Antiphthisic Decoction.
Take Ox Eye Daisy flowers dry'd 1 handful; Snails wiped clean 3; Candied Eryngo Root half an ounce; Pearl Barly 3 drams; boil in Spring Water from 1 pint and half to 1 pint, and strain it out.
It smooths and restrains the saline turbulent Particles of the Blood, so as to hinder it from rushing impetuously through the Canals; ravaging and tearing off the substance of the Lungs and solid Parts. Also it brings in a supply of such soft and in- offensive Nourishment, as gives no trouble to the Blood, when 'tis weak, and of a broken Crasis: It takes place therefore, in a newly begun Consumption, Hectic Fever, Night-Sweats, &c. where the Colliquation and Substraction of the Humours causeth a wasting of the Musculous parts.
Let the Sick sup it off hot, from a quarter to half a pint, with an equal quantity of Milk, for Supper and Breakfast.
An Aperient Decoction.
Take Roots of Parsly and Fennel, each 1 ounce; Barks of Capers and Tamarisk, each half an ounce; Herbs of Ceterach, Harts-Tongue, Agrimony, Liverwort, each 1 handful; boil these in Water and White Wine (added towards the last) each 1 pint and half, to 28 ounces; when 'tis strained, dissolve in it Syrup of the 5 opening Roots, and Oxymel simple, each 2 ounces.
It may contend with the temperate Scorbutic Ale for Virtues, and excells it in this, that its a more potent Diuretick.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710