A common Lohoch.
Take powder'd white Bechic Troches 3 drams; Oil of sweet Almonds, Syrup of Marsh Mallows, each 1 ounce and half, mix.
It refrigerates, humects and lubricates the Gullet, and parts of the Throat, when burnt up, parch'd and rough, more than the Bechic preceeding: But it coats over, incrassates and maturates something less. Its prescrib'd (to a very good Purpose) in Fevers with asperity of the Throat, difficulty of Swallowing and Hoarsness: As also in such a Cough as is caus'd by matter of a midling Consistence, between thick and thin.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710