Several Tracts Pertaining to the Archidoxa

So that this may happen and come to its end, for which I have begun to write, how the magnet should be placed: my instruction to you is only that you should place it on the center from which the diseases originate. As an example: if the menstrum menses or the superfluous flow was red or white, one should place it on the center, that is, on the first root where the origin is, and it will happen no more.

Item: If it were in a through-flow diarrhea or excessive discharge, it should be placed on the center where the through-flow takes its center, and it will go no further out.

Item: In other diseases that wish to distribute themselves throughout the body further than their locus place contains, place it in the center of those same diseases, and it will come, as it stands above, no further. With such a diversion, the Excrementa waste products and the Superfluitas superfluity remain in their place, from which they can then be easily brought out through their natural Emunctorium emunctory/excretory organ, according to the power of the medicine and according to proper necessity and digestion metabolic processing. For even if a thing is halted, the disease is not yet healed. But it is there so that in its place the digestion may occur completely and run out when ripe, nothing unripe. Thus also, it is maintained in Colera bile/cholera, so that no Contractur contraction/cramp follows thereafter, for there the materia peccans the offending matter is maintained in its place and digested there, and according to the right order of nature, driven out ripe. With this ripe expulsion, Colica colic and contraction departs.

In this I play the game at this time: that it seems to me there is no nobler treasure in medicine than to keep a disease in its center, so that it does not move from it, and that the physician is ready for it, and digests and matures it in its perfect being. When that happens, the disease may go out, naturally and not unnaturally, letting good or bad run off by itself.

It is a disgrace to all physicians that they do not keep the disease in loco its place, and make it ripe, and drive out the ripe—not the raw and not the unprepared. But all physicians lack this, that they cannot keep it, and what they keep—