A Styptic Julep.
Take Plantain water 6 ounces; Frog Spawn water 4 ounces; Syrup of Coral compound 2 ounces; Japanic Earth, Astringent Crocus of Mars, each 2 scruples; Sugar of Lead 6 grains; Liquid Laudanum 40 drops, mix.
It takes down the inordinate Turgescence of the Blood, and gives a stop to its mad Career, corrects the too sharp Serum, by Precipitation, makes it rough and austere, and so prevents its Erruption, and closeth up the Gapings and Apertures of the Vessels: And therefore is available in Haemorrhagies at the Nose, coughing up of Blood, flux of Haemorrhoids, Menses, and bloody Urine. Let 3 ounces be given cold twice or thrice a day.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710