... Theses de pleuritide

and more watery matter, let us employ the drying ones, which were proposed in the third place.

XXIIX.
But these and similar fomentations have a place only in those cases where neither inflammation nor an abundance of matter is bothersome, and no fullness of the body appears from which an influx or attraction of matter seems to be feared, and not only for that reason, but also to test whether the pain should be referred to flatulence or truly to inflammation.

XXIX.
But if we do not remove the affection with these fomentations, and yet the pain does not increase, we must pass to another more powerful one. But if by these the pain is not only not removed but even grows, we shall immediately desist from them and, following the precept of Galen, you will write: In things that are still in generation, the inhibition of blood flowing to the affected place is prior to evacuation; clearly, we shall draw out the flowing humor from that particle from which it first excites, fosters, and increases the inflammation.

XXX.
We shall accomplish this either by phlebotomy, or by attaching cupping glasses to the incised skin, or by purgative medicines, or other instruments by which matter is accustomed to be evacuated or transferred from the affected part elsewhere.

XXXI.
But the time and order of administering these instruments is shown to us, first, by the nature of the disease: then by the strength, and afterwards by the momentum of the fluxion.

XXXII.
For if a great and dangerous disease infests, since according to the authority of Hippocrates, extreme diseases require extreme remedies, and signs of abundant blood are present, we shall draw it out by incising a vein. But if it is certain that blood indeed excited the disease, but it is not very great nor acute, leaving aside those stronger revulsive instruments, we shall act with milder ones and be content with a more benign loosening of the bowels, likewise a thin diet and frictions.

XXXIII.
Experience, along with Galen, bears witness that mild pleurisies have sometimes been overcome by this remedy, although here too...