Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

but defiled legs: they who cast forth blood either from the mouth or the nostrils.

In those dying of this ailment, the spots mostly disappear, in others they bloom very abundantly after death.

DIET.

The diet should be easy to cook, of good juice, moderately heating, thin, and also occasionally cutting and attenuating, and cleansing; to which lightly astringent things may sometimes be added. Our barley porridge is suitable, and indeed even oatmeal, or hulled barley, cooked in broth or water, then passed through a sieve with wine. Corinthian raisins i.e., currants should likewise be cooked in some suitable broth, or even water and wine, and similarly passed through a sieve; a yolk of an egg can also be mixed in from time to time. The same raisins may also be chewed if the patient suffers from excessive thirst or dryness of the mouth. Almonds are also beneficial, prepared with a straining of wheat bran decoctions, in which some portion of bitter almonds has been mixed. Spices should sometimes be mixed into food, according to the flaccidity of the body and the requirements of the disease, such as cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, and ginger. The use of verjuice omphacium juice of unripe grapes is not useless here. In place of condiment, capers may sometimes be taken with Corinthian raisins in oxy-sugar or long oxymel; but they should be ground very finely with the teeth before being swallowed. The drink should be good beer, very well clarified, especially wormwood-beer, just as wine made with the same herb; or if one is affected by germander chamædrys a plant of the germander family, this will also be very useful. Milk water is hardly