Mastic Plaister compound.
Take Mastic, Gum Juniper, Nutmeg, Cloves, each 1 scruple; Labdanum 6 drams, work it with an hot Pestle and Mortar, with a sufficient quantity of Oil of Mastic into a Plaister.
Lay it all over the top of the Head, to restore Heat and Tone to the Pericranium, when having suffered prejudice by cold Air, or ill Humours, it is weak and relaxed. For it stops the Stream of the Rheumatic Colluvies, which hath its Fountain there. And so its convenient in a Cephalalgy, from a cold Cause Dentalgie, Tumour of the Tonsils, Inflammation of the Uvula, Asperity of the Gula, etc. See the Cephalic Liniment.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710