A Refrigerating Expression.
Take Male Pimpernel 3 handfuls; Borage 6 handfuls; Roots of Borge cut into thin Rundles 2 ounces; Pippins 3; Salt Prunel 2 drams; white Sugar 1 ounce and a half, stamp, and pour on them Meadow Sweet Water 3 pints; when they have stood cold a night's space, strain out the clear Liquor.
It's dedicated to the service of such melancholy Persons, as are of an Adult, hot and dry Temperament, for it corrects atrabilarious Blood, qualifies its Ebullitions, tempers flatulent Estuosities of the Hypochondria, refrigerates the over-heated Brain, condenses rarified and restrains boisterous Spirits, precipitates Salts, and carries them off by Urine.
The Dose is 6 ounces twice or thrice a day, for a long course of time.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710