Aug
21

Medical Astrology: Brief History of Health and the Zodiac by Carole Somerville

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Until the late 17th century the practice of astrology was closely linked with medicine. From as far back as 470 BC Hippocrates of Cos, the Greek physician who established medical schools in Athens believed that the heavenly bodies affected man. A medical diagnosis could best be determined by a person’s birth map. The person’s nature, as shown by his chart, was aided to react against the disease which was believed to be an imbalance of the four ‘humours’.

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