On Medical Matters

...the instruction regarding each drug through remedies would be superfluous. For the feeling of pain in the stomach, the belly, and the intestines, the liver, kidneys, and bladder, and furthermore hiccups, biting sensations, trembling, being speechless, growing cold, being convulsed, having no pulse, difficulty in breathing, lethargy, dizziness, suffocation, thirst, hemorrhage, fever, nausea, stomach cramps, frequent vomiting, feeling sick, turning red, turning blue, turning pale, delirium, snoring, paralysis, and doing many other things and suffering various conditions; it is difficult to find one single remedy following such a state 41, but it is possible to point out each symptom divided into universal 42 conditions, a small number of common symptoms. Wherefore, it is not easy for the ingested drug to be known from each of the aforementioned symptoms; for the erosion of the mouth and tongue, inflammation of the stomach, belly, kidneys, and bladder, strong nausea, and sometimes blood through the urine...

39) Codex X, Marcellus, and Ruellius thus; the common edition reads "stomach very much."
40) Codex X and Sambucus: "swelling."
41) Codex X: "since it is difficult to find the consequences of these alone."
42) Thus Aldus, Cornarius, Goupyl, and Saracenus; Asulanus and Marcellus read "few."

...the treatment appropriate and suitable for each poison is handed down. Nor indeed can one easily find anyone who, from the swallowing of one poison, is simultaneously vexed by vehement pain of the stomach, belly, intestines, liver, kidneys, and bladder, and furthermore is seized by hiccups, gnawing, trembling, speechlessness, refrigeration, convulsions, failure of pulse, difficulty of breathing, lethargy, dizziness, suffocation, thirst, eruption of blood, fever, difficulty of urine, and cramps, vomits frequently, is oppressed by nausea, turns red, turns blue, turns pale, is delirious, snores, is paralyzed, and does or suffers many other and diverse things. Each, furthermore, distinguished into universal affections, demonstrates a number of few and common symptoms. Wherefore, from one single symptom of those which have been recounted before, it will not be easy to detect and distinguish the assumed poison. For the erosion of the mouth and tongue, inflammation of the stomach, belly, kidneys, and bladder, vehement difficulty of urine, and sometimes also bloody mixture, dilaceration...