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] ...

[illustration] depiction of Aquarius: naked man pouring water into a river from jars in each hand

AQVA∣rie is a signe of .24. Sters, and hath y^e herbe Dragons, & all thynges cōteined vn∣der Saturne and in the .xvi. degree is a sterre set whose hole cōstellacion is called the Vulture cadens, the whiche geueth influence to the herbe Sauery, and Fumiter, and to the stone Chrysolite and to all these vnder Venus, and Mercurye in the .xvi. degre. Also in the .xiiii. degre ryseth a sterre called the tayle of Capricorne, the whiche hath the herbe Maioran, Mugwed Nepta, Pulyall royall, the roote of Mandrage, & the Chalcedoni stone, and all these that are vnder Saturne and Mercuri, in the .xiiii, degre, Also Aquary gouerneth the calfe & small

of the legges and to haue the vertue of the sters in these places mynister the herbes vnder their influence, as is aforesayde.