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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

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

passe them by at this time because I fancy not this way of judgement by a Figure of eight houses yet I shall not so passe them by but that I shall remember them in the Treatise CHAP. V. The former rules illustrated by an example A certaine man fell sick of an acute disease at Paris in France Anno 1641. Jan. 12. about eight of the clock in the afternoon at which time the Moon was posited in Aquarius 10. 19. This I place in the Ascendent To this Aquarius 10. 19. I adde forty five degrees the product is Pisces 25. 19. which makes the first judiciall time To which adding forty five degrees more it will bring you to Taurus 10. 19. to which place when the Moon arrives she comes to the exact quartile of the place she was in at the decumbiture and makes the first Crisis Adde forty five degrees to that and it produceth Gemini 25. 19. which is the second judiciall time Is you would know when the second Crisis comes about it is but onely Adding 45 degrees to that and you will find the result to be Leo 10. 19. just the place opposite to the Moon at the decumbiture The remainder are found out in the same manner When you have done so it is no more but this First Seek the time when the Moon comes to Taurus 10. 19 and you shall find it comes upon the 19 of Jan. about eight of the Clock at night Secondly View first the face of heaven secondly the position and configuration of the Planets one with another at the same time A Synopsis or joynt view of the Calculation Criticall Dayes Moons Motion Time of Incidence Lunar state according to the Decum bi●ure her aspects as also the mutuall aspects of the Planets Decumbiture January 1 D. H. M. ☽ ad ⚹ ♂ ad ♀ ct ♄ ☌ ☉ ♃ ☿ □ ☉ ♂ ♒ 10. 19. 12. 8. 0. P. m. ☽ vacuâ no good Crisis to be expected Judicat I. ♓ 25. 19. 16. 5. 43. A. M. 1. Crisis ♉ 10. 19. 19. 8. 0. P. m. □ ♂ ♀ ☽ vacuâ 2. Judiciall ♊ 25. 19. 23 2. 36. P. m. ☽ ad △ ♄ Threatens an ill Crisis 2 Crisis ♌ 10. 19. 27. 5. 50. A. m. ☽ vacuâ an ill Crisis 3 Judiciall 25. 19. ♍ 30. 3. 44. p. m. ☽ ad △ ♃ A good Crisis to be hoped February 3 Crisis ♏ 10. 19. 2. 9. 1. p. m. ☽ ad △ ♀ he recovers Judiciall 25. 19. ♐ 4 Crisis 10. 19 ♒ The History of this observation is of a certaine person who by reason of great wearinesse in a journy was surprised with a Feaver at the time before mentioned together with his Feaver he had a Cough and a Plurisie The Feaver came to a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I never read of this name in Galen that I remember I take it both by Mounsieur Durats discription and also by his Figure of Heaven to be the very same which Galen cals {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The originall of this disease is Choler putrified with the bloud in the veines and is the most violent of all Feavers The night after the decumbiture this Feaver appeard although on the third day all snaking left him yet felt not the Patient the least intermission the Moon being in Aquarius 10. 19. Aquarius being also a signe of infirmity the Moons being in Sextile to Mars applying to Venus and Saturne Mars afflicting the Sun with a Quartile as also Jupiter and Mercury who were in combustion The 16. day of the same moneth of January the disease increased at which time the Moone came to a Semi-Quadrat making the first judiciall time And meeting then with never an aspect the Crisis could be expected no other then doubtfull and unfortunate The 19. day of the same Month at eight of the clock in the afternoon the first Crisis came about some little sweat the diseased had And if I may be bold to leave my Author for a little time if you view the presages of Hippocrates which you shall find at the latter end of this Book The words run thus or to this purpose It is very hopefull when a man sick of a Feaver sweats upon a Criticall day however my Author confesses that both his Cough and his paine in his side left him though his Feaver still remain nay increased by reason of the Quartile of Mars Venus at the same time Mercury being Lord of the Ascendent at the Decumbiture Also it is worth noting that the Moon being in Aquarius at the decumbiture and comes to Taurus at the first Crisis both Taurus and Aquarius are signs of infirmity yet you see the Plurisie left him the Moon being strong in her exaltation though void of course I passe by my Authors infirmities in this and other things January 23. When the Moon by transit made the second judiciall time she was afflicted by the Trine of Saturn which prognosticates cause enough of fear in the second Crisis January 27. at 5. 50. in the morning the Moon came to the true opposition to the place she was in at the decumbiture she being then without any Aspect either good or evill this brought no hopes to the sick man of cure at that time and indeed the sick was at that time very bad yea so bad that his Physicians were in doubt whether he would live or die January the 30. at 3 houres 44 minutes after noon comes about the third judiciall time at which time the Moon was in Trine to Jupiter which gives strong hopes that a healthfull and propitious Crisis would ensue and o it did for upon February the second at nine a clock after noon the Moon coming to 10 degrees 9 minutes of the Scorpion where she made the second Quartile to the place she was in at the decumbiture and the third Crisis she applyed to the Trine of beautifull Venus his Feaver began to leave him and he began to attain his pristine health By this one example you may see the wonderfull harmony and consent of diseases with the motions of the heavens which that it may appear more cleer and be visible to all unlesse it be to such as are so blind they will not see my Author adjoyns a rationall Figure of the decumbiture and gives his judgement upon it A Rationall Figure upon the Decumbiture An astrologicall Judgement upon the face of Heaven at the Decumbiture THe chief Significators of this Figure are the Ascendent and Mercury Lord of it Retrograde in Capricorne a moveable Signe in the 5th House of the Heaven and in the House of Saturne The 6th house and his Lord Saturne in Aquarius in the 6th house strong and potent The Moon in the 6th house upon the cuspe of it Sol in the 5th House with the Lord of the eighth afflicted by the Quartile of Mars in a fiery Signe this plainly shewes a disease of Choler Jupiter in a moveable Signe in the 5th House who rules the

He is a wise Physician that can remedy them but he is wise that can anticipate them 26 The Moon in the fourth house with the body square opposition or antiscion of Mars soon brings a man to his last inheritance the Grave she threatens it if she be there no way afflicted unlesse she be very strong 27 As I have judged by the Moon so judge by Mars if you find him for if he being there have any dignities in the ascendent he will urge a man as fast to his grave as ever sleep urged him to bed 28 Saturne opposite to the Lord of the eighth house threatens danger enough to the ficke 29 The Moon in Conjunction with Mars in the fourth house will send the sick to take a supper in another world though both their fortunes stand and look upon him 30 The Moon in the ascendent if you will believe Authors alwayes hurts and they give some shew of reason of it because there she hath most power over the body of the sick Yet mine owne opinion for the present is that if she be there and in Cancer or Taurus she will rather helpe then hinder the sick If the Moon doe hate the ascendent as Authors say I suppose the reason to be because Saturn loves it And then she hates the eighth and twelfth houses by the same rule And if you wil call yourwits into examination they will tell you it is true enough 31 If the Moon be in the a cendent and the signe ascending of a contrary nature to her it is a hundred to one that the sicke die not of that disease And here my Author spoke something to the purpose If the former Aphorisme made a discord in your braine this if rightly understood will reduce them to a harmony 32 The Moon applying to the body of the Sun within twelve degrees at the Decumbiture the sicknesse comes not so much to terrifie your body as to give you warning of your end And the neerer the Moon is to the body of the Sun the speedier dispatch will death make of the body of his captive 33 The Moon besieged by the bodies of the malevolents positive between the Sun and one of them the hopes of life are very small or none at all 34 Authors say That if a man or woman fall sick when the Moon is going out of combustion their sicknesse will increase till she comes to the opposition of the Sun And if then she meet with an ill Planet the sick recovers if not they die For mine own particular I speake no more then I have found by continuall experience I have often found this false and never true 35 If the Sun or Moon be Lord of the house at the decumbiture and behold the Lord of the eighth the sicknesse is sent to proclaime the approach of death 36 It is very bad when the Moon carries the light of the lord of the ascendent to the lord of the eighth it threatens death but it does not so in all diseases neither for example in such as come and goe by fits as Agues falling sickness c. you may make this use of it that none are fit to make Physicians but such as are intimately acquainted with Madam Nature and her eldest son Dr. Reason 37 It is extreame bad when the Moon applies to any star in the eighth as bad as when she applies to the lord of the eighth himselfe 38 The Moon cumbust in the eighth in Leo threatens death sayes my Author and so the truth is she doth if she be cumbust in any other house or signe unlesse she separate from the body of the Sun 39 The disease will appeare little otherwise then the fore-runner of death if the Moon be in Libra and Jupiter and Venus in conjunction he that knowes any thing in Physick that he should know knows the reason well enough 40 The Moon with the Pleiades and the Aries or with any other violent fixed star shewes danger of death 41 The Moon applying to her own Nodes namely the head and taile of the Dragon is very bad but not so bad if she separate from them 42 It is very bad when Saturne is in his Apogeon or neer it if the disease come of retention 43 Judge the like by Mars if the disease be a Feaver or proceed of choler and here you have another instructer to teach you knowledge the neerer a planet is to the earth the more stoutly will he maintaine and increase the humours he governes 44 It is a very bad signe if not disperate if there be an Ecclipse of either Luminary upon a criticall day and if it misse a day of it it will breake no squares in such a case the time of the Ecclipse hath to my knowledge anticipated the time of the Crisis a whole day naturall and proved mortall too as I have had experience in Essex in the latter end of October 1649. Thus have I given you the signs of death by Astrology I do not say absolutely a man must needs dye when any of these signs appeare but this I say the danger of death is much I advise the Physician to have a care what he doth let him advise with nature and her two sons Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience let him have some brains in his head and not all in his books let the Patient provide for a change and make his peace with God and set his house in order and then hath he the lesse need to care whether he live or dye One Chapter of Noel Duryet which is the last and contains certain observations taken out of Cardanus and other expert Physicians which at first I intended to translate but finding them very imperfect I thought good to forbeare for wanting an Ephemerides of that age to perfect them my selfe I thought better to leave them quite out then trouble this prying age with imperfections Presages of life and death by the body of the patient being sick Two wayes did the famous Hippocrates leave to posterity for they judging of the life and death of sick people one by the Celestiall aspects of the Planets and the other by the Symptoms of the body of the man lying sick The latter of these must first be performed the profit of which for 't is good for something according to Hippocrates is first the credit of the Physitian so first of all he hence avoid defamation evill speeches and reproaches the world shall never say he is a Dunce 2. It will better his own knowledge he need not apply living medicines to a dying man Secondly for the profit of the sick hereby you may give them warning of death before it comes and they will the more confidently commit themselves to the hands of a Physitian when they know he knows something If the credit of Hippocrates may passe for starling he protest's that what I here write was confirmed in all his practises in Ethiopia Lybia Mauiritania the Isle of Delos Schythia and Italy

time of maturation is so certaine that it needs no further dispute of the story 2 It is most usuall and most wholsome for Aposthumes to break upon judiciall dayes what they be and when they happen you know already unlesse you began at the latter end of the Book first Hippocrates reckons them by number of dayes t is true but so have not I but by the course of the Moon Do not blame Hippocrates for a small fault rather thinke your selves ingaged to him for doing any thing it may be t was Galens fault not his 3 Take notice that Hippocrates was guided by good principles for he tels you That the beginning of the disease is when the Patient feels heat a feaver stiffnesse paine pricking or any thing else that denotes a disease 4 When you feel that do but so much for me as to make that time the basis to prognosticate the event 5 Coughing spitting and spawling paine difficulty of breathing are true prognosticks that the Aposthume is neer breaking 6 As by the Forlorn-hope you may judge what the Army is so by these signes you may judge of the greatnesse of the Aposthume 7 As by a Citizens spending you may judge how long he will hold so by the swiftnesse of these signs you may judge how soon the Aposthume will breake 8 Sometimes the Aposthume breakes and life is undone by it sometimes it breaks and death runs away for fear of the noise T were worth the while to know how this might be knowne I le tell you how and never goe so far as a Amen-Corner for it neither If when the Aposthumes broken the man begins to fall to his victuals and feed like a Farmer if the matter be white equall salt and come out without paine take these to be signes of speedy health and say I told you so 9 If the Feaver cease not or ceasing come with a fresh supply t were worth the while to know whether it will return again or no ' I le tell you how to know if you will but read it If the Feaver will returne againe the thirst remains still to keep possession and when the Feaver doth returne againe the Faeces being very watry green lived or slimie fortifie against death for he is not far off 10 If the Patient feel pain on both sides both sides are Aposthumated wherefore do they aske else think you 11 If he feel more pain on one side then on the other cause him to lye on the soundest side If he he feel heavinesse there be sure there is an Aposthume also 12 If some good signes appeare and some bad compare them all together and judge by most testimony make use of all the rules you can that so you may find the truth and avoid infamie CHAP. XIII Presages of Apostumes about the Eares FIrst when Apostumes which come either about or under the ears come to maturation and break the bitternesse of death is past 2 You may know when ther 's an Aposthume there by swelling and paine by heat and burning by rednesse of colour and inflammination about the place CHAP. XIV Apostumes in the feet 1. INvehement and dangerous diseases of the lungs it conduceth much to the helpe of the Patient when small pustules or Apostumes appear in the feet 2. If withall the spittle change from red to white it gives certain testimony that recovery approacheth 3. If the spittle turne not from red to white then the pain ceaseth not and the sinews of the part apostumated are in danger of shrinking 4. If together with the former the Apostumes also vanish away the man looseth his sences first and his life afterwards 5. Aged people are more usually troubled with the diseases in the lungs then young people 6. It 's very dangerous in all Apostumes when the pain ascends upwards 7. Easie spitting white spittle and not stincking is a commendable signe in all diseases of the lungs but if your spittle be red black or stincking t is deadly CHAP. XV Presages by the Bladder in Fevers FIrst Hardnesse and pain in the Bladder in quotidian Fevers usually fore-shews death is approaching 2. If withall the urine bee stopped judge the like 3. In Apostumes of the Bladder when they come in scurvy places If the urine be like matter of the Apostume and the pain cease and the Fever mitigate and the Bladder be mollified when you see these signs you may be confident the worst is past 4. This disease usually happens to few but Children and to them most usually about the 7th or 14th year of their age The third Booke of the Presages of Hippocrates THis book I confesse is but short yet the better order it is in the handsomer wil ii look and the reason is because God is the God of Order Let no man blame that Gallant soul Hippocrates for writing a little disorderly rather let him blesse God that he wrote at all Let our Colledge of Physitians write so to purpose and in their Mother tongue as he did in his and the rest of my dayes shal be spent in admiring and applauding of them But to return to my purpose you shall find this third book presented to your view in this Order 1. Presages in Fevers 2. Quincies 3. The Vvula 4. Vomiting in Fevers Of all these in Order CHAP. I. Presages in Fevers 1. THis is most certain and verified by continuall experience that a Fever terminates in death to one and in life to another in both upon one and the same days and the reason why you may find in the beginning of this book in that part the basest of which was borrowed from the famous Avenezra 2. Then you see a reason why it is as requisite to view the body of the sick as the position of the stars It is a custom in Italy or at least it was but a few years since that a Physitian might not deny to view a sick body if he had but his fee given him which amounteth but to 18. d. ster if he carry two Scholers with him he had 12. d. more if the Patient were willing to give it him which being added to the former amounts just to 3. s. 6. d. if he be carryed twenty Scholers he had no more To the Patient comes he for he dare not deny it what ere the disease be if he be in health and at liberty there doth he instruct the Scholers by the Urine by the Symptoms of the disease it's continuation and accidents c. whether the sick be like to live or dye how the disease opposeth nature and which way This makes the Italian Physitians able men when the greatest part of ours are like to dye dunces who dares deny that has but wit to know his right hand from his left but that seeing the body hearing the relation and feeling the pulse of the sick is a better way to judge then gazing upon as much pisse as the Thames will hold I wish from my heart our present State