A Spinale Liniment.
Take Urine of a healthy Person, Tent Wine, Neatsfoot Oil, each 2 ounces; Sperma Ceti 2 drams; Mace 1 dram; boil to 4 ounces and strain.
A certain Physician kept this as a Secret for the Rickets, and was wont to use it on the Spine of the Back, beginning first at the Neck, and so rubbing downwards.
Since this Malady ariseth from the Obstruction of the Medulla Spinalis, and Debility of the Members, such Ointments as are Aperient and Corroborant, must needs be useful. And since it seizeth none but tender Infants, whose flesh is limber and flaggy, things that are over-hot must not be applied.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710