"Et etiam quatuor medii, sqr.: Cancro, Virgo, Scorpio, et Pisces.
"Et quatuor mali: Geminij, Leo, Capricornus et Taurus."
Similar figures no doubt occur in our old English almanacks. I will merely add that the figure above described is pasted on the back of the title-page of an edition of Regimen Sanitatis, with an interlineary version in German verse, bearing the following imprint: "Impressum Auguste per Johannem Froschauer, Anno Dm̅ MDij." 4to.
The book also bears a German title which, as it mentions the subject of bloodletting [lassen], I may as well transcribe: ¶ Diss ist das Regiment der Gesuntheyt durch all monat des ganzen iars, wie man sich halten sol mit essen und trincken, und auch von lassen. I presume that the rules for bloodletting which accompany the old almanacks are chiefly derived from this Regimen Sanitatis, which is founded upon that of the school of Salerno, as they form a principal feature in its precepts.
This edition of the book does not appear to have been known to Sir Alexander Croke: I will therefore give the general precepts for the twelve months which are prefixed to it.
"Januarius { Ante cibum vina
{ tu sumas pro medicina.
Februarius { Non minuas, non balnearis,
{ Mala ne patiaris.
Marcius { Hic assature