Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.

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Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick.
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Knight, William, fl. 1680-1699.
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London :: printed by E.T. and R.H. for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge,
1681.
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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Popish Plot, 1678 -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Early works to 1800.
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"Vox stellarum: or, the voyce of the stars being a brief and easie introduction to the knowledge of the number, names and characters of the planets and signs, aspects and anticions: the division of heaven, and how to erect a figure thereof, either by a table of houses or by a table of right and oblique ascentions: an exact and true description of the planets and signs, with the countries, cities or towns under them. Likewise, how to judge of the affairs of the world, by revolutions, eclipses, great conjunctions and blazing stars. Also, something touching the Popish Plot, and other remarkable affairs of the year, 1678. By William Knight, student in astrology and physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47548.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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Page 86

Of the Parts of mens Bodies under the seven Planets and the Diseases they cause.

Is cold and dry in the third and fourth degree, he rules the Memory, Hearing, right Ear, Teeth, Spleen, Bones and Joynts.

Of Diseases, he causes Gouts, Consum∣ption, Quartan Ague, Tooth-Ach, Lepro∣sie, Sciatica, vain melancholy Fears, black Jaundice, Trembling, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Broken-bones, Dislocations, pain in the Bones, Deafness, Ruptures, all Diseases proceeding from Melancholy and Grief or Frights.

Is hot and moist, he rules the Judgment, Lungs, Liver, Veins, Blood, Taste, Sides and Ribs.

Of Diseases all that belongs to the Li∣ver, &c. as, Plurisie, inflammation of the Lungs, Quotidian Fevers, Imposthumes in the Lungs, true Quinsie, Surfets, Coughs, Scurvie, and want of taste.

Page 87

Is hot and dry in the third and fourth degree, he rules the bulk of the Head, Face, Smell, left Ear and Gall; he likewise sways the Apprehension.

Diseases, Burning-Fevers, Pestilence, Plague-Sores, Tertian Agues, Megrims, Carbuncles, Burnings, Scaldings, Ring∣worms, Shingles, Blisters, Phrensie, Yel∣low Jaundice, Bloody-Flux, Fistula's, Ca∣lenture, St. Anthonie's Fire; Stone in the Reins and Bladder, Small-Pox, hurts by Iron, all Wounds, Stabs, Old Ulcers, and all Diseases proceeding from Choler, Fu∣ry or Anger.

Is hot and dry in the first and second degree, he rules the Heart, Arteries, Vi∣tal Spirits, Sinews, Sight, right Eye of a man, and left Eye of a woman, the Back.

Diseases, Vertigo, Sore-eyes, Pimples in the Face, Sore-Mouth, Cramp, Palpitati∣on of the Heart, Heart-burnings, Qualms, Faintings, Swoonings and rotten Fevers.

Page 88

Is cold and moist in the first and second degree, she rules the Throat, Neck, Breast, Milk, Reins, Seed, Kidneys, Womb, Yard, Stones, all the Instruments of Gene∣ration.

Diseases, all such as belong to the Womb, as Suffocations, Precipitation, Dislocation; all Diseases incident to the Vessels of Generation, French-Pox; Run∣ning of the Reins, Priapism, pissing Di∣sease, all Distempers coming from inordi∣nate Love or Lust.

Is cold and dry in the first and second degree, he rules the Intellect, Imagination, Reason, Feeling, Tongue, Voice, Hands and Feet.

Diseases, Apoplexies, Stammering, Lis∣ping, Dumness, Hoarsness, Ptisick, Ast∣mah, dry Cough, snuffling in the Nose, stoppings in the Head, foolish Fancies, all Diseases of the intellectual Faculty.

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Is cold and moist in the third and fourth degree, she rules the bulk or body of the Brain, Nerves, Sence, left Eye of a man, and right Eye of a womam, natural Pow∣ers, Stomack, Bowels and Bladder.

Diseases, Palsie, Convulsions, Falling-Sickness, hurts in the Eyes, Rhumes, Kings-evil, Cholick, Belly-aches, Dropsies, Fluxes, Worms, over-flowing of the Terms, Le∣thargies, bastard Quinsie, Measles, all Di∣seases proceeding from cold Flegm.

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