While De Pestilitate is generally regarded as pseudepigraphic by modern scholarship, the treatise occupied a prominent place in Johann Huser’s definitive edition of Paracelsus’ Bücher und Schrifften (1589-1591). The text offers a compelling and generally reliable guide to Paracelsian plague theory with clear resemblances to the authentic Zwey Bücher von der Pestilentz und ihren zufällen and De Peste Libri tres. The text emphasizes the astrological transmission of the disease, describes a large role for divine retribution and demonological agency, and promotes the utility of folkloric cures. While the plague theory reflects Paracelsus’ own thought and is well synthesized with his tria prima chemical philosophy, there are sufficient dissonances between the text and the corpus of his accepted writings to maintain its pseudepigraphic status, even if it displays some indications of a reworking of genuine Paracelsica.

虽然现代学者通常将De Pestilitate视为伪造，但在Johann Huser的Paracelsus的Bücherund Schrifften（1589-1591）的权威版本中，该论着占据着突出的位置。本书提供了一个极具吸引力且通常可靠的关于西伯利亚天灾理论的指南，与真实的祖威·比彻·冯·德·佩斯蒂伦茨和伊赫伦·祖弗伦和德·佩斯特·利布里·特雷斯有着明显的相似之处。文字强调了疾病的占星传播，描述了神的报应和恶魔作用的重要作用，并促进了民间疗法的实用性。虽然瘟疫理论反映了Paracelsus的思想，并与他的Tria prima很好地综合了 从化学哲学的角度来看，即使文本显示出对真正的Paracelsica进行重新设计的某些迹象，文本和他接受的著作的语料库之间也存在足够的不一致之处，以保持其伪造的地位。