Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

macerated overnight; then in the morning after one boil, the serum should be strained by strong expression, which should be given to drink. One half-drachm of the following powder can also be infused in the same way, and the strained liquid expressed and exhibited:

Take:
Leaves of Alexandrian senna, purged: 1 drachm
Dodder: 1/2 drachm
White tartar, of each: 1/2 drachm
Cinnamon
Cloves
Galangal
Anise seed, of each: 1 drachm
Scammony diagridium a purgative preparation of scammony: 1 and 1/2 drachms. Make a powder.

Pills of fumitory and diassena are also beneficial. Although some exhibit pills made from lapis lazuli and Armenian stone, they nevertheless displease me. For those who also wish to offer the confection Hamech, it is necessary that they have a singular regard for quantity, since this disease, where the heart is so easily affected and harmed, does not endure vehement purges innocuously.

The body having been gently purged, every day twice, namely at the morning hour, when sweat is also expected in most, and at the fourth hour in the afternoon, four drachms of the juice expressed from the following herbs should be taken, and as much pure sugar as you wish, and a little cinnamon, should be mixed in. Take: Scurvy-grass, cuckoo-flower, winter nasturtium, of each equal parts; and of the middle part likely meaning the root or stalk, the quantity being observed as one of the aforesaid herbs; these green herbs should be pounded in a stone mortar with a wooden pestle, and expressed. But these especially