A Diuretic Acid Draught.
Take Horse Radish water compound 1 ounce and half; Brandy, Juice of Lemons, each half an ounce; Syrup of Violets 1 ounce; mix.
It takes away Thirst, tempers Choler, corrects the Acrimony of Salts. Refrigerates, Fuses, Liquifies the Blood, and makes it shed off its Serum plentifully: It cuts, attenuates, and scoures off slimy Phlegm, provokes Urine, and evacuates Gravel and Sand.
Its proper where there's an hot scorbutic Constitution, a febrile Disposition, and where either Viscid or Gravelly Pituita sticking in the Kidneys or Bladder (with out Inflammation or Ulcer) hinders the course of the Urine.
In the Philosophical Transactions (Numb. 215.) there are accounts of several cured by Acids, of a total suppression of Urine, where there was not the least appearance of any Stone, nor a drop of Water in the Bladder: I have very lately known the like Case, where Chymical Acids prevail'd.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710