05-01-2026, 11:37 PM
I am going to write soon some long post about my charlatan theory.
But to make it short - I believe that the text is nonsense. The guy who had it was deliberately cheating the people. He pretended he was reading it, made wise face expressions and then sold them some random, not working tinctures. He knew pretty well he is cheating them.
A medieval doctor on the other hand seems like a modern charlatan too. He believed that planets influence your health, believed in 4 elements and their harmony in your body, believed in "zodiac man" and so on.
The difference is that he genuinely believed it and wasn't cheating. That was the official knowledge then.
But to make it short - I believe that the text is nonsense. The guy who had it was deliberately cheating the people. He pretended he was reading it, made wise face expressions and then sold them some random, not working tinctures. He knew pretty well he is cheating them.
A medieval doctor on the other hand seems like a modern charlatan too. He believed that planets influence your health, believed in 4 elements and their harmony in your body, believed in "zodiac man" and so on.
The difference is that he genuinely believed it and wasn't cheating. That was the official knowledge then.