S76 Explanation of the aforesaid Tablesi 



mau ^vlio is endowed with a cominon unflerslanding may 

 hit iijjoii the hour not only in galhi-ring herbs, roots, &c. 

 but to adniinisfiT them in a time coi responding thereiinio, 

 and thereby lorce from the jjutient the otlending mutter 

 that robs hini of the most valuable blessing of health. 



Example I. To find the planetary hour on Saturday, 

 August the 1st, 1807, at lialf past ten o'clock in the 

 morning, I examine in the Ei)hemeris or Almanack what 

 degree the Sun is in, and I find on that day at noon he is 

 in eight degrees of Leo ; wifli this degree I enter the 

 table No. J. and seek eight degrees of JjCO ; in the 

 first column I cannot find it, but by running over the 

 columns, 1 can find 9 degrees of Q^ in the 15th column in 

 the same page, whicii is the nearest I can come to it by 

 tliis table, and near enoui^h too; which 1 also hnd to be 

 equal with 21 degrees of n which yon may find in the first 

 column of this table; and by thus running even in the 

 columns, in the seventh cohium J find 10 h. 37 m. which 

 shews me if 1 look on the top of the table that the fifth 

 planetary hour would finish at thirty seven rainutee past 

 ten o'clock that morning. Now I refer to the former 

 column, and find that the fifth planetary hour began at 

 thirty-nine minutes past nine o'clock ; therefore as the 

 time I enter was 10 h. 30 m. in the morning, and it being 

 between 9 h. 39m. and 10 h. 37 m. it proved it to be the 

 fifth planetary hour. To know what planet ruled this 

 hour 1 enter the table No. III. and counting down the 

 planets in the last column, under the word Saturday, 

 find the 5th planetary hour on that day to be ? • '^^^ 

 had been on a Sunday tlie fifth planetary hour would 

 have been Saturn, and so on ; I>y which rule may be 

 found the planetary hour for any day of the week. 



Example II. We will suppose that I want to find the 

 hour of Venus on Wednesday, January 2 1st 1807, I 

 look into my Ephemeiisor Almaaack, and find the Sun at 

 noon on that day is in degrees 36 fltf orr.::. 1 enf,er the 

 table marked No. 111. and in the column of the planetary 

 houi;s under V/ednesday, I find the seventh hour is under 

 Venus. Now as the Sun is in deg. 36 m. 51 sec. i^i; (the 

 minutes being more than 30, I shall call it the 1st deg» 

 oi '^.) I cuter the tabic No. II. ia the right haad 



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