Several Tracts Pertaining to the Archidoxa

to a righteous digestion, and then it departs naturally. That which is natural cannot be kept, only the unnatural, until it becomes natural. The same should also happen in the matrice womb, for the reason that all things must come into their perfection of their natural decoction cooking/digestion, so that they then go out according to the order of nature.

For this, note such an addition: that for the stomach and the intestines, their convenient remedia remedies for digestion should be taken, and for the womb, the same, which there is no need to add here, but I believe they are sufficiently known to you all.

Now, however, in the rising of the womb, and similarly of it alone from the place where it wants to go: the womb should be drawn downward, namely through the belly, which should stand above at that place, and be placed at the bottom, and the back at the top. Thus the womb remains in its center and does not rise. Once it is brought into the center, it follows that Communientia matrice medicamenta medicines strengthening the womb should be used, such as mica, black coral, pearls, and the like. Thus it happens no more, and it is a perfect cure.

Likewise, you should also know in Caduco falling sickness, that is, in all speciebus Epilepsi species of epilepsy—that is, the falling sickness—namely from where it rises, as they all go into the top of the head: draw with the belly to the bottom and lay with the back on top, and drive it to the bottom. And not only in one place, but to the bottom into all Est limbs/extremities of the human, lay the bellies in four ways, but one back against these four. Thus it drives the disease back from the head into the center. Thereupon follows the addition: that Tiriar theriac/antidote should be used from the outside on the path to comfort; secondly, give esse essensificatum an essential essence and a Cordis confortatiuum heart-strengthening agent.

Thus you physicians should know that in this way all falling sickness is taken away, in old and young. And this paragraph is worth more than everything that the Humoristen humorists have written from