THE UNIVERSAL MEDICAL MIRROR:

OR THE SUPER-CELESTIAL PROGNOSTIC.

BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE FIRST PORTION.

A SINGLE BOOK.

CHAP. I. The subject matter of the book. Page 1.
II. Concerning the preceding prognostic signs which presage diseases, evils, death, and future desolation. 2
III. In which the prognostic signs that follow the preceding ones are expressed; specifically, in the first series, those which occur through divine warning. 3
IV. By what means those prognostic signs of evil, which happen only through prophetic vision and in a mystical manner, are accustomed to be revealed. 4
V. How prognostic signs of evil are sometimes made manifest and revealed to men by God through dreams. 5
VI. How both future evils and future goods are sometimes predicted and manifested to mortals by God through dreams. 7
VII. That all lower types of foretelling and prognosticating depend on this super-celestial and divine consideration, are subject to it, and are related to it like branches to their roots or rays to their source. 8

THE CRITICAL MIRROR.

Being the First Member of Part II of Portion I.

Concerning the science of Crises. From the Greek 'krisis,' meaning judgment or decision. In early medicine, this refers to the turning point of a disease.

BOOK ONE.

Concerning the mystery of the Crisis.

Preface. 10
CHAP. I. The entire secret of the Crisis is explained from its roots, according to the author's modest understanding. 10
II. Concerning the fundamental mystery of critical days.
III. That a critical day, whether good or bad, depends primarily on the Sephirotic properties of God original: "proprietatibus Dei Sephroticis"; refers to the ten attributes or emanations in Jewish Kabbalah through which the Infinite relates to the physical world., from which the heavens receive the treasury of their influences; and by what means crises arise from the heavens, sometimes bad and sometimes good. 16
IV. How times are ordered according to God's laws—namely years, months, days, and hours—both good and bad, in which creatures are either more oppressed by pains and vexations or liberated from them. 19

BOOK II.

Concerning the essence and classification of the Crisis.

CHAP. I. What the word "Crisis" signifies, and concerning the various opinions of philosophers regarding it. 21
II. The definition of a Crisis is explained, not only according to the opinions of Galen and Avicenna Galen (2nd century) and Avicenna (11th century) were the two most authoritative figures in traditional European and Islamic medicine., but also according to the sense of Holy Scripture. 22
III. Concerning the general and universal parts or types of the Crisis. 23

BOOK III.

Concerning the investigation of critical or "decretory" days. Decretory days are those on which a "decree" or judgment on the patient's fate is issued by the body's nature.

CHAP. I. Concerning the time or starting point from which critical or decretory days are said to take their origin or the beginning of their counting. 26
II. The method of finding and counting critical days, both according to the rule of Hippocrates The famous Greek physician of the 5th century BCE, often called the Father of Medicine. and the inventions of mathematicians. 27
III. Concerning the arrangement of critical days according to the rule of Hippocrates and Galen; likewise, the multiple order of their counting and the difference between those orders is explained in this chapter. 30
IV. The nature, property, and effects of critical days are clearly set forth and explained. 31

BOOK IV.

In which the passages or ways are explained through which diseases are usually driven out by means of crises.

CHAP. I. Concerning the six passages or ducts through which every disease is usually expelled from the body on a critical day, and that such critical movements are called "signs of resolution" original: "signa solutoria"; signs indicating the 'loosening' or ending of a disease.. 33
II. How these signs of critical resolution have certain preceding prognostic signs which presage the passage and the manner by which the future crisis will occur. ibid.
III. That a reliable crisis cannot happen without some of the signs of resolution. 34
IV. Signs of the future change of a crisis, including both the demonstrative and prognostic signs of both a good and a bad crisis. 35