An Hysteric Julep.
Take Waters of Black Cherries, Mugwort, Pennyroyal, each 3 ounces; of Bryony compound 1 ounces and half; Tincture of Castor half an ounce; Oil of Amber (ground very well together with white Sugar, 1 ounce) 24 drops, mix.
This and other fetid Medicines, take off Hysteric Fits, by handling the Spirits roughly, and driving and dispersing 'em: For when they grow mutinous, and unequally dispersed, running in tumultuous Crowds in some Places, and leaving others almost ungarrisoned; and so either intermit their Duty within the Precincts of the Brain, or Praecordia, or else do it perversely: Then the best Course is, to send such a stern Remedy among them, as may use severs Discipline, and lash and scourge them. till they are glad to leave their Disorders, and run to their proper Posts, aud fall to their Charge again. But this Medicine is not equally agreeable to all, for we meet with some, in whom Oil of Amber raises such abominable fetid Belching, and makes them so sick, that they cannot possibly away with it. The Dose is two or 3 ounces.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710