Balsamic Pills.
Take Millepedes prepared, 3 drams; Gum Ammoniac strained (with Spirit of Wine) 1 dram and half; Flowers of Benjamin 1 dram; Saffron, Balsam of Peru, each 15 grains; Balsam of Sulphur, enough to embody it into a Mass fit for Pills.
These are excellent and most approv'd Pills in a chronic, scrophulous, consumptive Cough, where the Glands and Passages of the Lungs are stuff'd up with Slime and Phlegm, and where we may conjecture that crude Tubercles are a growing. Let 3 be taken thrice a day, together with an appropriate Decoction.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710