Chapter 94 Chapter Thirty-Three

How Paiguguay got sick and healed Not long afterward, the good Pagoguel fell ill, with a terrible stomachache, refused to eat, and, as misfortunes never came, he contracted gonorrhea, which pained him so much you cannot imagine; The diuretic medicine finally cured him, completely cured him, and made the disease excreted in his urine. The urine he urinates is very hot, and it has not cooled since then. In France, there are several places where his urine flows, which are generally called hot springs, such as in Gautlet1 and Limon2. , at Daxter, at Baleruc, at Nelik, at Poponnancy, and elsewhere.In Italy there are Mount Grotte ⑦, Aponai ⑧, St. Peter of Padua ⑨, St. Helen ⑩, Casa Nova (11), and St. Bartholomeo (12).In Brunny's there's Bauletta (13), and countless others.

I wonder how many crazy moralists and doctors waste their time arguing about where the springs in these places get their heat from, whether it's because there's borax in the water, or sulfur, or alum, or sand. Because of the saltpetre in it; these people are only delusional, and it's better to wipe their asses with thistles than to waste time arguing about things they don't know the source of; The springs are hot because they come from the scorching piss of good Pomposity. Now, to tell you how Paguguay cured him of this serious disease, I can tell here how he took four gallons of crophon's squamonia, 130, as a laxative. Eight carts of cinnamon, 11,900 catties of rhubarb, and other medicines are not counted.

You must know that according to the doctor's instructions, his stomach pain must be stopped first.To do this, they cast seventeen large brass spheres, larger than those on the top of Virgil's bell tower in Rome, with a door in the center that could be closed with a spring.Make one of Paiguguay's entourage with a lantern and torch stay in a ball, and make Paiguguay swallow it like a pill.In the other five balls were placed three peasants, each with a shovel tied around his neck.There were also seven basket-bearers in seven balls, each of whom had a large basket hung around his neck, which Paiguguet swallowed like a pill.

① Gautre: Place name, in the Haut-Pyrenees province of France. ② Limon: It may be a hot spring near Limu (Aude Province). ③ Daxter: Dax in Landes, famous for its hot springs. ④ Baleruc: The hot spring near Montpellier, with a temperature of 47°5. ⑤ Nellis: Nellis Hot Spring in Allier Province, with a temperature of 46 to 52 degrees. ⑥ Popon South West: That is, Popon-Lancy in Saone-Royal Province, where the hot springs are rich in helium, and Henry III once came here to bathe. ⑦ Grote Mountain: Near Abano, Italy, the hot spring temperature reaches 57 degrees. ⑧ Aponense: Abano, nine kilometers southwest of Padua, the name comes from the Latin Aquae Aponenses, meaning: "hot spring".

⑨ St. Peter of Padua: Mount St. Peter, four kilometers away from Abano. ⑩ St. Helen: St. Elena Batalha, four kilometers away from Mount Grotte and ten kilometers away from Padua. ① Clophon: An ancient place name in Asia Minor, near Ephesus. ② Scammonia: a strong herb used to make laxatives. ③ If three peasants fit into five balls, two of them must be empty, which is unreasonable.Here it is on the first edition: "In five other balls, full-bodied servants, each with a shovel tied around his neck. Three more balls, in three peasants?." ① This seems to be inconsistent with the number of seventeen balls: there are only thirteen balls and eleven people in total.According to the number in the first edition, it is sixteen, and other editions say: five are carrying torches and lanterns, five are carrying shovels, and seven are carrying baskets, a total of seventeen.Another version is: there is one person carrying torches and lanterns, seven persons carrying shovels, nine persons carrying baskets, and seventeen persons.

When they were in the stomach, each of them turned on the spring, and came out of his hut, led by the lantern-bearer, and they walked more than half a mile in a dreadful ravine, dirty and smelly, like Mephitis ②, worse than the ponds of Camarina, ③, than the stinking ponds of Solpon that Straba tells about, ④, if they hadn't put the heart, the stomach, the wine jar (that thing people call the head) Prepare well in advance for anti-virus, they will definitely be suffocated to death by the stench.Ah, what a spice, what a fragrance, to smoke the face-masks of young fairies! Afterwards, sniffing and groping, they approached the feces and objects to be excreted, and finally saw a mountain of dung.So the shovel-bearer set to work, and broke the dung into pieces, and the shovel-bearer filled up the baskets; and when everything was cleared, each went to his ball.At this time, Pagoda coughed twice and vomited them out without any effort. They were in his throat like a fart in your throat, which is really nothing.I saw them running out of their own balls one by one happily-this reminded me of the situation when the Greeks ran out of the wooden horse in the Trojan War-in this way, the disease of Pagoda was cured , entered the initial recovery state.

There is still one of these copper balls in the bell tower of the Holy Cross Church in Orleans. ② Mephitis: The goddess in Roman mythology, whose image is the sulfur mist coming out of the ground, see the eighty-third and eighty-fourth lines of the seventh volume of Virgil's "Init". ③ The pond of Camarina, in Sicily, see the third volume of "Init". ④ The pond described by Strabaux was originally called Serpones, because Parisians often call Solponics Serpones, so the author intentionally mixes them here, and describes the master of theology of Solpones as the one in the stinky pond. figure.

① There is a gold-plated copper ball on the bell tower of the Holy Cross Church in Orleans, with a circumference of 10 meters. It was destroyed by the New Church in 1568, and the new church was rebuilt in 1601.