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Question 4th. What Is the cause of the disease ? 



Answer. By the unfortuuate position of T^ , retrograde 

 in the 6th house, we are informed that there was a great 

 obstrudliou in the whole nervous system, and also that her 

 whole mass of biood was corrupted and rendered impure, 

 by an obnoxious, strong, gross, plilegraatic humour, which 

 spread itself over the whole body, but was principally 

 seated in the stomach, and from tlience sent up an 

 obnoxious disease or vapour into the head, aftlifting the 

 brain, exceedingly ; while the unfortunate position of 

 $ and 5 in the 12th house, was loading and depressing 

 her spirits and whole mind, with all the most grievous 

 ideas and scenes of the most woeful tenets of deep melan- 

 choly and black, despair imaginable. This appears to be, 

 one cause of her most desperate disease ; but if we duly 

 examine this figure again, we shall find another cause of 

 this lady's most grievous affliftion ; here is (J afHidlint:^ 

 the ascendant by a D with a retrograde motion, and 

 •whoever has read my Holy Temple of Wisdom with at- 

 tention, (a book now extant in the world) must know, 

 that here the children are most grievously afflicting their 

 mother, and the D being lady of the 3d house in ^ to 

 the ascendant, shews that this aftlidlion came by and 

 through the means of one of her said children taking a 

 short inland journey. We also find 1/, lord of the 7th 

 house and dispositer of the ]) , located in the 10th house, 

 and there afflicl;ed by a D of Tj 5° in the 6th house, 

 which inform us, that one of her said children was taken 

 on this said journey by a man (by being in the 10th 

 informs us, that he was a person in some office) and 

 he there receiving tlie D of T2 shews that he was the 

 principal cause of her disease. 



These premises being duly considered, they produced 

 the following fafts : Sometime about last Christmas, the 

 husband of this unfortunate lady, having previously 

 invited a gentleman to take a few days shooting with 

 him at his house, which he readily accepted, and whom 

 the farmer entertained fur some days, with the best his 

 house could afford : This gentleman, on his departure 

 ffom thence, (he being a married man and having a 

 family likewise) obtained leave of the honest laraier and 

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