The Portugal Decoction.
Take Spring Water 26 ounces; make it boil and then put into it Juice of Lemons, and fine Sugar each 2 ounces; Cochineal 1 scruple; let it continue boiling a very little, so as that the Scum may be taken off, then set it by to depurate, by way of settling, pour off the clear and add Damask Rose Water 4 ounces.
This comes recommended by its pleasant Colour and grateful Taste, and is a most desirable Drink in Fevers, for it restrains the Heat and Fervour of the Stomach and Blood, quencheth Thirst, moves Urine. Let it be drank at Pleasure without Limitation.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710