Pills for Fainting.
Take Musk 6 grains; Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each 1 scruple; Cloves, Saffron, each half a scruple; make it up for 3 Doses of Pills, with Confection of Alkermes.
They inspire the Spirits that have their Station about the Stomach, with fresh Vigour; and an exulting Undulation thence arising, the whole System, that was sunk before, and fallen, becomes roused up and recruited.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710