Olibanum Pills.
Take Olibanum powdered and searced, 4 scruples; Salt of Harts born 1 scruple, with Yolk of Egg, make a Mass.
These are commodiously and to good purpose prescribed, for flatulent, flying, pinching Pains in the Side, and Stitches, with difficulty of Breathing, no Fever or Inflammation present. As also in the Pleurisie it self, after due Bleeding. But the trusting to Specifics in a Pleurisie, to the neglect of Bleeding, hath been (I fear) the Death of many an one: Let this be a Caution to the young Practitioner. The Dole is half a dram three times a Day, with the Pleuritic Decoction.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710