Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

in eradicating this disease have obtained a singular prerogative by reason, since the first three cut, attenuate, and purge through the urine, and the fourth tempers the powers of the others. Therefore, it can also be increased or diminished according to the body, the disease, and the reason of heat. Likewise, those pounded are boiled in fresh goat milk, or in its scarcity, in cow milk: and from a strong expression, the drink is served in the same way. It is more advisable to prepare it fresh daily. I have also experienced a happy success if, at times, those plants were boiled in whey; however, the presentation of the juices is better. But these things can be changed by the judgment of a learned and experienced physician. I remember when they were also cooked with reddish wine, not rashly. A great quantity of liquid should not be poured over them, because the herbs are succulent. Wherefore, these will only be covered by the addition of it for boiling; otherwise, the crushed raw herbs are wont to be passed through a sieve with those liquids by strong expression. Common wormwood, mixed in, contributes a great deal; and I have often added fumitory and germander usefully. Moneywort is sometimes mixed in, on account of lax viscera and dissolved structures. If then, to others, a great hodgepodge of other materials pleases, such as myrobalans, especially the Indian ones, barks, roots of capers, ash, dodder, asarabacca, thyme, epithymum, maidenhair, feverfew, celandine, betony, hyssop, agrimony, scabious, germander, hart's tongue, spleenwort, tamarisk, sorrel, roots of valerian, bistort, elecampane, polypody,