A Bechic Draught.
Take powdered Gum Arabick half a dram; dissolve it over the Fire in Scabious and Barly Cinnamon Water, each 1 ounce and half; then add Mithridate, Diascordium, each 1 scruple; Lohoch Sanans 1 dram; Diacodium half an ounce or 6 drams, mix.
It obtunds, incrassates and restrains the acrid irritating Serum spewed out of the Glands into the Larynx: It defends those exquisitely sensible parts with a mucous Coat, sweetly cause rest, and exterminates by Diaphoresis, the Lymphatick recrements of the Blood, and so is (upon all accounts) an apposite Remedy for such a Cough, as (proceeding from catching Cold) is unmercifully troublesome, especially at Night, just after lying down in Bed.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710