A Splenetic Foment.
Take dry'd Tobacco leaves 1 ounce; infuse warm two hours in Water 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve Gum Ammoniac half an ounce.
Let the Region of the Spleen be fomented with Flannel Stupes dipt into it, and wrung out as hot as can be endur'd.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710