MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
flicting the ruler of the 1st or the Moon causes colds, rheumatism, grippe, and aggravates asthma, consumption, etc., while the Sun, Mercury, or Mars afflict the ruler of the 1st or the Moon we find apoplexy, headaches, cramps, colic, etc., which are violent leaving the patient unconscious. Uranus afflicting the ruler of the 1st or Moon the mind is generally affected and the patient desires to commit suicide, imagines some one trying to poison them, symptoms rapidly flying from one part of the body to onother, spasmodic.
Should we find the Sun ruling the ascendant and afflicted by Mars we often find apoplexy, and other symptoms accompanied with high fever and violent pain abortions, bleeding to death, and loss of consciousness from pain, symptoms come on rather suddenly. The Moon rising and in opposition to Mercury we have noticed picking at the bed clothes, jumping spells, hallucinations, thinks some one trying to capture them, strikes, bites, and howls when any one comes near them; refuses to talk, at other times they talk continuously; spasmodic pains so violent as to drive the patient insane, and
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