A Pleuritic Plaister.
Take Stictic of Paracelsus, Shop Plaister, each 1 ounce; Poplar Ointment 1 ounce and half, melt them over a gentle Fire, continually stirring with a Spatula; then take off, and when it begins to grow coldish, add Camphire in Powder 3 drams, and make it up into a soft Plaister.
The Communicator faith, it's very Anodyne, appeases Pleuritic and Podagric Pains, dissipates inflammatory Tumours, and the Quinsey, without any danger of Repercussion.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710