1. hydropic Wine.
Take Florentine Orris 2 ounces; Elecampane, Squills, each half ounce; Elder and dwarf Elder rind, each 1 ounce; Winters bark 2 drams; Senna 2 ounces; black Hellebore, Agaric, Jalap, each 2 drams; White wine 2 quarts, infuse cold.
Its a most excellent, and a thousand times experimented Medicine for an Anasarca; for it having attenuated, disturbed and remov'd the gelatinous Colluvies stagnating in the Habit of the Body, hindering free passage through the Tubuli, and occasioning the Lympha to overflow it first returns it into the Channel of the circulating Blood, and then carries it away both by Urine and Stool. The Dose is 4 ounces in the Morning.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710