Quote #1599 about 17th century by Alice Morse Earle
"In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life."by Alice Morse Earle
Categories: 17th century
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