BOOK FIVE

Repeat the extractions with new wine and an equal weight of water of wild thyme original: "serpilli"; these extractions can be repeated infinitely without the weight of the powder itself ever being consumed, which is a marvel. (If you infuse it with Malmsey wine original: "vino Maluatico"; a sweet, potent Mediterranean wine, it does not induce vomiting, but instead purges gently through the bowels. However, white wine should be used if it is intended as an emetic a substance used to induce vomiting.) Dose. The dose is one to two drams a dram is approximately 3.9 grams administered in appropriate liquid vehicles; it possesses miraculous virtues in the entire method of healing. For small children, barely half a scruple about 0.6 grams is given, and sometimes only 15 grains. Use. Its uses are as follows:

1. In all afflictions of the stomach, it is given with the waters of Blessed Thistle original: "Carduiben." (Carduus benedictus); a plant used since antiquity for digestive issues and Mint, or also with Pennyroyal original: "pulegii" water and Mint water.
2. In all fevers, especially the "quotidian" a fever that returns daily, it is administered with the waters of Lesser Centaury and Mint six hours before the paroxysm the peak or sudden attack of the fever.
3. In pleurisy inflammation of the lung lining, whether false or true, it is given in Milk Thistle original: "cardui mariæ" water.
4. In a chronic cough, asthma, pneumonia, labored breathing original: "orthopnæa", and throat infections original: "Angina", it is given in the waters of Coltsfoot original: "Tussilaginis", Hyssop, Violets, and the like.
5. In headaches often caused by impurities of the stomach stinging the brain, it is given with Betony water.
6. In the plague, when vomiting must be induced at the very beginning, it is given in Blessed Thistle or Meadowsweet original: "Vlmariæ" water.
7. In hypochondriac melancholy, it produces bowel movements, though sometimes after fourteen days or even more.
8. For the prevention of gout original: "Podagra", it is given in wild thyme or barley water.
9. In any kind of epilepsy, it is given in Peony or Linden original: "florum Tiliæ" flower water.
10. For the coagulation of blood wherever it may be in the human body, it is given with the waters of Chervil original: "cerefolii" or Daisy original: "bellidis minoris" before suppuration the formation of pus begins.

Thus far that author. Joseph Quercetanus also known as Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544–1609), a prominent French physician and advocate for Paracelsian medicine, in his Restored Dogmatic Pharmacopoeia, chapter 16, pages 237 and 238, says: There are still five or six other emetics found (the previous one was drawn from the family of vegetables) in the "Centuries" collections of one hundred medical case studies of the same Rolandus Martin Ruland the Elder, a physician famous for his "Aqua Benedicta". These seem to be taken from the metallic genus, the chief of which is his Blessed Water original: "aqua illius Benedicta", to which he attributes many and wonderful effects. He experienced these in the curing of various afflictions, and especially in pleurisies—whether complicated by worms or otherwise. He calls this remedy a "rupturing emetic" original: "vomitorium ruptorium": for it breaks and opens abscesses and swellings original: "apostemata" into which inflammations usually and promptly degenerate. He also uses the same in the cure of throat infections or "quinsey" original: "scinantiæ". See Century 1, cure 14; or chapter 14, Century 2, chapters 52, 55, 62; Century 3, chapter 18; Century 4, chapters 11 and 16; Century 9, chapters 14, 35, 36. There you will find recorded at the same time the names, locations, gender, and ages of those whom he restored from such desperate cases of pleurisy; indeed, in the shortest...