A Cephalic Draught.
Take black Cherry water 3 ounces; Compound Piony water, Syrup of Piony compound, each half an ounce; Tincture of Castor 30 drops; Liquid Laudanum 15 drops; Cinnaber of Antimony (or rather native Cinnaber) 1 scruple, mix.
Its highly conductive in Idiopathic Convulsive Illneses; that (beginning primarily in that Brain it self, or Nerves) are caused by an ill sorted Copula, forcing the Animal Spirits into Explosions. But in such as are Sympathetic, and excited by meer Irritation, either of sharp Humours somewhere in the Viscera or Worms, or painful breeding of Teeth, although it may do some good (by helping off the percent Explosion) yet any one may easily perceive, the principal Remedies are to be fetch'd from elsewhere; according as the variety of Causes require.
For present Cure, give it (if it can be done) in the very Fit. For prevention, give it at Night, 3 Days successively before the new the full Moon.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710