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...are subject to corruption, are indicated as being sometimes signs of the plague, and prognostics of putrid diseases. 96
THE SICK PERSONS’ MIRROR
original: Catoptri Ægrotorum
PORTION I. PART IV.
Book One.
Concerning the foretellings of cardinal diseases.
"Cardinal" diseases here refer to the primary illnesses the author associates with the four cardinal directions: East, South, West, and North.
CHAP. I. Concerning the double prognostic of a single disease, of which one is a foretelling of its future state when not yet apparent, and the other portends the accidents occurring in a disease already raging. Finally, both prognostics of the principal disease, or the Eastern morbid meteor, are described. 98
II. In which both prognostics of the plague, or the disease of the Southern wind, are expressed. 99
III. Concerning both prognostics of epilepsy—whether the arrival of the cardinal or principal disease of the West, or the signs foretelling the accidents of the disease when currently present. 100
IV. In which both prognostics of leprosy, or the cardinal disease of the Northern region, are recited. 102
PORTION I. FINAL PART.
Book II.
In which the future signs of the patient's health and death are found. 104
CAP. I. Which describes the super-celestial reason for both health, as well as diseases and death. 104
II. How one must foretell the life or death of the sick person from the observation of celestial bodies alone. ibid.
III. In which certain prognostic signs of both health and death are drawn from the observation of the sick person's body, according to the opinions of Hippocrates, Galen, and others. 105
IV. Here the author desires to hand down to the world certain secrets of life and death attributed to the dying Hippocrates. 108
V. Concerning certain superstitious experiments by which they say the death or life of a sick person can be predicted. 110
THE PHYSICIANS’ MIRROR
original: Catoptri Medicorum
PORTION II.
BOOK I. MEMBER I.
Concerning the demonstrative signs of simple complexions, both natural and preternatural. 111
A "complexion" refers to the specific balance of the four humors—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—within an individual.
CAP. I. How the four complexions in their original substance are not different from a single thing, just as the four elements are nothing but one radical thing animated in a fourfold way by the winds. ibid.
II. Which of the stars, both fixed and wandering The "wandering stars" are the planets., are the fathers or progenitors of the complexions, both simple and composite. And first, concerning the demonstrative signs of Eastern complexions, both natural and preternatural. 112
III. The Jovial Relating to Jupiter and Venereal Relating to Venus complexion, or the Southern, airy, and sanguine complexion, is indicated through its demonstrative signs, both natural and preternatural. 114
IV. The demonstrative signs of the Lunar Relating to the Moon or Western and watery complexion, both natural and preternatural, are recited. 116
V. The demonstrative signs of the Saturnine Relating to Saturn or Northern complexion—that is, the melancholic—are reviewed. 118
BOOK I. MEMBER II.
Concerning the demonstrative signs of composite complexions, both natural and preternatural.
CAP. I. That the sustenance of both simple and mixed things is from God; how mixtures are first prepared in heaven by the stars, the Word of God working in them, and then afterward are mixed by the winds. 121
II. How the celestial signs found in the Ascendant are the radical authors of complexions, both simple and composite. 123
III. Concerning the simple complexions of the four Triplicities of the Zodiac, to be composed according to their natures and properties, both natural and preternatural. A "Triplicity" is a group of three Zodiac signs belonging to the same element: Fire, Earth, Air, or Water. 124
IV. In which the alterations of the natures of the planets according to the signs in which they exist are explained, and consequently the changes of complexions from state to state, both good and bad; and first, concerning their state in the fiery triplicity. 126
V. Concerning the watery or Western triplicity: Cancer ♋, Scorpio ♏, and Pisces ♓. In which the state of the planets in the complexions or humors, to be changed both naturally and preternaturally while they remain in the signs of this triplicity, is shown. 133
VI. Concerning the airy or Southern triplicity: Gemini ♊, Libra ♎, and Aquarius ♒. In which chapter the state of the planets in their complexions and humors, to be changed both naturally and preternaturally while they are contained in the signs of this triplicity, is explained. 136
VII. In which the demonstrative signs of the aforementioned mixed complexions are clearly depicted; and first, the choleric-melancholic is treated, then the melancholic-choleric. 138
VIII. The signs of the simple melancholic complexion, the melancholic-sanguine, and the sanguine-melancholic are explained. 142
IX. In which the demonstrative signs of the simple phlegmatic complexion, the phlegmatic-choleric, and finally the choleric-phlegmatic are revealed. 145
PORTION II. PART II.
Concerning the demonstrative signs of the four cardinal diseases.
CAP. I. The demonstrative signs of the Northern disease, or the cardinal morbid meteor of the North—namely leprosy—are shown by both pagan custom and the testimony of Sacred Scripture. 147
II. In which the demonstrative signs of the Western cardinal disease—namely epilepsy—are depicted, both by pagan custom and by the authority of sacred writing. 149
III. Concerning the demonstrative signs of the Southern capital disease—namely the plague—confirmed both by pagan custom and the authority of the sacred text. 150
IV. In which the demonstrative signs of the capital or cardinal disease of the Eastern region—namely burning fever—are explained. 152
PORTION II. FINAL PART.
Book I. Member I.
Concerning the demonstrative signs of fullness.
fullness: (Latin plenitudo) an excess of humors within the body or a specific organ, often requiring purging or bloodletting.
CAP. I. Concerning the demonstrative signs of general fullness. 154
II. Demonstrative signs are reviewed which indicate a repletion of the head from any of the four humors. 155
III. Concerning those demonstrative signs which prove a repletion of the lung by any humor or complexion. 156
IV. Demonstrative signs of humors excessively filling the ventricle or the stomach are set forth. 157
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