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and diet, and also with attenuating and incisive medicines, such as honey of roses, syrup of the five roots and the two roots, hyssop, calamus, pennyroyal, oregano, and so on.

LXXV.
With the humors concocted and prepared, a purging medicine should be exhibited, such as hiera a bitter purgative electuary, agaric, diaphænicon, fetid pills, sagapenum, aggregative pills, and so on, and the remainder that is left over should be drawn out. The same must be done with kept proportion when black bile atrabilis black bile is redundant.

LXXVI.
With all these things administered in due order, one must descend to the agōgē tōn emmēnōn induction of the menstrual flow, which both separates the excremental blood and leads the secreted blood to the uterus, and opens and restores its obstructed or constricted veins.

LXXVII.
Those of this kind are those which, with bitterness and moderate cleansing, have obtained some acrimony, and by a peculiar analogy of qualities are pleasing to the uterus, are carried to it, and together with themselves draw down that more impure blood.

LXXVIII.
These medicines that incite the menses are distinguished among themselves by the reason of a greater or lesser faculty for attenuating, incising, cleansing, and opening. For some are lighter, some are stronger, and finally some are most powerful.

LXXIX.
The most powerful ones are twofold: either by manifest and already recited powers, such as castor, euphorbium, anacardium, pepper, and so on, or