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] ...

¶ The herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that are appro¦pryate to the Sonne.

☞ Of herbes.

HElytrope, or Mary∣goldes, Poligon, Pio∣ny, Celidon, Citraria, Gynger, Gentiā, Dip∣tayne, Veruaine, Lau∣rel, Cedre, Palme, Asshe, Iue, Peper Amaracus, Vynes, Mynte royall, setwal, Saffron, Balme, Hony, Lig¦num Alloes, Cloues, Cinamonde,

Calamus Aromatycus, Amber, Muske, Rosemarye.

Of stones, the Egle stone, oculus, Carbūcle, Chrisolite, Iris, Helitrop the grene Iacincte, Topazion.

Of gummes, mastycke, Balme,

Of mettalles pure golde.

☞ The partes of man that the Sonne gouerneth.

☞ The Sonne ruleth the Brayne, the herte, the thyghes, the mary, the right eye, & y^e spiritual life, y^e mouth, the tongue, with all the organs, and instrumentes that belongeth bothe to the outwarde and inwarde sēses, also the handes, feete and synewes, with the vertue fantasticall.

☞ The signes of heauen wherein the Sonne hath gretest domina∣cion to vs of Englande.

☞ The Sonne hath the greateste lordeshyp in Leo, and also in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, and Libra, and in all thinges contei¦ned

vnder these sygnes, and is the chiefe workeman, to whom all other planettes are but instrumentes.

✿ The constellacions of heauen, in whom the Sonne hath the grea¦test influence to vs in Englande.

¶ The Sonne hath influence in Andromeda, in the heade of Algoll, in Pleiades, in Aldebaran, in the Gote, in the great Dogge, and lytel Dogge, in the Lyons herte, in the tayle of the great Bere, in the winge of the Rauen, in the virgyn spycke, and in Alchameth, and in al thinges conteined vnder these cōstellacions. Also about the degres appointed in the signes where the most pryncipal Sterres of these constellacyons are set, the Sonne suffreth alterations accordynge to the nature of the pla∣nettes, of whome these sterres hath influence, from tyme to tyme by the course and passage of the Moone,

y^t ministreth frō the one, to the other, as I haue sayd before in the epystle.