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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

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

Semeiotica Vranica OR AN ASTROLOGICAL JUDGMENT OF DISEASES From the Decumbiture of the Sick 1. From Aven Ezra by way of Introduction 2. From Noel Duret by way of Direction Wherein is layd down The way and manner of finding out the Cause Change and End of a Disease Also whether the Sick be likely to live or dye and the Time when Recovery or Death is to be expected 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. Student in Physick and Astrology PERSIUS Disce sed ira cadat naso rugosaque sanna London Printed for Nathaniell Brookes at the golden Angel on Cornhill near the Exchange 1651. TO THE ASTROLOGERS OF ENGLAND Nicholas Culpeper wisheth peace and Prosperity in this world and eternall beatitude in that which is to come Dear Souls TO you all and to you especially that heard these Lectures do I dedicate them and present them to you not to look upon onely for then I had as good have sent you a picture and as much it would have pleased your eye Man was made not only for Speculation but also for Practice Speculation brings onely pleasure to a mans selfe its Practice which benefits others And I hope I need not tell you that Man was not born for himself alone These Rules will serve if heedfully observed by the eye of Reason to ballance your judgment in sayling through the Prognosticall part of Physick that so you may steer your course by the Card of Truth and not float unsetledly upon the waves of Errour Ignorance or Opinion To you rather then to any that I know belongs the practice of Physick and that Practice may be perfect Judgement ought to be sound and to make judgement sound is required an exquisite knowledge Judgement is perfected by knowledge knowledge by experience whence it appeares that the more communicative knowledge is so much the more excellent it is Of all the men in the world I hate a drone most that sucks the sweetnesse of other mens labours but doth no good himselfe and will as soon teach Physick or Astrology to an Oake as to a creature the center of whose actions is terminated in himselfe Surely surely If God had not made the nature of man communicative he would not have made one man to stand in continuall need of another but we see the contrary and the sons of wisedome know how to pick out the meaning of God from it I have given you here all my Prognostications from the Decumbiture of the sick party And although I ingenuously confesse the greatest part of them will hold true in a Horarie Question erected upon the sight of the Urine yet this is my judgement at present That next the Nativity the Decumbiture is the safest surest ground for you to build your judgement upon and you shall always find it by experience Together with this I have given you the presages of Hippocrates all which never decline from the Zodiack of the sick person And thus much I can say of them by experience I never found one of them false Make use of them both together God hath given you two eyes why may you not look upon the Macrocosme with the one and upon the Microcosme with the other In both I desired to be as plaine as I could because all Artists are not Schollers Thus have you what I have done and you know for whose sakes I did it What now remains but that you labour with might and main for your owne goods and the increase of your owne knowledge to make experience of them For as the diligent hand maketh rich so the diligent mind increaseth knowledg and for my owne particular never feare but during the time I am amongst the living I shall never cease to do you good in what I may or can Spittle-fields next door to the Red-Lion Nich. Culpeper TO THE READER EXcellent and true was that Motto of Hermes Tresmegistus Quod est superius est sicut inferius and this will appeare to the eye of every one that deserves the name of a reasonable man if he do but consider That his body is made of the same materials that the whole Universe is made of though not in the same forme namely of a composition of contrary Elements There is scarce a man breathing that knows his right hand from his left but knows that if you sett bottles of hott water to a mans feet it will make his head to sweat and the reason is the mutual harmony of one part of the body with another why then as well should not the actions of one part of the Creation produce as well effects in another that being also one entire body composed of the same Elements and in as great Harmonie What 's the reason that a man will do more for his brother then hee will for a stranger Is is not because he is formed by the blood of the same Mother and begotten by the seed of the same Father Why then should not the Celestiall bodies act upon the Terrestriall they being made of the same matter and by the finger of the same God He that will not beleeve Reason let him beleeve Experience he that will believe neither is little better then an Infidel I confesse this was of Judicature hath been desired by many promised by some but hitherto performed by none which was the motive cause I now took the taske in hand my selfe In performing which in many places I corrected the faylings of my Author What was srivolous I left out as being unwilling to blot paper and trouble your braines with impertinencies where he was too large I abbreviated him and where he was deficient I supplied him both with Precept and Example If there be any failings consider 1 Nemo sine crimine vivit That man nev'r breathed yet nor never shall That did all well and had no fault at all 2 My failings if any be were not intentionall but accidentall together with this Astrological Judgement I have also given you the Judgment of Hippocrates The rules whereof are drawne from the person of the sick which although they have been often printed before yet I have compared them with the originall Copy and brought them into a plainer method so that you may have your desire at one single ingresse If you make use of both these wayes together in judging of the disease without a miracle you can hardly faile If any find fault with the shortnesse of my rules let them learne to walk worthie of those they have first their own Experience will bring them more he 's but an apish Physician that builds all his practice upon other mens foundations Man was borne to look after knowledge and in this particular you are set in the way how to find it by one that desires to remaine a friend to all honest and ingenuous Arts Nich. Culpeper Courteous Reader These Books following