Ouranoskopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens, in a perpetual speculum, or general prognostication for ever wherein is succinctly demonstrated the names and natures of the signs, planets and aspects, terms of art, order of the spheres, the colours, magnitudes, motions, solid proportions and distances of the seven planets from the earth ... / by Iames Corss ...

CHAP. XII. Of the particular Diseases which the Planets signifie.

HAving told you in the preceeding Chapter of the particular Herbs and Planets under the government of the seven Planets, my next Talk is, to show what di∣seases each particular Planet signifieth, and they are these.

Saturn causeth Toothach, Quartan agues, all diseases of Melancholy, Cold and Drynesse, Leprosie, Rhumes, Consumptions, Black-jaundice, Palsies, Tremblings, Vain fears, Gouts, Hemarhoids, Broken bones, Dislocations, Deafnesse, Ruptures, (if Saturn be in Leo or Scorpio) Iliack passion, Chin-couch, Pains in the Blader, all long Diseases, all madness that comes of Melancholy or Fears of a Hob∣goblin, or Brouny.

Jupiter, all infirmities of the Liver and Veins, Infla∣mations of the Lungs, Plurifies and other Aposthums about the Breast and Ribs, all diseases proceeding of Pu∣trifaction of Blood, Wind, Quinsies and Feavers.

Mars, Pestilences, Burning-Feavers, Tertian and Quo∣tidian agues, Megrim, Carbuncles and Plague sores, Bur∣nings, Scadings, Ringworms, Blisters, Phrensies, Fury, Hairbrains, Sudden distempers of the Head coming of heat, Yellow-jaundice, Bloody-flux, Fistulas, all wounds

whatsoever, Diseases in the Instruments of Generation, Stones in the Reins or Bladder, Scars and Pockholls in the Face, all hurts by Iron or Fire, all diseases coming of Choler, Anger or Passion.

The Sun causeth Pimples and Buries in the Face, Affli∣ctions of the Heart, Heart-burning, Trembling, Faintings, Sore eyes, Diseases of the Mouth, all diseases of the heart, Stinking breath, Rotten feavers.

Venus, all diseases of the Womb, as Suffocation, Preci∣pitation, Dislocations, all diseases incident to the Instru∣ments of Generation, the Reins and Navel, running of the Reins, Noli me tangere, Priapismus, all diseases coming by inordinate Love or Lust, &c.

Mercury, all diseases of the Brain, as Vertigos, Mad∣nesse, diseases of the Lungs, as Asthme, Phthisicks, all imperfections of the Tongue, as Stammering, Lisping and Hoarsnesse, Coughs, Snuffling in the Nose, Stoping of the Head, Dumbnesse, Folly and Simplicity (the Epede∣mical diseases of the Time) and whatsoever hurts the Intellectual Faculty, &c. I shall live Mercury, and come a little lower to the Moon.

The Moon causes, the Cholick, Belly-ach, stoping and overflowing the Terms in Women, all cold and Rhuma∣tick Diseases, Worms in the Belly, hurts in the Eyes, Sur∣feits, rotten Coughs, Convulsions, Falling-sicknesses, the Kings-evil, Smal-pox, and Measles, all Coagulate and crude humors in any part of the body, Lethargy and Flegma∣tick Diseases.