Nitrous Powder.
Take Prunel stone 1 dram and half; Cinnaber of Antimony half a dram; white Sugar half an ounce; reduce all to a Powder.
Its prescrib'd in hot burning Fevers, to temper Heat and Thrift, allay Ebullition, and provoke Urine. The Dose is 1 dram in some grateful Vehicle.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710