A litell treatyse of astrouomy [sic] very necessary for physyke and surgerye, declarynge what herbes, and all kynde of medecynes are appropryate and vnder the influence of the planetes, sygnes and constellacyons : and also the partes and members of the bodye thereto correspondynge, and howe ye shall brynge the vertue of the heuens aud [sic] nature of the sters to euery parte of mans bodye beynge deseasad or sycke to the soner recoueraunce of helth : and also howe to chose the most luckey dayes and tymes for the aboue sayde, the whiche shal be appoynted by the almanacke yerelye, accordynge to the course of the moone, passynge by all the signes and sterres in one reuolucion / gathered and set forth by Anthony Askham physicio[n] ...

and fyrste of the herbes, stones, gums, and mettalles that are appropriate to the planet Sa∣turne.

¶ Of herbes, SEngrene, Affodyll, Serpentary, Rewe, Comyn, blake Ele∣bore, Mandragon, Opium, blacke Fig∣ges, Pyne tree, Cypresse tree.

And of stones, Saphire blacke Iasper, Chalcedon, Magnes, and the blacke Onichinus, a litel stone of Iude.

Of Gummes, blacke pytche.

Of metalles, the Marcasita of base Golde, Leade, and Antimony

¶ The partes of mans body that Saturne ruleth and gouerneth.

❧ Saturne gouerneth the lyuer and gall, and the flesshely parte of the stomake, and holdeth and re∣straineth all maner of fluxes.

❧ The signes of heuen in whom Saturne hath great strength and Lordeshyppe.

☞ Saturne hath domynacyon, and lordeshippe in Capricorne and Aquary, and in Libra, bycause of his exaltacions, and in all thinges continued vnder these signes.

❧ In what constellacion df hea∣uen, Saturne hath lordship and dominion.

¶ The constellacion of the blacke Rauen is of the nomber of seuen Sterres emonges whom is a payle Sterre vpon the lefte wyng of the Rauen the which hath disposicion and influence of Saturne at the

aforesayde daye of the .xvi. degre of Libra, and al other thinges contey∣ned vnder the cōstellacyon aforsaid, at that present tyme.