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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

1. It is best to only answer the question for the patient; should the patient be a child then we may judge from the parents questions.

2. If the question concerns accidents or poisoning take the time of their occurence in preference to the time of asking the question.

3. If it be an attact of apoplexy, fits, cramps, delirium, etc., use the time of the first attact.

4. Don't give a hasty judgment, if you find Jupiter causing the ailment don't promise the patient relief as soon as the aspect is passed, but give the direction its full time; and if Jupiter be located in fixed signs the ailment will not be dangerous but tedious.

Sun, Mars, and Mercury diseases are violent and governed by the motion of the Moon; at times the patient is given up and in 24 hours they may be greatly improved, and again to relapse. Diseases caused by Saturn, Venus, and Neptune gradually get worse and get better gradually.

In judging from a horary figure we find that Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune af-

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