Arizona citizen., 1878-11-16
1 Residential PeHoJ-Tbe PeriheLid or the Planets and Their Influence
 Upon Heaith.

If there Is anything in " astrological Icriology," we are approaching one of the most pestllential- periods of the earth's history. Since the commence ment of the Christian era the perihelia of the four great planets of the solar system-Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune-have not been coincident. But this is about to occur, and in the language of Dr. Knapp, who has traced the history Of the greatest epidem.cs that have ever afflicted the human race 10 the perihelia of these planets, there vii soon be lively times for the doc tors.' The theory IS that when one Or more of tue large planets Is nearest 10 the sun the temperature and condi- Iiun of our atmosphere are 50 disturbed as to cause injurious vicissitudes, pro longed droughts, etc, resulting in the destruction of crops, and pestiIences among human beings and domestic animals
 Dg. Knapp has collected mass of statistical data, all going lo show that pelIhelion dates have always been marked by unusual mortality, and that sickness and death have invariably correspuuded with the planets iu perl heliun at the sane time. The revO!u- IIOn of Jupiter round the sun Is ac- comp. .isled in litlle less than twelve years; OI Saturn m d iittie less than thirty years; Of Uranus in about eignty- four years If IL be true, therefore, thai the periheiIa of these planets "c- casion atmospheric cohdiliOus Uuia- vorable tu life, presidential periods s.-ouiG occur once iu dozen cars i; and aggrdyated and sull more wide spread epidemicS at longer intervals. In tracing hls history of epldemics for more than ; 900 ears, Dr. knaPp find, the facts iu all cases To validate tue theory. Thus n the sixth, and again n the sixteenth century, three Ot these planets were coincidcnt in perihcliun, and those were Inc moet peslIientIal times of the Christian era.
 But soon we are to have, for the first time in 5000 years, all four of these planets against Us. They will be al their nearest approach 10 the sun ln or soon after 1880, 50 tha: for a few ears, cay from 1850 10 1859, the vitality Ut every living thing will be put 10 d SC were and trying ordeal. Some per ons th.nk they see in the signs Of the times evidences of the great disasters at sea, the general failure of the pots 10 crop, the wide spread chIll fever among human beIngs, and the equal presence Uf epiZOOuc among animals are mentioned as among the premonl- tions of the rapidly approaching perl helion.
 We'll. to be fOrewarned is to be fcrearmed." Accidents excepted, we. know very well that the persons oiI more vigorous constitutions and more. bygienic habits will have the better chance to survive whatever adverse' influences the extraordinary peiIhella| will occasion. l. is well known to- physicians that, in alt pestlicnces, plague, typhus, smallpox, cholera, murrain, etc, the incorporate, the dls- sipated, and those whose sanitary con ditions are bad, are the victims.
 We do not write 10 alarm any one, nor 10 make a sensation. We state the facts which all history altests. Read- CTS can judge for themselves what lm- portance to attach 10 the subject. That the conjoint perlhelion Of ali the large planets of the solar system, one otN which, Jupiter. is a thousand times as large as the earth, must disturb our al. mnsphere and temperature very c"nsid- erably, is probable; that this disturb. ance must be injurious to health and life is certain; and that these periods. have heretofore been pestileniIal, Is a matter of record. How much we shali suffer during the next dozen or fifteen years depends very much upon how nearly we live in accordance with the laws of life - Science of Health