A Frontale Liniment.
Take Oinment of Alabaster 2 drams; Oil of Roses 6 drams; Opium 16 grains; Camphire 8 grains; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops, mix.
Let it be used to the Forehead and Temples, to procure Sleep, and ease the Headach. But it hath place, not when the Cause is in the Brain it self, but in the outward Parts only: And that we may be surely satisfied of, if the Forehead be extreamly hot to feel to, the Pain be Pulsing, and the Eye-Balls do not ake.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710