"He brags, moreover, that he was primus medicorum, and did more famous cures than all the physicians in Europe besides, [4166] a drop of his preparations should go farther than a dram, or ounce of theirs, those loathsome and fulsome filthy potions, heteroclitical pills (so he calls them), horse medicines, ad quoram aspectum Cyclops Polyphemus exhorresceret."