The Astrological Physician Typeset and Annotated With Additional Examples from Richard Saunders

In 1656, a man by the name of William Andrews entered into the world of astrological publishing with his first book The Astrological Physician. This book went unnoticed by many, but it did not slip past William Lilly who wrote a short recommendation of the work.

The Astrological Physician provides great detail about techniques used in decumbiture and medical horary charts with a strong focus on diagnosis by identifying the diseases and illness signified by the planets in specific signs. This work has been typeset and annotated for the first time and includes commentary and an example chart to illustrate for the reader how to work with the rules Andrews provides. Additionally, this work is accompanied by several examples from the works of medical astrologer Richard Saunders who was working around the same time as Williams, but published his Astrological Judgment and Practice and Physic in 1676. These examples have been included to make up for the lack of examples in Williams’s work and further show how some of the rules of decumbiture in use around the same time.

The download includes a 69 page PDF with editor’s notes at the end of most every chapter and serves as the perfect starting point for those interested in classical medical astrology.