A Preparing Draught.
Take Rhenish (or French white) Wine 3 ounces; powder'd Cream of Tarter 1 dram; Syrup of the 5 opening Roots and Oxymel of Squills, each half an ounce, mix.
Let it be taken the Night before a Purge, where you judge the Ventricle and Intestines are smear'd over with viscid Phlegm, sticking to them like Glew.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710