A Book of Directions And Cures done by that Safe and Successful Medicine CALLED Nendick's Popular Pill Deservedly so called for it 's Special Vertues in Curing that Popular Disease the Scurvy Which corrupts the Blood This Pill Cures By Cleansing of the Blood Purging by Urine and gently by Stool Some Diseases are Familiar to some Nations which others are free from as Leprosie in Aegypt swell'd Throats in the Alpes the POX in some Parts of the Indies so in these Parts our popular Disease is the Scurvy For the Scurvy this Pill is Commended by all People It has done so much good has been Experienced so many years that you can hardly ask any one what 's is best for the Scurvy to take at the Wells or to carry to Sea but you will be advised unto this Pleasant Pill for no violent Physick is good for the Scurvy A Caution to those not well acquainted with this Pill THat you may not mistake by Counterfeit Bills and Papers which may be worded like mine and so buy the wrong Pills to your prejudice as some have complained that they have lately been so deceived therefore take Notice that this Pill was never put out or made by any one but by me and with each Box is always given one of these Books of Directions Cures Observations worth perusal with my name thus By me Humphrey Nendick at the Two black Posts in Bell yard in Great Carter-Lane near St. Pauls Church-yard The Nature of the Scurvy THe Scurvy is the Original of most Chronick Diseases from stoppage or obstructions raising Vapours that cause Swimming and dissiness in the Head Drousiness makes the Body dull and heavy it alters the Complexions causes Flushings in the Face Worms black loose aking Teeth sore bloody Gums strong stinking Breath straitness of Breath difficulty in breathing ready to die sour Belchings wateriness at stomach weariness weakness of the Limbs faint sweats towards Morning Oftentimes causeth Barrenness sometimes Spots red blewish or purple in the Legs in some it is like Flea-bites or itching watry pimples like the stinging of nettles it causeth windiness in the veins cramps also heats and prickings in the Blood In many the Scurvy holds them with violent pains in divers parts of the Body others again only wandring pains heats and twitchings up and down in some it breaks out in scurff tettars dry scabs in Head Face or Body sometimes with great Itchings How to Prevent and Cure the Scurvy WHen the Scurvy hath got firm footing it is the worst of all Diseases it will be like the Spleen in some like a Consumption in another like the Gout in others like the Pox in others that many that have had it fear they are still amiss because they miss the right Medicine not thinking they have the Scurvy which is the cause so many lie lingring under so many Diseases and can get no cure when as now and then taking the Pills would prevent such Diseases and preserve health This Pill is the True Antidote against the Scurvy THis Pill diverts that Rhume that falls on the Teeth pains them rots and fouls them makes them loose makes the Gums sore and wast This Pill doth absolutely hinder a Stinking Breath that usually attends those that have the Scurvy Spring and Fall being the chief times to purge in to carry off the Reliques of any Disease therefore those that expect Remembrances Spring and Fall of Diseases Pains they are subject unto may cure and hinder the old grudges of their Disease This Pill removes all Aches Pains and Settled Humours M. Tho. Coppers Wife in Cantly in Norfolk was lame in all her joynts she had sixteen weeks trial of Doctors and Medicines sold yet all in vain by my Pills was so speedily cured that she rode to Norwich to publish how great a Cure she had received by these Pills M. Forstal Grocer in Canterbury with a dose or two of Pills cured a Woman that for Pains Lameness and other weakness had been bed-rid above a year before The Wife of John Day of St. Margets in Southelman in Suffolk was by these Pills soon eased of the Gout and cured of a Dropsical humour and Scurvy This Pill brings away Gravel and cleanses the Reins BY Vrine it brings away sand and Gravel cleanses the Reins and Bladder from all shiny matter and eases any heat of Vrine and cures the Running of the Reins These Pills brought blood slime and filthy matter from M. Wormwood in Wisbich and made his Vrine come freely who was near dead before with stoppage of Vrine and pain In Oundle or thereabâ—uts ae Friend of M. Filbridges had cure of great Stiches Vapours and bloody Vrine when left off as past help by the best Physicians in those parts This is the best Pill for Ulcers of the Kidneys Reins or Bladder M. Simpson Joyner near the Gatehouse at Westminster had present good by these Pills for stuff like Lime and Grease came away in water with pain he made it into a ball and keeps it now it is dry it is hardish like a stone this Pill carried off this matter Mr. Sy. Forsters Child in Newton near Wisbich had its water stopt so long that a Surgeon was to force a passage but by the first dose of these Pills much filthy bloody matter and gravel came with abundance of water and saved the Child as it has done many since It Cures Bloody Urine Stoppage of Urine and Stone YOu will have thanks for commending this Pill to any that have a Consumption or wasting of the Kidneys Stoppage Ulcer in the Kidneys or Bladder Bloody Urine it hinders the Stone from growing dissolves it Daily and diminishes it This Pill cures Vapours Womb-diseases and Stoppages MOre cannot be done by any Medicine upon inward wastures of Nature it strengthens weak backs staies all moistures or whites got by any wrench or over strains all womb diseases or bearings down that cause barrenness in hundreds If any one disclose their Condition to me that is troubled with any bearing down I can advise them to cure it without pain and so as it shall keep well for ever Besides in elder Women that are liable to have Cancers in their breasts Womb Noli me tangere and divers Diseases when the course of Nature is stopt this Pill hinders them from flying upwards or striking in and makes them go off kâ—ndly purging with this Pill Carries off these evils which comes from these stoppages A poor Woman came from Kilgarren in Wales to lie in Cardigan to get Cure of a sore Distemper but to compleat her misery she was left penniless and uncured yet by a Box of my Pills which were given her by Mr. Griffith in Cardigan she was Cured they did expel wind brought away store of Gravel Water and Blood and she returned home well that in three years before had not had the right benefit of Nature much more might be said It cures old Sores the Evil
Swellings Breakings-out THis Pill Purifies the whole body by purging and Sweetning the Blood by which way it mightily hastens the Cure of sore Breasts sore Throats Piles scald Heads Scabs Old sores It kills any Tettar and all sorts of breakings out or salt Humours whatever In Dublin was Cured Judge Halseys son of the Kings-evil he had been touched many Years before the sores was verily thought incureable but my Pills fails not in that Cure One whole Box of Pills cured Mrs. Katherine Basket of Cranbourn of a salt Tettarish Humour she had many Years Spring and Fall and extreamly stopt up with Phlegme By these Pills William Kirk the Countess of Lincolns Gardiner was cured when his Arm and Hand began to rot by an Humour as fell into them and saved the use of his Hand Directions for Purging Letting-Blood and Issues PUrge with this Pill after the Small Pox Agues or a fit of Sickness Purge those that come out of the Country or from Sea if you intend to be let blood Purge a Day or two before or dry up an Issue this Pill by Purging makes Issues run well For old Bruises Colds Surfeits and all inward Griefs THis Pill brings away clotted Blood Filth and Matter by Stool and Urine whereby many inward Diseases have been cured as Impostumes False Conceptions Ulcers in the Bladder and Womb and hurts occasioned by inward bruises or Old Colds and Surfeits of many years standing which otherwise must have ended in Death This Pill carries off the very Matter that breeds Worms in Old or Young A bunch and one link of Worms knotted above five yards and a half long came away by the Pills This account came from Mr. Daniel Treacher in Sarrat For over-Fatness Pimples and Heat of the Liver FOr those that are inclining to be too fat or overmuch sweating or be too high coloured and Subject to have Pimples heat in their hands or Soles of the Feet nothing better to restore the Complection when lost by the Green-sickness or Scurvy For all Distempers of the Head and Stâ—mach AS Head ach Vertigo and lightness of Head Noises and Hard hearing Rhuemy Eyes or Impostumes helps bad digestion Vomiting or any thing amiss at the stomach It s beyond any Medicine for those Naturally bound or hot bodied which is bad for the Head bâ—ing used by many for that purpose to keep the body loose and open Mrs. Kâ—rton in Glean-Ailey in South-wark cured of pain in the Head and bad Eyes The Cure of a sore Breast Impostume and Head-ach CVred a Woman in Chard left off by two Doctors because the Scurvy had brought her unto a Hectick Consumption her Breasts swelled so hard that one that use to draw Breâ—sts could not but wished her to try these Pills which presently brought away an Impostume that runout of her Ears and cured her of an Old Head ach she had from a Child She has had a Childer two since this Cure and is still very healthy her Breast and Head remain well Collick-stones brought away by these Pills THe Wife of Mr. Ives Hat Maker in Cowlane in West-Smithfield had many stones cane away by stool one stone very big and troublesome the Pills Purged very kindly next time came away many other small stones by Vrine by Gods Blessing thereon This Pill asswages Windy Ruptures and great Swellings of the Cods where Trusses do us good it always doth good it allays Vapours Risings and Fits of the Mother or Collick This Pill helps the Spleen Stiches Running Pains or any Windy Humour Other Remarkable Cures BY the use of these Pills Thomas Whitehead of Bruton was cured of a great Pain at his stomach that had afflicted him above 20 Years after other Pills had fail'd A School Mrs. above fourscore in St. Margat Southelman her flesh peel'd and was like a Lepar her Thighs and Leggs turn'd black and swell'd one Leg as big as two was given over by the Doctors thereabouts Yet she was recovered by these Pills and remains well A Man 72 Years Old all his Body swell'd to his Face had a great Cough spit Blood the Phlegme so clammy he could not get it out without help he was so weak a few of these Pills he had from Mrs. Atkins in Chard they recovered him when all yielded him for Dead A Gentleman of 65 who had long lost the use of his Arm and could not lift a Cup to his Mâ—uth had the use of his Limbs by a few Pills he had of Mr. Thomas of Sallop In Wallum-Green near Fulham Mr. Buckels Child had a salt Humour in his Leg and other swellings that run like a Tap and could not be stopped it was born with it but was Cured by this Pill and is now very well and lusty for they are false and sure for Children This Pill is very proper for a Loosness the Pyles or Bloody Stools Over fulness of Blood and Humors or if the blood be too thick or too hot Those that have sold my Pills any time can inform you what Cures have been wrought thereabouts for one tells and advises another to these Pills for the Scurvy And they do much good which encourages Doctors themselves as well as other People to send for my Pills by ehe Carrier or Post when those that sell my Pills are long without which t is not my fault He that hath this Pill at Sea hath his Doctor with him FOr such as go to Sea this Pill cannot be valued or for any that live near the Fens or Sea-coasts who are of all People the most afflicted with the Scurvy a better cannot be carried to Sea For any Disease and it lasts good the longest Voyages The Abstract of a Letter from Mr. George Macey Merchant in London Point Cagua 14. Jan. 1672. Jamaica Dear Doctor This to to acquaint you how happy I was in taking a few Boxes of your Popular Pill with me to Sea our Doctor being sick his Mate Dead and others sick aboard I used this Pill and recovered the Ships Company next our Doctor and three more Drinking Palm Wine ashore had a Fettish given them it is a weed that the Blacks bruise and keep under their Nails and infect the brims of their Calabash or Cup and so poyson any they bear a grudge unto that they dye what time after they designe I used this Pill again and recovered them and was courted for it but spared none unless to Min Heer Van Gansopoel General of Morea Castle I wish I had a good quantity they would turn to account this Pill cannot be extolled beyond its worth This by Capt. John Collins of the Province Let them confide in this Pill that have had those Poysonous Diseases the Pox or Running of the Reins had it stopt too soon and fear they are not well Cured And to justify my Pill above any other for this Cure take this account following A Tryal in the Marshals Court in Southwark October 29. 1675. The Councel moved that it was work enough
for a Colledge of Physician to make Thomas Rotland a sound Man then the Witnesses swore that T. Rotland had been Purged Blooded Sweated Salivated Fluxed Diet-drinked and had his Shins laid open and foul bones taken away and left off as past the help of Man yet chiefly with my Pills was made well of this foul Disease and hath remained perfectly well this ten Years without relapse This was Sworn upon the Tryal in open Court as may be found upon Record Mr. Vrwin of Cliffords-Inn was the Defendant Rotland's Attorney This Pill cures this Disease in any Country WIth these Pills in a Fortnights time I Cured a Man whose Yard rotted off is sufficiently known in Scroops Court against St. Andrews Church in Holborn London it was a small thing at first had he come to me or brought a few of these Pills he had prevented it but it was run too far and spoiled before he came If you have Scabs Shankers Sores Breakin gs out or Swellings and you would have a speedy Cure send for I can help you at any distance or come and discover your Condition to me for I never fail the Cure of that Disease if it s to be Cured by Man The usual Seasons and times to take these Pills TAke these Pills Spring and Fall to purge the Blood or whensoever it is fine open Weather to keep off the Scurvy or purge the Reins or now and then after hâ—râ— Drinking nothing better to carry off ill Humours or danger of a Surfeit These Pills may be taken in any Season in any Climate or for any new disease This Pill procures a sound Habit of Body by purging the Blood T is no loathsome great Pill and never leaves the Body bound afterwards Why these Pills are so usually taken at the Wells WHen the Pills were found so safe and rare at cleering the Reins and Purging by Urine many people would take the Pills before when they were at the Wells and after at the Waters they Cure many people by purging by Urine Cleansing the Reins and bladder or Sweat when drinking of the Waters and the Bath salt What dose may be given to Children or Weak people THose that purge their Family with these Pills in the Spring and Fall may also give their Children one Pill two three or four Pills according to the Childs strength I gave my Daughter Mariamne 3 Pills at 3 Years Old which Cured her of a great loosness and weak bed rid Consumptive people if they take the Dose as best agrees with their strength will quickly find it a healing Balm unto them strengâ—hen the back What dose may be given to Women with Child WOmen with Child may take this pill now and then without fear of miscarriage but it helps where weakness causes miscarriage or barrenness besides it mends the Blood and Milk and keeps their Children from Hereditary Diseases and scurvy They are mighty good for hurt got by cold in Lying in or for any one distemper'd from those stopt or struck in or have few and pale it brings them fresh and well taking a dose or two before the time whereby Swellings Tettars Pimples Breakin gs out Stoppages the Green-sickness Swellings of the Leggs and other ills are prevented The general Rules and order of Diet. EAt no Salt or windy Diet or drink imtemperately in any Cure but especially drink no Claret in Vlcers of the Kidneys Gravel Heat in Vrine pricking pains or Running of the Reins although many are Cured without observing any Order at all but to take the pills in the largest dose and constantly all the time of the Cure White-wine Whey Ale Mead or any mild drinks are good in Stoppages of Urine Heat or Foulness of the Reins this pill cures the Whites from any strain or otherwaies This Pill is above all for cooling and cleansing the Reins All People Commend these Pills far beyond what is expressed in this Book MOre cannot be done for the Scurvy all sorts of Dropsies and white swellings or where the Flesh pits the Jaundice Green-sickness Stoppages of Stomach Kings-evil Agues Joynt pains Aches Scabs Tetters Swellings and all Heat and Foulness of Blood The Running of the Reins or an Issue got by a strain or otherwise in Man or Woman purge well with these Pills to keep it from a worse Distemper and soon Cure it Children infected by this Disease or by what way soever I can Cure them I can perfectly Cure a Gonorrhaea Lachrimalis or Gleet in any Man Note It s a disease got many ways and many sober persons have escaped the sin yet have not escaped the disease therefore I have wrote so much for the Pills will keep those infected from being spoiled themselves or from infecting others by purging away the Infection This Pill by curing the Scurvy Cure most Diseases The Full Directions How and When to take these Pills TAke five Pills going to bed after a light Supper swallow them one by one or all at once in pap or rosted Apple Honey Conserve or a spoonful of Drink or in Sugar or how you can best take them no danger comes by sleeping upon them for then they give a breathing Sweat and search all parts make you brisk hungry How to order your self in taking these Pills TAke them two Nights together and miss a Night or two or take one Night and miss a Night or two but they will not work till the Morning and then drink something warm but eat no Meat till Noon you may go about you occasinos How many may be taken at once and if they Vomit THey are such moderate Physick and so safe that you may take fix Pills or more if you can bear them but they never Vomit unless the stomach be foul and could not be discharged any other way for they work only as the Humours are Whether the Pill do Gripe THese Pills gripe not unless there be much windy Matter to work upon and never makes sick unless it meets with some Obstruction or opens some old stoppage which must be an exceeding benefit to Nature either to Old or Young How long the Pills may be taken together OFtentimes one dose doth a great Cure yet some may not find it so soon as others for the worser the Disease is the longer must the Pills be followed and no doubt with a thorow trial they will work the same Cures again and again How many ways the Pill works THe Pills do purge very kindly by stool yet effectually they will not weaken for violent Physick is bad in the Scurvy they purge the Blood cleanse the Reins by Urine expel Wind and give ease and rest in Pains by breathing Sweats Why the Pills work not alike at all times WHen these Pills work not as you expect rest a day or two longer take a larger dose or bruise them next time for Nature cures not always by Stool yet even then when they scarce purge they do lie in the Body and do hurt but cleanses the Blood or works some otherways as Nature is most inclined Its the best Purge at Land or Sea for the Scurvy THat many will make no Voyage or scarce a Journey without carrying these Pills with them which for their Infallible Operations are used at the Lazaretto and Incurabile in Venice being found the only Curer of that Popular Disease the Scurvy The price of the Pill the best and cheapest of all Physick THe whole Box of Forty Pills one more or less is Three Shillings the Half Box of Twenty Pills one more or less is Eighteen Pence each Tin Box is Sealed with two Crosses and a Demi-Griffen with each Box of Pills is given this Book of Directions These Pills are Sold by these Persons Following In Ipswich by Mr. Wilkenson in St. Peters In Guilford by Mr. John Betts a Barber In Farnham by Mr. Fryer distiller at Aulton In Marget by Mr. Mackrith a Grocer In Ramsgate by Mr. Faireman In Gravesend by Mr. Clark at the Coffee-house In Maidstone by Mr. Churchil In Goudhurst by Mr. Richard Puxty In Burnham by Mr. Brown sales man In Yarmouth by Mrs. Hester Brooks In Norwich by Mr. Pepys near the Elm In Weymouth by Mr. Reed a Grocer In Andover by Mr. Butcher In St. Edmonds-Bury by Mr. Chamberline Bookseller In Beckells by Mr. Will. Cutlove a Draper In Cook field by Mr. Sturt In Plymouth by Mr. Northcote a mercer In Darford by Mr Hubhart at the Threadshop In Rygate by Mr. Tho. Hills a Shoemaker In Pulham by Mr. Henry Brett In Sudbury in Ballendon street Mr. Jones Grocer In Wells by Mr. Nicholas Painter In Bristol by Mrs. Hibert at 2 black posts small street In Chiping Sadbury by Mr. Ady a Barber In Newport by Mr. Thomas Young a mercer In Glocester by Mr. Ludlow Mr. Bell Milliners In Tuxsbury by Mr. Joseph Sheene In Ledbury by Mr. Lunt Book-seller In Kington by Mr. Evans a mercer In Shepton mallet by Mr. Bartlet at red posts In Bruton by Mr. Penny a Barbar In Lemstar by Mr. Hardwick a Glover In Hereford by Mr. John Nicholas a Chandler In Sallop by Mr. Sam. Thomas a mercer In Monmouth by Mr. Mainstone a Barber Sur. In Wrexham In Tedbury by Mr. Mathew Beale a mercer In Bidiford by Mr. Josias Elliot In Chard by Mrs. Anna Atkins In Taunton by Mr. Robert Button a mercer In Denby by Mr. John Foulks a mercer In Dublin by Mrs. Hyot a Stationer on cork hill But in all places in Ireland the half box is one and twenty pence the whole box 3 s. 6 d. MAny buy these Pills to give their Friends a long with them to Sea or to send to their Friends in the Countrys Therefore any as desire to sell these Pills in any other Town in England or in any parts beyond Sea may be furnished with them By me Humphrey Nendick with any quantity of these Pills reasonably These Pills will be delivered unto any Messenger at my own House at the two Black Posts within Bell-Yard in Great 〈◊〉