De dolore disputatio medica

LIX.
Therefore, the vice of any exterior cause must be corrected, avoided, or removed.

LX.
Intrinsic intemperies, existing as the cause of pain, must be altered to the contrary.

LXI.
Worms of the intestines, which cannot easily be led out while they are alive because they flee harmful things, indicate a treatment that is killing and expelling.

LXII.
A stone must be broken and extirpated.

LXIII.
That which errs by excess of quantity must be diminished: by primary qualities, it must be altered. Hard things must be softened, acrid things tempered, thick things attenuated.

LXIIII.
If the matter is at rest, it must be resolved or attracted: if it moves, it must be drawn away or repelled.

LXV.
Insofar as it is generated because of the vice of some part, if it is because of intemperies, it must be altered.

LXVI.
If it is detained because of some internal or external harm, it must be removed: as, if it is by reason of obstruction, it must be deobstructed.

LXVII.
Vapor and flatus must be dispersed.

LXVIII.
Humors in the alimentary veins must be diminished by bloodletting, while the indication is present and nothing prevents it. Weakness of strength, age, etc., and the inadequacy of the humors, however, prevent it.