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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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