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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
flict on the body of man by sympathy. It 
helps the evils Venus and the wanton Boy 
produce, by antipathy; and it doth some- 
thing else besides. It cleanses the body of 
choler (who dares say Mars doth no good?) 
It provokes urine, helps surfeits, or swell- 
ings in the belly; it causes appetite to meat, 
because Mars rules the attractive faculty in 
man: The sun never shone upon a better 
herb for the yellow jaundice than this; 
Why should men cry out so much upon 
Mars for an infortunate, (or Saturn 
either?) Did God make creatures to do the 
creation a mischief? This herb tsetifies, that 
Mars is willing to cure all diseases he 
causes ; the truth is, Mars loves no cowards, 
nor Saturn fools, nor I neither. Take of the 
flowers of Wormwood, Rosemary, and 
Black Thorn, of each a like quantity, half 
that quantity of saffron; boil this in Rhen- 
ish wine, but put it not in saffron till it is 
almost boiled; This is the way to keep a 
man’s body in health, appointed by Camer- 
arius, in his book intitled Hortus Medicus, 
and it is a good one too. Besides all this, 
Wormwood provokes the terms. I would 
willingly teach astrologers, and make them 
physicians (if I knew how) for they are 
most fitting for the calling; if you will not 
believe me, ask Dr. Hippocrates, and Dr. 
Galen, a couple of gentlemen that our col- 
lege of physicians keep to vapour with, not 
_ to follow. In this our herb, I shall give the 
pattern of a ruler, the sons of art rough 
cast, yet as near the truth as the men of 
Benjamin could throw a stone: Whereby, 
my brethren, the astrologers may know by 
a penny how a shilling is coined: As for the 
college of physicians, they are too stately 
to learn, and too proud to continue. They 
Say a mouse is under the dominion of the 
Moon, and that is the reason they feed in 
the night ; the house of the Moon is Cancer; 
_ rats are of the same nature with mice, but 
2 they are a little bigger; Mars receives his 
fall in fm, oe, Wormwood being an 
herb of Mars, is a present remedy for the 
biting of rats and mice. Mushrooms (I can- 
not give them the title of Herba, Frutex, 
or Arbor) are under the dominion of Sa- 
turn, (and take one time with another, they 
do as much harm as good; if any have 
poisoned himself by eating them, Worm- 
wood, an herb of Mars, cures him, because 
Mars is exalted in Capricorn, the house of 
Saturn, and this it doth by sympathy, as it 
did the other by antipathy. Wheals, pushes, 
black and blue spots, coming either by 
bruises or beatings. Wormwood, an herb 
of Mars, helps, because Mars, (as bad you 
love him, and as you hate him) will not 
break your head, but he will give you a 
plaister. If he do but teach you to know 
yourselves, his courtesy is greater than his 
discourtesy. The greatest antipathy be- 
tween the planets, is between Mars and 
Venus: one is hot, the other cold; one 
diurnal, the other nocturnal; one dry, the 
other moist; their houses are opposite, one 
masculine, the other feminine; one public, 
the other private; one is valiant, the other 
effeminate; one loves the light, the other 
hates it; one loves the field, the other 
sheets; then the throat is under Venus, the 
quinsy lies in the throat, and is an inflam- 
mation there: Venus rules the throat, (it be- 
ing under Tamus her sign.) Mars eradi- 
cates all diseases in the throat by his herbs 
(of wormwood is one) and sends them to 
Egypt on an errand never to return more, 
this done by antipathy. The eyes are under 
the Luminaries; the right eye of a man, 
and the left eye of a woman the Sun claims 
dominion over; the left eye of a man, and 
the right eye of a woman, are privileges 
of the Moon, Wormwood, an herb of Mars; 
cures both; what belongs to the Sun by 
sympathy, because he is exalted in his 
house; but what belongs to the Moon by 
antipathy, because he hath his fall in her’s- 
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