Astringent Pills.
Take true fine Bole, Dragons Blood in Tears, red Coral, Amber, Mastick, Astringent Crocus of Mars, each 1 dram; Oil of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each 6 drops; make all into an Alcohol, and then with Turpentine, a pilulary Mass, out of every scruple of which form 3 Pills, and dust them with Powder of Dragons Blood.
They exsiccate, absorb, edulcorate, stop up, stringe, and ronorate; they restrain a Diarrhea and Dysentary, stanch Spitting, Vomiting, and Pissing of Blood, overflowing of the Menses, Flooding in Child-birth, give ease in the Lumbago, when it proceeds from either great loss of Blood, or Fluor Albus. Three may be given, twice, or oftener a Day, 'till the Indication be satisfied.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710