The Saline Febrifuge Decoction.
Take Salt of Wormwood 8 scruples; white Sugar 4 ounces; boil these in Water 1 quart and despume.
I have very often found this an effectual Medicine, and am wont to prescribe it then especially, when a remitting Fever would not obey the Cortex, and began to threaten running over to the Party of continual Fevers. Let 2 ounces be taken each other Hour.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710