It is proper, indeed, that the laxatives which purge the hot humors be made bitter with another medicine such as myrobalani citrini, rhubarb, reuponticum or by scammony which has been corrected, or by cassia fistola or manna, or by tamarinds together with scammony. Should the liver complaint be chronic, however, let not the medicine be made bitter by scammony in dropsy35 since that destroys the liver, but let it be done with esola, or rhubarb, and let these bitters be put in