A Treatise on Medical Astrology

The transits of Saturn over the ruler of health usually causes rheumatism, gout, lumbago and kindred ailments brought about by getting wet, over-lifting. Uranus transits over the ruler of health, much the same as Saturn, causes falls, sprains, hurts from machinery, etc., according to the sign the transit occurs

Jupiter causes jaundice, billiousness, liver complaints, gangrene, and other ailments as given in "dis

In the horoscope we find several causes of sickness, the first and principal causes are the primary, secondary, periodical and progressive directions of the planets.
Of the directions, we fi

we find that the 4th house rules the grave, or the end of life; the 6th house is termed the house of sickness; while the 8th house is the house of death. From the above