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Title:  Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...
Author: Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.
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I have known many who have been cured of the Ague by this writing only worn about them; and I had the receipt from one whose Daughter was cured thereby, who had the Ague upon her two years.Concerning several kinds of madness, with the true Astrological way of Cure, as followeth.I shall not enter upon any large discourse hereof nor yet take notice of Authors, who without question have writ∣ten Learnedly hereupon My intent being only to write what I find by my own daily Practice and experience here∣in: according unto which I find, that there are several cau∣ses of madness, and several kinds of madness I mean in re∣lation to their actions and behaviour, whilst they are in this condition: First, concerning the Cause, for except it be known, its impossible, except by accident to work a cure, which for to find, you must erect a Figure, either for the time of the first fit, or any other more than ordinary strong fit, and to be sure, so to vary your ascendant, that it together with its Lord may exactly personate the sick, and then by the Rules of Art, examine whether the grief be Natural or other∣wise, from Witchcraft or Sorcery: if Natural, then from what original cause, as whether from love, loss of honour, friends, estate, or any other, more than ordinary vexation, and such like; for then the distemper will be wholly in the Animal and vital spirits, for we may be assured, that whatsoever the external or internal sences do comprehend, which proceed from the brain: the Vital spirits▪ which proceed∣eth from the heart doth immediately put into action be it mirth or sorrow: in curing these kinds of madness, you must heed the Complexion and Temper of the Patient; for as in Drunkenness, so in Madness, you will assuredly dis∣cover their Elementall, Qualities, and Natural Conditions: If Choler abounds, then they will be violent in their Actions. and very apt to quarrel. If they are by nature Sanguine, then they will be inclined unto mirth, as singing, dancing, and the like. And such who are by nature Melancholy, and Mad, usually are given unto sadness, sighing and much silence, seldom pleased. And those who are by nature Flegmatick, 0