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 Scorpio: scorpion

SCorpyo, is a sign of .xxii. sters and hath the herbe Mug∣wede, Cala∣ment, Eupa∣torie, Tyme, Accorus, red Madder, Nepta, Myntryall, Ma∣tricaria, Nettels, Parataria, Hore∣hounde, Roses, Myrtus, and all o∣ther kīd of medecines made of these and geueth influence to all thinges vnder Mars. Also in the fourth de∣gre ryseth a sterre called Alchamech the which hath Plantayne, and the Iasper stone, and all thinges vnder Iupiter and Mars, in that degree. Also Scorpio gouerneth the geny∣tall and mattice, and to brynge the

vertues of the sters vnto these par∣tes, do as afore is said in Libra.