Pleuritic Powder.
Take Olibanum half a scruple; Crabs Eyes, Flower of Sulphur, each 5 grains; reduce them to a Powder.
I have several times cautioned the young Practitioner against trusting to Specifics in a Pleurisy, to the neglect of Bleeding. And I here repeat the same.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710