Theses de dolore

LVII.
Now, the physician weighs pain for the sake of the cure, so that he may either undertake it or not.

LIIX.
He should not undertake it if it is light and can be easily overcome by nature, for example, in refrigeration or heat.

LIX.
He should undertake it, either through the pain itself or accidentally.

LX.
Through the pain itself, indeed, if the pain resolves the strength, whence danger to life is imminent, or if the cause is an influx to the affected place, whence the evil is increased.

LXI.
Therefore, the cure of pain is undertaken both with respect to that which causes the pain and with respect to that which feels the pain.

LXII.
That which causes the pain must either be diluted and mitigated through epinexin loosening/thinning or stopped through sympexin coagulation/fixation by those things that restrain the onset, invasion, and penetration of the spirits themselves by a certain peculiar power.

LXIII.
That which feels the pain must be treated by rarefying the solid substance, comforting the temperament, or stupefying its sense.

LXIV.
Those things which accomplish these are called Anodyna pain-relievers, either properly or improperly.

LXV.
Anodynes strictly so-called are moderately warm, most similar to our native heat, and possessed of a certain tenuity of parts, and having no astringency, whether they are taken inside the body or applied outside, such as oils, plasters, pouches, etc.

LXVI.
Improperly so-called are Narcotica narcotics, which take away the sense of pain by stupefying: in which, while we attribute much to them as primary qualities, we learn by experience that an occult faculty sometimes underlies them.

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