A Chymical Errhine.
Take Turbith Mineral half a scruple; powder of Liquorice half a dram; Nutmeg 1 scruple; Oil of Rosemary 2 drops; make it all into a powder, to be snuffed up into the Nose in a very small quantity.
Errhines are to be us'd chiefly in the Morning, but (if need be) at any other time also. They draw out of the Head and Nose, abundance of Water, Mucus and Viscid Phlegm, and are pertinently prescrib'd against such Illnesses of the Head, as are caus'd by tough, clammy Matter, and have been of long continuance and contumacious, such as gravative Head Ach, Palsy and drowsy Distempers.
This of Turbith is wonderfully powerful, brings off especially thin Lympha (as though it raised a Salivation through the Nose) so plentifully and streamingly, that none can imagine it, who hath not seen it. but if repeated too often, 'twill fret the Membrane of the Nostrils, and make it sore, therefore after every time of using it, it would not be amiss to snuff up warm Milk or Oil.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710