Syrup of Elecampane.
Take Roots of Elecampane, Polypodium, Currants each 2 ounces; Liquorice half an ounce; Virginia Tobacco dry'd two drams; Colts-foot, spotted Lungwort, Savory, Calamint each 1 handful; boil then in simple Hydromel to 1 pint and a half; strain, and adding Sugar 1 pound and a half; make a Syrup.
It hath a great faculty at attenuating inciding, deterging gross, tough, viscid Phlegm; and opening the Lungs. 'Tis therefore convenient in a laborious, deep, pectoral Cough, shortness of Breath, Humoral Asthma, Empyema, etc.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710