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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![ma. . .-r t*f' ' Bl a grave’s Ajhologicd carry her. fhe tryed many Doftors, andfpent much money, but could find no help, at length hearing of me, her husband brought her unto me ; die was above two years in this con¬ dition before I did undertake the cure, yet notwithftarjding I did recover her inabout three moneths rime, flaying not on¬ ly her griping pains in her belly, but alfo, did very much lef- fen theextream groth of her body : The way which l ufed for her recovery was,by decodions,oyntments bathes,fweats and gliders .• fhe was taken under Saturn who was Lord of the twelfth houfe, and in the afeendant: the cure was per¬ formed by antipathy, vi^. with herbs under the $it n, Mara, and Jupiter: what herbs are good for Dropfical humours under the Planets before mentioned, you may find in this Book* and likewife, howto make decoftions,bathes,oyls, and gliders, fuitable unto her condition. Now concerning this Minider, I fhall relate what followed, I having by my Art made fome difeovery, and this woman for the reafons afore- faid, judly fitfpefting^ him, both fhe and her husband were minded to have him before a }udice,but that I fotnewhat difheartned them, and told them, that the difeovery which I had made, could be no evidence againd him, whereby to implead: but not long after, this Pried having upon fome other occafion differed with an other of his Parifhioners, after Prayers ended, his Son danding in the Church-yard, this Minider came unto him, took off his hart and gave him a tap on the head, faying, (before fome of the Neigh¬ bours]) Thou fhalt lye by it fome time for thy Fathers fa\e : immediately after, this Boy, being very Pick, took his bed, and came no more abroad in along time: whereupon,this Womans Husband, and the Boys Father refolves to proie- cute againd him, and accordingly, fent for a Warrant, in¬ tending to have him before a Judice, but the Pried having iome notice thereof tied, and as I am informed, was never heard of unto this day. ' 1 Another Cure done upon a Boy living at Throxford, in the Count)' of Berks, who was fitdden’y flrucf ditmbyandJo continued during the Jpace of three years. | Shill in the firft place relate the manner how this Boy7 I was taken in this condition .* as followed), This Boy liv¬ ing with his Uncklc (his Father being dead) was imployed to drive, and fetch home milch beads, being kept for a dai¬ ry ; now in a morning being holy day having on his bell array, bau0 fotnewhat pieafanr, meets with a woman, who was very much .1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30330610_0131.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
