Dysenteric Pills.
Take true Bole powder'd 2 drams; Oil of Paper 4 drops; Galbanum strain'd, as much as will make it into a pilular Mass. I suppose there will be need of some Syrup to bring it to a Body.
A certain Outlandish Physician communicated this Prescript to me, and protested upon his Word, he had ample Experience of their Vitues, when he was in the Army in Ireland. And it seems to me, that Bole may retund the Acrimony, and stop the afflux of Humours. And then Galbanum, and Oil of Paper may appease the dolorific Corrugations of the Intestines. The Dose is 1 scruple.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710