A Terebinthine Glyster.
Take Urine of a Man in Health 1 pint; Venice Turpentine (dissolved in 2 Yolks of Eggs) 1 ounce; Oil of Aniseed 1 dram; Melassos 1 ounce, mix.
Its but a Whimsy to prescribe Urine of Wine Drinkers, as supposing such most enrich'd with Spirits; whereas it has no vinous Spirits at all, and is not so pure , natural and humane a Liquid, as the Urine of such that drink little, and let themselves be healthy.
Urine seems a very proper Ingredient in a Glyster, because it being lately a Guest in the Body, is now receiv'd again in a Friendly Manner, and supplieth the place of Bile.
For Pecquet is clear in it, and Helmont also, that the Salt of Bile, and of Urine is the very self-same, and both most certainly Nitrous.
Terebinth dissolv'd in Glysters is beneficial in the Dropsy, Colic and Stone; not only because its Balsamic Particles comfort, and heal up the Intestines, but also, because taken up by the Veins, and circulating with the Blood, they move Urine.
Ettmuller reports, that when a Glyster of Milk and Turpentine 3 drams, dissolv'd with the Yolk of an Egg, had been given in the Morning, and retain'd all Day, it gave the Urine a sensible Violet odour at Night, as Turpentine taken by the mouth useth to do.
This Observation makes it very probable, that the Particles of Turpentine diffuse themselves every where; and that they agitate stagnating, morbific Matter, and where they find it degenerated into Mucid, Salt or Sharp, they incline and reduce it to Freshness, and a better Crasis. But then for this use of Altering and Meliorating the Juices of the Body; it must be given frequently, and in such small quantities as will not purge itself off. Which perhaps the curteous Reader will take kindly, as a new hint in Physick; and the currish one may snarl at, as a thin Conceit.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710