Volume 1

Of the power and influence of the sun and moon on humane bodies; and of the diseases that rise from thence / By Richard Mead.

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1712
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Of the power and influence of the sun and moon on humane bodies; and of the diseases that rise from thence / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( §7 ) The learned Maecius has obferved, (a) that in thofe Countries which are troubled with frequent Deluges, that the Inundations for the moft Part, happen when the Moon as at Full 5 and he afligns as the certain Caufe of thefe Mifchiefs, to be the immoderate fwelling and flowing of the Sea, joyned with the attractive Faculty of the Planets. Storms and Tempefts have their Origin from thefe and fuch like Caufes, for it’s not our Bufinefs to difeourfe here of the divine Power, or whether they are fent by the An¬ ger of God, for the Punifhment of Sinners. I will not endeavour to loofe People from the Bonds of Re¬ ligion 5 for tho’ all Parts of this im- menfe Machine move by certain Laws, and what’s convenient for the Whole, may fometimes hurt Tarticu- (a) DelTevere lib. 3. p« 228, lars