Tar Pills.
Take hard shining Wood Soot 1 dram and half; Salt of Harts horn half a dram; Tar as much as you want to bring it into a fit Mass.
They melt down fizy Blood, discharge Obstructions caused thereby, restore the Circular Course through the part affected, refresh the finking Spirits, and promote Expectoration. Therefore they are given in Pleurisies (after due Bleeding) with good Advantage, to 1 scruple every fourth hour.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710