Theses inaugurales et medicae de podagrica affectione

LVI.
To all these indications we satisfy by employing three instruments: namely, Diet, Surgery, and Pharmaceuticals.

LVII.
Diet requires the legitimate use of non-natural things. Since this does not always suit all those with gout, it should be accommodated according to the variety of the cause and the time of the disease.

LVIII.
To surgery are submitted bloodletting, cupping glasses, leeches, and cauteries; the use of which—whether of all, or of many, or of only one—is appropriate when we are in need of either revulsion, or derivation, or evacuation. We sometimes have need of all of these, sometimes two, sometimes only one, according to the diverse constitution of both the body and the affection.

LIX.
Among pharmaceuticals, some look to the whole body, others to the affected part.

LX.
Those that look to the whole are contained in a triple class: namely, of those that soften, those that prepare, and those that purge.

LXI.
To the affected part are referred anodynes, resolvents, alterants, and corroborants. All of which should be adapted according to the nature and species of the humors, as well as the condition of the suffering body, and the reason of other circumstances.