An Infusion with Roses Compound.
Take Red Roses, Balaustines, each 2 drams; oak Bark half an ounce; Spring Water 1 quart; give it a warm Infusion for 12 hours; then strain, and add Barly Cinnamon Water, 4 ounces; White Sugar 2 ounces; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops.
It astringes potently, and therefore conduceth in a Diarrhea, and Spitting of Blood. But because it may possibly be mischievious in the Hands of the unskillful, or unwary, I am willing to put down here two Cautions worth observing.
1. In a Symptomatic Flux of the Belly, where an Acute Fever is the primary Distemper, its a difficult Case; and it's safer then to set upon it with direct Alexipharmacs, which may be able to grapple with the hostile Venom, and drive it outwards; than with Atringents and Opiates, which unhappily concentrate, and shut up the Malignant Humours, hinder the Depuration of the Blood, and ruin the weak Spirits.
2. In a Haemoptysis; after the Eruption of Blood is actually stopt, there may be exetravasated Gore, and grumous Clots remaining in the Lungs; and while there are so, Astringents are bad; forasmuch as they are an Impediment to Excreation, and cause Shortness of Breath, Suffocation, vehement acute Fevers, Inflammation of the Lungs, Death itself.
The Dose is 3 or 4 ounces, to be repeated till the Indication be answered.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710