les propriétés que lui accordent Dioscoride et Galien ? Is the althaea officinalis a living being, and does it have the properties which Pedanius Dioscorides and Galen ascribe to it? The following were four theses, dedicated to the Chancellor de Sillery, that Charles wrote after October 30, 1607. La vie des rois, des princes et des grands est-elle moins exposée à la maladie et plus longue que telle des gens du peuple et des paysans? Are the lives of kings, princes and great men less exposed to disease and longer than common people and peasants? Les vésicants sont-ils bons pour les douleurs arthritiques? Are blister-causing agents good for arthritis pain? Peut-on préparer un poison qui tue à une époque déterminée? Can one prepare a poison that kills at a certain time? Est-il permis, quand une femme enceinte souffre d'une maladie aiguë, de lui prescrire des abortifs? Is it permissible, when a pregnant woman suffers from an acute illness, to prescribe her an abortion? De Lorme is credited with the invention of the medico della peste costume worn by plague doctors in Europe's lazarettos in the 17th century. The costume included a beak filled with perfumes and hat and vestments made of Levantine leather, all intended to prevent a doctor from becoming ill with bubonic plague when visiting sick patients in quarantine. Mineral baths and spas Jean de Lorme, Charles' father, was one of two doctors from Moulins that introduced Bourbon-Lancy as a spa town to Europe. Charles was the heir to his father's interest in the spa town, however for some unknown reason promoted the rival spa town of Bourbon-l'Archambault. Charles profited hugely from promoting the spa in this town. He was accused with the proverb d'avoir pris pension des habitants pour y faire aller bien du monde ("to have boarded the inhabitants in order to make the world go well") because of his enthusiasm for this rival spa. Charles gave the spa of Bourbon-l'Archambault its excellent reputation in the European upper class. Antimony Charles became wealthy in a medical practice of prescribing a concoction of antimony to Henry IV, Louis XIII, Cardinal Mazarin, and Madame de Sévigné as a health-preserving, health-restoring and life extending preparation. This concept was originally started by Basil Valentine in his work Currus Triumphalis Antimonii ("The triumphal chariot of antimony"); who obtained the idea of medical benefits from Paracelsus (1480–1541). Charles claimed "qui plus en