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 THIRTY-SIX EXAMPLE HOROSCOPES 679

that the afilieting planets are in Commen or flexible signs and it could have been avoided without much effort. As it is, the most drastic measures for puri- fieation of the blood must be adopted; the patient should be brought to California, treated with daily sunbaths to facilitate copious perspiration, and given nothing but water and fruit juices until the system has been cleansed,

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Measures for the alleviation of pain and disease eannot always be deferred to a propitious time, but here that is possible the student will find that reme- dial treatments given under the propitious planctary rays are much more efficient and suecessful than when applied haphazard, ‘Therefore the following hints may be found yaluable.

Surgeons who have watehed and tabulated these matters inform us that the operations performed while the Moon is increasing in light (see p. 521) are generally more successful, less liable to eause eompli- eations and more quiekly healed than operations per- formed when the Moon is decreasing in light.

When a surgical operation seems unavoidable consult the ephemeris and if the Moon is going through the sign which rules that part of the body where the operation is to be performed defer it for a day or two till the Moou gets well into the next sign. This will minimize the danger of complications, and