De resolutione theses

...or already actually infest some nerves, and corrupt their legitimate instrumental disposition by filling, constricting, and obstructing the same.

Such a resolution rarely ends in other diseases, but it often follows and terminates in some: such as the strangulation of the uterus, cold diseases of the head, apoplexy, lethargy, etc.

If the resolved part diminishes, or its color is changed, it will be able to be cured either not at all or at least with difficulty; as it seems to be destitute not only of the animal faculty, but also of the natural and, in a certain sense, the vital one.

Resolution is more frequent in winter, and in the aged it is cured with greater difficulty; however, it more rarely seizes the warmer and younger.

Colic pain, arising from thin humors, sometimes passes into a resolution of the limbs, while the sense remains intact.

It is sometimes believed to be a good sign when a fever or a tremor supervenes upon a resolution. For fever can sometimes take the form of a remedy; but a tremor indicates to us that the matter is being driven elsewhere.

The treatment of resolution, with which we are dealing here, varies according to the diversity of the causes by which it is excited. For if it occurs from tumors compressing the nerves or the spinal cord, it will be removed by the cure of those same things, which is treated elsewhere by physicians. But if, as happens more frequently, it has arisen from thick, viscous, and cold humors which corrupt the organic disposition of the brain and spinal cord, or the nerves, it will be driven out by the following remedies (provided it is not ἀνίατος [incurable]).

First, indeed, by an attenuating, drying, and warming diet. Therefore, the sick should stay in warm and dry places, which are made such either by nature or by art. Let their food be well-baked bread...