Several Tracts Pertaining to the Archidoxa

they also do not digest, but make it good in one place and spoil it in another; that is their highest art.

Furthermore, note this: that Hydrops dropsy is kept in its place, and there digested and naturally driven out. Although there are other ways in dropsy, this is also a way according to the nature of the magnet; another is according to their nature. However, it comes to this, that there are many medicines for one disease, each different from the other. Therefore one should look at what nature is capable of, and not in what way she wants to do it. Thus, not only in bodily diseases but also in surgical diseases: for through the magnet, the condition is kept in its place and the exitus exit/discharge is held. Open wounds and fluxes are drawn back into their place and then directed through their proper emunctory, ripe and not unripe. Thus is the foundation: that through the magnet alone, a thing is kept in its place, and then follow the Conduciamenta conducing/assisting agents that operate in the place as they should operate.

Special order for each

single disease.

So that you have knowledge of how to use the magnet, understand and recognize first that it has the power to draw the belly and the back to itself, and to push or drive them away. Now, there follows from this first an instruction on the profluuijs fluxes/discharges of women, that they should be kept in their center. Thereupon follows the process: that the back should be placed at the end of the line, and the belly at the beginning of the line, both parts formed with their concavities against each other. And this is a uniform process not only in perfluuijs menstrorum rubei & albi fluxes of red and white menses, but also in all perfluuijs ventris fluxes of the belly, however they may be and occur. Thus these two fluxes are kept. Into their center should then be used the Matrinaria morborum matrical medicines for diseases and digestives, in the same way as in the stomach, which does not digest, but lets the food pass through it undigested. Therefore, it is kept in the stomach until you bring the stomach