366 A most Shocking Disease, 



^* Answer. As wc find 5? the ladies significatorloratcd in fIfC 

 12th house, in (S with 5 La<ly of the 6th house, together 

 with the position of Tj J{> in the fifh l-.ouse, which is the 

 house of sickness : all tlit-se are quite suflicient testimoriics 

 to convince me that, this lady is very ill, and likewise in 

 rather a desperate situation at (his iime. 



Question 2d. Is the disease in the mind, or hody, or 

 both ? 



Ansvcer. The }) being afilicted by a D of ^J, which send 

 alsothesame malignant aspc(5t to the ascendant, and parti- 

 cularly as ^ is also the dispositcr of the O-. piovesthat the 

 body is exceedingly afflidlcd. And again, as ^ lord of 

 the ascendant, is afflicted in the 12th house, and (J, w^ho 

 is the dispositer of the 0, is likewise afilicted in the 

 5fh house by relrogradation, ci.nvinced me that this un- 

 fortunate lady was most drcadlully afflicted both in body 

 jind mind. 



Question., 3d. What part of the body is affli^ed ? 



Jnszcer. If vve duly examine the figures, we shall find 

 Mercury, the Lord of the ascendant, in conjunftion m ith 

 ? , lady of the house of sickness, together with the ]) in 

 opposition to fthe ascendant, which together with the 

 planets 9 and $ being posited in the sign Aries, and 

 located in the I'ith house, most fully convinced me that 

 this lady was quite delirious and insane — in a state of 

 madness, melancholy and woeful despair. She charges 

 her tender and aftectionate husband, together with her 

 children, to quit her presence, supposing them to be 

 infernal beings, by calling them all devils. Her head and 

 brain was so exceedingly aifli<5led, that the family could 

 think of nothing else but the sending of this unfortunate 

 lady to a private mad-house without any further delay. 

 To see this lady just before living in splendor, ease and 

 comfort, now in a state of compleat madness and insanity ; 

 to see her eyes rolling in her head, to hear her uttering th e 

 most woeful desperate rambling, insensible lamentations , 

 and destru<5ti«e calamities, that her deranged ideas could 

 possibly conceive and utter ; 1 say this was a sight most 

 dreadful in the extreme for her unhappy husband an d 

 children to behold. Let us now eu(iuire into the caus 9 

 of this most desperate disease. 



