Pills of Crude Mercury.
Take crude Mercury, cleansed well 6 drams; Turbith 2 drams and half; Aloes, rhubarb, Coloquintida, Diagrydium, Agaric, each 2 drams; Hermodactyls, Myrrh, Mithridate, each 1 dram and half; Musk Ambergirse, each 15 grains; Leaves of Gold 12; Venetian Turpentine 1 ounce and half: Make up a Mass of Pills, with Syrup of Lemons as much as is sufficient, according to Art.
The Dose is from half a scruple to two scruples.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710