Astrologer, The.
The Astrologer. Composed of 12 Monthly Parts Treating on the Science of Astrology, Medical Botany, etc. – Contains Lessons on the Science, Comments and Remarks by Various Authors, Household and Medical Recipes, Birthday Information, Letters from Correspondents, together with a Fund of Useful and Valuable Information, much of which cannot be found in any other Work.
1887--1890 Monthly
London, England.
Language: English.
Editor: P. Powley, Professor of Astrology and Medical Botany.
Publisher: W. Foulsham.
Succeeded by: Fate and Fortune-->Astrologer's Magazine
1/1, July 1887-October 1890.
24 pp. (varies).

This was the work of the medical botanist and herbalist Philip Powley (1839-1897) of Hull. The journal carried horoscopes of "Revolutionary Figures" (William Gladstone, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Queen Victoria, et al.), astrological advice to gardeners, and general articles on planetary influences, the history of astrology, reading nativities, etc., but also regular disquisitions on topics of "medical botany" (Powley's specialty): "Every Mother Her Own Doctor," cures for bronchitis, tape worm, warts, erysipelas, chilblains, and the like, and Complexion Beautifiers, animal magnetism, attacks on vaccination, the virtues of lettuce, liver and nerve pills, prognostications, the doctrine of elections, etc., and extensive correspondence from astrologers (frequently under assumed names) around Britain. It contained occasional contributions by others, including Albert Dawes, of Bournemouth, John Story, of Sheffield, Frederick W. Lacey, of Brixton, et al. An eminent British scholar has noted that the journal's inclusion of birthday predictions makes it one of the precursors to the newspaper horoscope column. This became Fame and Fortune which in turn became Alan Leo's Astrologer's Magazine.