A Cephalic Lotion.
Take Bay leaves, Betony, Vervain, Marjoram, Rosemary, Lavender, each 2 handfuls; boil in Lixivium of Wood Ashes 3 quarts to two quarts, adding at last powdered Cloves and Nutmeg, each 2 drams, strain.
It's Vertues may be seen under the Cephalic Liniment, but it discusses more powerfully than it, and evacuates by Diaphoresis. I have been told of stammering in Children, cured with such an Application, whereby the Organs of Speech were strengthened.
Let the Head be shaved and fomented a Mornings (for a quarter of an hour at a time) with a Spunge dipt into this Liquor hot, and squeezed out again. But let there be great care taken against catching cold from the use of it.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710