The bitter Febrifuge Decoction.
Take Camomile-flowers dried 2 ounces; Cochineal 16 grains; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; in the strained disslove Salt of Wormwood 2 drams; mix.
Its justly esteemed a Specific in Intermitting Fevers, and a Remedy inferior to none, but the Peruvian Bark, nay sometimes it hath succeeded when that hath fail'd. I use to order 4 ounces of it every three Hours, between Fits.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710