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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![■ f Concerning all kinds bf Agues, and quotidian Infirm^ ticS)T,ii)\thz Aftrologigal v?4yi of_. Qt&e* ■ A • » ^ ‘ . ' ( * / 'THCre arc three kinds of Agues,fviz. Qutidianf Tertian, and Quartans of all which kinds 1 have Cured many : And to my knowledge and beft remembrance I never failed whef£ J have undertaken, I once cured a Woman who had a Terti¬ an Ague nine years, being brought fo low therewith, that fh'e was not able to go without help,1, fliC had without queftfon sts flie fold me, taken many things for it, but without fuccefs. I find there are many receipts by Authors fet forth in Printout I could never find any certainty in them : I dare fay, there afe fo many wayes invented for the curing of Agnes, as there are people fick of them : there can be no certainty in curing any of thefe kinds of Agues, or daily fits, or griefs , except i‘t be done by the P ules of ASfrology, for many reafons, for fome >are ‘afflicted under the Planet Saturn, and then’their fit s will be.moft of cold : others are affiifted Under Mart, and then their 'fits will be ttioft of heat: and fonieare affiifted under both Planets, viz. Saturn, and Mar's, and then theif fits will be never equal both in cold and heat. Secondly, fofiie* times the afflicting Planets are weak in tile Heavens, and fQme- tirces ftrong, which muff be confidcred in the cure Thirdly, the Age and Completion of the Patient muff be taken-,Notice of. Laftly, you muft by a Firure difeover whether anyWitch* craft or Sorce y hath been wrought upon the Patient, or from v/hat natural caufe the ficknefs began I fhall now briefly difeover the reafon of each-kind of Ague, or Quotidian Infir* rnity, arid then fet forth the way of cure as foljoweth, I fhall begin with the Quotidian Ague, which ufually aflaultetl] the Patient daily, near one and the fame.hour , acwhichtime as alfo in Tertians and Quartans the fick ufually is troubled *Vith wind and cold watery flegtnatick matter fetled at the ftomack, which at the fir ft beginning of the fits caufeth at fhivering, after which followeth a fevorifh burning hot fit; alio I find, that not only the Quotidian Ague, but- alfo there are many other infirmities, as Appoplcxies, Convul¬ sions, Palpitations, Rifings in the Throat and Stoppings at the Brea ft and Stomack and fome kinds of Evils which j daily begin to afflict the Patient near the fame hour: Now vpon observation upon all thefe kinds of daily Agues or In¬ firmities before mentioi ed I cor.ftantly find, that the Sign Amending, at or near the beginning of each fit, together with its'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30330610_0163.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
