Potercus's Pills.
Take Flower of Sulphur, Liquorice, white Sugar candy, each I dram; Balsam of Sulphur enough to reduce it into a Mass.
They correct, edulcorate, temper, incrassate, and make fit to be spit forth, thin, sharp, hot Rheum, which falling upon the Larynx, or into the Lungs, tickles, and causes a troublesome Cough.
For Sulphur is called the Balsam of the Lungs, and nothing stops a Catarrh so much, as Sulphur and Sulphurate Things. Walleus faith, upon the use of Sulphur, the Spittle that is into Rotundity by Heat.
Sennertus asserts, That Sulphurate Medicines are not convenient for Women with Child, for fear of Miscarriage. But I cannot tell whether Fancy of Experience produced this Caution.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710