An Electuary with Colophony.
Take Conserve of white Arch Angel flowers 1 ounce and half; Diascordium, green Ginger, powder'd Colophony, each half an ounce; Oil of Cinnamon 4 drops; Syrup of dried Roses, as much as fits to make it up with, mix.
It constringes, corroborates, edulcorates, mundifies, dries, heals: Besides other its uses, its very specifically good in a Fluor Albus; but if the Malady be inveterate, I take it for incurable. After other things that ought to be done methodically, according as the Case shall require. Let 3 drams of this be taken twice a day, for a long time.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710