A Milky Draught.
Take Yolk of an Egg, brown Sugar Candy powder'd fine 6 drams; red Roses water 1 ounce; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drops; mix these thoroughly well, make them Blood warm, and add Milk just from the Cow a quarter of a pint.
Let it be taken and continued a long time (especially all the Month of May) for Supper and Breakfast in an Hectic Fever, Night Sweats, and such an Atrophy as does not arise from ulcerated Lungs, but acrid fermenting Blood, which cannot assimulate the Chyle, and turn it into Nutritious Juice.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710