An Epithem of Sugar of Lead.
Take Vinegar half a pint; Sugar of Lead 1 ounce, dissolve.
Fold a Linnen Cloth, dip it into this Liquor, apply it absolutely cold to the Region of the Heart; and as often as it waxeth warm repeat it cold again.
'Twas communicated to me by an eminent Physician, as a miraculous Experiment, against bleeding at the Nose. He told me, 'twill at first (by reason of its Cold) strike the Patient into a little quaking and shaking like the Horror of an Ague Fit, and in a small time after, let the flux of Blood be never so pouring, 'twill most certainly stop it.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710