344 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAUGED. 



many known solid plain (ruUis. Under the herb Carduus 

 8encdi61us you arc most fully ii>struflcd in the various 

 Operations of the heavenly bodies, on all plants, herbs 

 and vegetables, in respe(5l to their sympathetic and 

 antipathetical influences and operations on the body of 

 man ; and -whatever necessary intelligence and instruction 

 is there omitted, in order to complete the Physician, is 

 now: heje Jaid open for your inspection; and if you do 

 not receive much profit from the same, remember it is not 

 my fault. 



The following discourse under tliis herb is delivered 

 after the manner of men, in order to shew you how 

 celestial bodies work, and daily operate upon terrestrial 

 bodies ; which is delivered in similitudes, or even in any 

 ivay and manner, so that the meanest capacity may but 

 perfectly understand the true sense, intent, and meaning 

 of the same, and whatever you find written under this 

 said herb, understand the same, in respeft to all the other 

 herbs in this book, duly considering their natures, 

 temperaments, qualities, virtues, powers andeffeCls, upoa 

 all the various herbs, plaats,&c, and also the diseases, 

 sickness and bodily infirmities which are incident and 

 subje6l to afflidl the body of man, at the various periods of 

 his natural life. 



I shall not give you much comment on this subjeft in 

 this place, seeing that 1 have most fully done and com- 

 pleatly performed the whole and every part of the same 

 in my most elaborate work entitled. The Holy Temple 

 ©f Wisdom ; unto which said book I must now refer 

 you ; where you will find that physic without astrology 

 is like a lamp without oil, and also that this most excellent 

 science is truly a h'gal and virtuous study, well becoming 

 all religious and good disjjosed men. We may easily 

 believe (he accounts transmitted to us by Josephus and 

 Other Historians concerning its antiquity and divine 

 original. Wo have read that Adam previous to his 

 expulsion from Paradise, was instructed in a foreknow- 

 ledge of futurity by the express command of God, as a 

 Uieans of enlarging his mind and alleviating his distress 

 upon being turned adrift into the wide world. Josephus, 

 aa historian of character and eminence who quotes the 



