The Volume and Work Beyond Wonder

food and drink is caused. In the fourth book, On the Womb original: "de Matrice", he discusses the origin and the cause of all women's diseases, specifically those which a woman shares in common with men, and those which she alone possesses. The fifth book, On the Causes of Invisible Diseases original: "de causis morborum invisibilium", comprises five individual books and deals with the causes of diseases that do not take their origin naturally—as those previously mentioned do—but rather supernaturally through the misuse of natural faith. It further treats the invisible works of the imagination [the power of imagination], and the hidden forces and effects of mummies In Paracelsian medicine, "mummy" (mumia) refers to the vital essence or spiritual "balsam" that remains in a body after death, which was believed to have healing properties., that is, of deceased bodies and relics, specifically of the holy and the unholy, through which many sick people have been restored to health. Finally, it addresses the power of characters [signs or sigils] and words, and what is to be thought of them, since through such means [which others believe occurs through the power of the Devil] the sick are made healthy.