A Camphorate Electuary.
Take Conserve of Rue 3 ounces; Venice Treacle 1 ounce; Camphir 8 grains; Oil of Amber 16 drops, mix.
It reprimands the Animal Spirits when too furious, and ready for Tumult and Explosion, disciplines them into order again, shakes off their heterogenous Copula, and sometimes expels it quite. Upon these Accounts, its found by Experience to be very serviceable to Hysteric Women, howbeit some cannot away with the odious Ructus, which Oil Amber causeth. MO The Dose is the bigness of a Chesnut, three times a day, with an Hysteric Julep.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710