A Lohoch with Elecampane.
Take powdered Elecampane, Orris, Liquorice, Japanic Earth, each 2 drams; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops; Syrup of Meconium 3 ounces, or as much as sufficient to mix.
It operates after a mixt manner, viz. First it attenuates, and brings away Matter gather'd in the Throat; and then quiets Irritation, and stops the farther extillation of sharp Serum. And is then principally indicated, when Catarrhous Matter flows slowly, and the Cough is excited rather by aggestion, than acrimony; such as that Cough is, that makes it returns mostly in the Morning, and is troublesome a while, 'till the load of Phlegm be Coughed up, and entirely clear'd off, but then yields to a Truce for all day; and is scarce at all Vexatious, 'till a new flow of Filth rise up to a Turgescence, and provoke it again.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710