Nephritic Pills.
Take Millepedes, Crude Salt Armoniac, Venetian Soap, each 2 drams; Gum of Ivy 1 dram and half; Saffron half a dram; Oil of Juniper 16 drops; make all up into Pills with Venice Turpentine.
A certain Physician in great Vogue and Practice, used very much, and set a great value upon these Pills, to expel Urine, Mucus, Gravel and Sand. Hitherto may be referred what was said of Diuretic Pills, Dose half a dram.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710