A Foment for a Tympany.
Take Nitre 2 ounces; Salt Armoniac 1 ounce; Spirit of Wine with a great deal of Phlegm in it 1 quart; mix and dissolve in a glass.
Foment the Belly with Flannel Stupes dipt in it, twice a day for half an hour an hour at a time, and after Fomentation, apply a Cataplasm of Cowdung, sprinkled over with Album Gracum; to which may be added our Appertive or Splanchic Ointment.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710