A nitrous Draught.
Take red Poppy water 3 ounces; Salt Prunel powder'd fine 1 dram; Syrup of Violets 1 ounce, mix.
It refrigerates the Blood, cuts its Siziness, opens Obstructions, extinguishes Inflammations thence arising; quenches Thirst, moves Urine, and is chiefly prevalent against a Pleurisy, Peripneumonia, Quinsy, and such Inflammatory Fevers, as partake not of any Malignity.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710