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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

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

he wrote true that writes that pride goes before a fall and a haughty mind before destruction my Genius is too dull to commend my Author or to give him the thousanth part of his due praise I desire to be censured by Dr. Experience who will give judgement without partiality and I hope 't is no disparagement to Monsieur Duryat that I deliver him in my own Language CHAP. I. The Definition of the word Crisis as Vse Cause Kinds Division and Difference CRisis according to Galen is a swift and suddain change of any disease whereby the sick is either brought to recovery or death and a sick man can be brought to nothing else unless you will make him a beast of a man For every swift and suddain change where-ever it happens whether in the Moon or the Aire or sick body Galen playes the man and calls a Crisis and from this Crisis is Judgement given whether the sicke be like to live or dye The word Crisis is a Greek word derived {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifieth to judge or discern or pass sentence upon a thing therefore Criticall dayes are nothing else but dayes wherein a man may discern a disease or give Judgement upon it be it good or bad it matters not much 't is taken by a Metaphor from the Judiciall Court to the Art of Physick because 't is something like to plead mans cause for his life and to labour acutely under a disease to be drawn by Inimicall accusers before the Judgement Seat and to run the hazzard of life with a cruell and hoftil Disease Moreover there are three things requisite to a judicial Court the Accuser the Person indicted and the Judge So likewise are there three things by which the Art of Physick consisteth and by which every cure is perfected 1. The Disease 2. Nature and the Physitian which is natures servant or at least should be so and 3. the accidents which manifest what the disease is and stand as witnesses The cause of the Crisis is twofold inward outward the internal cause is taken from i'ts one proper principle if you will believe Hippocrates and that is double or two-fold for either nature labours to expell the humour that causeth the disease or else the humour it selfbeing drawn to a place and not fit for Excretion by i'ts own weight or quality burdens nature and soares break out Hippocrates was but a man and I am no more a man saith he is troubled when he is in a Fever and the sign is horror trembling running hither and thither throughout the Microcosm this is one internal cause The second internall cause Others there be 't is no matter who that ascribe the efficient cause of the Crisis to nature it self Nature if she be strong as 't is pitty but she should not is a good Physitian for all diseases and concocts the humour which causes the disease and separates that which is good from that which is bad and having done so prepares that which breeds annoyances for Excretion and at last makes a shift to cast it out The externall cause of the Crisis is caused by an alteration of the Aire whence ariseth an alteration of the breath a man draws in from cold to heat from dry to moist or the contraries to them both For Hippocrates himself in his six Aphorisme three Comment and in his Treatise De {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} speaks in down dunstable language that heat and moisture in the body moves forward the Crisis for diseases some saith he come by ill Dyet other by the Aire we draw in So then the Dyet as it breeds such and such humours in the body is internal but the Aire we draw in is the externall cause of the Crisis And now give me leave to leave my Author and yet I will not forget him quite neither The Lord eternall in the beginning when he made the Creation made it of a composition of contraries discord makes a harmony as in Musicke if the World be composed of a composition of contraries various must needs be the disposition of mans life Hence comes sometimes health sometimes sicknesse sometimes melancholy sometimes choler to the body of man and happy is that man that knows himself These qualities in man being altered by the various influences of the Stars the Sphere of the one carrying a swifter motion then the Sphere of the other then various must needs be the disposition of mans body The Luminaries carry the greatest strength in the heavens and so do the time-servers in the State and this needs not be doubtful to any body if you consider that the sound of a Drum or Trumpet incites a man to valour and the sound of a Fiddle to dancing Besides other manifest effects of the Luminaries appeare to our eyes Who makes hours and dayes and seasons in the year is it not the Sun who makes alterations in the Aire in Plants and in living Creatures What is the reason that Oysters are suller at the ful moon then at the new To the number of Oysters joyne Crabs and Lobsters nay the marrow in the body of Man is it not the Moon A man if he pleaseth may say his right hand is his left and a prating Priest may preach his pleasure let Doctor experience be judge Now then we have brought the matter to this purpose that the Universall cause of the Crisis is the influence of the heavens for the Celestiall bodyes either by heat light motion or aspect configuration or all of them or some of them act not onely in the four Elements but Elementary bodyes for if they act in the one they must needs in the other and then by consequence in man which is but compounded of Elements The earth is a great lump of dirt rolled up together and by an onely wise God hangs in the Aire the Stars are no more neither is the Moon onely what mettle the Sun is made of I know not If the bodies of men are Elementary composed of Fire Aire Earth and Water he must needs participate in one measure or other of all these Elements The Elements being contraries cannot alwayes agree hence comes the cause of health sometimes of sicknesse sometimes death it self and Aristotle was halfe of my opinion when he wrote these words From the Rain and Dew of Heaven both good and bad things are caused to bud The kinds of Crisis are two one in acute diseases and they are to be judged by the Moon the other in long and lasting or chronick diseases which are to be judged of by the Sun For those Crises which come from their own proper principle are from the internall cause depending onely upon the motions of the Moon and her Configurations and aspects to the place she was in at the Decumbiture But you must note in acute diseases the aspects or radiations of the Moon to wit her Quartile or Opposition are not taken from the Coniunction of

much difference as is between eight pence and two groats Under Libra besides they say are the Hams Buttocks Bladder and Navel thus Authors And I quoted it onely to this end that young Students may see what a monster tradition is and may avoid being led by the Nose by it as Beares are led to the Stake You know well enough if the blind lead the blind what will become of them both Let every one that desires to be called by the name of Artist have his wits in his head for that 's the place ordained for them and not in his books The Hams are under Capricorn the Bladder under Scorpio the Navel under Virgo aske Doctor Reason and see if he tell you not the same tale 8. Under Scorpio are the Secrets of both Sexes it is not very fitting for me to name them as also the feminall Vessels all the vessels dedicated to the Generation of man the bladder and fundament and therefore though artists cry out so much against the Scorpion for a false deceitfull treacherous mischievous violent poysonsome sign Let them look back to the rock from whence they are hewen It may be they shall see the reasons of some of their violent speeches against my self A word is enough to wise men Let them not speake evill of what they know not This is is most certaine from those parts of the body under the dominion of Scorpio have all men and women in generall the influence of their propagation And in them take they their greatestpleasure And thus have I spoken something for a Signe which every one speaks against 9. Time will not stay therefore I must be briefe under Sagittarius are the thighs the bone called Os sacrum which whether justly so called or unjustly I know not It is either Jewish superstition or worse The rump-bone the thigh-bone together with all the appurtenance belonging to the thigh Some Authors say the hams are under Sagittarius but then they are beside the Cushion 10 Under Capricorne are the knees hams and what belongs unto them 11 Under Aquarius are the leggs and whatsoever belongs unto them even from the outward skin called Cuticula to the midst of the marrow in both bones for these are two of them which Chirurgions because they would keep you in ignorance called Focile majus Focile minus or if you will tibia fibula They all know what the bones are but a quarter of them are not able to give you a reason why the bones are so called Pray take notice of this in going about to make slaves of you they have made fools of themselves 12 Lastly Pisces claimes the feet and ancles toes and all the bones To write like a scholler 't is tarsus metatarsus and the bones of the toes It rules also the skinne of the foot the flesh and vessels betwixt the skin and the bones For though the sign be the weakest in the Zodiack it is unwilling altogether to leave you nought but skin and bones Also some Authors hold an opinion that the signes carry the same signification in order that the houses of heaven do and that Aries should signifie life Taurus estate Gemini Brethren and short journeys you know the rest Truly My owne opinion is many Authors invented whimsies and when they had done set them downe to posterity for truth who taking them up without tryall cloathed Tradition in Plush and left poor reason to goe in Rags An Author said so ergo tis true right or wrong I take this to be one of that generation and I prove it thus By this account Cancer should rule the Fathers but experience tels us that an ill Planet in Cancer in the genesis threatens evill to the Mother but in Leo to the Father A word is enough to a wise man Also there is another signification of the Planets according to the respective signes therein Every Planet making his Aries in his owne house I forbeare it here First of all because it conduceth not much to my present scope for example a Urine came to me about a yeare agoe Mercury was the afflicting Planet and in Aries according to this rate Mercury rules the leggs and privities but the man was diseased in his head for he was madd I gave you a table of it in my Guide for women and I am as loath to write one thing twice as you are to pay for one thing twice If this will not content you you are so hard to be pleased that I shall not undertake to please you but to please my selfe and in so doing I am confident to please some body else CHAP. X. How the nature and kind of the Disease may be found out by the Figure of the decumbiture 1. THe nature of the disease is found out three wayes First by the houses of heaven of which the 6th 7th and 12th signifie diseases 2 By the nature of the signes of which fiery signe signifie choler and diseases thence proceeding earthly signes signifies the diseases of melancholy aery Signes diseases of blood and wind watery signes diseases of water and salt flegme 3 By the Planets themselves and their aspects All this I shall make cleer by this subsequent discourse before which I shall premise these following Aphorismes 1 If Saturne signifie the disease t is like to continue long enough if not too long yet if he be with benevolents it mitigates if with malevolents it increaseth the evil 2 Saturne in Leo or Capricorn with the Dragons head or taile or with Venus cumbust or with violent fixed stars he stirs up pestilences or other pernicious feavers that are little better 3 Saturne alone in fiery signes shewes Hectick Feavers 4 In watry signs sicknesses or watry humours The disease comes of grosse and vicious humours which will continue long with continuall fluxes and cold tremblings 5 Saturne in moveable signes shewes flux of humors in all parts of the body Imagine the Dropsie or other diseases like to it and yet it is some question to me whether Saturne cause Dropsies yea or no unlesse assisted by the Moon in signification 6 Saturne in common signes gives compound diseases and such as run out of one disease into another and yet they passe leasurely out of one disease into another to you may almost whip a snaile as fast you may easily see it before it come if your eyes be in your head 7 Saturne in fixed signes if in Leo gives hectique feavers in other fixed signes quartane agues gouts leprosies and other diseases that stay longer then they are welcome 8. If Jupiter cause the disease look to the Liver for that 's afflicted the digestion is bad bloud abounds either in quantity or quality a thousand to one if it be not too hot 9 Jupiter in fiery signes bestowes upon men such feavers as come of bloud without putrefaction such as the Greeks cal Synochus non putrida they last but a very little while 10 Mars gives violent feavers with

putrefactions and the Sun gives no other 11 If you find Mars in a fiery sign judge the disease either a burning Feaver called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or else the pestilence if Saturne beare a share in signification with him melancholy beares a share or else a duske choler which is more usuall 12 Mars in common signes varies the disease take heed of relapse the Crisis is as certaine as a weather-cock so exceeding swift and sudden will they come even as swift as the wind not waiting the Moons leasure In such a case you may more safely iudge by the aspects of the Moon to the Planets then by the Crisis 13 Mars in Leo afflicts the heart the disease is a Feaver and the cause of it Choler 14. Alwayes when Mars signifies the disease it is very short but extream acute 15 If the Sun at the decumbiture be afflicted by the body or Quartile Opposition Antiscion of Saturne the disease is Saturning Melancholy and will in all probability last longer then you would willingly have it 16 If the Sun be afflicted in the same manner by Mars the cause is choler the motion of the disease is as swift as the wind and as violent as the whirlwind 17 If Venus be ill affected to the sicke the disease comes of Intemperance either one way or another perhaps with drinking perhaps by venereall sports what ere the cause be those parts of the body signified by Venus suffer for it 18 Venus in fiery signes causeth one day Feavers but if Mars joyne with her in signification the Feaver is rotten and proceeds from flegme 19 If Mercury be infortunate and cause the disease he proclaimes that the infirmity lies in the braine perhaps madnesse or falling sicknesse or it may be the man dreams waking 20 If Mercury joyne in signification with Mars you may be confident the disease is a frenzie 21 The Lord of the ninth in the sixth witchcraft is to be feared or else the disease lies very occult I doubt my Author is mistaken surely it should be the Lord of the 12th in the 6th for the Lord of the 9th should rather occasion the disease about some whimsies in Religion 22 The Moon in Aries in the 8th afflicts the head with a disease to hot for it to bear whether the disease lie in the mind or in the body CHAP. XI How to know whether the disease be in the mind or in the body ALL the Aphorismes of my Author upon this question are got so deeply together by the ears and in such a hubbub that I know not in the world which way to goe about to reconcile them every following Aphorisme thwarts him that goes before in one he affirmes that the Sunne Moone and ascendent rule the body and the Lord the mind The very next Aphorisme affirmes the contrary most of them contradict one another in such a hideous manner that I was forced to leave their companies and search other Authors for a resolution of this point and they conclude that the Sun Moon and Ascendent signifies the body and their Lord the mind and if this may be taken for truth the directive Aphorismes are these 1 The Sun Moon and Lord of the Ascendent impedited and their Lord safe shewes the disease lyes in the body and not in the mind 2 If their Lord be impedited and they safe the disease lyes in the mind and not in the body 3 If both Sun Moon and the Ascendent and their Lord also be impedited or the greatest part of them both body and mind are diseased and this I confesse is something rationall 4 Saturne generally signifies melancholy and by consequence alienation of mind madnesse c. and therefore alwayes you find him to be significator of the disease or in the ascendent or in the 6th house afflicting the Lord of the Ascendent or either of the Luminaries the sick is afflicted with care or griefe or something else that 's as bad be sure the mind suffers for it 5 If Jupiter be significator of the disease it lies in the body if it lye anywhere for Jupiter never troubles unlesse it be that Monster which men call Religion 6 It were a good thing when a man is troubled in minde if an Artist could tell the cause of this his trouble that you may do so make use of these two or three rules there is enough of them though there be but few if you have but witt enough to know by a penny how a shilling is coyned they are these 1 If the Sun be Author of the distemper as he may be if he be Lord of the House Ascendent 6th or 12th houses the distemper comes through pride ambition or vain-glory 2 If it be Jupiter it comes through religion some idle Preist hath scar'd the poor creature out of his wits 3 If it be Venus Love luxurious expence or something else of like nature is the cause 4 If Mercury be the afflicting Planet the sick is pestered with a parcell of strange imaginations and as many vaine feares attend him great vexation or study or both is the cause By these you may find out all the rest for this is the sum of the businesse CHAP. XII How it may be knowne what part of the body is afflicted THat this may be knowne for t is not onely possible but also probable be pleased to consider 1 If the signe the Lord of the 6th possesseth especially if he be an infortune or a fortune infortunated And then 2 Consider what part of the body the signe he is in governs as Aries governes the head Taurus the neck and throat c. and be sure that part 's afflicted 3 Consider what parts of the body the afflicting Planet rules which are under that signe and you need not question but that 's afflicted for example Venus though she rule many parts of the body yet in Scorpio she rules under the privities 4 Saturne Lord of the 6th and in the 10th in Taurus afflicts the body universally but especially the left side 5 Saturne Lord of the sixth in the last degrees of Gemini or in the first degree of Cancer causeth paine in the left side as though an Awle were running to it 6 Saturne Lord of the 6th in Leo in the second house causeth pains in the back and heart the originall of which saith my Author is bloud but I should rather thinke it Melancholy 7 If he bein Virgo the 12th house signifies paine in ths head If he be in Mars orientall and slow in motion signifies diseases in the Reines as the gravell stone and pissing bloud I confesse I can give no reason for all this 8 If Saturne be Lord of the disease and in Aquarius the disease comes by travaile 9 Mars Lord of the 6th and in the 5th and in Scorpio gives an internall pain in all parts of the body if it be a woman she is not well in her wombe the illnesse of which afflicts all her body

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