Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets ... relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft ... directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof / [Joseph Blagrave].
- Joseph Blagrave
- Date:
- 1671
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets ... relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft ... directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof / [Joseph Blagrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r f PraCiiceof Phyftcf. ■ 123 4he JC tryed™any Doftors, which coft him above an undred pounds, but (he was never the better, but rather the worle; fhe took no fuftenance, have orely verjuice poffet, or if at any timefhe took oughtelfe, (he looDdid vomit it i VP all, her body and limbs outward, were taken in the nature I of a dead Palfie and her inward parts with a great flop at the [ Prea» and flomack, her Father told me the time when fhe firft f took her bed by which l creeled a Scheme, and according I unto the rules of Aflrology, 1 told her Father, I found fne was taken eitner by Witchcraft or Sorcery,, if not both, and that >va]the reafon why the drug Doctors- could not help her; I I undertook tliectireat a price, and within eight weeks, I re- [ covered both her body and limbs, and fhe hath continued L well ever fince, it being above nine years ago, fince the cure | was done. The Way how to cure either Witchcraft or Sorcery is ■ Jet down tn another place in this Boof Ht f ' . fhe Cure was effeCled. ,V' In the firji place I endeavoured to a full the Witch5 and then by diet drinks and ointments made of planetary herbs antipathe- ■ ttealunto the affliftiug planet Cbeing Saturn) gathered at the I P aiaetary hours, their qualities, virtues^ and numbers, corre¬ sponding; the herbs ufed were under the dominion of the Sun and Jupiter. It appeareth that both Witchcraft and Sor. eery had been wrought upon the Maid, by reafon that both r \I im,. outward, and body inward, wereafflifted*as afore- laid. Ob)ellionyIf Witchcraft worketh alone only but upon one limb or member of the body as before is declared; then how cometh it to pafs, that her whole body and limbs generally were thus made ufelels. To which I anfwer that if the thorn, pm or needle were prickt in the head, when the fign that is the Moon was in ^tries, and that the infortunes as inflance Saturn were in bad afpeft unto her (bis probable it was ) when, the firft began her mifehief, then it might unhappily work nufehiefor damage unto the whole body: for itftandeth by .good reafon that if the brain, which is the fountain from whence the Nerves do proceed beopprefled.that then the mo - tion of the whole body mud needs be obftrufted,for theNerves vth.ch is afmall firing that runneth under the veins through¬ out the whole frame of thbbody proceeding from the brain are the onely fenftive part of motion ; Infomuch that if a Chi- turgion nappen to prick a nerve, when he lecteth any one blood, the limb will be in danger to be ufdefs, and I heard of two, who loll the ufeof their arms thereby When Iliv- >cd in Oxford, and as it fareth with the body to be fencclcfs and fc ufelcfs, when the brain and nerves are op'prelUd, fd i\ : .#■ >](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30330610_0126.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
