Carminative Pills.
Take Gum Ammoniacum strain'd 2 scruple; Myrrh, Amber, Mastick, each 1 scruple; Olibanum, Saffron, Castor, each half a scruple; Salts of Mars (calcin'd to whiteness) half a dram; Oil of Nutmeg 8 drops; Elixir Proprietatis as much as sufficient, (323,324) make it into 40 Pills.
This is Sylvius his Prescript, and excellently composed to attenuate and scour off Phlegm, smearing and opressing the Ventricle and Intestines, exciting Pain, Wind, and a thousand Mischiefs.
Things that discuss Wind, are not all different from such as incide Phlegm, saith Riverious, and very rightly: For Wind is genreated by the Conquassation of Phlegm, after the manner as we see Whites of Eggs beat up, and whisk'd 'till it stand all in froth and little airy bubbles. Those things therefore that correct the Viscidity of Phlegm, stay the very parent of Wind, and so prevent its Birth.
Let 5 Pills be given twice a day, upon an empty Stomach.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710