A Lateral Liniment.
Take Ointment of Marshmallows 6 drams; Oil of Lilies and Bricks, each 3 drams; Camphire half a dram, mix.
It smooths, lubricates, and composes into order the Fibrillae, which by dolorific Spasms being torn and racked, strained and stiff, tangled in their Series, and confusedly corrugated, deprave the internal Channels, by distorting them, and shut up the cutaneous Vents, by pursing them up. Also it liquifies, exagitates, and discusses the gelatinous Lympha, which by stuffing up the minute Passages of the Parts, and hindring the Course of the Blood, occasioned the Inflammation. And by these means, namely composing the Fibrillae into Order, opening the Pores, restoring Circulation, taking down Inflammation, and quieting Pain; it must needs conduce very much in Pains of the Side, especially when the Muscles and outward Parts are affected.
But in a true, internal, membranous Pleurisie, or Peripneumony, I don't remember, that I ever yet saw it do the least good at all; and 'tis probable it cannot penetrate so far, as to touch upon the Part.
Anoint an Issue-Paper with it, lay it warm on the Place, cover it with a piece of Flannel, and repeat it twice a day.
Just before we use Liniments and Inunctions, it were good to foment the grieved part with a Flannel or Spunge dipped in attenuating and discussing Decoctions, actually hot, that the Unguents may be penetrate deeper; and the Matter being attenuated, and actuated by the both actual and potential Heat, may either be dissipated and returned again into the Blood, or brought out of the Body by Evaporation.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710