Icteric Pills.
Take Cream of Tartar, Cochineal, each half a dram; Venetian Soap 2 drams; beat these up into Pills. Or instead of Cochineal may be used Barbadoes Indigo.
I have experimented these, and recommend them for an excellent Anticteric. Let half a dram be given thrice a day, till the Disease be conquered, which will be in a short time, unless some almost invincible Tumour, or Obstruction in the Liver or Gall-Passages hinder.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710