Nature: it is its nature to be hot and dry in the third degree. It purges choler from the remote members and from affection of the stomach and liver and from those who have a nervous nature. When being administered let it be corrected with a scruple of mastix which has been pulverized and compounded with it. Or if it be a person who has a hot complexion, let the scammony along with the powder we have spoken of, be put into a pear or raw apple, the center of which has been hollowed out, let pasty be put around it, and let it be put in an oven or to the fire to roast. Afterwards let it be taken out of the apple, dried in a dark place, and then administered. Because of the speed with which it creates dysentry, and stomach-trouble it is not proper for that reason to administer it in affections of the stomach and of the liver, unless they should be chronic. If so, let