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] ...

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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] ...
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Askham, Anthony, fl. 1553.
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[London] :: Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the George nexte to Saynte Dunstones Churche by Wyllyam Powell,
M.D.L. the xx. day of Marche [20 Mar. 1550]
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Medical astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"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] ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22165.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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✿ The herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that hath influ∣ence of the Moone,

¶ Of herbes.

LVnary, Palme, Isope Rosemary, Agnus ca∣stus, Olyua, Chame∣lion.

Of stones, Selenites Perle, Berell.

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Of mettalles, the marcasyta of syluer, and pure syluer.

☞ What parte of mans bodye the Moone ruleth.

❧ The Moone gouerneth perty∣culerlye the brayne, longes, backe∣bone, the lefte eye and stomake, and all the excrementes of the body, and generally the Moone ruleth all the hole bodye▪ by dyuerse and sundry tymes as she passeth by ye. xii, signes

¶ The sygne of heauen wherin the Moone hath dominacion.

¶ The Moone is the lady of Can∣cer, & is honored in Taurus, so that all thynges conteyned vnder these sygnes are ruled by the Moone.

¶ In what constellacion of heauen the Moone hath dominacion.

{fleur-de-lys} The Moone hath damynion, in the taile of the great Bere, in the. vii degree of Libra, and in all thynges conteined vnder these cōstellacions, in the day of the degre aforesayde.

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