The Gift 
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Any thoughts on the carbonation question I asked?
My bonus and form garlic question should apply to any strong herb, correct?
How would ars magica handle the common cold? I don’t remember if I’ve already asked this question before.
Sneezing for about a week, I'd assume?
Check diseases in art & academe.
Considering that demons can see the future: would they conjure hiv to infect humans?
They did in the real world, didn't they? Why not in Mythic Europe?
Have a look at Das Liebeskonzil of Oskar Panizza. OK, the drama is from 1894 and set in 1495 - hence syphilis instead of HIV and no Ars Magica demons. But a lasting and not yet digested literary provocation.
There were carbonated water springs european examples are Vichy in Italy, and seltser in germany.
I would probably make it either a muto aquam spell to carbonate ome water, which would probably be base 2: liquid to natural liquid or base 3: slightly unnatural liquid.
If you wanted a permanent supply, then a lvl 20 CrAq ritual would create a slightly unnatural spring with a high rate of flow.
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New spell (conjure the common cold)
Regocorpus 15?
Range-sight
Target-individual
Duration-sun
Basically you control the person into having the symptoms of a common cold!
Medieval version of greys anatomy, what would it look like?
Diseases are handled by Perdo Corpus - if you have Arts and Academe p57, there are the full guideline for diseases, according to their severity.
Common cold is severity 4, so Base effect is PeCo 5, +3 Sight, Inst, Ind for a final level PeCo 20. The duration is Inst, as it will heal normaly, so it can last several days.
Rego Corpus, you might be trying to summon a spirit of disease, a demonic entity that will possess and make sick the possessed. I am not sure you want to get that way.
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Please, can you make an effort and not drop one liner?
I have no clue what you mean by that?
Sorry, I was talking about the book, not the tv series.
I don't think there's much in the canonical game world. If I recall correctly, the study of anatomy and the human body is somewhat stymied by the inability to disect and examine cadavers. A detailed book on the human anatomy may cause the church to have a stern chat with the author.
I will use a similar caveat I used in another post. I am not a medieval scholar, so my understanding could be flawed.
In the game world, the order has a bunch of very smart people who are used to writing books. A Corpus Summae or Tractatus could arguably have detailed information on the human body. A medicine or chirurgy Summae or Tractatus could be similar.
The closest would probably be The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna.