A Balsamic Bolus.
Take Conserve of red Roses, Lucatellus's Balsam, each half a dram; Balsam of Peru 3 drops, mix.
Its a prevailing Medicine against an inveterate Cough, and recent Consumption, Spitting of Blood, Dysentery, Contusion; and wheresoever the Vessels being opened, or broken bleed inwardly.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710