Obseruations to be vsed in letting of blood, purging, bathing, and Sweating. &c.
Of Blood letting.
LEt not Blood at any time without iust cause, for it bringeth weaknes, and many infirmities: and when it is to be done, let [...] be with due considerations, and the aduice of some learned Phisition, so that it may be done (if necessitie enforce not the contrarie) after good digestion, and fasting, in a fayre temperate day [...] and beware of all maner of excesse, as labouring, watchyng, carnall copulation. &c.
And these Signes generally are good to let Blood in, namely, Aries, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces.
Perticulerly, for chollericke persons, when the Moone is in Cancer, Scorpius, and Pisces.
For the flemmaticke in Aries & Sagittarius [...] [Page] [...]es: and it is best comforted, when the Moone [...]s in Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
The second is the vertue digestiue, so named, because it digesteth or altereth the noryshment into a due forme. If it be too weake to do the [...]ffice, it is best strengthened when the Moone [...]s in Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
The third is the vertue retentiue, and is cal [...]ed so, because it keepeth in the good noryshment, [...]artyll the digestiue vertue hath duely digested [...]nd changed it. It is chiefly holpen, the Moone [...]eing in Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorne.
The fourth is called the vertue expulsiue, because his office is to expell and put out those superfluous excrementes whiche remayne when [...]he other vertues haue done their offices duely. It is best relieued the Moone being in Can [...]er, Scorpius, and Pisces.
The vertue Attractiue is gouerned of ye Sunne. The vertue Digestiue is gouerned of Iupiter. The vertue Retentiue is gouerned of Saturne. The vertue Expulsiue is gouerned of ye Moone.
Of the Eclipses of this yeer [...] of our Lord. 1591.
AS touching the Eclipses in this yeer [...] which are three in number: that is to sa [...] one of the Sunne happening the .x. day [...] Iuly, at two of the clocke and .xxvi. min. in th [...] after noone, beyng darkened but one poyn [...] which is a very small thyng, and of no gre [...] signification.
And the seconde (which is the first of th [...] Moone) is the .xxvi. day of Iuly, at .iiii. of t [...] clocke in the after noone also, and vnder o [...] Horizon, being yet darkened .xvii. poyntes a [...] a halfe. &c.
And the thirde, which is the seconde of t [...] Moone, is the .xx. day of December at three [...] the clocke, and .xx. min. in the mornyng, in t [...] signe. Cancer, & wyll be darkened .xix. poyn [...] and more in the .viii. house of the Heauens.
Of these I say, in respect that one sh [...] not be seene of vs at all, and another very lyt [...] and the thyrde, though it shalbe manifes [...] seene, yet the effectes thereof shall not take pla [...] [...] [Page]declares & shewed in the perticuler iudgementes of the dayes of the monethes, conteyning this first quarter. &c.
The distemperance of this quarter is lyke to breed [...] [...]any sicknesses, and sundry diseases, aswel i [...]ng folkes, as in old, as namely Agues of all fates, Stitches, grypinges, the Collicke, Surf [...]tes, the Megrime, and ache in the Head and Shoulders, Plurisies, small Pockes, Wor [...]es in the Maw, Horsenes, Rewine, Catharre [...], Coughes, hardnes in fetching the breath the Strangurie, and such others, paynefull to [...]ffer, and not easie to cure.
Of the Spring time.
THe Spring taketh his beginning at the [...]mes entring into the first min. of the f [...]e Aries, which shalbe on Thurseday the .x [...] [...] of March, at .iii. of the clocke and .xvi. min. in the after noone, making the day & nyght to be [...]ne length through the whole worlde.
The quarter of the yeere is naturally hot and moyst temperately, and is therfore reckoned the most [...]lsome tyme in the yeere, and it is now the b [...] tyme to remoue sicknesses, and griefes [Page]gotten before, and also to preuent those to come: for if the body of man do abounde with humors, which are ready to oppresse nature, whether there be present sicknes by the meanes of them, or els danger of sicknes to come: those humors are best to be emptied out of the body nowe, eyther by lettyng of blood, purging, hathyng, sweating, or such lyke euacuation, which at this tyme I wyll not prosecute.
The disposition of the weather in this quarter of the yeere, is lyke to be very variable and inconstant: for as there are lyke to be many hot and dry dayes, shewyng a great l [...]clynes of continuance: so on the contrary there wylbe often shewers tempered with the sam [...] and sundry clappes of thunder and lyghtninges, making the weather vncertayne, with cloudi [...] distempered heate, and moystnes.
The sicknesses lyke to be in this [...], are Feuers of long continuance, Fluxes of the belly, the faslyng sicknes, rotten coughes, thinne rewines, the head ache, pluresies, h [...]tre impostumes in the brestes and sydes, Stitches, Crampes, payne in the necke and br [...], with dyuers others, both noysome and also [...]nous. [...] [Page]most part stormie, and very colde, with great inconstantie, as cloudy sometime, and thycke darke weather: at other tymes fierce raines by shewers, & often dryuing wyndes, with snow or fleete myrt with rayne. At other times thunder, with rai [...], and such lyke distempered weather.
It is to be feared that nowe some strange sickness [...] and vnknowen diseases shall happen, and be heard of among the people, and also burnyng A [...]s, inflammation of the Lunges, passions of the Hart, obstructions in the L [...]uer, weakenes in the Backe, swellyng and hardnes in the Sp [...]ent, Rewines, Catharres, watery F [...]ures, and such lyke, both dangerous & deadly.
God of his great mercy turne from vs all those euylles which are entended against vs, and geue vs grace to amende our wicked lyues, the procuring causes of all our punishmentes, and let vs first be carefull for our soules, as for our [...] [Page] [...] deane contrarie: As first, to study for good [...], next for health, and last for wealth for yf [...] first seeke the kingdome of God, and the [...]ousnes thereof, the other things [...]albe [...]inistred vnto vs. But we see by ex [...]ence [...] at is too common, so great blindnes [...] be a [...]ong men, that they care in such wise for ryches [...]ely, that in respect thereof, they [...] lytle [...]r health of the body, and nothing at all for the [...]ood estate and prosperitie of the soule, [...] cause [...]ost lamentable and sorowfull.