A Gargle with Roses.
Take dry'd red Rose flowers 3 drams; Pomgranate flowers and peel, each 2 drams; Myrtle berries, powder'd Bole and Japanic Earth, each 1 dram; Alum 1 scuple; boil in Plantain Water and rough red Wine, each 6 ounces to 8 ounces; in the strain'd dissolve Honey of Roses 2 ounces.
It cleanseth the Tongue when besmear'd and coated over with slimy Filth, and helps for the laxity of salivale Glands.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710