Emetic Forms.
Take luke warm Water 1 pint; Oil of Olive (or sweet Almonds) 4 ounces; mix for a Draught.
Take green Thea half an ounce; boil it in Water (or Ale) from 1 pint to half a pint for a Draught.
Take Oxymel of Squills 6 drams; Salt of Vitriol 4 grains; mix for a Child 6 years old.
Take Oxymel of Squills 3 ounces; drink it in a draught of Posset.
Take Oxymel of Squills 1 ouncel Salt of Vitriol 15 grains; Infusion of Crocus Metalorum 3 drams, mix.
Take Oxymel of Squills 2 ounces; Salt of Vitriol 1 dram and half; Cinnamon Water 2 ounces, mix, and let 2 or 3 spoonfuls be taken twice or thrice an hour, as long as Vomiting is desir'd to be continu'd.
Take Oxymel of Squills, Oil of sweet Almonds, each 4 ounces; let 2 ounces be taken, and repeated 'till it operate.
Take Groundsel 1 handful and half; Currants half a handful; Aniseed (added at last) 2 drams; boil in Ale 12 ounces to half a pint, for a draught.
Take inner rind of Elder 2 handfuls; boil in Milk and Water, each half a pint, 'till half be evaporated, and strain it out for 1 Dose.
Take green Assarabacca from 5 leaves to 9, bruise and pour on them Ale (or white Wine) 3 ounces; let them stand together cold an hour, and then strain and squeeze out the Liquor for a Dose.
Take Emetic Tartar fron 1 grain to 5 or 6.
Take Emetic Wine (prepared with Crocus Metallorum, and glass of Antimony in white Wine) from 20 drops (which Dose I have known given to a small infant) to 6 drams 1 ounce or 10 drams.
Take powder'd root of Ipeca coanna, from half a scruple (for a Child) to half a dram, 2 scruple, or (at the most for a grown Man) 1 dram.
It were to be wished, that young Practitioners (for whose sake I compil'd this Pharmacopeia) would be very cautious in the use of, or rather would wholly forbear, the following Emetics.
Tobacco leaves.
All sorts of Spurges.
White Hellebore.
Glass
Regulus of Antimony
Crocus Metallorum in Substance
Turbith Mineral.
Sulphur of Antimony.
Flowers of Antimony.
Aurum Vita.
Mercurius Vita, which hath been called Mercurius Mortis.
Hercules Bovii.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710