Sweet Tincture.
Take Spanish juice of Liquorice cut thin one ounce; Cochineal 2 scruples; Canary wine one quart, digest. To these may be added Saffron one dram.
Liquorice is truly, in general, a laudable and useful Medicine; but is found fault with not withstanding; because consisting of a thick, heavy, sluggish Juice, it creates Nauseousness in the Stomach, and passeth not currently into the Blood. But this Tincture happily possesses the entire Vertues of Liquorice, without its Vices; for it fits easie upon the Stomach, and finds ready admittance into the Blood; and (by its conveyance) into the inmost loculi of the Lungs, where it mollifies and obtunds acrid Serum, moderates the straining of a dry tiresom Cough; admirably digests, and maturates crude Phlegm sticking in the Tubuli, and Vesicles, and renders it for Expectoration.
Give a Spoonful often, either alone, or with a Pectoral Julep.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710