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.
Any enchanted spectacles or dentures out there?
New virtue/flaw? Wacky gift
This quirk (for lack of better term) effects your gift, it makes people more likely to laugh at you rather than be unnerved by your presence (not sure if it will effect animals though)
Any thoughts?
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I'd say +1 virtue. Gentle gift and blatant gift are major , so it logically sits at minor. Its a virtue as being the guy who says too many bad dad jokes, bad puns etc, is definitely a better spot than being "That creepy guy".
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