A Purging Pectoral Oxymel.
Take Raisins of the Sun stoned, and cut small, Orris Root, each 1 ounce; Elecampane, Calamus Aromaticus, each half an ounce; Senna 2 ounces; Agaric (tied up in a Rag) half an ounce; white Horehound, Savory, Hyssop, Ground Ivy, each 1 handful; Tobacco dried 1 dram; Ginger 3 drams; Spring water 2 pints and half; Vinegar half a pint; boil away to 1 quart, throwing in at last Aniseed 2 drams, strain, and add Honey 1 pint; boil it again to a fit Consistence, carefully scumming it.
It powerfully attenuates, removes, and carries out, thick, slimy Phlegm, which sticking in the Stomach, Guts, Lungs, or Habit of the Body, and occasioning various Obstructions, produces Oedematous, Catarrhous, Consumptive, or Paralytic Diathesis.
The Dose is 3 ounces every, or each other Morning, as the Case calls for it.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710