1. In sickness, the Ascendant * shall signify the Patient, the seventh house the disease, the Luminaries the Patient's strength, the Infortunes the strength of the disease, but the eighth house has always a share in the signification.
2. When the Moon applies to Planets of a nature contrary to that of the distemper, especially if they be Fortunes, the disease will be changed for the better.
3. When the Moon in the beginning of a sickness (which is called the Decumbiture of the Patient) shall be either under the Sun beams or with the Dragon's Tail, Saturn or Mars, it threatens extraordinary danger, and if the party be old, even her conjunction with Jupiter, Mercury, or Venus, is not without peril; the same but nothing so grievous may be feared when she is in square or opposition to any of them but if besides all this she shall happen to have been in their places in the Patient's geniture, he will certainly die.
4. Mars, Jupiter, and Venus rule the blood; Mars and Sol, choler; the Moon and Venus, phlegm; Saturn and Mercury melancholy; and Mars and Mercury with the Sun, black choler.
5. Saturn causes long diseases; Venus indifferent, Mercury various ones; the Moon such as return after a certain time, as Vertigos, Falling-sickness, etc. Jupiter and Sol give short diseases, but Mars the most acute of all.
6. When you find the Figure at the beginning of a grievous distemper to appear much more mild and favourable than the distemper, you may conclude the disease contracts its malignity from the Nativity, the principal places falling upon some disastrous configurations.
7. It is necessary to consider the Lunations preceding the disease and thence likewise to take indications of the Patient's condition.
8. If you find a Person after the age of 50 years labour under strong and frequent diseases, you may conclude the significator of life in his Radix to be sorely afflicted by the body or aspects of one of the Infortunes.
9. When the Moon is in a fixed sign physic works the less, and if in Aries, Taurus, or Capricorn it will be apt to prove nauseous and very distasteful to the Patient.
10. In Purging, 'tis best that both the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant descend and be under the Earth: --in vomiting that they ascend.
11. Purging, Vomiting, Bleeding, Making use of issues, etc., ought to be done while the Moon, is in moist signs, the chief of which is Pisces, the next Cancer.
12. The significator of life in the Radix being strong in natural diseases helps very much, but in casualties, little or nothing.
13. When the Moon is with Venus, Choler is better and more safely expelled; and when she is with Jupiter, Melancholy.
14. Every immoderate Position of the Heavens to Persons weak and aged, brings death; to others violent accidents and grievous calamities.
15. If a disease begin when the Moon is in opposition to the Sun, 'tis by reason of superfluity of humours; if she suffer an eclipse, the same time 'tis for weakness of the Spirits and Vital power.
16. The Infortunes being Oriental, cause Diseases; Occidental, defects.
17. Venus with Saturn in the seventh and Mars elevated above them both, causes barrenness in men, and Abortions in women.
18. Sagittary and Gemini signify Diseases that come with falling, as Swooning, Falling-sickness, Suffocations of the womb, etc.
19. When at the beginning of a disease the Luminaries are both with the Infortunes, or in opposition to them, the sick will very hardly escape.
20. From the Moon's applications to the Fortunes or good aspect of the Sun, the same being neither contrary to the disease, nor afflicted, nor in the power of the Infortunes: - health may be expected, but by her going to the Infortunes of like nature with the disease, or ill beams of the Sun, death is to be feared.
21. Cold and dry diseases, such as are naturally long, are increased by Saturn; but those that are short, hot and dry, from Mars.
22. A conjunction of the Luminaries in Aries, causes alteration and death, if Venus and Mercury be there retrograde; the like if it happen in Scorpio or Virgo or in any humane sign; so likewise if such conjunction fall in the sixth, seventh, or eighth house of the figure of the Decumbiture within the Aspect of an Infortune, the Patient will be in great danger.
23. Mars in the Ascendant at the Decumbiture, makes the disease, swift, violent, afflicting the upper parts and disturbing the mind; and if besides this, the dispositors of the Luminaries and Ascendant happen to be afflicted, death will follow; the like if both the Luminaries be Cadent from Angles, and not assisted by the Fortunes; but if in such a position, the Fortunes strong shall have dominion in two places, the disease will be changed from Acute to Chronic, and the Patient at last will escape beyond hope.
24. From the first hour of the day (or one in the morning inclusive) till six, blood predominates, whence morning sleeps become so sweet and pleasant; from thence to noon, Choler, afternoon Phlegm, and from the beginning of the Night till mid-night, Melancholy.
25. Saturn in Fiery Signs when the Sun is 'weak causes hectic fevers; Jupiter sanguinary ones, and if Mars behold him Putrid ones; Mars in such signs gives burning fevers of all sorts; Venus ephemeral fevers, and if the rays of Mars be mixed, putrid ones from phlegm; Mercury mixed ones, but if the Moon be joined with him she makes pituitous fevers from the corruption of the humours; Saturn mixing signification with Mars, causes Melancholy fevers, and if Mars be under the Sun in the sixth or twelfth house in fiery Signs, or being so posited shall cast his beams on the Significator of life, or the Lord of the Ascendant of
the Revolution, or if the Lord of the Ascendant or Significator of life apply to his aspects by direction, it occasions burning pernicious fevers and like to venomous ones; but if to these, Saturn or the Dragon's Head or Tail, or Venus Combust be added, or if these Planets shall be posited in Scorpio or Leo, the fever will be altogether pestilential.
26. Mischievous fevers are caused when the Sun is Afflicted in Leo, but if otherwise he be fortified they seldom happen, because the matter then corrupts and is carried off, unless by chance.
27. Watery signs threaten putrid fevers of very bad continuance if Mars (especially combust) have any rule in them, but earthly signs are altogether free from putrid fevers.
28. It will be a fatal time to suffer amputation or lose any member when the moon is in an oblique sign under the Sun beams and opposed by Mars.
29. A ~tedious travail and delivery in child-birth is to be expected, when the Moon is aspected by the Infortunes, and in an oblique sign, and a Planet retrograde or slow of Motion is in the Ascendant.
30. Venus is cold in the second degree, and moist in the third; the Moon cold in the third, and moist in the fourth; Jupiter hot in the second, and moist in the first; the Sun hot in the third, and dry in the second; Mars dry in the third, and hot in the fourth; and Saturn both cold and dry in the fourth.
31. The special Significator of a disease is that unfortunate Planet from whom the Significator separates by a bad aspect; and the Lord of the Ascendant shows the cause of the grief if he be found anywhere unfortunate.
32. If the Lord of the Ascendant be an Infortune the sick will be unruly, but if he be a Fortune he will readily take what is prescribed.
33. The fifth house and its Lord, show the medicines, and their nature whether good or evil, proper or improper.
34. As the Revolution of a year as to its ill significations, happens according to the directions from the geniture, so the decumbiture as to its worse significations is regulated by the revolution according to Lunar directions
35. Several Planets being Significators show that the distemper is complicated of several diseases.
36. The Significator of the disease in double-bodied signs signifies a relapse, or that it will change into some other distemper.
37. The disease is desperate, when the Significator of the sick either in his Nativity or the decumbiture, has dominion in the fourth house.
38. That sign in which the Significator of the disease is posited, and that to which he casts any aspect, show the members or parts of the body principally afflicted.
39. When Mercury is unfortunate he prejudices the phantasy and inward faculties, and thence threatens madness, et% but so much the worse if Mars be the Planet that affiicteth him, for then if he be in an earthy sign it threatens the Patient will make away with himself.
40. It is a very bad sign when the Significator of the sickness is in the sixth, or the Lord of the sixth in the eighth, or the Lord of the eighth, in the sixth house.
41. Mercury significator of a disease in aspect with Saturn, or Saturn significator in aspect of Mercury, gives suspicion of witchcraft and enchantment.
42. A chronical disease (that is a disease which usually continues above a month) is ruled by the motion of the Sun; acute diseases (which are more sharp and violent but less
lasting) by the motion of the Noon, according to whose swifter or slower motion the critical times are either hastened or retarded' the same being when the Moon comes to a sign contrary in both qualities to that in which she was in the beginning of the disease.
43. For curing a member, the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant should be free from Impediment, the sign that governs the part ascending and the Moon posited in it, and when you think to do any good to your eyes, let the Moon be fortunate, increasing in light and by no means in a sign of the Earthly Triplicity
44. Even the Fortunes in diseases may become Infortunes, viz., when the disease itself is of their nature, or of the nature of things by them signified, and in such case the infortunes may be said to be fortunes, for contraries are to be cured by contraries.
2. When the Moon applies to Planets of a nature contrary to that of the distemper, especially if they be Fortunes, the disease will be changed for the better.
3. When the Moon in the beginning of a sickness (which is called the Decumbiture of the Patient) shall be either under the Sun beams or with the Dragon's Tail, Saturn or Mars, it threatens extraordinary danger, and if the party be old, even her conjunction with Jupiter, Mercury, or Venus, is not without peril; the same but nothing so grievous may be feared when she is in square or opposition to any of them but if besides all this she shall happen to have been in their places in the Patient's geniture, he will certainly die.
4. Mars, Jupiter, and Venus rule the blood; Mars and Sol, choler; the Moon and Venus, phlegm; Saturn and Mercury melancholy; and Mars and Mercury with the Sun, black choler.
5. Saturn causes long diseases; Venus indifferent, Mercury various ones; the Moon such as return after a certain time, as Vertigos, Falling-sickness, etc. Jupiter and Sol give short diseases, but Mars the most acute of all.
6. When you find the Figure at the beginning of a grievous distemper to appear much more mild and favourable than the distemper, you may conclude the disease contracts its malignity from the Nativity, the principal places falling upon some disastrous configurations.
7. It is necessary to consider the Lunations preceding the disease and thence likewise to take indications of the Patient's condition.
8. If you find a Person after the age of 50 years labour under strong and frequent diseases, you may conclude the significator of life in his Radix to be sorely afflicted by the body or aspects of one of the Infortunes.
9. When the Moon is in a fixed sign physic works the less, and if in Aries, Taurus, or Capricorn it will be apt to prove nauseous and very distasteful to the Patient.
10. In Purging, 'tis best that both the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant descend and be under the Earth: --in vomiting that they ascend.
11. Purging, Vomiting, Bleeding, Making use of issues, etc., ought to be done while the Moon, is in moist signs, the chief of which is Pisces, the next Cancer.
12. The significator of life in the Radix being strong in natural diseases helps very much, but in casualties, little or nothing.
13. When the Moon is with Venus, Choler is better and more safely expelled; and when she is with Jupiter, Melancholy.
14. Every immoderate Position of the Heavens to Persons weak and aged, brings death; to others violent accidents and grievous calamities.
15. If a disease begin when the Moon is in opposition to the Sun, 'tis by reason of superfluity of humours; if she suffer an eclipse, the same time 'tis for weakness of the Spirits and Vital power.
16. The Infortunes being Oriental, cause Diseases; Occidental, defects.
17. Venus with Saturn in the seventh and Mars elevated above them both, causes barrenness in men, and Abortions in women.
18. Sagittary and Gemini signify Diseases that come with falling, as Swooning, Falling-sickness, Suffocations of the womb, etc.
19. When at the beginning of a disease the Luminaries are both with the Infortunes, or in opposition to them, the sick will very hardly escape.
20. From the Moon's applications to the Fortunes or good aspect of the Sun, the same being neither contrary to the disease, nor afflicted, nor in the power of the Infortunes: - health may be expected, but by her going to the Infortunes of like nature with the disease, or ill beams of the Sun, death is to be feared.
21. Cold and dry diseases, such as are naturally long, are increased by Saturn; but those that are short, hot and dry, from Mars.
22. A conjunction of the Luminaries in Aries, causes alteration and death, if Venus and Mercury be there retrograde; the like if it happen in Scorpio or Virgo or in any humane sign; so likewise if such conjunction fall in the sixth, seventh, or eighth house of the figure of the Decumbiture within the Aspect of an Infortune, the Patient will be in great danger.
23. Mars in the Ascendant at the Decumbiture, makes the disease, swift, violent, afflicting the upper parts and disturbing the mind; and if besides this, the dispositors of the Luminaries and Ascendant happen to be afflicted, death will follow; the like if both the Luminaries be Cadent from Angles, and not assisted by the Fortunes; but if in such a position, the Fortunes strong shall have dominion in two places, the disease will be changed from Acute to Chronic, and the Patient at last will escape beyond hope.
24. From the first hour of the day (or one in the morning inclusive) till six, blood predominates, whence morning sleeps become so sweet and pleasant; from thence to noon, Choler, afternoon Phlegm, and from the beginning of the Night till mid-night, Melancholy.
25. Saturn in Fiery Signs when the Sun is 'weak causes hectic fevers; Jupiter sanguinary ones, and if Mars behold him Putrid ones; Mars in such signs gives burning fevers of all sorts; Venus ephemeral fevers, and if the rays of Mars be mixed, putrid ones from phlegm; Mercury mixed ones, but if the Moon be joined with him she makes pituitous fevers from the corruption of the humours; Saturn mixing signification with Mars, causes Melancholy fevers, and if Mars be under the Sun in the sixth or twelfth house in fiery Signs, or being so posited shall cast his beams on the Significator of life, or the Lord of the Ascendant of
the Revolution, or if the Lord of the Ascendant or Significator of life apply to his aspects by direction, it occasions burning pernicious fevers and like to venomous ones; but if to these, Saturn or the Dragon's Head or Tail, or Venus Combust be added, or if these Planets shall be posited in Scorpio or Leo, the fever will be altogether pestilential.
26. Mischievous fevers are caused when the Sun is Afflicted in Leo, but if otherwise he be fortified they seldom happen, because the matter then corrupts and is carried off, unless by chance.
27. Watery signs threaten putrid fevers of very bad continuance if Mars (especially combust) have any rule in them, but earthly signs are altogether free from putrid fevers.
28. It will be a fatal time to suffer amputation or lose any member when the moon is in an oblique sign under the Sun beams and opposed by Mars.
29. A ~tedious travail and delivery in child-birth is to be expected, when the Moon is aspected by the Infortunes, and in an oblique sign, and a Planet retrograde or slow of Motion is in the Ascendant.
30. Venus is cold in the second degree, and moist in the third; the Moon cold in the third, and moist in the fourth; Jupiter hot in the second, and moist in the first; the Sun hot in the third, and dry in the second; Mars dry in the third, and hot in the fourth; and Saturn both cold and dry in the fourth.
31. The special Significator of a disease is that unfortunate Planet from whom the Significator separates by a bad aspect; and the Lord of the Ascendant shows the cause of the grief if he be found anywhere unfortunate.
32. If the Lord of the Ascendant be an Infortune the sick will be unruly, but if he be a Fortune he will readily take what is prescribed.
33. The fifth house and its Lord, show the medicines, and their nature whether good or evil, proper or improper.
34. As the Revolution of a year as to its ill significations, happens according to the directions from the geniture, so the decumbiture as to its worse significations is regulated by the revolution according to Lunar directions
35. Several Planets being Significators show that the distemper is complicated of several diseases.
36. The Significator of the disease in double-bodied signs signifies a relapse, or that it will change into some other distemper.
37. The disease is desperate, when the Significator of the sick either in his Nativity or the decumbiture, has dominion in the fourth house.
38. That sign in which the Significator of the disease is posited, and that to which he casts any aspect, show the members or parts of the body principally afflicted.
39. When Mercury is unfortunate he prejudices the phantasy and inward faculties, and thence threatens madness, et% but so much the worse if Mars be the Planet that affiicteth him, for then if he be in an earthy sign it threatens the Patient will make away with himself.
40. It is a very bad sign when the Significator of the sickness is in the sixth, or the Lord of the sixth in the eighth, or the Lord of the eighth, in the sixth house.
41. Mercury significator of a disease in aspect with Saturn, or Saturn significator in aspect of Mercury, gives suspicion of witchcraft and enchantment.
42. A chronical disease (that is a disease which usually continues above a month) is ruled by the motion of the Sun; acute diseases (which are more sharp and violent but less
lasting) by the motion of the Noon, according to whose swifter or slower motion the critical times are either hastened or retarded' the same being when the Moon comes to a sign contrary in both qualities to that in which she was in the beginning of the disease.
43. For curing a member, the Moon and Lord of the Ascendant should be free from Impediment, the sign that governs the part ascending and the Moon posited in it, and when you think to do any good to your eyes, let the Moon be fortunate, increasing in light and by no means in a sign of the Earthly Triplicity
44. Even the Fortunes in diseases may become Infortunes, viz., when the disease itself is of their nature, or of the nature of things by them signified, and in such case the infortunes may be said to be fortunes, for contraries are to be cured by contraries.
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