QUALITY AND PROPERTY OF CANCER. Cancer is the onely house of the
Moon, and is the
first Sign of the Watry or Northern Triplicity, is Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick,
Feminine, Nocturnal, Moveable, a Solstice Sign mute and slow of Voyce, Fruitful, Northern.
DISEASES. It signifies Imperfections allover, or in the
Brest, Stomack and Paps, weak Digestion, cold Stomack, Ptisick, salt Flegms, rotten
Coughs, dropsicall Humours, Impostumations in the Stomack, Cancers which ever are in
the Brest.
PLACES. The Sea, great Rivers, Navigable Waters; but in the
Inland Countries
it notes places neer Rivers, Brooks, Springs, Wels, Sellars in Houses, Wash-houses,
Marsh grounds, Ditches with Rushes, Sedges, Sea banks, Trenches, Cisternes.
SHAPE AND DESCRIPTION. Generally a low and small stature,
the upper parts
of more bigness then the lower, a round Visage; sickly pale, a whitely Complexion,
the Hair a sad brown, little Eyes, prone to have many Children, if a Woman.