Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

dock, fennel, parsley, pimpinella, chicory, borage, bugloss, rhapontic, round birthwort, licorice, raisins, Alexandrian senna: flowers of broom, elder: seeds of anise, fennel, chaste tree, cold seeds, and the rest of that kind, it is permitted by me: yet I have not rarely achieved a happy cure from the legitimate use of a few plants.

I understand that infinite numbers have been cured by this remedy also: Take: Tops of dry common wormwood, crushed juniper berries, of each one handful; goat milk four pounds. Let them be boiled to the consumption of a third part, and strained by expression. Then mix in one drachm of crocus saffron reduced to powder; let them boil again for one or two boils, and be strained a second time. A draft of this decoction is given lukewarm three times a day, in the morning hour, at the third hour in the afternoon, and when one goes to bed.

I know a woman famous in the cure of scurvy who, with the body purged, gave this potion: Take: Cuckoo-flower, watercress, of each three or four handfuls. To the crushed herbs, mix seed of rocket, root of our common garden iris fresh, of each half a drachm, ginger two drachms, long pepper one drachm; let them be passed together through a strainer with two pounds of red wine. From this shaken drink, she offered a lukewarm draft at the morning hour every day, then, with the patient diligently covered, she drew out sweat, spending nine days in that method of cure.

In the county of March, certain noble matrons offer crushed cuckoo-flower, watercress, and aloe, strained with milk. To a tender infant.