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A28315	Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3112; ESTC R13219	116,672	169

herbs under such Planets which are antipathetical unto each several Complexion before mentioned not omitting oyntments to the heart and brain and fumes to the head if the brain be moist and suffumigation if dry If the Patient have been long distempered then 't will get into the blood and then 't will be convenient sometimes to let them blood and then if you take a small quantity of the Sympathetical powder and mix it with so much Powder of the herbs proportionable for the Cure it will mightily help forward the cure you must order it and wear it as directed in the cureing of Agues There are several other kinds and causes of madness as followeth sometimes height of blood will ascend up to the head and so disturb their brain which will cause madness the cureing whereof is by oft letting blood and dyet drink made suitable by Antipathy unto their Complexion as aforesaid for if we should apply herbs which are by nature hot although good in general for the brain to a Cholerick mad body it will rather increase then mittigate their fury but in all cures you must ever remember to fortify the heart and vital Spirits the Sympathetical powder in this kind of madness mixt and ordered as aforesaid is most proper the truth is this kind of madness is easily cured by any drug-Doctor for their general way is to cure by blood letting and purgation which kind of Physick is proper for this distemper ●here is another kind of madness which cometh by being costive bound in body of which I have cured many and I always found by the Figure that the chief significators of the distemper were in earthy Signs for the time being these who are taken in this condition will be as mad as any according unto their natural Complexion be it Choler Sanguine Melancholy or Fiegmatick at the first they will be ill only in head and stomack but after some time it will make them light headed and forgetful and by reason of that great stop in Natures Course it will more and more cause inordinate Vapours to ascend up to the head and brain and at length bring madness insomuch that they are not able to discover their own condition nor yet their friends I have known some who have dyed in this condition before their grief was perfectly known or at least were so far gone that Doctors could not help them I had once a Maid who was a Farmers Daughter living in the Parish of Goring in the County of Oxon brought tyed and bound fast in a Cart with Cords who was only mad by reason of this condition her Friends not knowing what she ayled some thought it might be through Love others thought she was either bewitched or possessed some thought one thing and some another the truth is she looked very gastly and wild but being by nature of a Sanguine Complection she would hoop hollow sing and dance day and night if she might be suffered having by a Figure discovered the cause of her distemper I bargained with her Father what to have for the cure I quickly with suppositer and glister brought her to stool and within three days she grew sensible and quiet and in a week was perfectly recovered I have known sometimes that an afright hath caused madness in this condition applications must be chiefly to the brain not omitting Dyet drink made suitable by antipathy to their Complexion I have known some Females who have been mad only by the stop of their monethly Course the cure is by herbs proper to help such infirmities as you shall find in this book I have known some women who have fell mad after they have been delivered of their Child occasioned sometime from great cold taken or disorderly dyet and sometimes by Witchcraft as I have already declared occasioned by the Tender or Nurse for their bodies being open and weak any infirmities may the easier be wrought upon them by such wretches and yet the cause undiscovered and the Patient many times dyeth The worst kind of madness that I know is occasioned from Sorcery or Witchcraft and I believe there are multitudes of this kind in Beathlaem and elsewhere that lye many years in this condition for except the Witches power be taken off and staid it s in vain to administer Physick more especially where the Witch sometimes may have admittance to come to the Patient others may perhaps be possessed and then the Devil must be cast forth for as I have said already except the true cause of each kinds of madness be discovered its impossible to cure without a Miracle except by accident now to cure this kind of madness which cometh from Witchcraft In the first place you must by the Rules of Art endeavour to afflict the Witch and then by herbs antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet and complection of the Patient you must make Dyet-drinks Oyntments and Glisters not omitting some ingredients suitable as Figs Raisons Currants Liquorish Aniseeds or any other seeds good to expel wind c. sometimes when the body is bound which most mad people are very subject unto you must make choyce of such herbs amongst your Numbers which are Purging and losening Note that I alwayes found in my Practice that the afflicting Planet and Complexion of the Patient were usually one as instance Cholerick people are commonly afflicted of Mars and Melancholy under Saturn for such is the subtilty of the Devil and the Witches that they strike most upon that humour whereunto they find the nature of men and Women most prone and apt to receive impression If these Rules which I have inserted be well observed and followed there is no one mad body whatsoever but may through Gods blessing be recovered to my knowledge I have not failed these many years where I have undertaken notwithstanding some whom I have cured have been mad many years but I must needs say the longer they are mad before a right means is used the more difficult the cure is and somewhat the more time it will require to perfect their cure For according unto that saying in Philosophy Custom produceth a second Nature c. FINIS To all such who are Students and well-Willers unto this most excellent Science of Astrology I Presume that no sooner are these following Books come forth but some will be ready to say What needs this Treatise since we have so many books of this nature extant written both so Learned and Copious even in our own Language that one would think nothing more could be written of this Subject but yet we know that in all Arts and Sciences whatsoever no man can so curiously and exactly write of any matter or thing of what Nature soever but that something might be added thereunto and were it but only a confirmation of what have been written formerly by other Authors yet it s but reasonable that such persons who have been Practitioners and Students in this Art should likewise have liberty to write

thus much at present I say next unto Divinity it is the most to be admired and most excellent study in the World and worthy our knowledge for there is so much seen of the wonderful Work of God in it that it must needs convince the most unbelieving persons whatsoever and cause them to know that a mighty and powerful hand hath wrought those wonders which we visibly see is the Heavens Sun Moon Stars and Planets with their Motions and powerful Operations over all sublunary Creatures and hath given unto man so much Knowledge thereby Next unto the Angels that he is able to reveale and make known in a great measure his Heavenly Will thereby unto his People that so they may be forewarned of his wrath to come If I find this Book hath acceptance with you I shall be incouraged to labour in my study and profession to do you and the Country farther service and shall ever remain your assured loving Country man and Servant Jos Blagrave In nobilissimi magni Astrologi Encomium INtima sanguinei scrutatur pectora Tauri Agmine plebeo cinctus spect ante sacerdos Imperiumque suum est quoties argenteus alti Solis avis tendit Romana insignia bello Augur cede viro cede ô Geometria magno Astrologo claroque Jovi summeque perito Ad sua multiplices deducere sydera morbos Non Aesculapius talem cognoverit artem Nedum Virgilius magnus non Thessala Tempe Talem frugifera conspexit vertice doctum Ex tripode haud quaquam sacro Grynaeus Apollo Verius ad sortem humanam dedit ore loquelas Astra regunt morbos morbi sacrantur avitis Planetis veluti summis piacula sanctis Aurea mundanis celebratur regula velis Quis super atra silex jamjam casura cadentique Imminet assimilis veniunt hic Circis ad antrum Contenti rediere omnes H. Pratt Generosus The Contents of this Book A Catalogue of the Herbs and Plants appropriated unto their several Planets pages ● 2 3 4. General rules whereby to know under what planet every herb or plant is Governed p. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Rules concerning the gathering of herbs and plants at the right planetary hours 12 13 16 17. Concerning numbers attributed unto the planets with the reason thereof p. 18 19. The way to find the Disease by the Sun or Moon afflicted pag. 21. To know the time of Death or Recovery by the Critical Figure pag. 22.23 Judgment upon a Decumbiture Figure and also upon acute and perperacute sicknesses p. 24.25 Judgment upon another Decumbiture of a sick person pages 25 26 27. The Characters of the seven Planets Twelve Signes and the five usual Aspects and the houses of the Planets pag. 28 29. The sick-mans glass with the use of an Eph●meris pag. 30 3● How to Erect a Scheme or Figure for any time given p. 32 A Decumbiture Figure set for the time of my Friends falling sick with judgment thereupon p. 3● 34 35 36 37 38. Observations concerning the Ascendant pag. 39.40 Brief Rules concerning long or short sicknesses and whether the Patient is like to live or dye p. 73.74 The bodily shape and infirmities atributed unto the twelve Signes pag. 75. The bodily shape with the parts and members of the body together with the diseases which the planets generally rule pag. 77. Concerning the Moon of Mars or Sol afflicted in any of the Twelve Signes pag. 79. Concerning the Moon of Saturn or Jupiter afflicted in any of the Twelve Signes pag. 82. How to make Dyet-drinks or to extract the spirits of plants or Herbs How to make Syrups Lambitives Pills Glisters Fa●mes Fumigations Cataplasms Oymments and Bathes pages 86 87 88 89 90. Of Purgations and the manner of Purging Vomiting Bathing Sweating Blooding with some other additions necessary to be known pag. 91 92 93. A Catalogue of Choyce herbs or plants collected for the curing of all kinds of grief● or infirmities whatsoever Alphabetically expressed beginning at pag. 94 and ending at p. 113. One cure done at Oxford Anno Dom. 1658. Another cure done at Oxford Anno Dom. 1659. p. 64.65.115 11● 11● One cure done at Tylehurst near Reading Anno 1667. pag. 118. The way to cure the Evil commonly called the Kings Evil with an Example Another kind of Evil and the Cure thereof 119 120 121 122 123. Another kind of Evil which cometh from Sr●m Sore●ry or Whichcraft with the way of cure 127. A Boy suddainly struck dumb and so continued three years how cured pag. 144. How to make the Sympathetical powder with its application pag. 131. The Vnguent its making and use p. 131. Concerning Witchcraft and Sorcery with the way of cure pag. 135. Some experimental Rules whereby to afflict the Witch pag. 154. The way to cure both Witchcraft and Sorcery p. 155. Some notable Phylosophical Secrets whereby to cure sundry distempers pag. 15● Two pretty secrets in Philosophy pag. 160. Some practical and experimental Rules whereby to give judgment Astrologically upon Thefts Strayes Fugitives Decumbitures of Sick Persons Vrines or any other H●rary Question from page 161 to page 168. Concerning the casting forth of Devils out of such who are Possest and how performed by the Author form p. 168 to 17● Concerning Agues and Quotidian Infirmities with the way of cure thereof 176 to page 183. Concerning all kinds of Madness its cause and cure Postscript to the Reader pag. 184. A short Epistle unto those who are Students and well-willers unto the Art of Astrology page 108. AN Introductory Preface TO THE READER HAveing formerly spent some of my youthful years in the Study of Astronomy and Astrology and since that in Philosophy and the practice of Physick and finding by good experience how each part doth depend upon the other for without some knowledge in Astronomy one can be no Astrologer and without knowledge in Astrology one can be no Philosopher and without Knowledg both in Astrology and Philosophy one can be no good Physitian and whosoever desireth to make practice either in the Astrological or Chymical way of Physick as for the Drug way there can be no certainty in careing thereby as will plainly appear in this book having laid his foundation as aforesaid which if any Practitioner or Student in Physick be ignorant of this Book will sufficiently instruct them therein must build and rely upon these five substantial Pillars following without which there can be no admirable cures done or wonders wrought in this noble Art of Physick Viz. Time Vertue Number Sympathy and Antipathy First Time is of great Concernment whereby to gather each Herb or Plant at the right Planetary hours which this book will sufficiently inform you and likewise to know the hour and time when to administer your Physick aright for if the Physick be administred at a wrong hour be it Purge or Vomit it will work contrary effects as I have oft times proved Example If you give a Purge when the Moon is in an Earthy Sign

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 ●●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