Nostradamus' verse C.5 Q.94-97: His views on drugs. It is quite normal that any writings by any person will reflect their interest and their occupation. The surprise in Nostradamus Prophecies is his lack of predictions about medicine and the treatment of the ill. Yet the surface writings are in keeping with the dread fears demanded by the church of Rome and accordingly is full of hints on pestilence, war, floods and fire. Nostradamus was a pharmacist and a physician with a claim to being able to see the future. Whether this claim is true or false it would be incredible if Nostradamus did not use this latter skill to explore ideas useful to his own profession. There is little hint of this in the visible text but there are obscure and seemingly meaningless passages such as The nautical ore will tempt the shadows that hint at things that are best kept secret in the 16th century.   The last section of Centuries five has numerous verses with anagrams that hold little in the way of Nostradamus' major story lines yet the ideas in them reflect drugs of special interest to Nostradamus. Below I analyse four of these (Q.94-97) that appear consecutively at the end of Centuries five. The text of the first two of these may cover features of drug production, distribution and impact on leaders and the population. The third seems to be a description of drugs used in the birth of a special child while the fourth recounts the manner in which drugs are used for population control. It is these parameters relevant to Nostradamus' time and the future that make them part of the broader stories Nostradamus tells.     C.5 Q.94 He will transfer into great Germany  Brabant and Flanders, Ghent, Bruges and Boulogne: The truce feigned, the great Duke of Armenia Will assail Vienna and Cologne. C.5 Q.95 The nautical oar will tempt the shadows, Then it will come to stir up the great Empire: In the Aegean Sea the impediments of wood Obstructing the diverted Tyrrhenian Sea. C.5 Q.96 The rose upon the middle of the great world, For new deeds public shedding of blood: To speak the truth, one will have a closed mouth, Then at the time of need the awaited one will come. C.5 Q.97 The one born deformed suffocated in horror, In the habitable city of the great King: The severe edict of the captives revoked, Hail and thunder, Condom inestimable. Drug suppliers.   The first of these four verses carries a series of anagrams that sit well as an appraisal of the background to a society where drugs are rife.  Ganglanders, dreaming non-abrogable drug-ban are terms suggestive of a legal environment where black-market supply is prominent. The anagrams of the third line imply that an impure chemical[ [sulfinate] fuses part of the heart[atrium] while the user is in a drug-like dreaming state. And the last line helps identify the oil-dependent regions that are worst affected within the places named in the text. It also links it to a time when the seas are cooling.   C.5 Q.94 He will transfer into great Germany  Brabant and Flanders, Ghent, Bruges and Boulogne: The truce feigned, the great Duke of Armenia Will assail Vienna and Cologne. Tran$latera en la grand Germanie Brabant et Fladres Gand Bruges et Bolongne La trai$ue faint le grand Duc d'Armenie A$$aillira Vienne et la Coloigne. Anagram sequences in French text. (**= fills whole line) <**dreaminG alTernateS near graal**><**marine Ganglander TranSlate era**><disarranGemenT alert><main danGer TranSlate><near graal meanderinG TranSlate> <nonaBrograble [legally unchallengable] druG-Ban Beset><Obsolete druG-Ban flatten arab dreGs><faltered><Flattered> <Dud time-cAlendar><and faltering atriaL [heart chamber] uSe remAined><atriaL Sulfinate [salt or ester of sulfinic acid ] remAined ungraDed><fuSe atriaL Duc(t) and altering Dream> (loCaL Agonies aS Viral il(l)><loCate gAsoline><Cooling SeAS ail rival><ASiaS ill raVine>< loCate oil> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries disarrangement, flatten, obsolete, nonabrogable, sulfinate, cooling flattered meandering, drug-ban, faltered dreaming, ganglander, locate, agonies, - alternates, local rival / viral altering / alerting, atrial, translate, gesture gasoline - remained Nostradamus condemns the drug culture of lovers.   The second of the verses has a rare anagram for narcotic and is used in a setting which implies it is a drug of choice for lovers. The tone of the verse and its hidden message suggest that Nostradamus was well aware of the dangers of drug-use and condemned its use by the ill-informed. The use of the anagram for essential oils derived from wood [camphenes] acts as a hint towards lowering the impact of these drugs. And the first line suggests the full answer offered by this verse lies in the numbers generated by Nostradamus' code. C.5 Q.95 The nautical oar will tempt the shadows, Then it will come to stir up the great Empire: In the Aegean Sea the impediments of wood Obstructing the diverted Tirreme wave. Nautique rame inuitera les vmbres Du grand Empire lors viendra conciter La mer Aegee des lignes lesencombres Empe$chant l'onde Tirreme defflotez. Anagram sequences in French text. (**= fills whole line) <quatreiNs real-virtues remain several Nvmbers it reveals><earliest Nvmbers><reveals quatreiNs minutiae><reveals quite miniature><urbaNites marvels unite marque><neutralise Nvmbers><quatreiNs versatile> <narcotic Drug lovers dine prime dan(g)Er><draconic version namEd Drug peril><i rEprimand lovers Drug conceit><and cancroid [cancerous] veins Drug priimE role><namEd Drug driven accretion roles><reDuction prime dangEr><occitan granDeur driven> <embaLmers Agree once lessen seedlin(gs)><sombre reaLm lessen Seedling Age><maLe Agree enclose single seed> <olden chantS><redeTermined lot camphEnes [essential oils] letz-off> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries miniature, nvmbers, marvels, redetermined minutiae, draconic / cancroid, seedlings, camphenes version, accretion, sombre, embalmers, versatile, quatreins, urbanites, narcotic, lovers, conceit neutralise - Occitan reprimand, reduction - - earliest reveals / several The beneficial use of drugs in a secretive child-birth.   The text and anagrams of the verse below take on meaning when they are seen as the writings of a physician about the event of a special birth. Anagrams such as labours and ovary set the  framework explaining, the public shedding of blood as something new is created, the closed mouth the opened to reveal the truth of the rose upon the middle of the great world. The event described is  a difficult, secretive and endangered birth requiring the use of drugs to lessen the sounds of labour. C.5 Q.96 The rose upon the middle of the great world, For new deeds public shedding of blood: To speak the truth, one will have a closed mouth, Then at the time of need the awaited one will come. Sur le milieu du grand monde la ro$e Pour nouueaux faicts $ang public e$pandu A dire vray on aura bouche clo$e Lors au be$oing viendra tard l'attendu. Anagram sequences in French text. (**= fills whole line) <and demon drug Solar ruleS><**i-reillume drug-man leonardo uSeS**><mlii [1052] unguarded demon Solar ruleS><leonard uSeS random miller > <piScean douunPour afix auue><pub uuorn Special caStings Pound > <vAried on ray aura> <he cloSe a dire ovary arab-ouun> <Labours noiSe attuned as rad dart given>< a dart driven unaLlotted biogenS [seed of protein]**><abuser So Loud latent rad-ion dart (be) given>  FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries Leonardo, douunpour, castings, veining labours - unguarded, uuorn, unallotted, abusers miller, special, ovary, varied, biogens - - Piscean - attuned, given A royal mercy-killing  is condoned by changing the usual laws. The anagrams of this verse include references to  a disease involving accumulative scarring (morphea), a drug related scandal and allusions to the culling of an ageing population.   C.5 Q.97 The one born deformed suffocated in horror, In the habitable city of the great King: The severe edict of the captives revoked, Hail and thunder, Condom inestimable. Le nay difforme par horreur $uffoque Dans la cite du grand Roy habitable L'edict $euere des captifs reuoque Gre$le et tonnere Condon ine$timable. Anagram sequences in French text. (**= fills whole line) <if day for morphea [autoimmune disease] err><or usurer hamper queen-off-daily> <dragonRy habit duet Dalliances><**landS cite a hoaRy and bitable drug**><it able tie drug scandal> <if uSe apt decrees oLder-queues cited><Sect Lied first (who) uuoqe escaped><oLder-queue fits space><oLder-queues cited uSe depreciates> <Condone timeS in elGebra [ Orionis]><enCoder inset no letter-ennS><denominationS> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries escaped, denominations morphea, hamper, hoary,dalliances, first, depreciates bitable, elgebra - decrees - condone, encoders - - scandal See C.5 Q.43 for similar drug references.