Even physician in those days were doctors of long descent; and from their early youth they had been intended for the profession and were taught everything that was considered necessary for and preparatory to it. This science had later become so much degraded that most of them turned mere empirics; and there was not one physician amongst them more learned than the other. This is in short the history of the three systems of Medicine, indigenous to our country.
Macrocosm vs. Microcosm
Man is said to be the Microcosm, and the world the Macrocosm; because what exists in the world exists in Man; or in other words there is nothing in Macricism of Nature that is not contained in Man. So man must be looked upon as an integral part of universal Nature and not as anything separate or different from the latter. Further, the forces in the Microcosm or man are identical with the forces of the Macrocosm or the world; or to put it more plainly-the natural forces acting in and through the various organs of the human body are intimately related to the similar or corresponding forces acting in and through the organisms of the world.
In the organisms of man, these forces may act in an abnormal manner and cause diseases thereby. Similarly, in the great organisms of the Cosmos, they may act abnormally likewise and bring about diseases on earth and its atmospheric conditions such as earthquake, storms, lightings, rain-fails resulting in the elements constituting the blood of a man corresponds to the quality of the invisible influences rediating from Mars. If the scull-essentials that characterise the influences of Venus do not exist, the natural instincts that cause men and animals to propagate their species would cause to operate; because all beings in the Universe are sympathetically connected with the only one universal principle of life from Venus resulting in love between two persons of the opposite sex.
The following are the instances in which every sign of the Zodiac has an aspect towards some particular part of the human body:
1. Aries relates to the neck Libra relates to the kidneys
2. Taurus the neck and shoulders Scorpio genitals
3. Gemini arms and hands Sagittarius lips
4. Cancer chest and adjacent parts Capricorn Knees
5. Leo the heart and stomach Aquarius legs
6. Virgo the intestine, Pisces the base of feet, the stomach umbilicus
Like the signs of the Zodiac each of the planets has jurisdiction over some parts of the body. A few instances shown below will be enough to exemplify the manner and the way in which the Seven Planets exercise special power over some part of the body to cause disease or diseases according t their influences on the three humours in the system:
1. Satum: Presides over bones, teeth, cartilage’s, ear, spleen, bladder and brain and gives rise to Quatrain fever, leprosy, tabbies, paralysis, dropsy, cancer, cough, asthma, phthisis of the right ear, hernia, etc.
2. Jupiter: has jurisdiction over blood, liver, pulmonary veins, diaphragm, muscles of the trunk and sense of touch and smell.