1 pint of claret or port wine. 6 grains of vanilla. 1 grain of ambergris. 1 pint of strong brandy. With compliments and thanks from the compiler of this pathfinder.
Chocolate is one of the most efficient restoratives.
The grain, an old-fashioned measure, equals about the twentieth part of a gram, and we might add, ambre gris is meant, a greyish substance which exhales a smell analogous to musk, and not yellow amber, which is an entirely different thing. Such chocolate no longer exists. Brillat-Savarin also praises the powers of ambergris in his Magist res Restaurants . With thanks to Ray Girvan , Technical Author, The Apothecary's Drawer .