Mithridate47 and musa enea:48 administer them after the medicine, and before the access, and when they have been compounded with tepid wine through which water has been put, and they will consume the humors. For that reason they are suitable, prior to the time of the access, said in the manner we have mentioned, for those who have quotidian fever. Following the medicine and prior to the time of the access, it is proper to administer rubea troches,49 and recuies when they have been compounded with hot water since they check the flux of the choleric humors to the location of the putrefaction, and consume the matter. For that reason they are suitable for those who have tertian fever.