An Oiley Bitter Glyster.
Take Linseed Oil 6 ounces; Coloquintida tied up in a Rag 1 dram and a half; boil a little , and strain it.
Rulandus anointed the Belly with part of it, and injected the rest Glyster-wise, into one that was most miserably afflicted with the Iliac Passion, and gave present Relief. But he is not rashly imitated, lest the Glyster should be forcibly driven up into the Ventricle, and increase the Vomiting, which was very enormous before, and so hasten Death. Yet, notwithstanding, when the Belly is obstinately bound up, before the Peristalic Motion of the Guts is wholly inverted, and before the Colic passed into an Iliac Passion, I judge it may be a profitable Remedy.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710