Bonnet (1684): ‘prescription for apoplexie’
much of the best wine and six ounces of sugar candy, boil them in a pot till the sugar be melted. Put it up. Let the patient take a spoonful of it in wine, often in a day, for a whole month.
In the paroxysm give a spoonful with Aqua Tiliae, and with the same water, rub the forehead, neck, temples and nostrils. The Archduchess of Austria had frequent experience of the virtue of this medicine. [Bonnet (1684), cited in Licht (1975), p. 21-22.]