Volume 2

Physical raritie[s] containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases ... / [Ralph Williams].

  • Williams, Ralph
Date:
1652
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Physical raritie[s] containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases ... / [Ralph Williams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hr The'riojfc. . deformed, over which part a Planet being evi] affedled, at the time cither of conception ordci iivcrancehaddominion. ^ Bcfidcs, there arc in a man four more e/pecii parts; the Head, the Brcft, the Hands, the feei h'nclf the predominant Planet be maliciouflj afFe(3:ed, or infortunatdy configured, cither ak the womans conception, or at the Childes birthl The fame Planet afHiifIcth , and difmembreti^ thofe members and parts of the body, which bt then governed, or lome fmall parcels of thofe ■parts. ' As if the Sunht any way difgraced or died, he vexeth the right eye, the the left eye, Saturn the ears, the teeth, or fenfe of hear¬ ing, being Retrograde, 0« therwife difeouraged and oppreffed by the hate^ ful Afpedl, and envious radiation of a malevo- lous and pernitious Planet, taketh away thf perfed ufe of the tongue, and free liberty ol fpccch^* And thus alfo may we ^nde out anc know whether any pari in the breft, as th( * laings, the Liver, the Spleen, the Heart, or an] of the intrals,and inward parts of the body b( viciate or corrupt. In the obfervation of the hands and feet, it i to be confidcred, whether theiingers, the nayks or whether any parcel of them be hiridrcda^ made unperfed, by the cognation and affinity o the predominant Planet. , , - Anc