An Expectorating Decoction.
Take Orris root 2 ounces; Agaric (tied up in a piece of Linnen) 4 scruples; dried Tobacco 2 scruples; Hyssop, Thyme, each 1 handful; boil in Water 36 ounces to 28 ounces; strain and add Oxymel simple 4 ounces, mix.
The Ingredients of this Decoction are endu'd with subtle and acrious parts; which therefore (by the way of the Blood which they pass through first) penetrate into the Tracheal Ducts, and there meeting with clammy Matter, so divide, attenuate, move and work it, that the Fibres thence irritated, and successively contracted in Coughing, they force up whatsoever is contain'd in the Trachea and Vesicles. Its a true and a very potent Medicine, and shou'd be supp'd up (like Coffee) very hot, twice a day, or oftner, if there be no Fever.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710