De resolutione theses

[...] [Indum?], of the Bishops: Alephangine pills, of Agaric, Sagapenum, Opopanax, Cochia, Foetida, etc., as well as the remaining medicines called phlegmagogues.

XXIII.

And since the matter descends for the most part from the head, as if from a certain source, to the parts situated below, therefore, after the universal purging of the body (especially in that resolution which follows apoplexy or another disease of the brain), we shall use those things that specifically clear the head: such as those which are called by physicians Caputpurgia (head-purgatives) and Apophlegmatismi (phlegm-evacuants); since the matter of these is sufficiently known, we will easily be able to fashion various forms from it, as the situation demands. Some also prescribe clysters, frictions, and the like, for the sake of derivation.

XXV.

These things having been duly performed, we shall proceed to those which strengthen the brain and nerves, as well as digest the residues and correct intemperance; some of these are taken internally, while others are applied externally.

XXVI.

Of those which physicians prescribe to be taken, these are almost all: Theriac, Golden Alexandrian, Anacardine Confection, Theriacal Salt, candied Ginger, Diábra, Diamoſchu, Diatrion piperion, Conserve of Ground Pine, Sage, Betony, Anthos, etc. Moreover, there exist here and there many medicines of this kind, all of which it would be too long to recount in this place.

XXVII.

Although those things which are applied externally are also various, all of them nevertheless possess the power of heating and drying; and they ought to be applied not only to the resolved part, but also to the place in which the containing cause adheres: such as oil of earthworms, fox oil, oil of laurel, oil of rue, nard oil, [oils] of peppers and of euphorbium; aqua vitae; Ointment of Agrippa, Martiatum, Aregon; various plasters, decoctions, and fomentations. Likewise, sulfurous, saline, or bituminous waters, rendered such by nature or art, have indeed benefited many.

XXVIII.

But if we accomplish nothing with these, to the part in which the cause lurks, [we shall apply] a Dropax.