of nature knoweth the original cause of a mans complections and also obserueth the diuersitie of mens colours the sundry proportions of their bodies and variety of conditions shall plainly perceiue that nature hath many wayes distributed them and not onely by foure manner of proportions as I will herefollowing declare at large Of the originall cause of mens Complexions THe complexion of man procéedeth not of any naturall procreation receiued from his parents at the time of his conception nor of the milke of the mother or Nurse wherewith the Infant is nourished as some doe imagine But is infused and proportioned according to the Celestiall bodyes renolting ouer our Horizon at the natiuitie of the Infant for that Signe or Signes which is colocated in the ascendant or Horroscope will certeinly demonstrate and shew of what complexion the natiue is for if you finde in the first house a fierie signe only scituated you shall iudge that person to be chollericke of Complexion But if you finde in the Horroscop the most part of a fierie signe and some of a earthy then you shall call that person chollericke melancholicke of complexion And if the latter or least part of a fierie signe possesse the ascendant with the more part of an earthy you may call that person melancholicke chollerick Also if an earthy Signe occupy the whole Horroscope that man shall be melancholicke Or if you finde in the first House the most part of a earthy Signe and some of an airie that person shall be melancholike sanguine But if the lesser part of an earthy Signe and the more of an airie possesse the ascendant that man shall be sanguine melancholick Likewise if you finde an airie signe occupying the whole ascendant you shall call that man Sanguine of complexion ger the vertue of digestion is méetly strong in such persons and their pulse is lesser and slower then in chollericke persons his vrine is yellow and thinne their egestion is yellowish and hard and they dreame of falling from high places of robberies murders harmes procéeding of fire fiighting and anger and such like Signes of a Melancholicke chollericke man MElancholicke cholericke men are tall of stature by reason that naturall heate is féeble and thereby are many fumosities engendred but yet they are little and slender of body because of drinesse therefore their skinne is rough and hard and cold in toucking they haue but very little haire on their bodies are long without beards by meanes of colde which stoppe the poores and suffereth not the matter whereof haire is engendred to come foorth also they haue much superfluitie in the nose their colour is pale shadowed with a little nigritude or darknesse As concerning their conditions they are gentle giuen to sobrietie solitarie studious doubtfull auarous shamefast timerous stubborne fretfull penfiue constant and true in action with a déepe surmise and wit slowe with obliniousnes their haire is browne and thin their digestion féeble and lesse then their appetite the Pulse litle and slacke their Vrine subcitrine and thinne and their egestion is fallow and something soft with dreaming of falling downe from high places fearefull dreams and sundry vanities Signes of a Melancholy person Melancholick men are meane of stature and seldome very tall for excesse colde doth binde the substance and suffereth it not to stretch in length and although melancholly be dry in temperature yet they are not little and flender of body the occasion is as I imagine of excesse cold by meanes whereof much superfluitie is engendered which somewhat delayeth the drines for melancholicke men are full of fleame and rumaticke matter Their colour is duskish and swarftish pale their skinne is rough and cold in féeling they haue very little or no haire on their bodyes and are long without beards yea sometimes beardlesse the colour of their haire is duskish and flaren As thouching their conditions they are naturally couetous selfe-louers cowardish fearefull without cause pusilanimous solitarie carefull lumpish inhumanious seldome merry or laughing stoute stubborne ambitious enuious fretfull obstinate in opinions o● a déepe cogitation mistrustfull suspitious vered with dolors of the minde and dreadfull imaginations as though they were infested with euill spirits and are very spightfull curious squemish and yet Slouens hauing small rega●d of hansomenes high minded and very maiesticall in behauiour and retaine their anger long the vertue of concoction is in them very féeble yet they haue good appetite to their meate their Vrine is palish and meane in substance and obtuse their order is clayish coloured and broken and they dreame of dreadfull things terrible visians and darknes Signes of a Melancholike sauguine man MElancholicke Sanguine men are higher of stature then Melancholicke for in them naturall heat is temperate wherefore fumosities and radicall moisture is meanly engendered wherby they are meanly bigge fleshie and firme of body their colour is after a darkish red their skinne neither hard nor rough but temperate in heat and softnesse and not very hairie they haue beardes about 21. yéeres of their age As touching their conditions they are more liberall bolder merier lesse slubborne and not so cowarddish solitarie and pensiue as melancholike persons neither so vexed with euil imaginatiōs as they are also they are gentle sober patient trustie mercifull and affable and to conclude forasmuch as this complection is temperate in qualitie so likewise it is boone in conditions for vertue is a meane betwéene to extreames Their vrine is light saffronish coloured and meane in substance their pulses are temperate in motion and their order reddish and loose with dreames pleasant and many times respondent to trueth their digestion is meanly strong Signes of a Sanguine Melancholicke man SAnguine Melancholike men are meane of stature with bodyes well compact with veines and artires fleshie but not fatte they drowsie and sluggish as they are but merrier and quicker witted their face is