Arthritic Pills.
Take powdered Ground Pine 6 drams Ens; Veneris 2 drams, make it up into Pills with Venice Turpentine for 16 Doses.
They assist Nature in the Business of Chylification and Sanguification, brace up the relaxed Fibres to a due tonic Tension, break and subdue tumultuous, fermenting Salts, and turn them out by Urine.
Let the Patient swallow a Dose Mornings and Afternoons, and drink upon them the Edulcorating Decoction, Decoction of Woods, or the Sacred, according as the Case, and Constitution shall make most eligible.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710