Cathartic Wine.
Take Senna 2 ounces; white Tartar powder'd 8 scruples; White wine 1 quart; Brandy 4 ounces; macerate cold 3 days, and strain.
It may given, either alone to 4 ounces, or purging Potion may be made of it extempore, by adding Oil of Aniseed 1 dram, Scammony and Syrup of Roses solutive, as much as shall be deem'd requisite.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710