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blood_n	body_n	great_a	part_n	6,429	4	4.3809	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00136	An astrological discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the tvvo superiour planets, Saturne & Iupiter, which shall happen the 28 day of April, 1583. With a briefe declaration of the effectes, which the late eclipse of the sunne 1582. is yet heerafter to woorke. / Written newly by Richard Harvey: partely, to supplie that is wanting in cõmon prognostications: and partely by prædiction of mischiefes ensuing, either to breed some endeuour of preuention by foresight, so farre as lyeth in vs: or at leastwise, to arme vs with pacience beforehande.	Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?	1583 (1583)	STC 12909.7; ESTC S92875	40,607	102

verses to be seene in many auncient Calenders which kind of verses for the matter commonly are currant enough and then the conuenientest time of the moneth for the 1. Sanguine 2. Chollerick 3. Melancholy 4. Phelgmatick the Moone being in 1. Any of the signes following 2. Cancer or Pisces 3. Aquarius firste halfe of Libra 4. Aries or Sagittarius Ratio Contraria contrarijs curantur Howbeit some specially commend Cancer Aequarius and Pisces for letting of bloud but Pisces can not be so good being a common or bicorporall signe also the best and most laudable Aspects for this purpose or these according to our soundest writers in this kind the coniunction of the Moone with Iupiter or Venus are simply and principally best so that Venus be not combust the trine or sextile of the Moone with Iupiter Sol Venus and Mercury are good but especially with Iupiter or Mercury the quartile or opposition of the Moone with Iupiter or Venus doth well the trine or sextile of the Moone with Mars are reasonable good or indifferent the time of the moneth for Youth from the chaunge to the first quarter Middle age from the first quarter to the full Elderly age from the full to the last quarter Olde age from the last quarter to the chaunge Ratio Simile gaudet suo simili Howbeit no child would be let bloud before fourtéene yeares of age nor old man after seuentie vnlesse his strength be the greater and somewhat more than ordinarie at those yeares 5. Time of the day and diet The time of the day must be either Morning after the rising of the Sunne when a man is yet fasting which is simply the best excepting the houres of Saturne and Mars and choosing specially the houres of Iupiter and Venus whose nature is most temperate After none after reasonable good or rather perfect digestion and expulsion of superfluities And withall regard must be had of the aier y t it be not either too hot or too cold or clowdie but calme cleare and temperate the winde being then either Northerly or else Westerly for the South wind is no friend to Phlebotomie Ratio Callidum nimium dissoluit Frigidum nimium refrigerat Exception Notwithstanding the premises if this bloud letting be for the Phrenesie the Pestilence the Squynancie the Pleurisie the Apoplexie for a continuing headach procéeding of choler or bloud or for any hotte burning feuer or other extreame paine a man in such a case may not tarie a chosen time regularly set downe by the Astronomer or Phisitian because haply the pacient might miscarrie in the meane season but incontinently with all conuenient spéede he is to séeke his remedie this way vnlesse either him selfe be very weake or like to sounde or the Moone be in the same signe that ruleth that verie parte of his bodie Marrie in the foresayed case of extreamitie bloud is not to be let in so great a quantitie as otherwise it would if a chose time might conueniently be exspected As before bloud letting these circumstances of complexion age and times are to be considered so after bloud letting like consideration is to be had of our meates and exercise For meates we must take none but sutch as are of an easie and light digestion For exercise we are to abstaine from all vntill the fourth day exclusiue not only those that be vehement as riding running leaping vawting wrastling fensing tennise c. But also such as are more mild as walking bowling bathing and specially venerie Which both antecedent and consequent limitations being duely orderly obserued I doubt not but I may effectually conclude with that auncient commendation of Phlebotomie giuen out in two common verses Exhilarat tristes iratos placat amantes Ne sint amentes Phlebotomia facit And thus much or rather thus litle of Phlebotomie hoping you will fauourably accept of this Astrological and Phisicke table togeather with the other rude papers vntill better oportunitie and greater leasure accompanied with more reading shall afforde some péece of worke otherwise laboured and more schollerly handled than on such a sodaine this coulde be Rome they say was not builded in a day nor any worke of price huddled vp in hast euerie thing must haue a reasonable time and it is impossible for a beginner or nouice in any facultie to attaine vnto that perfection which long experience and much meditation haue hardly bred in men of farre riper yeres greater studie The best is I know vnto whō I write and I truste at my retourne I shall finde you as I haue alwaies rather a gentle reformer than a sharpe controller You know I vse not to dote vpon mine owne errours but as in all things else so in this pamflet am ready to correct or amend any thing that shall be found amisse being glad to holde the auncient rule Errare possum haereticus esse nolo which I pray God I may alwaies follow as well in the conclusions of this science as of any other But truly brother I feare me I haue now bene too vnreasonable tedious vnto you and therefore wil here once againe take my leaue and bid you hartily farewell wishing you as my selfe From my fathers in Walden the 6. of December 1582. Your louing brother euer at commaundement RICHARD HARVEY AT LONDON Imprinted by Henry Bynneman with the assent of R. W.

and September 3 Haruest will be diuers and inconstant moyst windy cloudy temperate and dry 4 The Winter season is moste like to be vnseasonable tedious very long not without great store of haile raine snow many boisterous windes and very much colde harde sharpe and tempestuous weather The whole yeare to speake more vniuersally is like to proue but a bad yeare for al maner of cattel but especially and principally for shéepe Pease Beanes I suppose wil be plentifull good cheape but wheat by my coniectures wil be scarce very deare Barlie shall be indifferent but yet of the two rather deare than cheape We are like to haue good store of Honie sufficient plenty of Oyle Butter Chéese shal be somewhat deare we are not to looke for any store or aboundance of fruite a dearth of victuals is much to be feared grieuous losses by shipwracke sundry dammages by fire many shamefull whoredoms thefts robberies spoiles oppressions treacheries and mutinies greatly to be dreaded perillous factions seditions tumults insurrections vprores togither with hot preparance for warre to be loked for especially in y e Northeast cuntries Many infirmities diseases shall generally raigne both amongest men womē children procéeding of vnnaturall moistnes distemperate heat as by y e Euent wil more sensibly appeare The death of some mighty renowmed Magistrate by all Astrological Coniectures is to ensue finally a sore mortalitie is very like to inuade many places as well somewhat neare hand as farther off which God of his euerlasting goodnes mercy turne from his Elect continuing our happy state and quietnes in Ingland to his gracious pleasure Hauing thus much presumed of your paciēce cōtrary to my maner in such priuat writings I wil yet aduenture to trouble you a litle farther with y e view of a certain Phisical Astrological table of Phlebotomie which vpon occasion I haue lately drawne already cōmunicated w t a friend or two studious this way desirous thereof I will not say but some error may peraduēture scape me therin as in y e rest if you happen to light vpon any such I am to craue pardon as in y e rest The only preamble I here thinke néedeful is y e notable Astrological Phisical iudgement giuē out by Hermes Trismegistus him self in y e very ende of his Iätromathematica ad Amonem Aegyptium thus translated into Latine by Stadius in the Prolegomena to his Ephemerides Multū refert in quae hora primus morbi insultus deprehēdetur obseruare an eo tēpore benefici in ortu sint aut mediū coeli occupent plus námque sic cōstituti collapsis alióqui viribus opis subministrabunt quam praestantissimus possit Medicus scrutari igitur diē horā decubitus exactè oportebit mundi positū examinare nihil enim homini superuenit quod ex coelesti consensu sympathia non oriatur originem ducat Which famous authenticall Maxime of Hermes togither with the long approued verse borrowed from Hesiode Ipsa Dies hodie Mater cras ipsa Nouerca may generally suffice for the iustifying of that difference distinction of houres dayes and times which either here is or els where may Astrologically and Phisically be maintained And so with my dutifull Commendacions I hartily commit you to the protection of God being loth to be ouertedious in officious wordes or sentences of curtesie howsoeuer other whiles I may chaunce to ouershoote my selfe in matter of Discourse A COMPENDIOVS Table of Phlebotomie or bloud-letting setting downe by diuision the generall and speciall considerations thereunto belonging AS in other things so in Phlebotomy or letting of bloud the Cause is first skillfully circumspectly to be considered as that it be to purge the bodye of some vnnaturall naughty and superfluous humor whose substance is either simple or mixt simple when it doth of it selfe without the admixtion of any other degenerate as bloud doth when it putrifieth in the veines the pores being stopped mixt when it is mingled with some that is already corrupted as in the Dropsie where the bloud is mixt with water then the Cause being thus allowed vpon certainly knowen for néedefull and good to the pacient for otherwise letting of bloud is very daungerous and openeth a way to many grieuous infirmities and withall here would generally be noted that it is not cōuenient either for a very leane weake man or for a very fat grosse man to be let bloud there remaine to be considered How it stādeth with y e Pacient inwardly 1. for his complexion 2. age outwardly 3. for the time of the yeare and moneth generally 4. for the time of the day and diet particularly 1. Complexion 1. In the complexion is to be considered whether he be 1. Sanguine that is hot and moist 2. Collerick that is hot and dry 3. Melancholy that is cold and dry 4. Phlegmatick that is cold and moist 2. Age. 2. In his age whether he be in his youth in his manly or middle age in his elderly age in his crooked old age 3. The time of the yeare Concerning the time of the yeare he is to be aduised what partes thereof are good as the Spring from the middest whereof to the beginning of summer is simply the best time for this purpose howbeit some thinke Autumne reasonable good as no doubt it is in comparison either of summer or winter being otherwise in it selfe to be reckned rather for bad than good bad very bad as Summer and Winter for their extremitie of heate cold more tolerable as Autumne being somewhat more temperate 4. The time of the moneth Concerning the time of the moneth these generall Cautions are to be obserued that he be not let bloud in any member with any chirurgical instrument either The Moone being in Tauro Geminis Leone Virgine or Capricorno or the last halfe of Libra first of Scorpio The Sinne the Moone or the Lord of the Horoscope being in the signe that ruleth that member The Moone being in any part of via lactea or in via combusta or in domo casus sui or being vacua or tarda cursu or in terminis infortuniorum or in the duodenarial diuision of the twelue houses placed either in 1.6.8 or 12. place thereof or applying to the Lorde of the 8. house The day before the day it selfe the daye after the change of the Moone Halfe a naturall day that is 12. howres before and as many howres after the quarters of the Moone A day before and a day after the full of the Moone A daye before and a day after the Coniunction Quartile or opposition of the Moone with Saturne or Mars A daye before the Coniunction of the Moone with Mercury or Venus or the head of the Dragon or taile of the Dragon infortunate beside other infortunate dayes in euery moneth seuerally noted in euery Almanack and expressely set downe in certaine olde Latine