Artemidorus wrote: “EUery suruncle, malady, or imperfection, about the neck, head, or beard, signifieth sicknesse indifferently to all.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of the neck, and of having many heads. · Book 1, encoded section 23 · Text transcription · marked gaps
Original source (English)
EUery suruncle, malady, or imperfection, about the neck, head, or beard, signifieth sicknesse indifferently to all. To have two or 3. heads, is good for him that is poore, for he shall heap up sto [illegible passage] e of goods, and also shall have a wife and children of a good nature: to a rich man it signifies adversitie, by meanes of his kindred.
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