A Posset with Wood Sorrel.
Take new Milk 1 quart; good fresh Small Beer 1 pint; White- wine half a pint, make 1 Posset, boiling in it Wood Sorrel 2 handfuls.
In burning Fevers, it doth not only dilute and temper bilious acrid Humours miserably burning in the Stomach, exciting intolerable Thirst and bitter Anguish; but also refrigerates the servent Blood, represses its Ebullition, liquifies its gross Contexture, and exterminates its adult Recrements by Urine.
Let it be drank plentifully at pleasure.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710