Theses medicae de dyspnoea

XXII.

Next, whatever remains of the flowing matter must be reduced to a moderate state: using incrassating and soothing agents if the matter is thin and acrid, but using gently attenuating and abstergent ones if it is thick and viscous.

XXIII.

The very source of the fluxion must subsequently be appropriately dried up, and the rheumatic disposition, according to the variety of its nature, must be removed by contrary remedies.

XXIIII.

The same plan of treatment is to be adopted if such a spring or source exists in other parts: the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the womb, etc.

XXV.

Finally, the matter adhering within the lungs themselves or in the cavity of the chest must be evacuated: by pectoral (bechic) medicines, indeed, if there is any fluid humor; but if flatus is present, it must be dispersed by drying and warming agents, in whatever manner that may be done most appropriately and safely.

XXVI.

Pectoral medicines can satisfy this duty sometimes by incising and cleansing, at other times by soothing and incrassating; these same medicines will at times be warm, at others temperate, or even cold, according to the nature and species of the adhering humor.

XXVII.

Thus, frequently, drying agents alone absorb watery and serous humor; of this kind are Armenian bole (unless there is fear of astringency), burnt hartshorn, and similar substances. Sometimes diuretics or sudorifics have also been beneficial, as have frictions of the chest.

XXVII.

The printer has repeated the number XXVII for the final section.
If we achieve nothing by such means, necessity demanding it, [we must have recourse] to sinapisms.