Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-06-23
BALEFUL PLANETS.


The Effect they will have on Mankind.
From the Science of HEALTH
If there is anything in astrological criolo-
gy" we are approaching one of the most pes
tilential periods of the earth's history. Since
the commencement of the Christian era the
perihelia of the four great planets of the solar
system-Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Nep-
tune-have not been coincident. But this is
about to occur, and in the language of DIR.
Knapp, who has traced the history of the
greatest epidemics that have ever afflicted
the human race to the perihelia OF these
planets, there will soon be "lively times for
the doctors" The theory is that when one
or more of the large planets is nearest to the
sun the temperature and condition OF our
atmosphere are so disturbed as to cause in
furious vicissitudes, terrible rains prolonged
droughts, etc, resulting in the destruction of
crops, and pestilence among human beings
and domestic animals.
DR.. Knapp has collected q mass of statis-
tical data, all going to show that perihelion
data have always been marked by unusual
mortality, and that sickness and death have
invariably correspOnded with the planets IN
Ill Tic Sstlllc tlluC
of Jupiter around the sun is accomplished in
a little less than twelve years; of Saturn in
q little less than thirty years; of Uranus in
about eighty -four years. If be true, there
fore. that the perhelia of these planets occa-
sion atmospheric conditions unf;avorable to
life, pestilential periods should occur once in
a dozen years; and aggravated and still more
widespread epidemics at longer intervals.
In tracing the history Of epidemics for more
than two thousand years. DR.. Knapp finds
the facts in all cases to validate the theory.
Thus in the sixth, and again in the sixteenth
centuries three of these planets were cOinci-
dent in perihelion, and those were the most
pestilential times of the Christian era.
But soon we are to have, for the first time
in 1000 years, all four of these planets against
u.s. They will be at their nearest approach
to the sun in or soon after 1880, so that for a
few years. say from 1880 to 1884, the vitality
of every living thing, will be put to a severe
and trying ordeal. Some persons think they
see in the signs of the times evidences of the
great disasters in the immediate future. The
excessive heat, the unexampled cold, the
prevalence of food and disasters at sea, the
general failure of the potato crop, the wide
spread chill-fever among human beings, and
the equal presence of the epizoOtic among
animals, are mentioned as among the pre-
monitions of the rapidly approaching peri
heliOn.
Well, ito be forewarned is to be forearm.
ed.' Accidents excepted we know very well
that the persons with more vigorous consti
tutions and more hygienic habits, will have
the better chance to survive whatever adverse
influences the extraordinary perlhelia will
occasion. 1t is well known to physicians
that in all pestilences, plague, typhus, small
pox, cholera, murrain, etc. the incorporate,
the dissipated, and those whose sanitary con-
ditions were bad furnished the victims
We do not write to alarm any one, nor to
make a sensation. We state the facts which
all history attests. Readers can judge for
themselves what importance to attach to the
subject That the conjoint perihelion of all
large planets of the solar system, one of which
{ (Jupiter) is one thousand times as large as
the earth, must disturb our atmosphere and
very considerably is probable
that this disturbance must be injurious to
health and life is certain and that these
periods have heretofore been pestilential is a
matter of record. How much we shall suffer
during the next dozen or fifteen years de-
pends very much upon how nearly we live a
life in accordance with the laws Of health.
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