A good old time, but rather as a violent but beneficial incisure in an old and rankling sore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference

This tree increasing every year about a foot, near the opposite part of the first incisure, they pierce again, changing the receiver; and so still by opposite wounds and notches, they yearly draw forth the liquor, till it arrive to near thirty foot upward, and of these they have ample groves and plantations which they set at seven or eight foot distance: But then they use to percolate what they extract, through a stratum made of the rind of the tree, well contus’d and beaten, before which preparation, it is not safe to drink it; and ’tis observed that some trees afford a much more generous wine than others of the same kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees] Reference