Let the medicine be compounded in accordance with the delicacy of the member for it is obvious as Galen says, if there is an ulcer on the liver, which is a noble member, that it is necessary to compound a medicine from savory dispersives and from styptics so that the virtue of the noble member is preserved by the savory things, and that the styptics might not permit the substance of the noble member to be dissolved by the dispersives.