Gilead Pills.
Take white Sugar candy powdered and searced 2 drams; the cold Species of Gum Tragacanth 1 dram; Balsam of Tolu 2 scruples; Flower of Benjamin 1 scruple; bring these to a fine powder, and with the Balm of Gilead beat it up into Pills for 12 Doses.
They are a commodious Prescript for such as are in danger of falling into a Consumption, are troubled with a chronical Pain of the Side, and an old, dry Cough. For they correct the Acrimony of the owzing Serum, expedite Pulmonary Infarctions, discuss crude Tubercles, establish the Tone of the Fibrillae, and heal up the Ruptures of the minute Vessels. They are to be given Night and Morn with a suitable Vehicle.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710