Astringent Mixture.
Take simple cinnamon-water and common water, of each three ounces; spirituous cinnamon- water, an ounce and a half; Japonic confection, half an ounce. Mix them.
In dysenteries which are not of long standing, after the necessary evacuations, a spoonful or two of this mixture may be taken every four hours, interposing every second or third day a dose of rhubarb.
William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785