Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea: A Traumatic Infusion

A Traumatic Infusion.

Take green Twigs of woody Nightshade (cut like Sarsaparilla) 4 ounce; Cochineal 1 scruple; White-wine 1 quart; infuse hot and close, all Night; then having strained out the Liquor, add Syrup of Ground Ivy 4 ounces; Venice Treacle half an ounce, mix.

It's a singular Experiment in a Contusion; for it dissolves extravasated Clots of Gore, after a marvelous manner, drives it again into the circulating Mass of Blood; and there, partly by Diaphoreisis, partly diuresis, and sometimes by Purging, throws it out of the Body. It operates so powerfully and specifically, that upon the use of it, I have sometimes (not without Astonishment) observed black Urine, which I supposed was made so, by clots of Blood dissolves, absorbed, and mixed in with the Serum. Let 6 ounces be taken twice, or 4 ounces thrice a day.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710