An hysteric Decoction.
Take Turners Chips of Box Wood, white Bryony root, each half an ounce; Male Piony and wild Valerian roots, each 1 ounce; Stechas flowers 2 drams; Myrrh bruised 1 dram; boil in Water 1 pint and half, (towards the end putting in Juice of Rue 1 ounce;) to 14 ounces of it strain'd, add Bryony Water compound 2 ounces; Tincture of Castor 2 drams; Oil of Amber 32 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce, mix. The Dose 5 Spoonfuls.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710