Astrology in medicine (Registro nro. 118870)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mercier, Charles Arthur, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1852-1919 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Astrology in medicine |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-03-08 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Astrology in Medicine" by Charles Arthur Mercier is a scholarly lecture series written in the early 20th century. It explores how astrological doctrine was built and why it once seemed indispensable to physicians, laying out its technical system (signs, planets, houses, aspects, and humours) and arguing that it hindered medical progress even as it shaped practice for centuries.<br/><br/>The opening of the work surveys astrology’s vast historical reach and abrupt extinction, then sets out its basic machinery so readers can see how it was meant to guide doctors. Mercier explains the four elemental qualities and the zodiac arranged by triplicities, linking each sign to humours, life stages, and body parts. He introduces the seven traditional planets, their “fortunate” or “unfortunate” character, and their sweeping jurisdictions (including animals, plants, metals), then shows how a planet’s power varies by sign, house, aspect, motion, and hour. He defines the twelve Houses of Heaven and their meanings, details aspects from conjunction to opposition, and notes practical rules like planetary days and hours (tracing the Rx/Jupiter symbol atop prescriptions). To illustrate how an astrologer would reason, he interprets a nativity to predict a warlike career crowned with disaster—an example used to reveal both the system’s internal logic and its arbitrariness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Medical astrology |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/b21443300/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/b21443300/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78150">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78150</a> |
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