A Chalybeate Julep.
Take Fennel and Parsly Water, each 12 ounces; Salt of Steel 2 drams, having throughly dissolved it at the Fire; set it by 24 hours, and poured off the clear, add to it compound Radish Water, Syrup of the 5 Roost, each 4 ounces; Spirit of Scurvygrass, Elixir Proprietatis, tartarised each half an ounce, mix.
Begin with a small Quantity, as three spoonfuls, and by degrees increase the Dose to six or seven.
Whilst this is a taking, let the Physician observe whether the Steel be carried off, which is to be known by the Blackness of the Stools; and if it be not, he may order a Glyster, or Eccoprotic, to cleanse the Intestines. Yea farther, he may mix Purgers with Chalybeates, to the end, that the Body being open, the Steel may not remain stop'd up, saith Primrose de Morb. Mulier.176.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710