An hydropic Plaister.
Take the Soap Plaister 2 ounces; Oil Of Aniseed, Potroleum, each half a dram, mix.
It attenuates, removes, and carries out by Diaphoresis, the Lympha, which is collected and coagulated in the Habit of the Body. But as to the Water ahed out into the Cavity of the Abdomen, it signifies nothing at all. Lay it all over the Belly.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710