A Golden Mixture.
Take Juice of Kermes strain'd half an ounce; Syrup of Gilly flowers and Rasberries, each 2 ounces; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; Oil of Cloves 1 drop; Leaves of Gold 5, mix.
This Medicine (truly Golden, more from its virtue, than Substance) does so singularly refresh the Mother and child; and give to both such a Vigour and Vitality, that (as saith my Communicator) if a spoonful be taken twice a day , for a Month before lying in, 'twill produce an happy Delivery, and a lively Child.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710