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cause_n	cold_a	disease_n	humour_n	1,538	5	8.2799	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35396	Semeiotica uranica, or, An astrological judgment of diseases from the decumbiture of the sick (1) from Aven Ezra by the way of introduction, (2) from Noel Duret by way of direction ... : to which is added, The signs of life or death by the body of the sick party according to the judgment of Hippocrates / by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. ...; Semeiotica uranica	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Hippocrates. Prognostica.; Duret, Noël, ca. 1590-ca. 1650.; Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167.	1651 (1651)	Wing C7547; ESTC R7964	79,136	212

much difference as is between eight pence and two groats Under Libra besides they say are the Hams Buttocks Bladder and Navel thus Authors And I quoted it onely to this end that young Students may see what a monster tradition is and may avoid being led by the Nose by it as Beares are led to the Stake You know well enough if the blind lead the blind what will become of them both Let every one that desires to be called by the name of Artist have his wits in his head for that 's the place ordained for them and not in his books The Hams are under Capricorn the Bladder under Scorpio the Navel under Virgo aske Doctor Reason and see if he tell you not the same tale 8. Under Scorpio are the Secrets of both Sexes it is not very fitting for me to name them as also the feminall Vessels all the vessels dedicated to the Generation of man the bladder and fundament and therefore though artists cry out so much against the Scorpion for a false deceitfull treacherous mischievous violent poysonsome sign Let them look back to the rock from whence they are hewen It may be they shall see the reasons of some of their violent speeches against my self A word is enough to wise men Let them not speake evill of what they know not This is is most certaine from those parts of the body under the dominion of Scorpio have all men and women in generall the influence of their propagation And in them take they their greatestpleasure And thus have I spoken something for a Signe which every one speaks against 9. Time will not stay therefore I must be briefe under Sagittarius are the thighs the bone called Os sacrum which whether justly so called or unjustly I know not It is either Jewish superstition or worse The rump-bone the thigh-bone together with all the appurtenance belonging to the thigh Some Authors say the hams are under Sagittarius but then they are beside the Cushion 10 Under Capricorne are the knees hams and what belongs unto them 11 Under Aquarius are the leggs and whatsoever belongs unto them even from the outward skin called Cuticula to the midst of the marrow in both bones for these are two of them which Chirurgions because they would keep you in ignorance called Focile majus Focile minus or if you will tibia fibula They all know what the bones are but a quarter of them are not able to give you a reason why the bones are so called Pray take notice of this in going about to make slaves of you they have made fools of themselves 12 Lastly Pisces claimes the feet and ancles toes and all the bones To write like a scholler 't is tarsus metatarsus and the bones of the toes It rules also the skinne of the foot the flesh and vessels betwixt the skin and the bones For though the sign be the weakest in the Zodiack it is unwilling altogether to leave you nought but skin and bones Also some Authors hold an opinion that the signes carry the same signification in order that the houses of heaven do and that Aries should signifie life Taurus estate Gemini Brethren and short journeys you know the rest Truly My owne opinion is many Authors invented whimsies and when they had done set them downe to posterity for truth who taking them up without tryall cloathed Tradition in Plush and left poor reason to goe in Rags An Author said so ergo tis true right or wrong I take this to be one of that generation and I prove it thus By this account Cancer should rule the Fathers but experience tels us that an ill Planet in Cancer in the genesis threatens evill to the Mother but in Leo to the Father A word is enough to a wise man Also there is another signification of the Planets according to the respective signes therein Every Planet making his Aries in his owne house I forbeare it here First of all because it conduceth not much to my present scope for example a Urine came to me about a yeare agoe Mercury was the afflicting Planet and in Aries according to this rate Mercury rules the leggs and privities but the man was diseased in his head for he was madd I gave you a table of it in my Guide for women and I am as loath to write one thing twice as you are to pay for one thing twice If this will not content you you are so hard to be pleased that I shall not undertake to please you but to please my selfe and in so doing I am confident to please some body else CHAP. X. How the nature and kind of the Disease may be found out by the Figure of the decumbiture 1. THe nature of the disease is found out three wayes First by the houses of heaven of which the 6th 7th and 12th signifie diseases 2 By the nature of the signes of which fiery signe signifie choler and diseases thence proceeding earthly signes signifies the diseases of melancholy aery Signes diseases of blood and wind watery signes diseases of water and salt flegme 3 By the Planets themselves and their aspects All this I shall make cleer by this subsequent discourse before which I shall premise these following Aphorismes 1 If Saturne signifie the disease t is like to continue long enough if not too long yet if he be with benevolents it mitigates if with malevolents it increaseth the evil 2 Saturne in Leo or Capricorn with the Dragons head or taile or with Venus cumbust or with violent fixed stars he stirs up pestilences or other pernicious feavers that are little better 3 Saturne alone in fiery signes shewes Hectick Feavers 4 In watry signs sicknesses or watry humours The disease comes of grosse and vicious humours which will continue long with continuall fluxes and cold tremblings 5 Saturne in moveable signes shewes flux of humors in all parts of the body Imagine the Dropsie or other diseases like to it and yet it is some question to me whether Saturne cause Dropsies yea or no unlesse assisted by the Moon in signification 6 Saturne in common signes gives compound diseases and such as run out of one disease into another and yet they passe leasurely out of one disease into another to you may almost whip a snaile as fast you may easily see it before it come if your eyes be in your head 7 Saturne in fixed signes if in Leo gives hectique feavers in other fixed signes quartane agues gouts leprosies and other diseases that stay longer then they are welcome 8. If Jupiter cause the disease look to the Liver for that 's afflicted the digestion is bad bloud abounds either in quantity or quality a thousand to one if it be not too hot 9 Jupiter in fiery signes bestowes upon men such feavers as come of bloud without putrefaction such as the Greeks cal Synochus non putrida they last but a very little while 10 Mars gives violent feavers with

he wrote true that writes that pride goes before a fall and a haughty mind before destruction my Genius is too dull to commend my Author or to give him the thousanth part of his due praise I desire to be censured by Dr. Experience who will give judgement without partiality and I hope 't is no disparagement to Monsieur Duryat that I deliver him in my own Language CHAP. I. The Definition of the word Crisis as Vse Cause Kinds Division and Difference CRisis according to Galen is a swift and suddain change of any disease whereby the sick is either brought to recovery or death and a sick man can be brought to nothing else unless you will make him a beast of a man For every swift and suddain change where-ever it happens whether in the Moon or the Aire or sick body Galen playes the man and calls a Crisis and from this Crisis is Judgement given whether the sicke be like to live or dye The word Crisis is a Greek word derived {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifieth to judge or discern or pass sentence upon a thing therefore Criticall dayes are nothing else but dayes wherein a man may discern a disease or give Judgement upon it be it good or bad it matters not much 't is taken by a Metaphor from the Judiciall Court to the Art of Physick because 't is something like to plead mans cause for his life and to labour acutely under a disease to be drawn by Inimicall accusers before the Judgement Seat and to run the hazzard of life with a cruell and hoftil Disease Moreover there are three things requisite to a judicial Court the Accuser the Person indicted and the Judge So likewise are there three things by which the Art of Physick consisteth and by which every cure is perfected 1. The Disease 2. Nature and the Physitian which is natures servant or at least should be so and 3. the accidents which manifest what the disease is and stand as witnesses The cause of the Crisis is twofold inward outward the internal cause is taken from i'ts one proper principle if you will believe Hippocrates and that is double or two-fold for either nature labours to expell the humour that causeth the disease or else the humour it selfbeing drawn to a place and not fit for Excretion by i'ts own weight or quality burdens nature and soares break out Hippocrates was but a man and I am no more a man saith he is troubled when he is in a Fever and the sign is horror trembling running hither and thither throughout the Microcosm this is one internal cause The second internall cause Others there be 't is no matter who that ascribe the efficient cause of the Crisis to nature it self Nature if she be strong as 't is pitty but she should not is a good Physitian for all diseases and concocts the humour which causes the disease and separates that which is good from that which is bad and having done so prepares that which breeds annoyances for Excretion and at last makes a shift to cast it out The externall cause of the Crisis is caused by an alteration of the Aire whence ariseth an alteration of the breath a man draws in from cold to heat from dry to moist or the contraries to them both For Hippocrates himself in his six Aphorisme three Comment and in his Treatise De {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} speaks in down dunstable language that heat and moisture in the body moves forward the Crisis for diseases some saith he come by ill Dyet other by the Aire we draw in So then the Dyet as it breeds such and such humours in the body is internal but the Aire we draw in is the externall cause of the Crisis And now give me leave to leave my Author and yet I will not forget him quite neither The Lord eternall in the beginning when he made the Creation made it of a composition of contraries discord makes a harmony as in Musicke if the World be composed of a composition of contraries various must needs be the disposition of mans life Hence comes sometimes health sometimes sicknesse sometimes melancholy sometimes choler to the body of man and happy is that man that knows himself These qualities in man being altered by the various influences of the Stars the Sphere of the one carrying a swifter motion then the Sphere of the other then various must needs be the disposition of mans body The Luminaries carry the greatest strength in the heavens and so do the time-servers in the State and this needs not be doubtful to any body if you consider that the sound of a Drum or Trumpet incites a man to valour and the sound of a Fiddle to dancing Besides other manifest effects of the Luminaries appeare to our eyes Who makes hours and dayes and seasons in the year is it not the Sun who makes alterations in the Aire in Plants and in living Creatures What is the reason that Oysters are suller at the ful moon then at the new To the number of Oysters joyne Crabs and Lobsters nay the marrow in the body of Man is it not the Moon A man if he pleaseth may say his right hand is his left and a prating Priest may preach his pleasure let Doctor experience be judge Now then we have brought the matter to this purpose that the Universall cause of the Crisis is the influence of the heavens for the Celestiall bodyes either by heat light motion or aspect configuration or all of them or some of them act not onely in the four Elements but Elementary bodyes for if they act in the one they must needs in the other and then by consequence in man which is but compounded of Elements The earth is a great lump of dirt rolled up together and by an onely wise God hangs in the Aire the Stars are no more neither is the Moon onely what mettle the Sun is made of I know not If the bodies of men are Elementary composed of Fire Aire Earth and Water he must needs participate in one measure or other of all these Elements The Elements being contraries cannot alwayes agree hence comes the cause of health sometimes of sicknesse sometimes death it self and Aristotle was halfe of my opinion when he wrote these words From the Rain and Dew of Heaven both good and bad things are caused to bud The kinds of Crisis are two one in acute diseases and they are to be judged by the Moon the other in long and lasting or chronick diseases which are to be judged of by the Sun For those Crises which come from their own proper principle are from the internall cause depending onely upon the motions of the Moon and her Configurations and aspects to the place she was in at the Decumbiture But you must note in acute diseases the aspects or radiations of the Moon to wit her Quartile or Opposition are not taken from the Coniunction of