Assertion: astrology | /r/HasProperty | essential
Facets:
value: absolutely
type: DEGREE
value: to medical practice
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: One finds a royal physician in Paris solemnly proclaiming, in 1663, that astrology is absolutely essential to medical practice; and as late as 1688, another authority of that city published a book to defend the same thesis [Lussauld, 'Apologie pour les Medecins', Paris, 1663]
text: A traditional belief of astrology, known as essential dignity, is the idea that the Sun, Moon and planets are more powerful and effective in some signs than others, because the basic nature of both is held to be in harmony.