A Styptic Emulsion.
Take Comfrey root, cut into thin rundles 4 ounces; boil it in water 3 pints to 1 quart; strain out the Liquor, with which and sweet Almonds blanch'd, white Poppy and Henbane seeds, each half an ounce; white Sugar 1 ounce; make an Emulsion, and dissolve it in Salt Prunnel 1 dram; sugar of Lead 1 scruple.
It refrigerates, contempers and incrassates the Blood; closeth up the Mouths of the Vessels, pacifieth the unquiet Spirits, and is a useful thing to stay Bleeding at the Nose, spitting of Blood, flux of the Hemorrhoids or Menses. The Dose is 4 ounces twice a day.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710