Mr. Boyle's Syrup.
Take Comfry-roots 6 ounces; Plantain-leaves 12 handfuls cut, beat, and strain out the Juice; to which add an equal weight of Sugar, and boil it up to a Syrup.
He must be a meer Stranger in Physick, that is not acquainted with this (as its Author was) most noble Syrup; and how mightily it succours those that Cough up Blood.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710