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A Camphorated Julep.

Take Water of Elder Berries and Black Cherries, each 6 ounces; compound Bryony Water 1 ounce; then fire 4 scruples of Camphire, and quench it in this Mixture; fire and quench it again and again, till the Camphire be quite consumed; at last add Syrup of Elder Berries and Black Cherries, each 1 ounces and half, mix.

Often repeated Experience hath approved this to be one of the most excellent among the Hysterics; for by wonderfully charming the frantic Spirits, restraining the desultory, condensing and fixing the dissipable, it breaks off a present Paroxysm, and prevents the return of any more. Yea, if it used but long enough, it sometimes extirpates it radically. The Dose is two or three ounces.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710