A Gargle for the Uvula.
Take Columbines 4 handfuls, red Roses dry'd, Balaustines, each half a handful; long Pepper 4 scruples; Myrrh 2 drams; boil in Water 1 quart, and white Wine half a pint to 26 ounces; to the strain'd add Brandy, Syrup of Raspberries and Mulberries, each 2 ounces; mix.
N.B. Black Currants make the pleasantest Syrup that I have ever tasted: I frequently use it, and prefer it, for sore Throats, far before that of Mulberries. Its prescrib'd (and that to very good purpose) when the Uvula, Tonsils, Muscles of the Jaws, Larynx and Pharynx are stuffed up, swol'n and inflamed: For partly by attenuating and vellicating, partly be constringing and expressing, it evacuates the pituitous filth therein collected.
And then by squeezing into less compass, the spongy, tumid and tense Glands, and reducing them to their natural Bounds and Crasis, it cuts off any further Afflux to the Parts.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710