DELUSIONS OF MEDICINE: Charms Talismans Amulets Astrology and Mesmerism
Nook version of vintage monograph originally published in 1873. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 150 years.
Read excerpt -
There is, nevertheless, a delusive basis for astrology, for in certain great natural phenomena the influence of distant orbs is plainly traced. The moon and sun con¬jointly rule the tides; the aurora and the magnetism of the earth seem to depend on eruptions and cyclones in the sun; maxima and minima of death are related to the rotation of the earth on its axis, and the inclination of that axis to the plane of the orbit. There is even a subtler connection; for chem¬istry has shown that, with one or two exceptions, all the force upon the globe, whether exhibited in the simple process of combustion or in the highest manifestations of animal life, is only a minute fraction of the power sent forth from the central luminary and transmuted here. Living beings are truly children of the sun.
The astrologers were not, however, con¬tent with any such general proposition. Lilly, in a copy of his work, published in 1647, that I have used, says: "There is nothing appertaining to the life of man in this world which in one way or another hath not relation to the twelve houses of heaven; and as the twelve signs are appropriate to the particular members of man's body, so also do the twelve houses represent not only the several parts of man, but his actions, quality of life, and living; and the curiosity and judgment of our forefathers in astrology was such as they have allotted to every house a particular signification, and so distinguished humane accidents throughout the whole twelve houses as he that under-stands the questions appertaining to each of them shall not want sufficient grounds -whereon to judge, or give a rational answer upon any contingent accident and success thereof." In this book of 900 pages there is a world of quaint and curious information: the planet Saturn, for instance, "signifieth one of a await color, palish like lead, or of a black, earthy brown; one of rough skin, thick, and very hairy on the body; not great eyes; many times his complexion is between black and yellow, or as if he had a spice of the black or yellow jaundies; he is leane, crooked, or beetle-browned; a thin whay beard; great lips like the black-Moores; he lookes to the ground; is slow in motion; either is bow-legged or hits one leg or knee against the other; most part a stinking breath; seldom free from a cough: he is crafty for his own ends, seducing people to his opinion; full of revenge and malice, lit¬tle caring for the church or religion; it's a foul, nasty, slovenly knave; a great eater, or one of a large stomacke; a brawling fellow; big great shoulders; covetous, and yet seldom rich."
Three planets, it appears, “signifie cures of diseases.”
Werenfels, speaking of an astrological believer, says: "He will not commit his seed to the earth when the soil, but when the moon, requires it. He will have his hair cut when the moon is either in Leo, that his locks may stare like the Lion's shag, or in Aries, that they may curl like a ram's horn. Whatever he would have to grow, he set about it when she is in her increase; but for what he would have made less, he chooses her wane. When the moon is in Taurus he never can be persuaded to take physic, lest that animal which chews its cud should make him cast it up again. If at any time he has a mind to be admitted to the presence of a prince, he will wait till the moon is in conjunction with the sun, for tis then the society of an inferior with a superior is salutary and successful." And Hudibras believes in
"The Queen of Night, whose vast command
Rules all the sea and half the land,
And over moist and crazy brains
In high spring-tides at mid night reigns."
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Trinculo that Caliban is a moon-calf¬that is, a brute spawned by the moonlight on the scum of the sea because he has "a very ancient and fish - like smell; a kind of, not of the newest."
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Read excerpt -
There is, nevertheless, a delusive basis for astrology, for in certain great natural phenomena the influence of distant orbs is plainly traced. The moon and sun con¬jointly rule the tides; the aurora and the magnetism of the earth seem to depend on eruptions and cyclones in the sun; maxima and minima of death are related to the rotation of the earth on its axis, and the inclination of that axis to the plane of the orbit. There is even a subtler connection; for chem¬istry has shown that, with one or two exceptions, all the force upon the globe, whether exhibited in the simple process of combustion or in the highest manifestations of animal life, is only a minute fraction of the power sent forth from the central luminary and transmuted here. Living beings are truly children of the sun.
The astrologers were not, however, con¬tent with any such general proposition. Lilly, in a copy of his work, published in 1647, that I have used, says: "There is nothing appertaining to the life of man in this world which in one way or another hath not relation to the twelve houses of heaven; and as the twelve signs are appropriate to the particular members of man's body, so also do the twelve houses represent not only the several parts of man, but his actions, quality of life, and living; and the curiosity and judgment of our forefathers in astrology was such as they have allotted to every house a particular signification, and so distinguished humane accidents throughout the whole twelve houses as he that under-stands the questions appertaining to each of them shall not want sufficient grounds -whereon to judge, or give a rational answer upon any contingent accident and success thereof." In this book of 900 pages there is a world of quaint and curious information: the planet Saturn, for instance, "signifieth one of a await color, palish like lead, or of a black, earthy brown; one of rough skin, thick, and very hairy on the body; not great eyes; many times his complexion is between black and yellow, or as if he had a spice of the black or yellow jaundies; he is leane, crooked, or beetle-browned; a thin whay beard; great lips like the black-Moores; he lookes to the ground; is slow in motion; either is bow-legged or hits one leg or knee against the other; most part a stinking breath; seldom free from a cough: he is crafty for his own ends, seducing people to his opinion; full of revenge and malice, lit¬tle caring for the church or religion; it's a foul, nasty, slovenly knave; a great eater, or one of a large stomacke; a brawling fellow; big great shoulders; covetous, and yet seldom rich."
Three planets, it appears, “signifie cures of diseases.”
Werenfels, speaking of an astrological believer, says: "He will not commit his seed to the earth when the soil, but when the moon, requires it. He will have his hair cut when the moon is either in Leo, that his locks may stare like the Lion's shag, or in Aries, that they may curl like a ram's horn. Whatever he would have to grow, he set about it when she is in her increase; but for what he would have made less, he chooses her wane. When the moon is in Taurus he never can be persuaded to take physic, lest that animal which chews its cud should make him cast it up again. If at any time he has a mind to be admitted to the presence of a prince, he will wait till the moon is in conjunction with the sun, for tis then the society of an inferior with a superior is salutary and successful." And Hudibras believes in
"The Queen of Night, whose vast command
Rules all the sea and half the land,
And over moist and crazy brains
In high spring-tides at mid night reigns."
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Trinculo that Caliban is a moon-calf¬that is, a brute spawned by the moonlight on the scum of the sea because he has "a very ancient and fish - like smell; a kind of, not of the newest."
DELUSIONS OF MEDICINE: Charms Talismans Amulets Astrology and Mesmerism
Nook version of vintage monograph originally published in 1873. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 150 years.
Read excerpt -
There is, nevertheless, a delusive basis for astrology, for in certain great natural phenomena the influence of distant orbs is plainly traced. The moon and sun con¬jointly rule the tides; the aurora and the magnetism of the earth seem to depend on eruptions and cyclones in the sun; maxima and minima of death are related to the rotation of the earth on its axis, and the inclination of that axis to the plane of the orbit. There is even a subtler connection; for chem¬istry has shown that, with one or two exceptions, all the force upon the globe, whether exhibited in the simple process of combustion or in the highest manifestations of animal life, is only a minute fraction of the power sent forth from the central luminary and transmuted here. Living beings are truly children of the sun.
The astrologers were not, however, con¬tent with any such general proposition. Lilly, in a copy of his work, published in 1647, that I have used, says: "There is nothing appertaining to the life of man in this world which in one way or another hath not relation to the twelve houses of heaven; and as the twelve signs are appropriate to the particular members of man's body, so also do the twelve houses represent not only the several parts of man, but his actions, quality of life, and living; and the curiosity and judgment of our forefathers in astrology was such as they have allotted to every house a particular signification, and so distinguished humane accidents throughout the whole twelve houses as he that under-stands the questions appertaining to each of them shall not want sufficient grounds -whereon to judge, or give a rational answer upon any contingent accident and success thereof." In this book of 900 pages there is a world of quaint and curious information: the planet Saturn, for instance, "signifieth one of a await color, palish like lead, or of a black, earthy brown; one of rough skin, thick, and very hairy on the body; not great eyes; many times his complexion is between black and yellow, or as if he had a spice of the black or yellow jaundies; he is leane, crooked, or beetle-browned; a thin whay beard; great lips like the black-Moores; he lookes to the ground; is slow in motion; either is bow-legged or hits one leg or knee against the other; most part a stinking breath; seldom free from a cough: he is crafty for his own ends, seducing people to his opinion; full of revenge and malice, lit¬tle caring for the church or religion; it's a foul, nasty, slovenly knave; a great eater, or one of a large stomacke; a brawling fellow; big great shoulders; covetous, and yet seldom rich."
Three planets, it appears, “signifie cures of diseases.”
Werenfels, speaking of an astrological believer, says: "He will not commit his seed to the earth when the soil, but when the moon, requires it. He will have his hair cut when the moon is either in Leo, that his locks may stare like the Lion's shag, or in Aries, that they may curl like a ram's horn. Whatever he would have to grow, he set about it when she is in her increase; but for what he would have made less, he chooses her wane. When the moon is in Taurus he never can be persuaded to take physic, lest that animal which chews its cud should make him cast it up again. If at any time he has a mind to be admitted to the presence of a prince, he will wait till the moon is in conjunction with the sun, for tis then the society of an inferior with a superior is salutary and successful." And Hudibras believes in
"The Queen of Night, whose vast command
Rules all the sea and half the land,
And over moist and crazy brains
In high spring-tides at mid night reigns."
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Trinculo that Caliban is a moon-calf¬that is, a brute spawned by the moonlight on the scum of the sea because he has "a very ancient and fish - like smell; a kind of, not of the newest."
Read excerpt -
There is, nevertheless, a delusive basis for astrology, for in certain great natural phenomena the influence of distant orbs is plainly traced. The moon and sun con¬jointly rule the tides; the aurora and the magnetism of the earth seem to depend on eruptions and cyclones in the sun; maxima and minima of death are related to the rotation of the earth on its axis, and the inclination of that axis to the plane of the orbit. There is even a subtler connection; for chem¬istry has shown that, with one or two exceptions, all the force upon the globe, whether exhibited in the simple process of combustion or in the highest manifestations of animal life, is only a minute fraction of the power sent forth from the central luminary and transmuted here. Living beings are truly children of the sun.
The astrologers were not, however, con¬tent with any such general proposition. Lilly, in a copy of his work, published in 1647, that I have used, says: "There is nothing appertaining to the life of man in this world which in one way or another hath not relation to the twelve houses of heaven; and as the twelve signs are appropriate to the particular members of man's body, so also do the twelve houses represent not only the several parts of man, but his actions, quality of life, and living; and the curiosity and judgment of our forefathers in astrology was such as they have allotted to every house a particular signification, and so distinguished humane accidents throughout the whole twelve houses as he that under-stands the questions appertaining to each of them shall not want sufficient grounds -whereon to judge, or give a rational answer upon any contingent accident and success thereof." In this book of 900 pages there is a world of quaint and curious information: the planet Saturn, for instance, "signifieth one of a await color, palish like lead, or of a black, earthy brown; one of rough skin, thick, and very hairy on the body; not great eyes; many times his complexion is between black and yellow, or as if he had a spice of the black or yellow jaundies; he is leane, crooked, or beetle-browned; a thin whay beard; great lips like the black-Moores; he lookes to the ground; is slow in motion; either is bow-legged or hits one leg or knee against the other; most part a stinking breath; seldom free from a cough: he is crafty for his own ends, seducing people to his opinion; full of revenge and malice, lit¬tle caring for the church or religion; it's a foul, nasty, slovenly knave; a great eater, or one of a large stomacke; a brawling fellow; big great shoulders; covetous, and yet seldom rich."
Three planets, it appears, “signifie cures of diseases.”
Werenfels, speaking of an astrological believer, says: "He will not commit his seed to the earth when the soil, but when the moon, requires it. He will have his hair cut when the moon is either in Leo, that his locks may stare like the Lion's shag, or in Aries, that they may curl like a ram's horn. Whatever he would have to grow, he set about it when she is in her increase; but for what he would have made less, he chooses her wane. When the moon is in Taurus he never can be persuaded to take physic, lest that animal which chews its cud should make him cast it up again. If at any time he has a mind to be admitted to the presence of a prince, he will wait till the moon is in conjunction with the sun, for tis then the society of an inferior with a superior is salutary and successful." And Hudibras believes in
"The Queen of Night, whose vast command
Rules all the sea and half the land,
And over moist and crazy brains
In high spring-tides at mid night reigns."
Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Trinculo that Caliban is a moon-calf¬that is, a brute spawned by the moonlight on the scum of the sea because he has "a very ancient and fish - like smell; a kind of, not of the newest."
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DELUSIONS OF MEDICINE: Charms Talismans Amulets Astrology and Mesmerism
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940015751345 |
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| Publisher: | history-bytes |
| Publication date: | 11/18/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 513 KB |
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