Theses inaugurales et medicae de podagrica affectione

XLVIII.
But since this cannot be conveniently removed unless the antecedent and external causes by which it is fostered are first removed, it is deservedly fitting to struggle against these first, and in that order in which they succeed one another in the procreation of the evil.

XLIX.
Therefore, external causes, if they persist, indicate their own removal; if not, they indicate nothing.

L.
Among the antecedent causes, a humor redundantly flowing in the whole body demands the aid of evacuation. According as it is at fault in quality, it demands altering through the contrary; insofar as it moves to the affected place, it demands pulling it away a revulsion technique.

LI.
The synechotic holding together cause, insofar as it rests in the veins of the affected parts, demands drawing it away; if it adheres outside the veins, it desires the protection of resolving and digesting.

LII.
A hot intemperance, on account of which humors are attracted, is amended by cooling things; a cold one, from which density arises and consequently the evacuation of matter is prohibited, by heating things; a dry one, on account of which retention is sometimes depraved, by moistening things; a humid one, induced by the flux of phlegm, by drying things.

LIII.
A pain that attracts and weakens the strength of the whole demands an anodyne painkiller; if it harms the extremity, a narcotic.

LIV.
The intemperance of the transmitting parts, generating superfluous humors similar to themselves, is corrected through the contrary.

LV.
The strength of the whole body desires its own preservation through suitable nourishment, and the strength of the suffering joints desires it through a condensing and drying medicine.