Les massages en médecine traditionelle chinoise

when the relationship of planets to events on earth and the birth of individuals and to parts of the body is studied; (2) divinatory astrology, when from astronomical calculations prognostications for the development of diseases or of epidemics are deduced; (3) "artificial astrology". Here tables and calendars are used without reference to or even knowledge of the philosophical background. During phase 2 the term iatromathematics was introduced to exclude the idea of demonic magic which would make this kind of medicine suspect to the religious establishment. Nevertheless, the attitude of religious authorities fluctuated a good deal. This is one of the chief themes of the book under notice. It is an excellent source-book for the astro-medicine of the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from Ficino through the syphilis debate down or up to Kepler.