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I believe that it makes sense to name "Mayer's Medium" a medium because it is a mixture of oil and turps used to mix into the paint to control the workability of the tube paint.
I work mostly wet into wet over a thin wash of paint diluted with Vegetable Turpentine.
The "M's M" works better than using only turps when it is used as diluent in the paint.
The problem with "only" turps is that it makes the paint more lean and, in addition, it's difficult to control the viscosity of the paint using only turps, it becomes easily too thin and the turps evaporate too fast. The Stand Oil compensate for those three disadvantages.
It is correct that it's primarily for thinning purposes that I use it, but I find that it fairly neutral to the original tube paint composition.
When the painting is dry I will varnish it with a removable varnish.
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