A sick Doctor, what was his Disease? If curable?

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The Sign ascending in this Question is ♍, the Chelae notable fixed Stars neer unto the Ascendant, yet is it not afflicted all manner of Questions. 287 by the evill position or presence of any evill Planet; therefore I must next look to the sixth house, and see if it be afflicted, wherein I finde ♄ in his Fall, who thereby afflicts that house, which naturally signifies Diseases by his unlucky presence; from whence I concluded, that from thence and from that house I must require the part or member of the Body afflicted or most grieved, as you may read page 244. ♈ represents the Head, as you may see page 245. ♄ in ♈ signifieth the Brest, as page 113. ♂ Lord of the Ascendant in ♌ doth signifie the Heart. The Lord of the Ascendant is ♂, and him you may finde but lately separated from a □ dexter of ♄, both of them in Cardinall Signs, ♂ at time of that □ in ♋, which presents the Brest and Stomack: from hence I positively concluded, as to the party of Body grieved, they were the Head, Brest, Heart and Stomack, and that there lodged in the Brest or Stomack some melanchollick Obstruction, the cause of all his disease and Misery. From what Cause the Sickness was. ♄ Being principal Significator of the Infirmity, in his own Terms, and the ☽ in his house applying unto him, did promote Melancholly, and such dry Diseases as are occasioned from melancholly distempers, and might abide in the Head and Brest: what Infirmities ♄ naturally signifieth, see page 244. how to make a right mixture, your Physicians best know, and what Diseases man may be subject unto in those parts, and may proceed from such causes as abovesaid. ♂ Lord of the Ascendant was also in the Terms of ♄, and the ☽ out of his Terms, applyed to a □ of ☉, and he in ♂ his Terms; so that Choler was a secondary cause of this Doctor's sickness; and indeed when I came to speak with him, he was afflicted with great pain and rumbling in his head, very silent, dull and melancholly, slept very little, had a very dry Cough, and complained of great weakness and pain in his Brest, and at the Heart; his Complexion was betwixt black and yellow, as if there was inclination to the Jaundies; he had besides besides these; a lingring Consumption and great Weariness all over him, and in every joynt, for the ☽ is in an aery Sign; and as ♍ doth ascend, which signifies the Secrets, Stone in the Bladder; so doth also the ☽ in ♒ signifie the Secrets and Diseases therein, &c. so had he difficulty in making Urine, voyded red gravell, and was greatly pained in those parts, &c. Having my self little judgment in Physick, I advised him to prescribe for himself such Physicall Medicines as were gently hot, moyst and cordial, whereby he might for a while prolong his life; for the ☽ in the fourth in ♓ with ♄, argued sickness untill death: He dyed the fourteenth of August following. Whether the Disease would be long or short? ♄ Being author of the Disease, shewed it would be permanent, or of some continuance, as page 248. for he is a ponderous, slow Planet: besides, the Angles of the Figure are all fixed, the ☽ and ☉ both in fixed Signs, and in □, out of Angles, both in the Terms of an Infortune; ♂ Lord of the Ascendant and sixth in a fixed Sign; all these portended the longitude of the Disease: Besides, the Antiscion of ♂ fals neer the ☉, and thereby afflicteth him, being the Luminary of the time. CHAP. all manner of Questions. 289

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8 May 1645, 6:15 P.M.