A Plaister with Pellitory.
Take Galbanum colated, Sagapenum, Ammoniacum (dissolved in White Wine, and strained), each Iounce, powdered Pellitory of Spain, Mustardseed, each half an ounce; Wax 1 ounce and half, Venice Turpentine a sufficient quantity, mix.
It warms, deobstructs and roborates the nervous Parts, stimulates the sluggish Animal Spirits, and puts them into Motion. It's great use is, for Paralytic Members. It's a Sinapism, or Phaenigm, which the Antients used much, and might be serviceable yet, if rationally applied.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710