A Draught in a Vulnerary Fever.
Take Alexiterial Milk water 2 ounces and half; Treacle water, Vinegar, each 6 drams; Crabs Eyes levigated 2 scruple; Diaphoretic Antimony 1 scruple; white Sugar Candy 2 drams; Oil of Turpentine 4 drops, mix.
Sylvius gives a caution against putting mucilaginous Syrups into such mixtures as have Crabs Eyes and Acids in them, because they will grow roapy, and unfit for use. And I my self have seen the like in a Julep with Crabs Eyes and Acids, when it had been kept for a while, though it were sweetened with nothing but Sugar.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710