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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

glass note it may be done in earth set it in sharp sand begin with gentle fire leave the hole open at the top onely stop it with Cotton-wooll that the wily Spirits of the Armoniak may go else thou wouldst break the vessel after twelve hours moderate fire stop close the hole above increase fire thou maist with thy hand on the vessel know well whether thou give fire orderly note that after twenty four hours or thirty hours thou canst not hurt it with fire let all cool and with an Hares foot cleanse off thy sublimation which will almost be on the collour of gold take that which is sublimed and weigh its weight of fresh Ens well ground together and sublime it again and this work thou must repeat four time always upon fresh Ens before thy work be perfect if thou dealest honestly with this preparation which thou maist do in a matter of 10 or 12 days there needeth little other Physick three or four grains drank in white wine or in any proper Vehicle always ballancing a proportion by the strength and weakness of the patient this is a true receit as I have done it let if speak for it self but I did not pass all the sublimations at once having no present occasion for it I have seen this so glorious as to my thinking it hath exceeded gold God Almighty prosper that man that strives to excel in well-doing Now take all thy water and filter it very clean and vapor it away and thou wilt receive a considerable quantity of fixed salt white and good put it into a strong crusible and calcine it in a reverberatory for six hours have care that thy heat do not make it flow but let it be meanly red hot then dissolve it in distilled rain water filter it vapor away the water it is abundantly fairer then it was at first note thy water must be twice distilled which is best done in quantity in a Copper Still with a Serpentine Refrigetory in this work let dirt sooner fall into thy eye then into thy work then calcine again a third time and proceed as above thou hast a Medicine of great force but if thou wilt repeat this work till thy Salt will yield unto thee no more Fecis I dare not tell thee what I think it will do I know thou art hasty with me and demands what this fixed salt is good for and my answer is as ready go look I cannot tell but if thou wilt know what a fixed Medicin is good for look amongst the Cronical of fixed diseases which the Gallinist counts uncurable thou canst not knock down an Ox with a small Mallet the remedy must over ballance the disease Note aster this order you may almost gain the Salt of any thing I therefore have write this Undoubtedly no greater pleasure can be had on earth in earthly things then to be busily imployed in the curious pursuing of these things I do therefore account my self most happy whose good hap it is next to the true fear love and serving of God to be swallowed up in the daily pursuance hereof above all things see that thou adict thy self to be neat and cleanly in thy work if thou knowest any thing in Alchimy thou must know that with patience thou must work to take a few grains of the excremental parts out of an ounce of the substantial parts and it may be work long and throw all away and begin again and this without change or reluctance of mind being fully resolved to work ever if thou ever meanest to speed it s profitably miscarried if thou thereby art humbled else thou wilt not be taught God resists the proud but gives grace and teacheth the humble therefore give time with patience for that is of God but hast and unpatience is of the devil the greatest mastery is the well governance of the regiment of fire besure that thou hast Vulcan well yoaked in his own fetters and see well that his bellows be not too big onely study to make Volatil that which is fixt and to fix that which is Volatil and all this after due cleansing if thou canst so deal with this salt thou wilt find bread thou wilt never want matter if thou hast this power he onely is happy whom God teacheth his true fear is the beginning of wisdom them he teacheth the way they shall go● be not curious beyond nature I my self for some years past have much exceeded following the Chimaerais of my own head soar not to things too high and beyond thee remember the saying of one of the chief Pillars in Physick Art is long life is short know God is in heaven and thou on earth thou canst not fathom his depths in the least natural thing how canst thou then comprehend him who fills all things Be not offended because I am bold with thee t is because I love thee I cannot but improve the tallent bestowed and so I shall leave it with thee if thou counts me a fool I care not for if I know it well I am contented if I add a tittle to thee it is that which I desire no mans goodness can add any thing to God he already is perfect therein perfect harmony perfect silence and rest for ever in himself to whom nothing can be added but our goodness may be extended unto the men on the earth to them that excel in vertue I strive thereafter as I receive help some of these receits cannot be wrought by unpracticed hands I can but give as I have received good will excits and moves this offer let it work likewise in thee to accept in what I have done weakly be thou more ready to mend then find fault if I have deserved rebuke I will accept it from thee in any language with thanks I will now deliver thee in as plain words as I can a most stately Receit which I have wrought and given many scores of times with great success The preparation of the Salt of Mars salt of Steel so called Take what quanity of Oyl of Vitriol thou pleasest and put it in an open Glass or in a well glazed vessel set it upon a stool in a Chimney put into it for each pound of Oyl one ounce of Salt Jem or Stone Salt beaten to fine powder take the filings of Steel and with a spoon sprinkle upon the Oyl and it will foam boil and fret have care thou be not too hasty for then will it boyl over continue this shaking in of the powder of Steel so long that thou perceive it to be all dry and hard and will foam and fret no more then set it in a sand Furnace and dry it very well that it be hard and like a stone almost for hardness bring this to fine powder have a good quantity of water warm and sprinkle this powder thereon and keep it stirring with a stick otherwise it will knit to a stone in the bottom filter this water put on more repeat this putting on of water till it be no more sharp let all

powder if the bottom be read hot it will burn put in one spoonful after another till all be burned it is then for this work prepared if thou hast wrought well thou wilt have of a white Salt but yellowish seventeen ounces again of thy two pounds Take half a bushel of White-lime put it in a clean tubb and put on it fair water that the water may cover it four inches let if stand all night take two gallons of this water and put in it thy salt and it is prepared for thy work then take one pound weight of Poppe-leaves good and red newly gathered as near as thou canst stamp them and put them into thy prepared water take also one pound of Juniper berries and do likewise also take one pound of black Hellebor which thou maist buy at the Druggist for a small matter beat it grosly and put it into the rest stir all very well let them simper upon a fire twenty four hours in a glass-body or in a Tin vessel or Pewter but let it be close covered then drive all through a Hipocris bagg and its prepared for thy use drink of this three or four spoonful in White-wine and Sugar but give more or less as the patient is strong or weak to weak children half a spoonful or a spoonful with Wine or Sugar note thou maist do what thou wilt with this if thou knowest how to apply it for thy health I desire thee whatever thou art to praise God for this the like I believe is not made manifest for the preserving of thy health against all diseases infections Feavors Surfeits this will not fail thee of relief let thy pains be what they will nor of cure if God permit if thou hast patience and will give it time I have from my conscience spoke my belief grounded upon reason and experience and freely give it thee beseeching God to bless it to thee and inlarge thy heart as mine is inlarged that is that thou maist do for thy neighbor as I now do for thee presenting nothing in this or any thing about it but the labor of my hand and what I daily put into my own belly and let me further tell thee I had much wrestling with my self as in the presence of God before I could prevail upon the gain-saying that was in me to draw so nigh thee for thy unvaluable benefit for if thou considerest the things are easie attained every ditch offering the some of them and the preparation so trinial that there is as much art to make a mess of pottage in this above all other I have deserved well at thy hand if thou hast a heart to improve it neither do I doubt although many will be angry and snatter at it but this entrance which I have given in this receipt will stand while the world indures and get strength and my memory held in honor for so good service in it This book hath swelled beyond my intention yet I am constrained to give thee one receipt or two more in few words and so I for this time shall rest praising God who helped me before I go out of this world to perform some real service for the good of mankind in general To make the drink that is now much used called Coffee The Coffee Berries is to be bought at any Drugist about three shillings the pound take what quantity you please and over a Charcole-fire in a old pudding-pan or frying-pan keep them always stirring untill they be quite black and when you crack one with your teeth that it is as black within as it is without yet if you exceed then do you wast the oyl which onely makes the drink and if less then will it not deliver his Oyl which must make the drink and if you should continue fire till it be white it will then make no Coffee but onely give you its salt the Berry prepared as above beaten and serced thorow a Lawn Sive is then fit for use Take clean water and boil one third of it away what quantity soever it be and it is fit for use Take one quart of this prepared water put in it one ounce of your prepared Coffee and boil it gently one quarter of an hour and it is fit for your use drink one quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it note that instead of Coffee take English Wheat and thou wilt find it in all points as good and as profitable for thee as I have wrought and proved it and speak it from knowledge and I do from my heart bear witness to this drink as the best and safest for the health of mans body and further I do know that it doth abate the fury or sharpness of the Accrimony which is the gender of those diseases called Cronical and although it doth want fermentation yet hath it the true strength of the grain if be well prepared and doth in no wife sume to intoxication for that it is unfermented and undoubtedly those which loves health will love this drink and is an absolute enemy unto natures enemies I had thought to have spoken much and from good grounds of the worth and benefit of this drink but being already inlarged beyond intention I am constrained to leave it for this time I have wrote many things which will have an ungrateful taste yet of mighty force for thy health I cannot conclude this book but I must give thee one receipt more which will be acceptable unto thy foolish fancy that in truth thy appetite never tasted a more stately thing or higher cordial for health and yet cheap and of very easie and vulgar preparation as followeth Take twelve pound of Black-Cherries that is full grown and sweet break all their stones in a morter put them in a Limbeck or in a small common Stillers Still put to them one gallon of fair Spring water distill off again one Gallon or on gallon within a point this water doth far exceed that which is commonly sold for black-Cherry water take all out and run it throw a Pulpring sive and wash with clean water the still or the Limbeck and what runs thorow the Sive of it self keep to make thy Surrup of the rest drive thorow the Sive by force that nothing be lest but skin and stones and that keep by it self for thy Surrop take the first that is thin and run thorow the Sive of it self put unto it for each pint two pound of sweet sented Lisborn Sugar and put into one quart of Rose water and one quart of Sparmint water boyl all at least eight hours Note that if from first to ●●st the matter be not boiled twelve or fourteen hours it will not answer thy intention but if thou wilt feed it with fire twenty four hours thou therewith may do wonders I have so wrought it and baked it over and over several times and thou maist know that a Black Cherry is a substance unknown and cannot by fire be made dry but as soon as it is cold it will draw to it self a moist air and will relent do what thou canst yet I have so fired him or fed him with fire that I could not touch it with my teeth such hath been its mighty force and for obstructions all have flown before it and when I would taking but a little more then ordinary it would loose my belly and give a stool or two but if thou wilt make a Surrup of it without this extream firing it will not then be worth an half penny but will be only toothsome as other ordinary Sirrops is I leave thee to judge of it as thou wilt I know for my self many years ago it was precious in its effects unto me and from that experience I had of it I now moved with good-will commit it unto thee FINIS

to be kept close in fine powder severally in glass-bottles The greatest dosse for men Antimony ten grains Scamony fourteen grains Tartar eight grains The ordinary dosse for men Antimony nine or ten grains Scamony eleven or twelve grains Tartar six grains The lesser dosse for men Antimony fix grains Scamony nine grains Tartar five grains For children betwixt seven and fourteen Antimony seven or eight grains Scamony five or six grains Tartar three grains For sucking children and under seven Antimony two or three grains Scamony four or five grains Tartar three grains To children give it with Sugar or some sweet liquor but to others as you please if the Ague or disease cease not at the first time give it again four or five times ever diminishing the quantity because the humors being once stirred they are the easier carried out or if this portion do little the first day then add more with discretion This Powder you may use in all diseases where humors do offend either simple or compound hot or cold thin or gross clammy or windy worms or extention above nature it helpeth the stopping of the Flowers the extention of the belly the Dropsie in the beginning Tertians Quartans and all sharp Feavors Choller ill appetite watching thirst unquietness of mind i● helpeth the small Pox and Plurisie it is not to be given where is great evacuation but explition and fullness it is much better then letting of blood As for this portion of Physick rightly prepared and applied I do believe considering the inconsiderableness of the preparation the world never had any better and I trust in God I have done good service unto my Country in bringing it to light but if any be envious and is disposed to cavil at it all that I desire of him is that he would let it alone The true preparation of Crocus Martis Take the filings of Steel what quantity you please which you may buy at the Druggist and put it in a broad earthen well glazed dish and sprinkle it twice a day with strong Vinegar set it in the hot Sun or cover it with another dish and let if stand upom Embers the night time do this for one month now and then stir it up and again give it Vinegar till thou perceive it is all become rusty dry it well and beat it to sine powder then take a large glass body and put it into it and pour upon it distilled Vinegar which must needs be so otherwise thou wilt be as much troubled with the fecis of the Vinegar as the thou wilt be with the damd Terra of the Crocus let it be covered with a blind head but first stir it well set it in a Furnace of ashes or in Balneo Maria for four or five days look that the Vinegar be deeply colloured red if not shake it well together and let it stand in the fire till it is then cast off the clear into a clean vessel put on more Vinegar and this repeat till thou seest that it wil ting no more take all thy Vinegar and filter it thorow a double Cap paper it will thorow by reason of the sharp penetration of the Vinegar then in a clean glass vessel vapor all the Vinegar away or with a head and receiver draw off thy Vinegar and in the bottom thou wilt receive a fair red Crocus but if thou wilt take the pains to repeat this labor again that is to dissolve it in fresh Vinegar after thou hast taken it out and put in a clean new earth vessel and let it be gently calcined for four or five days and again desolved filtred coagulated thou wilt have a Medicin of more worth then gold God be merciful to men and women which in stead of this have only the rust of Iron put into their bellies this Medicin is vast in its effects but most omninous in all kind of Fluxes let it content thee for this time I have given thee a true receit To prepare the Sugar of Saturn Take what quantity of lead thou wilt and in a Iron Kettle melt it and with a ladle of Iron stir it this continue till all the lead be turned into an Ash colloured powder if thou wilt as I have done add Bay salt and continue it over a strong fire till thou perceive it begins to attain a red collour let it cool put it into a clean vessel not greasie and wash out all the Salt well and be sure thou take all the Salt taste away as by thy tasting the last water thou maist perceive then dry it well in a clean vessel then grind it well upon a Pursry with distilled Vinegar fit for to be used with a pensill put it into a clean glass cover it six fingers with distilled Vinegar put on a blind head and let it stand in ashes or Balneo Maria three or four days let all cool thy Vinegar will be as sweet as Sugar to thy taste cant of the clear put on more distilled Vinegar proceed as afore till it will yield to thee no more swee tness filter all as before of thy Crocus vapor away till thou see a scum arise upon the top let all cool set it in a cool place or seller and it will shoot into most transparent Chrystals which is called the Sugar of Saturn note if it do not shoot into Crystals thou hast not vapored it enough away when thou hast took out those Chrystals vapor the rest and it will shoot Chrystals afresh but if thou wilt take these Chrystals and calcin them again and then disolve filter congeal as is said above it will yet excel I have done it five or six times over I cannot tell thee what this is good for I know it is a great astringer it is no part of my indeavor to make my self wiser then I am let it suffice thee for this time that I have given thee a true receipt for I dare not write beyond the labor of my hand if thou canst believe me there is no deceit in what I commit unto thee thou maist as I have done also work this out of Red-lead hut it did like me better to work it out of lead it self I will now give thee a true and plain Receipt of one of the most potent stateliest Medicins that I think is attainable in the world The true preparation of the essence of Venus commonly called Ens Veneris Take from the Dunghill at the Refiners his dead head commonly called Caput mortuum that which is left of his Aqua Fortis the blacker it is the better it is for that is most burnt put it into clean water and it will disolve stir it let it fine cant off that water but on fresh water this repeat till you by taste find no more sharpness in it keep that water together dry well the red earth take of this red earth what quantity thou wilt of Salt Armoniake equal parts grind them well together put them into a sublimatory of good

be clean filtred and vapor away the half or above and it will shoot into transparant green Chrystals very fair Vitriol vapor yet again and it will shoot again if thou hast vapored enough of it away take all the Chrystals or Vitriol and lay it abroad on a well glazed dish and set it in a stove or in the Sun in his strength and it will break into white powder then put it into a clean distilled water and it will dissolve filter it again coagulate it into Chrystals it will shoot into far more fairer Vitriol then the ●irst this ought to be repeated so oft till it will ●et no more fecis but at this twice it will be in a very honorable condition and so far I have gon● dry it well it will be a white yellow powder and keep it close ●●opt in a glass for thy use of this powder ten or twelve grains in the morning and so for a week toge●he● ●is profitable to bring the Flowers if drunk in good white wine and stirring upon it it sometimes causeth vomiting sometimes purging and sometimes neither it easeth the breast of stopping helps Rickits and killeth worms give to children three or four grains according to their strength it is a choice Medicin as I have proved If thou would draw the Oyl of Vitriol thy self take good Copperas and in a new earthen pan boyl it dry beat it to powder put it in long necks lute fast draw it with judgement as much as the Oyle of Amber is some calcine it red first as I have done my self but for this work it need not so be done A true Receit of the powder of Sympathy or the Sumpathetical powder made of Roman Vitriol lately commended by Sir Kenelme Digby but no plain Receit given which I here perform and freely give thee knowing that there is none better Take what quantity of Roman Vitriol thou wilt dissolve it in rain water but put no more water then will dissolve it always leaving some undissolved in the bottom filter it as clean as possible let thy water be milk warm in thy dissolution put it in a clean glass-body set in sifted ashes and give it gentle heat so that it never exceed the heat of thy belly and in that heat let it vapor away till thou see it covered with a Catecula or thin scum or cream then withdraw thy fire let it sland unmolested for three days covering it well that nothing fall into it then with a glass spoon or wooden spoon take out the coagulated Vitriol which is shot into fair green Chrystals then kindle thy fire again and with like degree continue till it be covered with a scum withdraw thy fire again let it stand other three days take up again with a wooden spoon the coagulation this you must repeat untill thou hast the substance of thy Vitriol again but freed from much of its filth take all thy Vitriol which thou hast gathered spread it on a glass or well glazed dish in the heat of the Sun or in defect thereof a clean stone of equal heat with the scum and take heed thou dost not exceed for then wilt thou leese its vital parts which are quickly volatil and subtil neither wilt thou attain any more greenness on thy Vitriol which when thou perceivest begin again all is lost understand thy degrees of fire better but if you give it its dew heat then will it break into a white powder and the greenness which is its life will obscure and hide it self then take it again and in rain water distilled twice dissolve it as at first Now mark I bring thee again to thy beginning and there I leave thee for this work thou shouldst repeat so oft and so long till it set no more fecis to thee but conclude when thou wilt thou seest what Sir Kenelum Digby doth write viz. The Antients did use this Vitriol in its grosse body beat to powder I have here given thee so true away as I know none better for in this thou bringst it beyond what is fit to be written and doth hold preserve and keep all its power both spiritual sympathetical fixt and Volatil If thou hast ears I have said much what is wanting unto thee consult with Van Helmount Aswall Groby Mr. Boulton and Sir Kenelme Digby Being moved fully with good will I will here give thee one receit more the like I confidently affirm never saw the light for the good of mankind and whosoever will be perswaded upon my faith and credit always to have it truely and faithfully prepared may with much confidence cease from all other things in the world quietly commit themselves and relations into the hands of Almighty God in the use of this with quietness and rest and I speak boldly if this prove short to correct thy Feavor and heal thy disease and hath not power to purge thy blood and throw all out that is noxtious unto thy vital Spirit let thy ailes be what they will look not for it to be done in this world I pitty thy fugitive mind and pray for thee when I see thee hunt from one man to another and from one Medicine unto another which is indeed the harbinger of death but if thou art admonished from thy vain worshipping of men to fall off and with a quiet mind pray and use this and therein rest waiting upon God I am sully possest and perswaded in my conscience it is sufficient for thee and if thou as blind as Bayard cry out of the strong poison of the subjects viz. Poppey and black Hellebor thou snarling fool cease and first learn the power of Salt of Tartar and do not bewray thy folly and ignorance till thou hast proved its power least thou give just occasion of perpetual laughter unto those whom experience hath taught informed I do confess I can exempt no Medicin in the world but my Pill and Antidote whose receits I may not at present here give thee and this I protest unto thee that if thou hast made a right use of this that I have here in full and plain words taught I should have small hope with any thing I am made Master of to help and cure where this cannot and therefore as thou hast respect unto thy life consider what I now teach thee I say I teach thee under God for I have not had the least light or guide from any breathing or from any book but God Almighty my Lord and good Master hath been my guide and therefore I with joy do ascribe unto him all praise and thansgiving for ever Rec. Take one pound of the best White Rhennish Tartar and one pound of India Salt-peeter bring them to powder in a stone Morter serce them thorow a Hair Sive take a Pipkin that was never used set it upon Charcole let the bottom heat as the coals do kindle put in a spoonful of this

sleep and then he waked and called for meat which they gave him and it did well agree with him to all their exceeding joy and comfort and said she he is very well and doth continue sleeping well and orderly and also eating his meat and I give you a hundred thanks and have brought you your bottle again it may please God it may save the life of another for he never took it but once now I do assure you God Almighty the faithful and true witness knoweth that to my best knowledge I have not erred no not in one tittle as to the substance of the relation unto him therefore be all obedience thanksgiving praise and glory forever Amen The general rules that I follow in giving this Pill whether it be in a Pill or in a extract is to begin with little enough at first wherein is both pleasantness and safty for some have foolishly flung off at once taking because they it may be have sleeped a hour or two longer then they expected and it may be sweat more then and longer then they were willing these it is evident complain of ease yet is there own fault for taking it it their own way and not after my direction It helpeth all Headach and Toothach Experience which is the truest informer speaks aloud in this matter also for if a little Pill be applied unto the Tooth it while one can tell fourty gives ease and often times never troubles more for that time I was once with two or three friends in cold weather drinking a pot of hot Purle at the corner of Broadstreet the maid of the house almost mad with her Teeth and her Mistris said she was ready to knock her brains out for madness I gave her about four grains in a little Pill and bid her lay it to the aching Tooth which she did and presently went to draw us drink who came presently up again laughing my friends thought I had conjured they could hardly believe her that her Teeth did ach she affirmed they were well and all her pain gone I gave her a Pill to take when she went to bed to make all sure which it did perfectly so that her teeth ached not while she staid in that house many such like I might relate but because I suppose belief in this must be granted it is so common that many do much help this way as I never hear of in all parts of the City and Country but my advice is to take it in a good doss and go to bed if they could be great to take three or four so it will do thee many good offices besides the help of the Tooth-ach for if the defluction of Rhums be high and there appear unto their present seeling nothing but pains of Teeth yet if they make not use of good means to stop and dry up that humor they may expect the Scurvy Consumption or Dropsie to follow whereby their lives will spend out in misery and hast them to death and for the Head-ach it is as ready help and all kind of pains in the Head I never knew any grief of the Head stand with it but one and the Gentleman said it was called a Virtego what that is I am not so wise but this I know that the party grieved said he always was pained with a scalding twixt the skin and the skull of his head and I think but that I durst not to be so bold with him if this Pill had been applied unto the skull of his head it would have reached it better but for any other pain or grief although never so bad or of long standing it doth over-rule it It dries up dropping Rhums Catarhs which destroy the Lungs Blessed be God I speak it with joy the many which this Pill hath helped both in City and Country which have been left of great and able men and some of them so weak that they have not been able to come to me at this instant one man Northumberland-Alley a lost man in all appearance and in his and his wives judgements even at once is a living monument of Gods mercy and the Pills power and efficacy I do verily believe I might have Certificates of hundreds of this grief onely if I would desire them under their own hands with their place of dwelling I do know well that the more good I am an instrument to do the more some will envy I may not look to speed better then he that was without sin Presently helpeth any cold Cough or Surfeit which is also true that although a mans Cough were never so violent yet shall he not Cough that night he takes a Pill till towards morning a little then it may be he may Cough a little to cast forth his Rhums thickned for lying twixt Head and Lungs defends the one and sends up sweet vapon in to the other that there is no Coughing many people of great age at the gates of death to their thinking God blessing this Pill unto them are revived and comfortably in joy themselves and are at ease in joying their breath in good order which before was ever ready to strangle I do perswad● my self that the world never injoyed a more substantial help for all griefs of this kind and let m● tell thee plainly and freely if the first Pill tha● thou shalt take do not sufficiently speak for it self I do assure thee that I desire to say nothing neither will I perswade thee to take a second There is in London a Agedand honorable Alderman which for some years was much trouble with a Distillation or Defluction of Rhums from his head this Gentleman spent and took mu●● for the same of sundry of the greatest note but to no purpose as he informeth me himself the first Pill of mine that ever he did take although but a little one did stop his Distillation that he did not Cough all that night unto his great wonder and I thank him he did in my vindication send unto those whose things before proved uneffectual and let them know what one small Pill of mine had done which did win me and my Pills great credit there would be no end of writing of particulars we hardly pass a day without experiences of this kind thanks be to God and for such kind of colds as carry the symptoms of Ague or Feavor with them if you take it betimes and in reasonable quantity as the Patient may bear it is seldom but that one Pill brings you off master but if not for it is according as the strength of the infection is yet continue and with small patience all will be overcome I speak by experience for I have oft in cold and foul weather come home with the apparent signs of both Feavor and Ague and then I hast to bed taking one Pill just presently for every minuit would be to loss and about four or six hours after I tooke another always having by me a bottle of good Strong Waters

the most part is full of pins that I gather from the ground but when I hung upon my Doctors sleeve I always was so oppressed and filled with pains and so sore oppressed and loaden at my Breast that although poor yet should hardly have stooped to have taken up a penny and if I had stooped upon any occasion I did not know how to get up again without great pain and difficulty and with the help of my hands upon my knees I further found and do find my limbs to lengthen or set at liberty which before was stiff as if they were shrunk now I can leap run or any such like thing with refreshing which before was far from me What shall I say I am thorow mercy a living monument of his mercies and of Gods blessing upon this Pill for near this five years I have not used any other thing but it and my Antidote and sometimes of my Oyle of Amber and if these should fail me as I know not how soon they may I suppose I should hardly send over the threshold for what is elswhere to be gained for mony yet I will deal freely and truely with you I have been put so to it upon extraordinary occasions of Feavors colds and aguish infections to take four Pills of good bigness betwixt eight at night and ten the next day allowing three or four hours betwixt each Pill and I do the rather report this because I know it will be exemplary to many for such hath been my weakness that if I did not take a Pill in the time aforesaid I should faint besides the help of high cordial waters and burnt wine and in stead of cold mortal Julips in a Feavor I make use of these comfortable things not fearing my Feavor if I can but hold up my vital spirits and let my Pill and Feavor try the mastery I know according unto Gods appointment it shall be but for so many years thorow twenty Feavors which have been apparent thus have I been helped for if one Pill will be to weak it must be assisted with another and if two be too weak it must be assisted with a third and if three be too weak it must be assisted with a fourth thus far I have gone with it my self and seldom it is that a Feavor staid with me twenty four hours or hardly ever to keep me in a doors all the next day but by afternoon likely I am master of it and let all take notice that it is far better to take a little and oft that is to say four hours asunder as I did and do my self if there be occasion so will it work sweetly and powerfully with ease and delight and whereas I spake of the stopping of some of my Organical parts they were my ears and nose my ears so opened that when I held my breath and blew the wind would flye thorow both my ears I could perceive it by making my hair fly on both sides and indeed they are both as good as ever since they were mine which before the use of my Pill were weak and defective I do therefore always renew my thanksgiving unto God for so great a mercy bestowed upon me now in the latter end of my days for as I have said often such hath been my continued pains and anguish for above twenty years that I have not known the hour in all that time wherein I have took so much pleasure in my life as to desire to live it out I joyfully acknowledge unto the praise of my master which I have served from my youth up with an upright and perfect heart that in all that time the joys of a better life were always set before my face with the lively beams thereof always kept alive in my heart and thorow mercy I durst not complain nor say my burden was too heavy for me I ever abhord such thoughts as too ignoble for a Christian that puts his trust in Gods free mercy in Christ I perpetually cried aloud for strength to bear and suffer his will and it was enough for me the master that I always have served never suffered the cross to be two heavy and burthensom to me I know well it crossed nothing but an unbelieving corrupt and carnal mind I have oft wondred considering my apparent weakness wherefore I did live or had life permitted me forasmuch as I could not discern which way I was likely to perform service either unto God or unto man more then this that it was for my Lord and Masters power to rest upon me and to manifest his glory in my great infirmity but now I am apt to think that I am preserved as with joy I do find to be a blessing and a refreshing unto many and truely the poverty and sickness rejection of friends and relations which has past me doth not as it doth with too many set me on to take hold on riches or make hast to be rich or fill my self with the profits and pleasures of this life but much rather if it were possible for me such is the burning desire of my heart I say I would if possible bear the sickness and bitterness of all men and frequently with joy and tears when I have heard the returns of those poor which by my hand as a weak instrument I say when they have told the great things ●he Lord hath done for them my soul within me hath revived with praise and thansgiving that I am and have been spared unto so great and blessed a work as the Lord imploys me in I see also and perceive why I my self have been trained up in affliction to the end I might learn of the true pattern of all obedience Jesus Christ who came not to do his own will but the will of him that sent him who speaking of those that are his and have interest in him as of sons and children that he took part with them to wit flesh and blood the nature of Abraham not Angels and was tempted as a man that he might succor those that are tempted and learn to be a merciful Saviour and let me speak further whether my heart deceive me God knoweth it is my perpetual supplication that I might rather dye and sease then that this my rejoycing should be made void but that I may truly and faithfully do likewise unto the utmost of my power always ready to joyn my shoulder unto him that is ready to fall supporting comforting and assisting according unto what I have received extended always unto him that is sick and feeble of heart and thorow mercy there is a good witness for the time past I doubt not recorded in heaven and I further hope to increase it thorow the blessed assistance of him who shews mercy unto the poor and needy in their distress Directions how to take this Pill aright LEt it be understood that each one according unto his age strength or weakness is to take a portion severally The ordinary dosse is