Saline Julep.
Dissolve two drachms of salt of tartar in three ounces of fresh juice, strained; when the effervescence is over, add, of mint-water, and common water, each two ounces; of simple syrup, one ounce.
This removes sickness at the stomach, relieves vomiting, promotes perspiration, and may be of some service in fevers, efpecially of the inflammatory kind.
William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785