Pectoral Pills.
Take powdered Elecampane, Orris, Liquorice, each 1 scruple; Saffron, Flower of Benjamin, each half a scruple; white Sugar candy 2 scruples; make it up into a Mass with Balsam of Sulphur Anisated.
They open, cleanse, and free the Chest and Lungs, when stuffed up and clogg'd with with heavy Phlegm; are extraordinary convenient in a wheezing Cough, with difficult short Breath, and Consumption it self, whilst yet in its first Stage, and before the Hectic Fever begins to burn. The Dose is half a dram thrice a Day.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710