For the Bloody Flux
Take a quart of new milk with a good handfull of the inner bark of an oake. Boyle them together till one quarter bee consumed. Let the patient take sume of this to or three times a day as his stomacke will permitt. If only a flux without blood, take the bones of fresh porke, burn them to powder and give it to the patient in brandy.
Rev. William Twigge
Notebook 1715