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] ...

Title

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] ...

Author

Askham, Anthony, fl. 1553.

Publication

[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 November 10, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• poem
• ❧: THE EPISTLE to the Reader.
• ☞ The deuysion of this boke.
• ❧ HERE BEGYNNETH the firste parte, the whiche treateth of the seuen planets,
  • and fyrste of the herbes, stones, gums, and mettalles that are appropriate to the planet Sa∣turne.
    • ¶ The partes of mans body that Saturne ruleth and gouerneth.
    • ❧ The signes of heuen in whom Saturne hath great strength and Lordeshyppe.
    • ❧ In what constellacion df hea∣uen, Saturne hath lordship and dominion.
  • ❧ Of herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that are appro∣priate to the planette Iupiter.
    • ✿ The partes of mans body that Iupiter ruleth and gouerneth.
    • {fleur-de-lys} The sygnes of heauen that Iu∣piter hath dominion and lordeshyppe in
    • ¶ The constellacions of heauen wherin Iupiter hath influence.
  • {fleur-de-lys} The herbes, stones, gummes and mettalles, that hath influence of the planet Mars.
    • ✿ The partes of mans body that Mars ruleth.
    • ☞ The sygnes of heauen in whom Mars hath great dominacion.
    • ¶ The cōstellacions of heauen in whō Mars hath dominion.
  • ¶ The herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that are appro¦pryate to the Sonne.
    • ☞ The partes of man that the Sonne gouerneth.
    • ☞ The signes of heauen wherein the Sonne hath gretest domina∣cion to vs of Englande.
    • ✿ The constellacions of heauen, in whom the Sonne hath the grea¦test influence to vs in Englande.
  • {fleur-de-lys} The herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that hath influence of the planette Venus.
    • ❧ Of the partes of mans bodye that Venus gouerneth.
    • ¶ The signes of heauen, in whom Venus hath dominacion.
    • ☞ what constellacyons are ru∣led by Venus.
  • ¶ The herbes, stones, and mettals that hath influence of the planette Mercurye.
    • {fleur-de-lys} The partes of mans bodye that Mercury ruleth.
    • ☞ The sygnes of heauen in whom Mercurye is the Lorde.
    • ☞ The constellacion of Heauen in whō Mercury hath dominion.
  • ✿ The herbes, stones, gummes, and mettalles, that hath influ∣ence of the Moone,
    • ☞ What parte of mans bodye the Moone ruleth.
    • ¶ The sygne of heauen wherin the Moone hath dominacion.
    • ¶ In what constellacion of heauen the Moone hath dominacion.
• ❧ HERE BEGYNNETH the .ii. parte, the whiche treateth of the .xii. sygnes and of the appropriation, and influence that they haue in Herbes, Stones, Gummes and mettalles, and in the pertycular partes of mans body, and what principal Sterres of certayne constellacions, are conteyned in euery sygne, and fyrst of the signe of the Ramme called in the Almanacke Aryes.
  • astrological sign - Ares
  • astrological sign - Taurus
  • astrological sign - Gemini
  • astrological sign - cancer
  • astrological sign - Leo
  • astrological sign - Virgo
  • astrological sign - Libra
  • astrological sign - Scorpio
  • astrological sign - Sagittarius
  • astrological sign - Capricorn
  • astrological sign - Aquarius
  • astrological sign - Pisces
• ❧ HERE BEGYNNETH the thyrde parte the which declareth by example howe ye shal brynge the vertue and nature of the heauens, and sterres to what parte of the body that ye wyl, and first for the sickenesse of the heade as sayth Messahala.
• table
• colophon