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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

of great Ptolomy himselfe and of all the sons of Art this day living who build their judgement upon Doctor Tradition and not upon the sound principles of Doctor Reason if this be the originall of the enmity of of a square aspect as is agreed upon on all sides Then Why do they hold that a Quartile in Signs of long ascentions is aequivalent to a Trine and a Trine in Signs of short Ascentions as pernicious as a Square put the rest of the non-sence into the bundle and when you have done look upon it a little while and when you have viewed it a little tell me I pray Doth the longnesse or shortnesse of the ascentions adde or take away any thing from the quality of the Signes Is not this the way the onely way to bring the Art into a Labyrinth if not into a confusion in truth in my opinion it is This I will confesse and give you my reason for it when I have done one square is not so bad as another as from Aries to Cancer is worse then from Cancer to Libra because the Signs Cancer and Libra are in better harmony as agreeing in passive qualities namely moisture whereas Aries and Cancer disagree totally By this rule you may find out the rest Also this I affirme and will prove it when I have done that some Semisextiles are worse then some Quartiles for Pisces is more inimical to Aries then Capricorne first because it is the twelfth Signe from him 2. besides disagrees more in qualities A Sextile Aspect is good because the Signs which are in Sextile the one to the other are both of the same active quality both of a sexe both of a time for example Aries and Gemini are both masculine both Diurnall Taurus and Cancer are both cold both Feminine both Nocturnall but because they differ all in passive qualities it is not altogether so friendly as trine aspect is for that consists altogether of Signes of the same nature sexe quality and time and are correspondent the one to the other every way A Conjunction or Synod is the strongest of all and cannot properly be called an aspect A Conjunction of good Planets with good is exceeding good It is good in the highest degree A conjunction of bad Planets with bad Planets is as bad as the former was good A conjunction of good Planets with bad is no ways commendable I have now done if you will be pleased but to take notice that the conjunction of all Planets with their Sun is bad because the Sun who gives them their efficacy takes it aw●y at such times I could be Criticall at this but I shall sorbear it at this time CHAP. IV. The way of finding out the Critical and Judiciall dayes by a Figure of eight houses THis is the method of Hyppeerates and from him Galen used and it is to be done in this manner 1 Make your scheme of eight equal parts 2 Search out the Signe Degree and Minute the Moon was in at the beginning of the sicknesse 3 Place the sign degree minute the Moon was in at the beginning of the sicknesse upon the cuspe of the first house as though that were ascending at the time 4 Add forty five degrees to this you need not regard the latitude of the Region for it is of no use in Criticall Figures but take the degrees barely from the Ecliptick when you have added forty five degrees to the place of the Moon at the decumbiture the point of the Zodiack answerable to that shall make the cuspe of the second house 5 Forty five degrees more added to that will bring you to the Cuspe of the third House to which when the Moon comes she comes to the quartile of the place she was in at the decumbiture and this makes the first Crisis 6 Forty five degrees more added to this makes the 4th house 45 degrees more added to that points out the place of the true opposition of the Moon to the place she was in at the decumbiture and this makes the second Crisis The second quartile of the Moon to her owne place at the decumbiture makes the third Crisis And the fourth is when she comes to the same sign degree and minute that she was in at the decumbiture The time or houres noted betwixt the Crisis are called the Judiciall times or such times wherein a man may judge what the disease is or what it will be remember this all along in such kinds of judgement And do not forget not to number the time by dayes as the ancients did for they were either ignorant or regardlesse of the course of the Moon for the Moon comes to the Judiciall or Criticall days sometimes sooner sometimes latter as she is either swifter or slower in motion Now the time called Criticall is alwayes evill because of the contrariety of the signe the Moon is in then to the sign she was in before or the contrariety of her nature to the opposite place At such a time there ariseth a controversie or battaile as it were between the disease and nature the Moon maintains nature in acute diseases And now you have the reason why that if she be afflicted upon a Critiall day by the bodies or ill beames of Saturne or Mars or the Lord of death which is alwayes Lord of the eighth House and sometimes the Lord of the Fourth House will serve the turne if he be a malevolent because the fignisies the grave the disease increaseth and sometimes the sick dies But if the Moon at the time of the Crisis beholds the Lord of Ascendent or the fortunes fortunately health ensues for the malady is vanquished and routed in the conflict If the disease terminate not upon the first Crisis see how the Moon is configurated on the second Crisis and judge then by the same Rules If it terminate not then neither as sometimes such a thing happens view the third Crisis and judge by that the same way if your judgement ballanced by reason and the former rules certifie you the disease will not end one way nor other neither in health nor death see what you can say to the Moon when she returnes to the place she was in at the decumbiture which is about twenty seven days eight hours and some few minutes and see how the Moon is then seated and to what Planets she is configurated then And this of necessity must be the end of all acute diseases Thus you see an acute disease can last but a moneth at longest not one in a hundred lasteth so long not one in twenty lasteth above halfe so long If the disease end not then the acute disease is turned into a Chronick disease And all Chronick diseases must be judged of by the Sun The rules of judging of Chronicall diseases by the Sun are the same by which we judge of acute diseases by the Moon As for Judiciall days which fall out just in the midest betwixt the Critiall days I shall

troubled when he is descending that is from noon to mid-night The course of the Moon is to be observed in many operations both in the Sea and Rivers Vegetables Shel-fishes as also in the bones and marrow of men and all creatures also seed sowne at the waine of the Moon grows either not att all or to no purpose Also wise men have experiences of many vertues of the Starres and have left them to posterity and Physicians in old time when they were minded to be honest have found out the changes and terminations of diseases by the course of the Moon Wherefore the 7 14. 20 or 21. 27 28 or 29. dayes of sicknesses are called Criticall dayes which cannot be known but by the course of the Moone for let not your braine rest in the number of the days because the Moon is sometimes swifter sometimes slower As for such diseases as do not terminate in a month I meane a Lunar Month viz. the time the Moon traceth round the Zodiack which is 27 dayes some odd hours some few minutes you must judge of these by the course of the Sun the day is not called Critical because it is the seventh day from the decumbiture as if the vertue lay in the number 7. but because the Moone comes to the quartile of the place she was in at the decumbiture it s no matter whether it be a day sooner or later Whe she comes to the opposition of the place she was in at the day of the decumbiture she makes a second Crisis the third when she comes to the second quartile and the fourth when she comes to the place she was in at the decumbiture and it s well she can make so many being The reason of the difference of the Moons motion in the difference of her distance from the Earth for when the center of her circle is nearest to the center of the Earth she is swift in motion and hence it comes to passe that sometimes she moves more then 15 degrees in 24 houres sometimes lesse then 12. therefore if she be swift in motion she comes to her owne quartile in six days if slow not in seven therefore must you judge according to the motion of the Moon and not according to the number of the dayes Know then that the Crisis ' viz. upon a Criticall day the Moon being well aspected by good Planets it goes well with the sick if to ill Planets it goes ill but I know you would be resolved in one particular which is if the Crisis depend upon the motion of the Moone and her aspect to the Planets What is the reason if two men taken sick at one and the same time that yet the Crisis of the one fals out well and not so in the other I answer The vertue working is changed according to the diversity of the vertue receiving for you all know the Sun makes the clay hard and the wax soft it makes the cloth white and the face black so then if one be a child whose nature is hot and moist the other a young man and the third an old man the Crisis works diversty in them all because their ages are different Secondly the time of the yeare carries a great stroke in this businesse if it be in the Spring time diseases are most obnoxious to a child because his nature is hot and moist a diseale works most violently with a cholorick man in Summer with a melancholy man in Autumne with a flegmatick by reason of age or complexion in Winter Thirdly To this I adde suppose at the beginning of a disease the Moon was in the place of Mars in the genesis whose nature is hot and dry if the disease be of heat it mightily aggravates it not so if it be of cold and you shall seldome find two men that had Mars at one and the same place in the genesis at one and the same time fall sick and the disease differ either at the middle or at the end Quest Put the case the age of the people and the season of the yeare be the same and the disease be the same would the Crisis be the the same yea or no I answer thus Their complexions may be different the one hot and dry the other cold and moist If the diseases be hot and dry the effect will not be so violent upon a cold and moist body as it will be upon a hot and dry the fire will sooner seize upon that which is hot and dry then that which is cold and moist 2 Imagine the complexions to be the same upon both parties I Answer That is impossible there must be some difference upon complexions for though they may be the same in the universall yet in particulars there must needs be some difference by reason of their different dyet exercise and climate unlesse they be borne and brought up altogether under one latitude 3 Let us imagine they be all alike yet divers things may intervene and alter the Crisis their nativities may not agree for example If the Moon be in the place of Saturne or Mars in the nativity the disease is dangerous not so if she be in the place where Jupiter or Venus was in then or its possible Jupiter or Venus may hurt in the Nativities of such to whose ascendents they are inimical or posited in the six t or eight houses 4. Again Saturn may be Lord of the one nativity and not of the other and then he may hurt the one and not the other whose nativity he is Lord off for the Devill will not hurt his owne the like of Mars Innumerable such things may be added as that the one may provide for the sicknesse before hand not the other but it is needlesse Object But then you will say there can be no certainty at all found in the Crisis I answer Astrologers passe judgement two manner of wayes in diseases The First we call Universall and so Saturn rules Consumptions Mars Feavers Venus over women Mercury over Schollers The Second is particular and so the Seventh house hath dominion over women the ninth over Schollers Now no particular can destroy a universal for example if Venus be ill seated in a nativity and the Lord of the Seventh well seated we say the native shall generally incur evill by women though some particular good may incur from them in like manner judge in this case by the generall significators of sicknesse viz. Saturne and Mars But Secondly if you can possibly get the Nativities you shall not erre And now give me leave to quote one experiment of my own If the Nativities be one and the same the Crisis will be one and the same For example I know three Children borne at one and the same time as the event proved at five yeares of age they all three had Convulsions whereby they were each of all three lame of one leg the boyes on the right legg and the girls on the left at fourteen yeares of age they

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

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