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A47242	An appendix to The unlearned alchimist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent diaphoretick and diuretick pill, purging by sweat and urine, commonly known by the name of Matthew's pill : with the exact manner of preparing and making of it, and the particular nature and virtue of the several ingredients, as also of the pill / by G. Kendall ...	Kendall, George, 1610-1663.; Mathews, Richard, d. 1661. Unlearned alchymist.	1664 (1664)	Wing K283; ESTC R8493	25,129	66

AN APPENDIX TO THE Unlearned Alchimist Wherein is contained the true Receipt of that Excellent Diaphoretick and Diuretick PILL purging by Sweat and Urine commonly known by the name of Matthew's PILL With the Exact manner of preparing and making of it and the particular nature and virtue of the several Ingredients as also of the PILL By G. Kendall M. A. Oxon. Licensed and Entred according to the Act for Printing LONDON Printed for Joseph Leigh and are to be sold by him at his shop in Bazing-hall-street And are to be sold by the Author as also the Pill Antidote and Oyl of Amber at the Green Dragon in Ave-Mary Lane Friendly Reader I Being something concerned in the following Thetis as being one with whom Mr. Richard Matthews left this Receipt of his Pill and also did leave an injunction upon me with some others to see it made publick if he did not live to do it himself and seeing it is here truly and faithfully brought to the Light according to his desire I am willing therefore by way of owning the truth thereof to give this short and plain account both how I came by it and why it was not made publick before this time Mr. Richard Matthews of known integrity after he found the publick use and benefit of this Pill was often taking care how to preserve it in it's purity after his decease sometimes expressing his mind as followeth That he would choose out six persons that he could intrust therewith and leave it with them and Authorise them after the decease of any one of them the Rest to choose one in his Room and so to be kept by such a number to the end it might not be ingrost in the hands of any particular person expressing several times his fears that if his Pill should onely rest at home his folks would spoil his Pill which he was carefull to prevent but his thoughts of the leaving of it were not effected but about 57 or 58 he severall times spake to me and also to Ahasuerus Fromanteel to come to him together and he would Leave the Receit with us using words to this purpose that he was but Crasie and weak and did not know how it might please God to deal with him therfore prest us several times to this thing before we went to him So when he was at little Chelsy at one Mr. Mandy his house we took an opportunity to give this our old friend a visit at which time we put him in mind of what he had formerly prest us to which he willingly at that time performd gave us this in charge with it that we should not take any Copy of it during his life but read it as often as we would over and when we had so done then to seal it up with both our seals and let it rest in one of our hands till God should please to dispose of him or to this effect then it to be our own So it was sealed up with my seal and kept by Mr. Fromanteel untill the time And after this about some two Months before his death he gave to Mr. George Kendal another receit with his addition at which time he did refer the one to the other to make it compleat yet the makers of the dunghill blush not to affirm that he gave out no other Receit after 59. But when this Receit was given it was not that we should make it publick for we heard n●● thing at all then of his intent as to that thing Only that it might not be ingrost in the hands of any particular person But a little before his death Mr. Kendal and Mr. Fromanteel meeting by accident at his house being come there to visit him he then spake to them his mind about the publishing his Pill and gave them some order about it if he should not live to do it himself On the next day I not knowing any thing what was past the day before about this business I went to visit my sick Friend at which time he told me that it was well that I was come for saith he here was Mr. Kendal and Mr. Fromanteel yesterday and I gave them order to publish the Receit therefore if I should not live to do it my self do you with them see that it be done or words to this effect be used but set us no time in which we should do it so that we were wholly at liberty as to time Now it cannot well be imagined but if we were to make it publike we might also make use of it our selves and thereby gain knowledge also of what we did in making it publick But in our debates about the publishing of it we found by good testimony that there was an ingagement laid upon our friend Richard Matthew that he should not make it known to its enemies therefore we at that time concluded rather to make it known only to its friends and such as did make much use of it that so we might answer our ingagement to him and not violate his in order to which we gave out several Copies imparted the whole thing to them that is both the first Receipt and the addition and that freely and refused it to none that we knew to be friends either to it or him Which I suppose the widdow and her agent were aware of and therefore did cast up that dunghil in the beginning of their book bespattering of us to forestall us in our work and to keep people from working by our Receipt or paper directions as they cal it to blind the eyes of the people and to make the pearl in our hand as invallid as they could and yet they themselves were fain to be beholding to our receipt when they went to make it known which I am very apt to beleive they would not have done only they saw it was too publick before for their profit I know not what else should make them clamor so against the innocent only the publickness of the Pill and yet their cry is we break our trust in not making it publick and thus they fill the ears of the Readers with flatteries and insinuations and prejudice against them that have endeavoured both publick good and the preservation of the Pill in its purity It is very opposite to me to be in contension or to meddle with such dirty spirits only I am with others provoked to give this plain and breif accout by that advantage they take at our silence to say reproachfully that we may with shame sit down having nothing in truth to say for our selves in this matter whereas I do solemnly profess to all to whom this may come that the account that I have here given doth not vary one word from the very truth of the business and what I have here said I have said it in the words of truth and soberness and so desiring the Reader if he please but to compare their own sayings the one with the other and it may

being you are my friend let me advise you when your life lyes at the stake and comes to be hazarded trust not to them but make use of this as a more powerfull medicine I might multiply examples of several cures wrought by them in persons of all ages and sexes women with child some in child-bed who by their midwives and freinds Physicians also have been esteemed past recovery yet by this means principally God hath been pleased to raise them up I could tell you their names and places of habitation if it were requisite I might also present you with the relations I have had from persons that have made use of my Pills in several counties as Lincolnshire Dorsetshire Devonshire Northamtonnsheire c. Where a blessing hath gone along with Pills of my preparing in the doing of many eminent cures But I forbear to set down particulars as affecting brevity These may serve to make it evident to all persons that are not incurably possest with prejudice that we have the true Receipt of the Pil with the manner of preparing it whatever is or may be asserted to the contrary and we have been directed and assisted by Mr. Andrews a man of known integrity who made the Pill for Mr. Mathews before ever he made it himself and was for some time his sole operator when he began to be in credit for the Pill Yea Mr. Starkey who was the first inventor of the Pill hath not been wanting in declaring to us not only the Manual operation but also the Nature of it and wayes to improve it and alter it as need requireth I could give a particular answer to those scandalous personall reflections that Mrs. Mathews bills advertisement and book swarmes with and shew the falshood and invalidity of them but this may prove nauseous to unconcerned persons and therfore I shal be silent in it and only declare that out of a love to peace and truth there hath been by my self the others she exclaims against a hearing desired with a promise that if it could be made appear to the judgement of any indifferent rationall man that we had either injured her or dealt any ways unfaithfully that we would acknowledge the wrong and make such satisfaction as by such persons should be judged expedient but this hath been alwayes refused I shall now breifly speak something to the manner of taking of this Pill with the way of it's working The Pill is ordinarily to be taken at night when going to bed with a cup of Sack White-wine Ale or Beer drank after it to carry it down the Veh●cle is to be appropriate to the disease if it be for an Ague a cup of Sack or some cordial liquor is best if for a Fever without an Ague a cup of White-wine is more proper if for purging the Reins and Bladder of Stone or Gravel White wine is the best being the more Diuretick here discretion is to be made use of as also in the quantity of the dose which must be according to the age temperature and strength of the patient Reason wil teach you to give a very small quantitity of it to a child whereas 10 12 or 14 graines is an ordinary dose for a man or woman yea 20 grains if it be well prepared and the virulency of the simples by frequent made-factions and exsiccations be extinguished will not disturb or afflict the Patient with troublesome symptomes neither then is it the less efficacious as some practitioners fondly conclude who suppose that medicine to be best which doth with a small quantity disturb nature and manifest its violent operation for the vertue of a medicine consists not in the Vomative laxative or deleteriall qualities thereof which disturb nature and enrage the Ancheus causing tumults and perturbations but their excellency consists in their amicable and pleasing serviceableness to nature whereby at the same time they refresh and recreat the Vitall Spirits and dissolve all preternaturall excrements and coagulations It is the commendation of a good medicine to cure not only tuto cito safely and speedily but also pleasantly and then doth the medicine do it's work the best when it is so prepared that a large dose of it may be taken with the least Perturbation of the head and stomach which make some rash ignorant persons to dislike it and lay it aside as void of vertue to such I shal invert the order of the Poets choice Da Mihi tu Facilem accipe difficilem It is not necessary to tye the patient to any rules of diet in the time of using this Pill only let the food be nutritive and the drink cordiall both used with moderation The operation of this Pill is generally by sweat where there are many peccant humors to be purged out which in some persons are more insensibly transmitted through the pores than in others It is the opinion of some able doctors that thin lean bodyes that sweat least by an insensible transpiration send sorth more in vapors then gross and corpulent bodies that sweat most violently and this they affirm they have found true by infallible demonstration having at severall times taken the weight of such persons with the weight of their food and excrements If therefore there be not such violent sweating wrought by it in thee as in others do not presently conclude it to be of no efficacy but have a little patience in the use of it and probably thou mayest have a cure wrought in a more insensible way And here I cannot but admire at the impatience and folly of many persons who because they have not a perfect cure wrought by the taking of 2 or 3 Pills sometimes by one will lay it aside as altogether inefficacious when as if a Doctor prescribes a course of Physick to them they will be punctual in observing his rules many weeks yea months and not reap much sensible benefit by it All the Doctors art and skill is grounded on his own or other mens experience whose works and writings he gives credit to upon a bare affirmation yea the knowledge of the vertue and efficacy of all simples as also compound medicaments hath it not experience for the Originall and shall not those experiences that are evident before our eyes and which we have certain testimony of prevail asmuch with us as the bare affirmations of others who it may be and often is so speak not from any ground at all but their own imaginations It is cause of mourning to behold both Doctors and the generallity of people deluded by them to continue so heathenish as to give more credit to Galen and Hypocrates for the welfare of their bodies than the word of God himself for the good of both soul and body But there is a vail which is not yet taken away that blinds the eyes of men both in this and other things I do not go about to perswade any to make use of it so long without visible success as