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head_n	arm_n	foot_n	loin_n	3,319	5	15.0994	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02791	Harvvards phlebotomy: or, A treatise of letting of bloud fitly seruing, as well for an aduertisement and remembrance to well minded chirurgians, as also to giue a caueat generally to all men to beware of the manifold dangers, which may ensue vpon rash and vnaduised letting of bloud. Comprehended in two bookes: written by Simon Harvvard.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1601 (1601)	STC 12922; ESTC S103856	94,484	154

made so thinne that the cold doth strike into the inward parts whereby are brought diseases of very long continuance Galen will haue them which are vsually sick in the spring time to be let bloud in the beginning of the spring but such as most commonly haue their sicknes in the sommer time he would haue them to open a vayne in the end of the spring a little before sommer begin The fittest time for letting bloud is when the signe as we call it or the moone is in Aries Sagittarius Cancer Libra Scorpio Aquarius or Pisces vnlesse in any of these signes the moone do predominate in that place that is to be let bloud as in Aries the head Taurus the neck Gemini the shoulders and armes Cancer the breast stomack and ribs Leo the heart and back Virgo the belly and bowels Libra the raynes and loynes Scorpio the secrets bladder Sagittarius the thigh Capricornus the knees Aquarius the legs Pisces the feete There must also a regard be had of the age of the party that is to be let bloud for to them which be growing or yong the first quarter of y● moone is most meete To middle aged people the second quarter To the declining age the third quarter and to old age the last quarter The complexion also must be respected If the party be cholerick let him bloud when the moone is in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces If phlegmatick let the moone be in Aries Sagittarius or Pisces If melancholick then let the moone be in Libra Aquarius or Pisces It is ill to let bloud when the moone is in the full or in the change or within three dayes either before or after It is ill also when the moone is in coniunction or opposition with Saturne or Mars Further it is ill when the moone is in coniunction or opposition with Venus or Mercury combust or in a quadrate aspect with Saturne Sol or Mars vnlesse the aspect be passed at the least eight degrees But it is good to let bloud when the moone is in a trine or sextile aspect with Iupiter Sol Venus and Mercury but especially with Iupiter and Venus with whome all aspects are good prouided that they be not combust In cases of extremitie there is no staying for signes or aspects for the necessitie of the disease compelling I haue my selfe opened a vayne the signe being in the same place and yet with good successe But if a man haue liberty to make his choyce of the time I hold him vnwise that will not take it as neere as he can agreeable to the auncient grounds and principles of Astronomy It appeareth very many wayes that God hath giuen a power to the heauens and an influence to the Starres and Planets which doe mightily worke in the things here below not to induce any necessities but to dispose the inclinations so farre as God hath appoynted and determined Consider how all the times and temperatures of the yeare do alter and change according to the course of the sunne and what difference there is betwixt the operation of Phisick and the dangers of diseases assaulting vs in the spring and such other as do befall vnto vs in the canicular dayes Marke the operation of the Moone in such plants as are set and such seeds as are sowne in the seuerall times of her age Waigh the force also of the moone in those which in the scripture are called lunatick Origen doth report the iudgement of Phisitions Humida moueri in capite secundum aliquam compassionem ad lumen lunare quod humidam habet naturam That moyst things are mooued in the head according to the sympathie of the moone which hath a moyst nature but he thinketh rather that some vncleane spirit doth obserue the diuisions of the situations of the moone and worke by them But Serenus and after him Mercurialis do giue this the reason because they which are conceiued or borne in the wane of the moone are much subiect to the falling sicknesse Howsoeuer it is it is sure not without some cause that they are called lunatick that is moonish or mooned And behold also the power of the Moone in the ordinarie flowers of women who are otherwise also sometimes too much subiect to that variable and tempestuous planet See what force it hath likewise in the sea concerning the ebbings flowings thereof as also in respect of cockles and diuers other shell-fishes waxing fuller or lesser according to the age and proportion of the moone Let also the experiences of mariners somewhat preuaile which finde the whole leas to be caryed by the course of the firmament from the East vnto the West whereupon they which trauaile to the west Indies do better passe thither in one moneth then they can returne againe in three besides the trials which they haue of their loadstone poynting towards the North and their needles and compasses answering thereunto In Phisick the criticall dayes falling out either in hard or benigne constitutions of the planets do dayly giue vnto vs abundant testimonies In histories what auctor can you almost reade but you shal finde therein the troublesome alterations which haue followed vpon great eclipses In diuinitie see how Iob doth attribute vnto the Pleiades a sweete influence to cause the kindly spring and to Orion a power to cause raines and showers but so that God doth loose or hold back the bridle at his only will and pleasure And waigh those words spoken in the creation of the Sunne Moone let them be said God for signes and for appointed times and for dayes and for yeares I do vtterly condemne the abuses of Astronomy as first when men will make them signes of southsaying to foretell things to come and so to take that vnto them which is proper to God only as it is in the Prophet Shew vs the things that are to come that we may know that ye are gods God sayth I w●ll destroy the tokens of the s●othsayers and make the wise coniecturers fooles The will of God is free and soueraigne ouer all his creatures in euery moment to order alter rule and dispose them as seemeth best to his heauenly wisedome Fata mouere deus tollere fata potest We see in one battayle or in one time of pestilēce God being angry with sinne or permitting the Diuell to rage many thousands do dye at one time which no doubt most of them were borne in diuers manners of constellations of planets Weaker natures are subiect to the stronger and particular causes are subiect to the generall Saint Augustine sayth In the liues of them which are borne twinnes in their actions casualties professions preferments and in their very death there is so great a diuersitie that many meere strangers are more like one to another then those which in birth were separated with a very small distance of time and sowen as it should seeme by coniunction in one and the selfe same