Integrum Morborum Mysterium (Medical Mysteries)

CHAPTER I. In which it is declared that a star, as a star, is not the real and simple efficient cause of diseases, but rather an angel within the star—or more truly, the very essence of God Himself. It is also indicated that the error of worldly people stems from their ignorance of the internal Agent, or central principle, which is the primary source and origin of idolatry. 357
II. That in the true consideration of Astrology, it is not the art itself but the counterfeit artist who is to be condemned; and what the difference is between a true and a false professor of Astrology. 361
III. Concerning the morbid condition of the stars, or the unhealthy influence of the Heavenly Bodies. 364
IV. Concerning the diseases which both the signs of the Zodiac and the seven planets are accustomed to produce, according to the observations of the ancients, when their simple natural disposition turns for the worse. 366
V. Concerning the four trigons, or triplicities Groups of three zodiac signs that share one of the four elements (Fire, Earth, Air, or Water)., and their changes from state to state, according to the common observations of the Ancient Astrologers. 367
VI. Diseases produced by the nature of Saturn and its movements from sign to sign are explained; and first, concerning its motion in Taurus ♉, Virgo ♍, and Capricorn ♑, or the Earthly triplicity. 370
VII. In which the author explains in very few words what he means by the "quality of the degree," the "significator" A planet or sign that represents a specific person or condition in a chart. or lord of the disease, the lord of the hour, and finally concerning separation, application, combustion, and aspects. 377
VIII. Concerning the various effects of Jupiter as it traverses the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning its condition as it moves in the Fiery triplicity—that is, in the signs of Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐.
IX. Concerning various diseases produced by Mars as it passes through the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning its unhealthy effects while it passes through the signs of the Fiery Triplicity: Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐. 383
X. Concerning various diseases produced by Venus as she makes her way through the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning her unhealthy effects while she passes through the signs of the Fiery triplicity: Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐. 388
XI. Concerning various diseases produced by Mercury as he makes his way through the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning his unhealthy effects while he passes through the signs of the Fiery triplicity: Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐. 393
XII. In which the many forms of disease are recounted that Mercury produces while running through the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning its unhealthy effects while it passes through the signs of the Fiery triplicity: Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐. 397
XIII. Concerning the diseases produced by the Moon as she circles or wanders through the four triplicities of the Zodiac, and first concerning her unhealthy effects while she roams through the Fiery triplicity: Aries ♈, Leo ♌, and Sagittarius ♐. 401
XIV. In this chapter, both the signs of the Zodiac and the planets of heaven are recounted, which have dominion over the regions of the world and stir up the winds in various forms according to their natures and conditions. 405
XV. Concerning the humors The four vital fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile., and how they are produced in the human body in many forms by the heavenly bodies. 406

BOOK IV. PART IV.

On the efficient causes of diseases in the elementary world.

CHAPTER I. That in truth, there is no other principal efficient cause The primary agent that brings something into being. in the Elementary region of the world than the same single one that operates centrally in all other things, though the organic Instrumental or physical. causes are varied. 408
II. That winds are held by some to be efficient causes of diseases (speaking in the common way), and how they are the "flowers" or eruptions of diseases. 409
III. What a simple element is, and how it is rotated and turned from its simple nature into a manifold state. What the

qualities of the elements are and where they are derived. That the microcosmic elements are the humors. Finally, by what reasoning the elements of both worlds The Macrocosm (Universe) and Microcosm (Man). are unhealthy and preternatural. 412
IV. How the four quarters of the year are called the efficient causes of certain diseases, and that the four quarters of the year are also subject to the powers of the winds. 417
V. That the "meteors" Phenomena appearing in the air or body. of both worlds are constituted in many ways by the fourfold humor, and by what reasoning they are sometimes estimated by the common people to be the diseases themselves, and sometimes the efficient cause of diseases. 419
VI. Notable experiments by which the nature of the winds in the human body is demonstrated. 421
VII. Demonstrations showing and proving that the humors of the body arise from the winds. 429
VIII. Demonstrations in which the morbid meteors in man, arising from the aforementioned winds and humors, are outlined. 433
IX. How morbid meteors or diseases are usually produced by alternation. 269

ON THE FINAL CAUSE

ONE BOOK

CHAPTER I. In which the manifold "ends" The "final cause" or divine purpose. are assigned for which God brings diseases and death upon mortals. 477
II. How God has ordained diseases because of the sins of men, and that in effect a disease is nothing other than sin, or a contracted impurity. 478
III. In which the third purpose of diseases—namely, that which occurs for the confirmation of faith in the doubting and the unbelieving—is explained with an example drawn from the divine source. 479
IV. That diseases are often inflicted upon men, not because they are sinners, nor for the sake of testing them, nor for increasing the faith of unbelievers, but for a hidden "final cause" tucked away in the secret counsels of God and unrevealed to man. 480

A RELIGIOUS AND USEFUL

Provocation of the Peripatetic Philosophers and Hippocratic or Galenic Physicians to the Arena of Wisdom.

In which certain radical propositions are set forth, which the Author is prepared to defend and sustain against the assaults of the followers of Aristotle and Galen.

The Author's Apologetic Preface. 481
PROPOSITION I. That God is the sole and unique actor and operator in the world. 482
PROP. II. That the holy emanation of God is the essential Angelic spirit, act, and virtue, by means of which He lives, moves, and is animated. 485
III. That by the many-formed act or breath of the Angels, the winds—both Cardinal and collateral—are continually created, moved, and in many forms shaped and animated. 487
IV. That there is only one radical element in the sublunary world, informed and animated in four ways by the acts or breaths of the four Angels of the winds, and altered daily from species to species. 490
V. That heat and cold are not accidental qualities, but the essence-making acts of the Angelic winds animated by God. 495
VI. That heat—whether it be of the Sun or of fire—does not at all attract flavors or exhalations to itself, but rather disperses them by rarefying them. 497