Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

as often as the patient is thirsty, he drinks it liberally: nor does he use any other potion until he has obtained complete health. However, this drink can be prepared a second time if necessity requires. Meanwhile, heavily salted things and rye bread are avoided. Since Frisia is very productive of bulls and geese, such medicines are prepared there from things easy to procure. But it is certain that there is such a calorific power in goose dung that it burns the grasses upon which it falls: and from this, when transfused with a suitable liquid, it is certain that it cuts, and powerfully moves the menses, the afterbirth, and the urine: and there is no doubt that bull's dung also does something toward this.

The previous evacuations can be recited once and again throughout the whole cure. Then, on other days, I will offer in the morning hour conserve of scurvy-grass, or also conserve of germander, separately or mixed: to which may be added candied roots of bugloss or borage, just as of elecampane.

Furthermore, it is to be noted that almost all acrid plants, by which the morbific matter is cut and attenuated, help toward the profligation of this malady; lest anyone persuade himself that it is from the whole substance or an occult form that only the herbs so highly praised, and familiar to us here as most effective, such as cuckoo-flower, scurvy-grass, and watercress, drive away that disease. Of such kind are, besides those enumerated a little before, dragon, germander, small houseleek, all spleen-related herbs, opening roots, hot seeds, bay berries, juniper, and the rest of the substances of that kind.

Let the hypochondria be anointed, the left with this or similar