A Red Lohoch.
Take Conserve of Hips half an ounce; Syrup of Elder Berries, Oil of Sweet Almonds, each 1 ounce, mix.
This fine coloured and pleasant tasted Lohoch, anoints as 'twere, with a grateful Mucous, and imbues with a lenifying Oleosity the Mouth and Throat, when parched, rough, hard, contracted, scorched up, chap'd, crack'd, and excoriated; takes away ill Tasts in the Mouth, corrects the Acrimony of the Saliva, palliates Thirst, makes the parts smooth, slippery, and flexible, and so facilitates Deglutition.
I remember one in the Small Pox, who lying miserably bad, rather devoured than took this Linctus, and clamoured, and even roared out for it, saying he could not live without his Golden Medicine, as he call'd it.
And I knew another, a Child of about a Year old, that was presently and perfectly cured by it of a most violent Cough, that was like to kill him.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710