[Elements of medical scholasticism in The Secrets of Alex of Piemont].

In the Secrets of Alex of Piemont, a 16th century prescription book, originally published in Italian and soon after translated into eight European languages (including Polish) one can find curious enumerations of about twenty or even thirty different diseases which can be cured by only one medicine just described. Enumerations of this kind are possible to be find also in some other ancient and Middle Ages works on medicine. The author of the paper makes an attempt to find an explanation of such the curiositiy in Hippocrates' and Galen's humoral theory as well as in scholastic methods of teaching medicine in Middle Ages schools and universities.