An Expression of Millipedes for a Thin Cough.
Take live Millipedes cleansed 2 ounces; Aniseed 1 dram; Nutmeg half a dram; white sugar 1 ounce; having beat them well, and added Penny royal water 6 ounces; compound Bryony and compound Piony water, each 1 ounces; strain it out.
The strange Obstinacy of this Distemper calls for an equal perseverance in the use of Remedies. Bleeding being first performed, Give children a Spoonful after every Fit of Coughing, and give it unweariedly, 'till the Cough be conquered at last, and quite drove away.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710