hardly deserve the name. Indeed, those filthy things—Mummy original: "Mumia"; refers to powdered remains of embalmed bodies, once a common but controversial remedy and those substances taken from the human corpse, which are more or less infected and poisonous—as well as the internal organs of beasts, and other parts that are putrid and worm-ridden, especially the shameful parts and excrement, along with everything prepared from them, create an inevitable nausea in the sick. They further prove the Physicians to be guilty of simplicity, ignorance, or sluggishness. Therefore, those filthy things hardly deserve the name of Medicines.

CHAPTER III.

Concerning

The more ignoble and unworthy things which are kept in the

Pharmacy.

Section I.

Although nothing is so dejected or ignoble that it might not at some time—certain circumstances being established, of course—be able to be remarkably beneficial; nevertheless, I judge it to belong to the Prudence of the Physician that a proper selection be established even in this matter. Otherwise, it can very easily happen that from the contempt for such common and most vile medicines, all confidence in the healer and the medicine perishes, not without immediate and notable harm to the sick. But ignoble things of various kinds occur: some less celebrated for their price, some for their virtue In this context, "virtue" refers to the medicinal potency or inherent power of a substance, and others for their use. By reason of price, the cheaper things are commonly scorned, for which either no price or only a tiny one can be set. By reason of Virtue, we rightly reject those things that are obsolete, corrupted, and especially virulent. By reason of use, it seems less advisable to burden the Workshop original: "Officinam"; the laboratory or preparation area of the pharmacy with unusual and superfluous things, when there is no lack of better items ennobled by frequent and constant use. Truly, it will not be a regrettable labor if we wish to discuss for a little while those things piled up in pharmacies original: "pharmacopoliis" which pertain to this.

Section II.

For indeed, 1. we see other refuse curiously preserved: Horse hooves from before the blacksmith's shop, those of the Donkey from the place destined for carcasses original: "è loco cadaveribus destinato"; likely referring to a knacker's yard or disposal site...