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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	lord_n	11,091	5	3.8914	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50275	The unlearned alchymist his antidote, or, A more full and ample explanation of the use, virtue and benefit of my pill, entituled, An effectual diaphoretick, diuretick, purgeth by sweating, urin. Whereunto is added sundry cures and experiences, with particular direction unto particular diseases and distempers; with a catalogue of peoples names, with their dwelings which have used and known the use of the same: also sundry plain and easie receits which the ingenious may prepare for their own health. By Richard Matthew, and are to be had at his house by the Lyons Den at the Tower, next Gate to the By-Ward.	Mathews, Richard, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1290; ESTC R214133	88,234	176

unsatisfiedly dry his drinking was out of measure but still inwardly burned worse and worse and being spent grew very weak and feeble in so much that his wife and friends did dispair of life and I being locked up in the Tower could not be spoke with till betwixt six and seven in the morning being sent for I hasted and took with me one gill of my Antidote for Pills I knew they had in the house and when I came to him he was so weak he could not speak unto me his face and nose his hands and feet was all as cold as earth I had little hopes of his life for contrary unto these his stomach did burn like fire which indeed caused him to pour into his belly so much small Beer and by this time had no strength to evacuate it again that his Surfeit now was double as well from unreasonable drinking of small Beer as of Respass wine and Venison with his wives good liking I gave him three spoonfuls of my Antidote in four spoonful of Treacle water praying for a blessing yet much feared his life it gave him a little ease as we conceived by his quiet lying I hoped all vomiting had been staid thinking that to have been the best for him he lay still while one might tell treatably half a thousand or thereabout then he began to stretch out himself and turned up the white of his eyes we all that were spectators was sorely distressed for him expecting nothing but that his last breath was going from him but contrary unto our expectation he gathered up his seet and twisted himself about and start up a great Bason much like a Barbars bason being ready which he had used in the night and there at once comes up such a full torrent as his mouth could admit which quickly filled the great Bason such a vomit as I never beheld in all my life and am perswaded never shall again and in the end of it comes his Respass wine and his Venison unwrought on by nature for it is evident that all the former vomitting did not reach the root of the matter this vomit being over and another Bason ready he gave again another easie strain and brought up again my Antidote just as he put it into his belly both for quantity and collour as neer as we could guess look you said his wife unto me here is your stuff again well said I blessed be God for this stuff he hath done well for this time the Lord make us thankful I would not for more then I will speak of your husband had dyed you would have thought ill of me and my Antidote thorow the goodness of God this man was about his business in two dayes time this my friend with all the rest present are ready to witness what I have said and more touching this matter unto God eternal immortal Lord of life and death be praise and honnor and glory for ever Amen for he taketh the strong and hardy and casteth them unto the dust of death according to his will and again he taketh that which is ready to dye and restores it to life at his good will and pleasure and who is he of the hardiest of men that can withstand God It removes pains of the Breast trembling of the Heart cleanseth the Blood I have not known any pains stand before it but in Feavors or any other grief wherein is great crying out of pains and oppressions of the Breast but the first Pill gives relief there is a very aged woman by me on Tower-hill hard by the Scaffold who was almost off of her leggs with extream trembling and aching of her Heart which was occasioned thorow a fright and much grief and she took this Pill for almost or altogether this three years and thanks be to God is now lusty and for stronger and better then when she began to take it at first that it is a forcible cleanser of the blood it is evident by its universal sweating and purging by Urin. It helpeth suddain fits of Sounding and Convulsions A young man much troubled with fits and oft would fall down and foam in his fits I do not know what to determine them to be and with the use of this Pill and my Oyl of Amber found present relief which he thankfully acknowledged beyond expectation and very many of each Sex and Ages frequently have received the like benefit It drunk with whit-wine cleanseth the Reins and Kidnies of Gravel openeth the Vrany passages drive● out the stone if it be not coagulated and oft times at Vrine sends forth like jaggs of cloth of paper of sundry collours Of its power in cleansing the Reins Kidnies and Bladder many hath plentifully found by good experience to their exceeding joy and comfort A good friend of mine going to Colchester finds a kinswoman very sick and near death of the stone and Gravel he gave her two or three I am not certain but he brought me home five or six stones of considerable bigness full of sharp spikes as pin points and three square which I have reserved they also seemed as if they had been hung upon a string many more there were which we have not but thorow the goodness of God this woman although near eighty at once recovered hereon praised be God A man that came from Ireland who had married a Irish whore who had a husband of her own Countrymen did poison this English man three times the last time wrought so strongly that it took him off his business his hair and nails came off this man very weak came to England in hope of relief this man had a perpetual thirst and did drink without measure but could not Urin it out so that he was swelled ready to burst and all means which could be gotten could not help him until God so ordered it that I heard of him for a very good friend of his did desire my charitable assistance I sent him six Pills which wrought such happy effects that after one of them given him he fell a making of water so out of measure that he filled what was by him for that service and then had no retention but let all go in his bed his friend had for him one quarter of an ounce more I never saw the man nor never heard more of him but what I have said is the true and faithful relation of his friend as near as I am able to give it you A very old man in Ducksfild-lan● lay at the point of death with the Stone and could make no water for many dayes and nights together so that in the judgement of his neighbors there was no hope of his life one of his neighbors which did know the worth of my Pills came unto me and desired me to administer unto him I told her that she knew well enough that I never did undertake any thing and that she knew well enough the power and force of my Pills and if she should venter to

give it him I would give her some but to give it him by my advice I would give none blaming her for letting it be drove so far the old man near death she replied the case was desperate and other means was uneffectual and she would give him a good Pill although he did dye for there was no way else but that for him I gave her Pills with her she gives him a good Pill the old man by reason of pain had not slept for many nights and days he presently falls a sleep and slept four or five hours and when he waked calls for a pot and did so Urine that they had hardly things to receive it and of a suddain this man was up and about his business blessed be God for all his unspeakable mercies A loving friend of mine who lives at present at Chattam who knew well the worth and safty of my Pill by much experience he had made having a friend of his that was much troubled with the Stone and difficulty of making water my friend gives him a good Pill and the next day as he stood draining against a Brick wall to make water at last there flew out a stone from him and snapt against the Brick wall where he stood of an incredible biggness to be of a mans voiding upon which this man was wonderfully released to his great comfort which Stone my friend bring to us and we have it at this present by us unto God Almighty be all thanksgiving for ever A man comes unto me in behalf of his wife a young woman that was desperately afflicted but none could tell her what her grief was notwithstanding the woman was weary of her life her pains and knawing at her Breast was so exceeding much and the most conceived she had the foul disease it was indeed a foul disease and I did also mistrust it and I think the woman did likewise but notwithstanding made many protestations for her self I let them have Pills for their money not doubting but they would make a discovery what the matter was and so it was that my Pills did provoke strong vomiting and at last comes up as her husband telleth me a thing that either was a worm or like a worm but it had a strange ugly head and was at least twelve or fourteen inches in length I did not see it nor could hear any more of it A woman at Richmond a long time grieved but knew not what her grief was but fore oppressed at her Breast a neighbor of hers gives her one of my Pills which caused her to vomit in a strong and violent manner she brought forth at her mouth clots of putrified blood and matter of divers collours that hung together that it might be drawn out betwixt ones hands and like jaggs of linnen cloth or paper thorow Gods blessing it did preserve her and she in good health at this day praised be God for his rich mercy and goodness A very ancient Gentleman well known in the City of London being much afflicted with the Stone and Gravel in the Kidnies riding unto his Country house received a very gentle fall from his horse upon the sand notwithstand it did stir him too much insomuch as that his Urin was all blood and as might be guessed in reason that the Stones in the Vessel wherein they were bred being sharp pointed pricked the Kidnies which might produce bleeding this Gentleman being careful of himself caused a Coach to be that night sent for and hasted to London where in reason help might be attained and such was his care that when the Coach came in hard and stony way he got out of the Coach and went gently one foot he applied himself unto the best means for help as in reason were to be attained but still in vain in so much that he did much fear his life by reason of his much bleeding and as near as he could guess he had lost above two Gallons of blood and watter a friend of mind visiting him perswaded him to take some of my Pills which he did and with good and happy effect for it did both stop his bleeding and yet also brought away handfuls of Gravel this Gentleman came unto me for more of my Pills and this is the true relation as near as I am able to remember and thorow Gods mercy is ready to attest above what I have written praised be God who gives life from death at his good will and pleasure An Aldermans wife of this City being also grievously wasted with a flux of blood that her condition was very doubtful a woman that I am perswaded fears the Lord in truth she desired to speak with me to take my Pills and in two or ●●ree days finds great relief and in a day or two more perfectly healed and she was about her business blessed be the God of all our mercies A woman by Bishops-gate newly brought to bed but very sick of inward griefs takes one of my Pills which did bring a Stone I might guess as bigg as my great finger end but long and one end much bigger then the other her little daughter lighting one it did bite off as she said the bigger end and if true then was it bigger then I have spoken she brought it us and left it for some moneths with us further she telleth us that this Pill did bring from her by siege a thick hard congealed matter discoloured and like Orange Pills at which they did more wonder then at the former this woman did recover and injoy much ease and health long after it the most high who dwelleth with him that is of a humble heart and trembleth at his word be all praise and glory for ever Amen for I am perswaded this woman did truely fear the Lord and put her whole trust in him A gentlewoman that was rich but of adiscontented Spirit being near the point of death heard of my Pills she took of it but not according to my rules but did mix it with stuff of her own she lived about twelve months after she did be-begin with them but got no ground but grew weaker and weaker till at last she took the Pills alone and when she was so weak that she would take no earthly thing neither bread nor broth nor any Cordial either of her own or of any other bodies she would take a little of my Pill and that alone did keep her alive and sustain her for ten dayes to the great wonder and astonishment of all about her and had the use of her fences so far as to be much troubled at her kindred about the dividing of her estate for she had no child and was rich this is a true relation which the Nurse which was alwayes with her doth give me A very old man near death and bed-rid for a good while meets with my Pill I know not how and did revive exceedingly his Son in law being accidentally in my company told me how it