A Febrifuge Draught.
Take Carduus water 3 ounces; Treacle water, Syrup of Meconium, each half an ounce; Diascordium half a dram; Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple; Spirit of Salt Armoniad 15 drops; Oil of Cloves 1 drop, mix.
It gives relief in intermitting Fevers; especially in such of them as invade with cruel cold, shivering, shaking Fits, that continue long. Let it be given an Hour before the coming of the Ague, and presently going to Bed, let him do all he can to fall into a Sweat, and keep in it two hours.
But this sort of Cure by a Diaphoresis, is not always certain, for I have observ'd in some, that while I had them in a full smoaking Sweat, it hath strangly gone off all of a sudden, and the horror and rigor came on at the usual time, and they were the worse for it, because they lay damp in the cold Fit.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710