A Decoction for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
Take Turners Chips of Box wood, Male Piony-seed, each 1 ounce; Herbs of Sage, Wood Sage, Betony, Sanicle, Angelica, Devils-bit, Woody Night Shade, each 1 handful; boil these in Water 5 pints to 4, and strain it off.
Let the Party take a quarter of a pint, together with Venice Treacle half a dram, three times a day. I never used this, but that in Pharmacopaea Bateana, I have sometimes with success, so as to prevent Madness after a Bite, but if the least Symptom once appear, I suppose all Medicines will come too late.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710