Bonnet (1684): ‘prescription for apoplexie’
A most secret and certain remedy against the apoplexy is to take a lion’s dung, powdered, two parts, pour spirit of wine till it be covered three fingers’s breath, let them stand in a vial stopped three days. Strain it and keep it for use.
Then take a crow, not quite pinfeathered, and a young turtle, burn them apart in an oven, powder them, pour on the above said spirit of wine, let them stand in infusion three days.
Then take berries of a linden tree, an ounce and a half. Let them be steeped in the aforesaid spirit, then add as