2. hydropic Wine.
Take dwarf Elder rind, Florentine Orris root, each 2 ounces; inner rind of black Alder dry'd 1 ounce and half; Elecampane, Squills, each half an ounce; Juniper-berries 2 drams and half; Jalap half an ounce; black Hellebore 2 drams; Senna 2 ounces, Salt of Wormwood 4 scruples; White wine 2 quarts; digest cold and filtrate.
Its a very good Medicine for a universal Dropsy (faith our Communicator) for it incides and attenuates the viscous Lympha, which being congeal'd in the Pores of the Parts and Lymphatic Vessels, endangers bursting of them, and after, partly precipitates them thro' the Cataracts of the Kidnies, and partly evacuates'em by Siege.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710