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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

let blood Concerning the way how to cure each distemper is set down elsewhere in this book The Moon in Taurus of Mars afflicted Those that take their bed under such configuration as aforesaid shall be afflicted with a continued Fever the whole frame of the body obstructed with an inflammation of the Throat Neck and hinder part thereof and ach of the bones also insomniation or inordinate watching very thirsty longing after cooling things Oft time the sick will be afflicted with the Strangury or Stone with Gravel in the Reins and Kidneys pestilent sore throats or hoarsness or some ill matter setled there The cause is from much ill blood choler and sweet flegm The Moon in Gemini of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall he afflicted with a violent burning Fever and with obstructions their blood extreme windy and corrupted some great pains or lameness in their arms or joynts the pulses long and inordinate oft-times the Patient is troubled with the Stone or heat in the Reins and sometimes spitting of blood The cause of this distemper usually is from ingurgitation or too much drinking of strong Wine or Beer and some cholerick matter The Moon in Cancer of Mars oppressed Those that take their bed when the ☽ is in Cancer of Mars afflicted the sick will be troubled with much flegm and ill matter setled at their Breast and Stomack also with eversion and turning of the Ventricle oft-times desiring to vomit with some defect in the blood This disease cometh from surfeiting or too much ingurgitation and oft-times turneth unto a loosness or a rotten Cough and sometimes spitting blood The Moon in Leo of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Leo of Mars afflicted shall be subject unto a strong Fever with a disturbed brain and strong raging fits also they will be subject unto much drowsiness and heaviness all over their body also the heart oppressed with faintness and swounding fits and the party almost raging mad with little or no appetite The cause of this distemper is from excess of choler and blood abounding over-heated The Moon in Virgo of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall be subject unto a Flux in the belly small Fevers the Pulse remiss avertion of the Ventricle also tormented with wind in the Belly or Guts and Chollick bad stomack many times weakness or pains in the legs near the anckles the cause from original choler melancholly and sharp fretting humors The Moon in Libra of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in ♎ of ♂ oppressed will be subject unto an inflammation all over the body also Fevourish unapt to sleep their Pulses high troubled with wind and plenitude of blood many times they have the stone or gravel in the kidneys or great heat therein The cause is from surfeiting or disorder in diet also plenitude of blood The Moon in Scorpio of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Scorpio of Mars oppressed argueth that the sick is afflicted or hath some grievous infirmity in their privy parts If children or Young-people then it argueth the small-pox or measles Also it sheweth more especially in times of pestilential diseases the pestilence or some poisonous or pestilential grief many times it causeth boiles or scabiness to break forth The cause is from blood extreamly corrupted or from some infectious and poisonous grief accidentally taken into the body by smell or taste The Moon in Sagitary of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Sagitary of Mars oppressed shall be tormented with high fevers and cholerick passions with the flux or lask the pulses few and faint the sick burns extreamly many times it sheweth the hand and foot gout with breaking out and sore throats sometimes sharp rheums offend their eyes The cause is from surfeiting or gluttony or too much repletion Also from inordinate exercise and blood over-heated The Moon in Capricorn of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Capricorn of Mars oppressed shall be troubled with excesse of choller and with great desire to vomit no perfect concoction and oft returning fevers a puffing up the sinews and a flux of the belly immediately followes an inflamation of the breast some exulceration in a Cholerick humour offends the party in his hands or joynts of his fingers also the sick is inclining unto the yellow jaundies Their blood all over the body disaffected The cause is from choller and evil digestion and blood corrupted The Moon in Aquary of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Aquary of Mars oppressed are troubled with swooning fits and pained at the heart and are very feaverish pulses are high and the blood swelling in all their veins oft-times complaining of great pain in their breast drawing their wind with great difficulty The cause is from most sharp and violent affections or vehement passions The Moon in Pisces of Mars oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Pisces of Mars afflicted shall be tormented with sharp burning feavers and vehement thirst and usually oppressed with a violent looseness complaining of great pain in their bellies or an extraordinary rotten cough also a deflux of rhuem falling from the head to the throat they being near suffocated therewith their bellies swolne and in danger of a dropsie oft-times they are troubled with itching and a salt humor in the blood The cause of the distemper is from two much ingurgitation and drinking of wine and strong drinks and the body abounding with choller and salt flegm and bloud corrupted occasioned by disorder Concerning what effects the Moon worketh in any of the twelve Signs upon the body of the Sick She being afflicted by the Conjunction Square or Opposition of Saturn at the time of decumbiture Note That Mercury afflicting the Moon worketh the same effects onely be striketh somewhat more upon the brain and nerves The Moon in Aries of Saturn or Mercury oppressed THose who take their bed the Moon being in Aries of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be troubled with head-ach and a distillation of Rhuems falling from the head into the throat and wind-pipe also a stuffing in the head with dulness of the eyes inordinate drowsiness and dulness of mind and bad stomach intemperate sweats being hot within and cold without more afflicted in the night then by day The occasion of this distemper is from great cold taken and want of exercise and sometimes by eating trash contra●● to Nature The Moon in Taurus of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Taurus of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be feaverish proceeding from obstructions aod distempers of the precordiacks and arteries viz. of the inward parts near the heart liver and lungs some ulceration there abouts their pulses are lofty and high and an inflamation of the whole body The disease

proper to comfort the heart and arteries with cataplasms to the hand-wrests sometimes when I found the veins high I let her blood fearing the arteries might be oppressed thereby for as I have already declared the arteries and nerves run both under the veins I likewise for a time accustomed her to eat hearts ●oyled baked or stewed which might by sympathy help to fortify her heart I also gave her water-grewel made with such herbs which were agreeable to her condition to be taken an hour after she had taken her dyet-drink every morning as indeed we usually do in all distempers according unto which rules before going this maid was well and perfectly cured within ten weeks notwithstanding she was above twelve moneths in this condition before she came unto me and notwithstanding her Father as he told me had tryed many Doctors to his great charge for as in this so in all other kinds of evils the more they are tampered with the worse the patient will be except they had the knowledge by the rules of Astrology and Philosophy to understand the way of Cure Another kind of Evil which cometh from Sorcery I find by experience that there is another kind of Evil wherewith many are infected and I shall instance one example A woman living at a place called Nutbeam within a mile of Way-hill where once a year the great fair is kept was taken with this kind of evil as followeth the cause of this womans distemper was from Sorcery as by my Figure was discovered and the party suspected was the Minister of the Parish by my Figure described to be a man of Saturn in the times of Mercury which signifies a man of reasonable stature swarthy complection and of a lumpish countenance and sad or black hair he was a man of small wealth only hired to execute the office or Function for the time being the occasion which moved him to do it was as the woman told me because she would not trust him for mault whereupon he threatned revenge and at a gossiping feast he had the opportunity to do it as followeth First he moved to have a health go round the table and so did undertake to spice every ones cup but when it came unto this womans turn to drink she did observe that he took spice out of another paper which he had prepared pretending that it was all one this woman told me she was not willing to take it fearing least he should do her some mischief but being unwilling to disturbe the company well-hoping that his malice would not have lasted so long she drank it after which before the day was ended she began to be very ill being taken with a great pain and griping in her belly and likewise every day encreased in bigness of body being grown so big as three ordinary women insomuch at length a reasonable horse could not well carry her she tryed many Doctors and spent much money but could find no help at length hearing of me her husband brought her unto me she was above two years in this condition before I did undertake the cure yet notwithstanding I did recover her in about three moneths time staying not only her griping pains in her belly but also did very much lessen the extream groth of her body The way which I used for her recovery was by decoctions oyntments bathes sweats and glisters she was taken under Saturn who was Lord of the twelfth house and in the ascendant the cure was performed by antipathy viz. with herbs under the Sun Mars and Jupiter what herbs are good for Dropsical humours under the Planets before mentioned you may find in this Book and likewise how to make decoctions bathes oyls and glisters suitable unto her condition Now concerning this Minister I shall relate what followed I having by my Art made some discovery and this woman for the reasons aforesaid justly suspecting him both she and her husband were minded to have him before a Justice but that I somewhat disheartned them and told them that the discovery which I had made could be no evidence against him whereby to implead but not long after this Priest having upon some other occasion differed with an other of his Parishioners after Prayers ended his Son standing in the Church-yard this Minister came unto him took off his hatt and gave him a tap on the head saying before some of the Neighbours Thou shalt lye by it some time for thy Fathers sake immediately after this Boy being very sick took his bed and came no more abroad in a long time whereupon this Womans Husband and the Boys Father resolves to prosecute against him and accordingly sent for a Warrant intending to have him before a Justice but the Priest having some notice thereof fled and as I am informed was never heard of unto this day Another Cure done upon a Boy living at Throxford in the County of Berks who was suddenly struck dumb and so continued during the space of three years I Shall in the first place relate the manner how this Boy was taken in this condition as followeth This Boy living with his Unckle his Father being dead was imployed to drive and fetch home milch beasts being kept for a dairy now in a morning being holy day having on his best array being somewhat pleasant meets with a woman who was very much suspected to be a Witch and minding to make sport with her calls her old witch demanding whether she was going she not answering he threw several stones at her with that she began to be angry and saith unto him as the boy after he could speak related sirrah I will make you hold your tongue using many threatning speeches and indeavoured to run after the boy who was too nimble on foot for her After which time during three years as abovesaid he became speechless and seeming simple and so might without question have continued unto this day without miracle had not the Astrological way been used both for the discovery and recovery of his distemper The Friends of this boy told me they had spent much mony about his cure but to no purpose having as they said tryed many Doctors and others insomuch that they thought him uncureable But by accident hearing of me and of the many cures by me done the friends of this boy came unto me desiring to know whether I would undertake to help him to his speech again I ask'd them if they could tell the time when he first lost his speech which they readily told me It being done upon a holy day they could the better do it whereupon having erected a figure according unto the day or time given I quickly found the cause of his distemper without which there could be no cure wrought and told them that I was confident through Gods blessing that I could help them The Planet afflicting was ♄ a cold dry melancholly earthy evil Planet the defect lay wholly in the Vvula or Gargarean and as men who are

the grief or infirmity out of which you must take a select number according unto their elemental qualities and virtues being rightly appropriated unto their severall planets and gathered at the right planetary hours which this Book will sufficiently instruct you dry them so that you may pound them and searce them into fine powder Then take the quantity of half a dram thereof and the like quantity of the Sympathetical powder and mix them well together in a Mortar ever after keeping the powder warm and dry and when you are minded to cure thereby you must warm the powder very well over a few coals and while its warm put a small quantity of the Patients blood into it and mix it very well together always keeping it warm and so make it up in a little bag and let the Patient wear it next their skin that so it may always be kept warm I have by virtue of this powder done many very great cures and should have still continued in this way of practice but that I found many were unsatisfied concerning the legality thereof taking it for a kind of charm by reason I ordered the patient to wear it about their necks and I believe they did the rather conceipt so in regard I did use to resolve many questions in Astrology as Thefts Strays Fugitives c. There is but one danger in this way of cure which is as followeth If the Patient happen to lose this mixture from their necks or body wheresoever worn or otherwise let it take cold the grief will be apt to return a●ain more especially if the Patient be not perfectly recovered But when the Patient is through well than they may burn it I could have inserted many cures which I have effected by vertue of this powder I shall only mention one for example as followeth about nine years ago there lived a woman in Newbery in the County of Berks she was daily troubled with fits which at the first would begin with a kind of trembling about the heart and from thence by degrees set al the arteries to work throughout her whole body after which for some hours she would be as seemingly dead and could wagg neither arm or leg for cure whereof I let her blood in the heart vein and having my powders made in readiness according unto what is before expressed I mixt some of her blood with the powder and while it was warm made it up into a little bag which I caused her to wear about her neck by vertue of which not omitting dyet-drink suitable to her condition she was in about a months space recovered notwithstanding she was near twelve moneths in this condition before she came unto me The cure being perfected her husband according unto our agreement paid me for the cure but it so chanced that within some small time after she carelesly lost this from her neck whereupon her fits began to mind her again and more and more increased insomuch that she was almost so bad as at the first for as I said before except the patient be for some time perfectly well at least a moneth the grief will be apt to return especially when the principal matter of cure is lost or neglected for it s not sufficient in any distemper whatsoever only to cure except for a time there be a perfect settlement for we daily find that relapses are very dangerous and apt to befall many who think themselves well recovered This womans husband came to me again and told me that his Wife was so bad as ever being much discontented he not knowing the reason I askt him whether she had not lost the little bag from her neck which I gave her to wear he told me he thought she had the truth is through carelessness she had lost it whereupon I once more let her blood and did as is before expressed desiring her to take care of it which she did after which she became well again and her fits left her and so hath continued well ever since as I am informed This cure being effected about eight or nine years ago The Vnguent or wonderful Oyntment for Wounds Composed of the four Elemental parts of Mans Body The Seven Planets being applyed thereunto It s making and use followeth The Ingredients The Moss of a dead Mans Scull 2. ounces Of Mans Grease 2. ounces Of Mummy ½ ounce Of Mans Blood ½ ounce Oyl of Lindseed 2. ounces Oyl of Roses 2. ounces Bolearmeniack ½ ounce The three last ingredients are the rather added unto it because it helpeth to bring it unto a subtile oyntment and without question there is also great vertue in them Elements Nature Complection Planets Water Cold and Moist Flegm Venus and Luna Fier Hot and Dry. Choller Sol and Mars Earth Cold and Dry. Melancholy Saturn Mercury Ayr. Hot and Moist Sanguine Jupiter ALL these things before mentioned must be mixt together and beaten well in a morter until it become an oyntment then keep it in a close thing from ayr for your use The way to use this Unguent whereby to cure is as followeth Take the blood or matter of the Wound upon the Weapon or Instrument which made the Wound or otherwise dry it upon a piece of wood then put the wood into the oyntment or else anoint the blood being kept dry upon the wood with the oyntment and keep it from air you must every day wet a fresh linnen rag with the Urine of the Patient and so bind up the wound do it early every morning Also you must be very careful that the oyntment which is applyed to the blood take no cold with this Unguent wonderful things may be done if it be rightly managed according unto the directions aforesaid I shall quote one example concerning the tryal of this Unguent as followeth One day being at dinner with Sir Humphrey Forrester of Aldermaston in the County of Berks. The Gentlewoman who usually waited on his Lady was extreamly tormented with the tooth-ach we caused her to prick her teeth with a tooth pick and to blood it immediately we put the tooth-pick into the ointment and the Gentlewoman had present ease after some short time we took forth the tooth-pick and put it into vinegar whereupon she was presently in extream pain We took the tooth-pick forth of the vinegar and applyed it to the unguent and she was immediately well and so continued I could have inserted many great cures done by virtue of this unguent which for brevities sake onely I am willing to omit Concerning Witchcraft and Sorcery with the cure thereof as followeth THe way to know whether the patient be bewitched or not I have already set down elsewhere in this Book I find by experience that those who are taken in the snare of witchcraft are usually afflicted in some outward limb or member of the body caused by an image made in the likeness of man or beast and through the subtilty of the Devil made at such hours and times

significator is in Square or Opposition to the Moon But if the Witches house be tiled then take a tile from over the door heat him red hot put salt into the patients water and dash it upon the red hot tile until it be consumed and let it smoke through a trivet or frame of a skillet as aforesaid 2. Another way is to get two new horseshooes heat one of them red hot and quench him in the patients urine then immediately nail him on the inside of the threshold of the door with three nailes the heel being upwards then having the patients urine set it over the fire and set a trivet over it put into it three horse nails and a little white salt Then heat the other horshooe red hot and quench him severall times in the urine and so let it boil and waste until all be consumed do this three times and let it be near the change full or quarters of the Moon or let the Moon be in Square or Opposition unto the Witches Significator 3. Another way is to stop the urine of the Patient close up in a bottle and put into it three nails pins or needles with a little white Salt keeping the urine alwayes warm If you let it remain long in the bottle it will endanger the witches life for I have found by experience that they will be grievously tormented making their water with great difficulty if any at all and the more if the Moon be in Scorpio in Square or Opposition to his Significator when it s done 4. Another way is either at the new full or quarters of the moon but more especially when the Moon is in Square or Opposition to the Planet which doth personate the Witch to let the patient blood and while the blood is warm put a little white salt into it then let it burn and smoke through a trivet I conceive this way doth more afflict the Witch then any of the other three before mentioned by reason the blood hath more life in it then the urine for the urine is accounted but as the excrement of blood The reason why the Witch is tormented when the blood or urine of the patient is burned is because there is part of the vital spirit of the Witch in it for such is the subtlety of the Devil that he will not suffer the Witch to infuse any poysonous matter into the body of man or beast without some of the Witches blood mingled with it as appeareth by the whey before mentioned For 't is the Devils policy either by this means to detect them or otherwise by torment to bring them unto their ends for the devil well knoweth that when the blood or urine of the patient is burned that the Witch will be afflicted and then they will desire to come to the place for to get ease for by the smell thereof their pain is mitigated by sympathy even as by sympathy when the blood and urine is burning they are tormented yet sometimes they will rather indure the misery of it than appear by reason country people oft times will fall upon them and scratch and abuse them shrewdly I conceive the onely reason the devil doth suck the Witches blood is mearly to detect them or otherwise one way or other to bring them to their ends and sometimes they are discovered by their tet at which place the Devil usually sucketh their blood whereby to mix with the poison which they by their wicked ways do infuse into the body of man or beast and so infect them I do find by practice and experience that few or none are bewitched by Image or Moddel alone but that there is Sorcery wrought with it for otherwise the burning of the blood or urine of the patient could no way afflict them in any sympathetick way as aforesaid having by the rules aforegoing set forth the way how to afflict the Witch I shall in the next place discover the general way of cure The way to cure both Witchcraft and Sorcery commonly called Evils or Takes HAving by a figure discovered under what planet the Patient is afflicted and in what part of the body the grief or pain lyeth whether outward in any limb or part of the body or throughout the whole body as it will sometimes fall out when the Nerves or Arteries are oppressed proceeding from the heart and brain or whether inward in the bowels guts liver lungs heart breast or stomack or be it what other disease or distemper whatsoever for as I have already declared there is no disease or distemper whatsoever but may be brought upon man or beast by witchcraft and Sorcery as I have already in several examples demonstrated If the grief pain or distemper be in the outward parts limbs or members of the body then the cure must be by bathes and ointments made antipathetical unto the afflicting planets As instance if Saturn be the afflicting planet then herbs must be used under the Sun and Jupiter If Mars be the afflicting planet then herbs must be used under the dominion of the Sun and Venus Alwayes provided that the herbs be gathered at the right planetary hours according unto their virtues and numbers If the ●rief lieth inward at the breast stomach and heart then you must chuse such herbs which are under the dominion of that planet which is antipathetical unto the afflicting planet and are good to open obstructions and to comfort the heart and arteries ever remembring in all cures to use a select number of herbs under the dominion of the Sun in regard he governeth the heart and is fountain of life a●d sole Monarch of the heavens It the grief lie in the bowels and guts then sometimes glisters must he used made with such herbs especially which are good to expel poyson being under the dominion of Sol which this book will sufficiently instruct you in together with such herbs which are of a contrary nature unto the afflicting planet but if the afflicting planet is more strong than the planet which is a contrary nature then you must chuse a small select number of herbs of his own nature which are good to cure the infirmity and mix them with the other herbs before mentioned concerning the way to make glisters bathes oyls decoctions or diet drinks and what else is meet to be used in all cures whatsoever I have already elsewhere in this book expressed Note That in the curing of all kinds of evils I do usually cause the patients to wear a select number of solary herbs gathered at the hour of the Sun the reasons I have shewed elsewhere in this book I could have been more copious in setting forth the way of curing both witchcraft and sorcery but that I have sufficiently treated thereof in the way of curing all kinds of evils before mentioned for I conceive that generally those evils before mentioned came from witchcraft and Sorcery onely some particular evils may proceed from some extraordinary distemper of the nerves