A Consolating Mixture.
Take Sherry Wine half a pint; strong Cinnamon Water 4 ounces; Rose Water, white Sugar Candy, each 2 ounces; Juice of Kermes strain'd 1 ounce; Species called Laetificans Galeni 2 drams; Leaves of Gold 4; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops, mix.
This Medicine I Fish'd out of a very worthy Gentleman, in whose Family it had been kept as a sacred Depositum, and great Secret, and was religiously delivered down, from Mother to Daughter, in a constant succession of several Generations.
It helps Concoction, corrects Crudities, dissipates Flatus, cherishes native Heat, specifically recreates Women with Child, when drooping and languid, comforts the weak, feeble Foetus, prevents Miscarriage from dejection of Spirits, and cold flaccidity of the Womb, and supplies desir'd Strength, Vigour and Ability for the happy performance of the great work of Child-birth.
Its proper for such only as are cold, weak, and languishing. I should by no means advise it to any of a strong and hot Constitution, nor to those that plethoric, or apt to Flouding.
Let 2 ounces be allow'd Night and Morn, whensoever failure of the Spirits make it needful, and more especially the last Month of Ingravidation, even 'till Delivery.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710