An Ischiatic Plaister.
Take white Pitch 2 ounces; Galbanum 1 ounce; Sulphur vive 2 drams; Amber 1 dram; Hermodactyls, Orris root, Cummin seed, Camomile flowers, each half a dram, make it up into a Mass with Petroleum.
It attenuates grofs, and sweetens saline, acrid Juices; it roborated the nervous Parts, and qualifies Arthritic Pains without Repulsion.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710