Translated by Amanda Lepp, MD PhD
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Last update 24 September 2022 34 translations; 29 adoptions
1. On the miraculous healing of epilepsy and hydrocephaly… by B. Laurentius Justinianus.
2. On the octogenarian nun afflicted with a numbness of all her members who was healed by a miracle.
3. On another nun with gout of the arms with tophi [stony deposits]… by B. Laurentius Justinianus.
4. Concerning a certain person suffering from fever and tetanus and ultimately in danger of his life… by B. Laurentius Justinianus.
5. Another who, with the intervention of the same B. Laurentius Justinanus, is released and healed from sciatica.
6. Concerning the sciatic pain of a nun with numbness and weakness of movement of the left leg, who, so afflicted, is healed after invoking B. Laurentius Justinianus.
7. A certain person with an ulcerated oedemous tumor of the legs.
8. A noble woman suffering with an ulcerated, cancerous tumor, having invoked B. Laurentius Justinianus, is miraculously healed.
9. Another woman who, in the extremes of giving birth with difficulty, and already dying, entrusted to B. Gregory X, Pontificus Maximus, [and] gave birth happily.
10. [Response] to the same case, with the objections of the Congregation of the Sacred Rite.
12. A husband accused of giving administering poison is defended.
13. Concerning the same matter [A husband accused of administering poison is defended].
14. Concerning the same thing [A husband accused of giving administering poison is defended] and whether Antimony is [poison].
15. Whether anybody died from produced or given poison, is [here] investigated and resolved.
16. On the same case, the author, required by the Fiscal Magistrate, responds for the truth.
17. Whether epilepsy [occurring] immediately after a paroxysm can bind itself strongly.
18. Whether, when memory has been lost, the use of reason is necessarily lost and whether one can annul a will from that mind.
19. Concerning the signs of suffocation from an extrinsic or intrinsic cause.
20. Concerning the wholesomeness of air, from which it is determined whether or not a building caused harm to a neighbourhood.
23. A person seized at intervals by fever with pains in the joints is able to procreate; from this, the wife of such a one ought not be accused of defiled chastity or of a supposed adulterous birth.
26. Concerning the signs of pregnancy; from which it can be judged that a woman has passed away from this or else from a supervening malignant fever, for the payment of a contract.
27. Concerning the signs of the plague; from which one can diagnose [whether] a man perished from this, or not; for the exception or payment of a Societas.
28. Suspicion of the French Disease [syphilis], derived from various clues, is rejected; for this reason, the parents of [a man’s] betrothed wished to dissolve his engagement.
29. Whether a person seized by drowsiness or lethargy or pseudo-lethargy can transfer pensions.
31. A person suffering from apoplexy [stroke], with death nearby, is not his own master [non sui juris], [and] cannot transfer pensions.
33. When is money given in a Societas insuring the life of a pregnant woman lost, or not lost, when she is dying.
36. Whether, when a spouse has been seized by an enduring and unclean itch [scabies], this can negate the obligations of matrimonial law [marriage debt] on account of the danger of infection.
37. From which things it is known whether or not an offspring will be aborted, in order to prove that a mother of that dying [infant] after several days can succeed [as an heir].
38. Whether a fistula in the chest ought to exempt a defendant from torture with the rope.
42. Whether a woman can conceive from semen expelled near the uterus, without intromission.
43. Whether a certain monk convalescing from apoplectic paralysis ought to be released from the recitation of divine offices on account of the debility caused by this and for fear of recurrence.
46. A pregnant woman, from having endured a complete labour, in caring for her own husband, fell into an acute fever from which she aborted and died; it was asked whether it was grounds for exception or for payment of a Societas on the danger of that started life.
47. Whether a serious blow on the kidneys of a pregnant woman could be the cause of a miscarriage, haemorrhage, and, from this, her subsequent death.
49. A person is sent to death, and another caused a health ailment by diabolical sorcery, which things are confided here.
51. As a result of two who were crushed in a certain collapse who were judged to have perished prior [to the catastrophe]; to distinguish leg. Qui duos; cum in bello ff. de reb. dub.
52. What kind of intellectual deficiency ought to be demonstrated in order to exclude a nun from the solemn profession.
53. Concerning a woman in childbirth, who, although she had perceived a certain kind of infirmity from the day of the birth, at last, 90 [days] from the day of the birth, died having been seized by an acute fever; it is asked whether money given in a Societas on the danger of her life are lost or [if] this is grounds for exception.
54. Concerning another woman who endured a miscarriage, it is similarly asked whether she was not well purged and [then] conceived again, from which, after unremitting troubles, and seized by a fever in her eighth month, she again aborted and died from this illness.
55. Again, concerning another woman, whose delivery was suppressed on the third day of labour and then, seized by an acute fever, she at last died from seventh apoplexy.
56. Similarly, concerning another who, in the sixth month of pregnancy, seized with hydropsy, with the proper time of birth approaching, died with the symptoms of that hydropsy.
57. Concerning another who, after enduring many labours around an acquired affliction, because of excessive grief, fell into a burning fever in the sixth month, aborted, and died from that fever.
60. Concerning a test of filiation [descent from a father], and what sort of presumption from resemblance is obtained to this end.
61. What can change the likeness of a man; where, concerning a certain soldier, absent for a long time, to whom, his kinsman refused to restore his inheritance when he had returned to claim it.
62. Whether a murderer should take the punishment of homicide; where, from incompetence and negligence of a surgeon, the victim died from head wounds.
63. Certain infirmities are examined, whether they provide a legitimate case for granting an assistant in a [religious] benefice.
65. Whether fleshy growths [carunculae] lead to sterility or incurable impotence, which, therefore, might prevent the generation of offspring in a marriage, until this time, so that a substitution of a natural child might choose from his effects now.
67. Concerning natural and legitimate parturition, and whether a foetus can be extracted alive from the stomach of the mother who is dead from a lethal illness for the purpose of succession.
70. Concerning conjugal debt, and what moderately returned might not injure a man constrained by illness of strength of the joints.
71. Whether, and how, a physician can gather together for healing and what in pestilent times.
76. Whether the female of twins of different sexes ought to be thought from this to be generated inadequately.
77. The putrefaction of a cadaver excludes the presumption of poisoning: and from which things it is possible to diagnose that someone perished from innate or external poison.
78. A pact [based on] remaining perpetually in the place in which one contracted a marriage, whether it ought to bear influence; What if the necessity of withdrawing on account of infirmity becomes pressing? And what finally if a new home is harmful to the wife?
82. What kinds of shortness and impediment to coupling of a mutilated virile member do not impede marriage nor generation, but only coitus having been begun properly is able to be completed.
83. Certain causes from which a particular physician contended to prove the frigidity and sterility of a woman are refuted, since a man desired to contract a marriage with this impediment excluded.
84. Having been granted an assistant by a certain archdeacon on account of various infirmities from which he was detained, the chapter fought against the grace of surreptitiousness, whence the accounts of both parties are examined and it is answered here for the truth of the grace.
85. When a man and wife, living in the country, were killed by the poison of mushrooms with nobody present, [since] their servants [were out] seeking assistance throughout neighbouring villas, it was wondered, for the purpose of succession of certain terms in the marriage article for the benefit of the survivor, which of them had outlived [the other].