A Comforting Glyster.
Take Canary Wine 1 pint; Diascordium half an ounce; Yolks of Eggs 2, mix.
But half the usual quantity is prescib'd, to the end that it may the longer be retain'd in the Body.
What Cordial Juleps are to the Stomach, the same this Glyster is to the Guts. For it so refreshes them, as to raise an universal Exultation of the whole Systasis of the Spirits, whereby they are roused up, and enabled to perform their Business briskly; and throw out whatsoever is offensive to Nature, and noxious vigorously.
Besides many other uses, its eminently serviceable in malign Fevers; and that not only because it succours the fainting Spirits, but also because it defends the Viscera themselves, and driveth the Radii of the Miasme outward from the Center to the Circumference.
I had acquaintance with a celebrated Physician, who sometimes prescrib'd this Glyster in the Small Pox, to promote Expulsion. But I judge this piece of Practice is rarely and cautiously to be imitated, because this Inflammatory Distemper oftener wants a Bridle to keep it back, than Spurs to prick it forward.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710