Volume 1

Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon.

  • Nicholas Culpeper
Date:
[1802]
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Credit: Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eighth, ner, being, Jord of the eighth themfaivee, take away not only the fear of death, but alfo promife a peedy cure, » 2. The poh of the Moon with h Jupiter j is always profperous : moft propitious if he be incCancer: if: doubt- ful at all, it, is when they are in Capricorn, -becaufe,in ‘the one they are both dignified: in the other both cadent from their dignities.. And» yet let me.tell yow but thus stakes Jupiter is Jupiter. ftill, be he where he will. ~ 3. The Moon in an angle well, ditpoted in good terms, and free from the body or beams of Saturn or Mars, it're- ftores the fick to health, and fcorns to be beholden to Hey of them all. _4.. The Moon applying to the lord of the afcendant, un- lefs fhe carries the beams of the lord. of death to him, does the like. The Moon increafing i in light, and {wift in motion, brat not pofited in the fixth, éighth, nor twelfth houfes,: ap- plying to the fextile, trine, or antifcion of the lord of the afcendant, though the lord of the afcendant be a malevo- lent, it matters not, fo he is dire&t, and not infortunated by houfe, nor impedited by another malevolent; neither in his. detriment nor fall, it promifes recovery. 6. If the Moon be void of courfe at the decumbiture; if on: the critical day fhe behold a good fiar, there is no queftion of recovery to be made. 7. If, onacritical day, the Moon be in ey own, houfe or exaltation, though fhe be void of courfe, the fear. of death is more than the harm, for the fick will recover. \°~ 8. The Sun, Moon, and Lord of the Afcendant free from the beams of. Saturn, Mars, or the Lord of Death at the décumbiture, there cannot be fo much as a bare fufs -picion of death.. g. If the benepolents:| be ftronger than the malevolents at the-decumbiture,- and withal if t] 1ey behold the Moon, the afcendant, or his lord, they promife recovery. The males volents rhay ‘threaten h ard, but the benevolents will flay the deadly blow. 10. If the Moon be feparated from the weak malevo- lent, and applied to a ftrong benevolent, the fick is eafily recovered; for the weakeft alw ays goes to the wall. 11. If Saturn be fienificator of: the ficknefs, oriental of i#e Sun, the difedfe: coming of cold, &c. occidental of . the