For a bone yt sticks in ye throat.
English Recipe Book, 17th century - 18th century (Wellcome Collection, MS.8097; p.106)
For the treatment of fish bones that have become stuck in one’s throat.
Transcription & translation:
When you are eating and a fish bone happens to stick in the throat, take a thimble full of gunpowder and swallow it down immediately in a spoonful of beer and it will make you bring up the bone presently.