It is a chapter in the vagaries of the human mind that is worth careful study.( 33) Let me commend to your reading the sympathetic story called "A Doctor of Medicine" in the "Rewards and Fairies" of Kipling.

The hero is Nicholas Culpeper, Gent., whose picture is here given.

One stanza of the poem at the end of the story, "Our Fathers of Old," may be quoted: Wonderful tales had our fathers of old-- Wonderful tales of the herbs and the stars-- The Sun was Lord of the Marigold, Basil and Rocket belonged to Mars.
Pat as a sum in division it goes-- (Every plant had a star bespoke)-- Who but Venus should govern the Rose?
Who but Jupiter own the Oak?
Simply and gravely the facts are told In the wonderful books of our fathers of old.
(33) It is not generally known that Stonewall Jackson practiced astrology.Col.

J.W.Revere in "Keel and Saddle" (Boston, 1872) tells of meeting Jackson in 1852 on a Mississippi steamer and talking with him on the subject.

Some months later, Revere received a letter from Jackson enclosing his (Revere's) horoscope.