In the third panel, Hugh has flipped over onto his stomach and a great gush of blood is pouring out of his nose. To modern viewers this is alarming, but medieval viewers would have understood that this nosebleed meant that Hugh was healed. Medieval medical theory held that illness resulted from an imbalance of humours within the body. Either too much or too little of any of the humours (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm) would make a person ill. Hugh’s drink of the water relic has expelled excess blood from his body and made him well. The doctor, wearing his fur hat, looks on and sees how the water relic, not his medicine, has healed Hugh. Interestingly, the doctor’s assistant has left, his place taken by a monk. Did the assistant decide on a different career?

The inscription is missing a number of letters and a piece appears to be out of order as well. A suggested reconstruction is [San]guis [nu]nc bibitur, hic [fuso] sanguine sanatur, “The blood is now drunk; he is healed by the flowing out of blood.”