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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

what will you do when you shalt appear with your works following after you when God that cannot lye will set your sins in order before your face I know you labor to stiflle such thoughts as these O beast of men O most devilish whilst men How is your vengeance hightening have you professed the fear of God many of you to end in this accursed Apostacy for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever O that there were thoughts of returning in you hell beneath hath enlarged her self to receive and meet you at your coming O miscreant of man how long dost thou think to wallow in thy lusts serving evil concupisence drinking iniquity like water made fat for slaughter I aske whether these be not they for whom supplication is not to be made Alas alas my heart bleedeth within me when I confider that some of you have not onely professed the name of Christ long but also suffered both imprisonment and fled into far Countries out of a zeal for his name and now have spewd up all at once and returned unto your old lusts from which you were purged as a dogg unto his vomit or a sow that was washed unto her wallowing in the mire receiving the just recompence of your error viz. seven hellish spirits far more worse then the first that you might fall into the damnation of hell and be damned together even the condemnation of the devil be not deceived God is not mocked as a man soweth so shall he reap and of these I speak aloud expecting nothing but plague and pox to follow them the reward of their labor I know it boiles amongst them already I know some will wonder why I have spoken so much of these and of this disease and why I have spoken unto good people with these therefore this thou maist know First I speak unto all men and all sorts and ranks of men to admonish them all Secondly a clean heart is not hurt nor will be offended at any thing I have said And thirdly I could not break this order with the discharge of my conscience And fourthly without this that I have said both in whole and in part I darst not give thee the true and clear way of cure of this detestable disease and all roots from this ground the difference twixt this disease and most other this with abundance of wickedness and sin first against God secondly against thy one body which ought to be the Temple of God preserved in holiness unto him and not given to a harlot thirdly against thy relations who hath power over thy body but other diseases which are common to man proceed from sundry other causes which is not in themselves sinful and for these causes I have thus spoken and hope thereby to be an instrument in the hand of God to pull some poor soul or other out of the fire and indeed as I said at first had it not been for the sakes of some who are clean but bestowed with some such beast or bruit of mankind which hath polluted them I should have said nothing of this disease at all but I do judge it much better that many of the worst partake of the blessing with the best then that one of the best should languish in the torture of the first and therefore I do set down the most safest way speediest cheapest and freest of pain and torture I verily believe that is in the world Rec. Take two ounce of my Pill and lay it thin upon a well glazed dish set it out of the Sun and it will quickly be fit to bring to powder drive it thorow a Lawn or Hair five put this powder into one quart of White-wine or that which is better viz. make a Lixivium or stronge lye of Chalkes Vive or White wine for this is most slately and operates very potently both by sweat and Urin as is much proved everyday and is although dispised a great blessing and moreover I assure thee from knowledge is chief with some as universal who have a vulgar same in Physick use which thou wilt I do by experience commend this last to excel let this be done in a glass bottle shake it oft and in twenty four hours it will be fit to use but longer is better dispose thy self a part if thou wouldst suddainly be well and thy illness require thee and have warm accomodation and a good tender and careful Nurse eat and drink the bed that can be got for mony and always have ready good wine and Strong-water by thee because of a suddain will a windy fainting come upon thee and of a suddain gone at such a time a spoonful of a good cordial water is necessary for thee see that thou sweat by day and not in the night when thou maist have good tendance sweat not with this extract but every other day and then do it to purpose as thou finds thy strength if thou beest of a middle strength the first time begin with six spoonful in six spoonful of White-wine and then observe by that how thou dost bare it and increase accordingly so also in all cases begin with little enough and come on with discretion but know in this disease thou must charge home to the end it may accomplish thy desire and at once as it were it will whirle all thy disease into thy in skin the superfices or most extream parts and in the other night the day that thou dost not sweat thy greatest sweat take at night a good Pill of 16 or 20 grains if thou findest thou art able to bear it and that wil maintain and keep what the other hath gotten for thou must know that thou dost take the strength of at least eight or ten Pills when thou dost take the extract thereof for thou art not not able to bear this earthly body it would suffocate the but being onely his more subtile and spirituous part it works safe and miraculous not onely in this disease but in many or all other diseases and when thou hast it all in thy skin fear not but go on the same way and if any part break and run fear it not it will not fail thee if thou do not neglect thy self but it will both throw all out and heal it when it is out as thou maist perceive by the instances set down in this book onely use thy self to great carefulness in the time of thy cure and always sweat and be hot till thou art well for there is no danger but in taking cold which thou maist easily prevent if thou be careful of thy self and follow while thou art in the way and all will be done at an easie rate for I have deserved twenty pounds when l have not had twenty shillings I never undertook any cure in my life nor never mean to do yet have helped many at small rates at ten shillings at five shillings the most that ever I had of any was three pounds five shillings for my

is very proper on this occasion and this hath helped when Crocus Martis would do nothing nor the Sugar of Saturn all which are as forcible almost as art I have proved it for if these have stopped they have thrown the patient into intollerable pains and rackings beside feaver but this so pleasantly so gently and sweetly that it is the desire and joy of the patient to have a Pill in his belly A lusty man a Trumpeter who had been at the East Indies brought such a Flux home with him that could not be staid by what means soever could be used to that end and his weakness is not to be credited yet live and after he came home in this condition it was one year and a half or two years before he applied himself unto my Pill and although his constant manner was to purge six or eight times in the night the first Pill stopped him and eased him and that in a wonderful manners I shall not want the benefit of this mans prayers while he and I do live together and as is said my Pill did not violently stop him but by degrees naturally and when thorow impatience he had got some violent astringer as those above he was all torn in his limbs and glad to take my Pill to withstand their force but because this fiery Accrimony had cut asunder all retention thorow length of time his water for the most part going that way I for my part did dispaire of his cure for he would even affrighted one to behold him yet it hath pleased God to be so favorable unto this poor man as that he is now in health and doth sound a Trumpet in Colonel Riches Regiment and who list to speak with him shall hear much more then I have said to Gods glory and your wonder whether friend or enemy I see the blessing of God which he hath afforded unto poor people for they will come and ask find help this is Gods blessing the rich oft ask and pay large and go without help this is a sore evil under the Sun some cries out against it as a great binder or shutter up of theirb dies if it be so to any I am sure it is to their great benefit in taking off from them windiness also Feavorishness or those other distempers they take them for I am also sure that there is not one in a hundred but that although it doth bind them a little at the beginning but that they find it to purge at at the latter end I do grant some bodies to be drier then other and for these when they have a necessity to use it by reason of weakness let them use it with Sirrope of Roses in such quantity as doth make it friendly with them or that which is for some better take equal parts of Scamony called Diagredium or make it so as to suit their constitutions but my advice is in this matter not to do it but with good advice and that there do appear an apparent necessity for it it will frequently astring for three four or five days and afterwards keep you loose while you take it if the cause continue for which you take it you may thus deal with it otherwise if you have need of it in its strength then suffer it to follow its own law and you will not repent your self be of what temper you will there are some such whom it hath purged the most of all which otherwise have been most astringent no man knoweth how it will work with him till he have proved it I my self have gone four or five days without any stool and have wondred what would become of all I have put into my belly for I did eat my meat all that time as heartily as ever I did in my life and was as well indeed I may say in a new world for it was at first when I took it and all that time I did break wind freely neither had I the least fumes or swelling or any thing like unto oppression nor any heat which made me wonder and indeed may for it is much against common experience nay further all that four or five days I could have laid my belly to my back so free was I from any kind of swelling then at four or five days end I confess I have forgot whether all went in a light stool which did lye above like a Cork and after that it did ever bring me belly to an orderly course once every day and rather purgative and so I remain with much health thorow the blessing of of God and can make my self purge when I will with pleasure but I dare not purge all is well I have no need this Pill alwayes doth as I may say watch over me and oft doth find matter sometimes to purge by siege and sometimes by Urin and some times by sweat I do observe these changes but the reason and cause of it I do not understand I know my Pill is the same but change of all things with me doth sometimes work a change in my Pills operation it is for the most part a constant rule with my Pill to purge men or women of gross corpulent bodies but people of spare and thin bodies not so if any by good experience do find that it doth bind them and that also they find that that binding is indeed hurtful above that which is imaginary for I know many complain for no cause but that their custom is broke and that it doth not follow the order as they would have it but I say if it do indeed in this case offend a glister then may be necessary for them onely this you must observe either in glister or in purging Physick to keep as far off the taking of the Pill as you can least it should not suffer the portion to work that is take the purging Physick at least two or three dayes after the Pill is taken or else you may expect that that portion will not work for you must know that the purging quality in the portion is from a poisonous quality otherwise it could not purge and that quality my Pill doth so perfectly correct as you may expect it do nothing but I do much rather wish you if there be cause indeed then to use a safe glister of milk from the Cow and Sugar onely which will produce no evil effects you may note that as its correction is less so its force is less therefore if you with the Pill add a purger as Scamony or Sirrop of Roses or some other it may be it may fute your body and all this discourse is to please thee as it were a single person and is indued with goodwill and hath need of it but I do certainly know the poise of nature is most happy and blessed for man for the generality of them and therfore cannot be altered and if thou didst know it as it may be hereafter thou maist thou wilt see nothing in it can

the biggness of a gray pease swelled or twelve grains or ten or fourteen grains to twenty grains where is strength but to a child new born no more then a pin-head and not a great one neither but about one quarter of a grain My advice and councel is to all both old and young that they be sure they take little enough at first and in so doing there is great safty always having regard to the strength and condition of the patient forasmuch as the thing in its one property is a mear cordial and a great fortifier of nature too much you may take without safty as a man may drink too much wine but too little you cannot take as to safty so that the least grain is profitable to whole nature and not in the least prejudicial therefore I do warn and charge that you begin with little enough and that you do increase afterward as you find by good experience the patient can bear it unto a child of ten or twenty hours old give as much as a small pins-head and so increase with care as you shall find it to work it at once brings them to rest causeth them to eat and suck lustily and drives out any thing amiss in them and for a child a year old give as much as a great pin-head still increasing as you do perceive strength to bear it but it is better to give it either to old or young a little and oft always taking it when you are going to bed or in bed and you must alow twelve or fourteen hours unto its working and above all things take heed of colds but if you should get a cold haste to bed take a good Pill it is gone it will do no hurt if you find your head to be giddy and unsettled and also your stomach to be heaving it is best to give it time and repose by sleep least you be very sick and vomit which you will not do if your stomach be not very foul note that it is not in its strength till four or five hours taken there is no observation of diet but for men and women to keep a wholsom open clean diet avoyding all things that is cold and windy in operation but always keep your stomach warm with that which is good wholesom also always drink a wine-glass of the best Beer Ale or Wine after the taking of the Pill it is to be noted that if a mans head and breast be well he may rise at any time I my self do frequently rise after the taking my last Pill about two hours this is in hot weather not but that I must sleep after again you must further give what time you will if your stomach be foul and poisonous you will vomit I do in the Winter time frequently when I am abroad and find my self not well take a little Pill of four grains or a grain or two more as I like my self and drink a cup of good Beer after it this doth raise me up beyond all belief its common operation is by sweat and Urin which you may increase as you please you shall find that a double portion will have a double effect so that you may do what you will with your self it is further to be noted that after three or four days this Pill will purge your body but with hast and pleasure generally it doth purge you will also find a fiery sharp humor to go away and although it make you a little sore for the present yet will you have cause to give thanks to God for its discharge although with pain you will do well to let it take its own course and follow natures law it oft appears most by Urin I know many because of its strange working have slighted it and left it and spake ill of it thorow their own fears unto their own hurt and yet at last it hath been their last and best refuge these are not a few in and about London and now who shall commend it like these it is no new thing to have the best substances thrown by if they do not in all things appear according unto received circumstances I do wish all that are weak to do as I do my self to use this Pill more or less as they find occasion and always have within their reach a cup of the best a spoonful of good cordial-water is good in cold weather my Pill doth hate all small drinks that are fomented or wrought with yeast which fills with Wind and Rhums keep ever your stomach warm with wholesom meat and drink and care not for being a little hot let it suffice thee that my Pill although hot yet doth it kill all unnatural heat whatever I have always by me a bottle of a rich cordial-water and a pot of strong Beer or Ale with Sugar or of the Sirrop of black Cheries which after my way of making doth excel and sometimes I do use these apart and sometimes together as I do find my self and sometimes none of them all but of any drink whatever it be be not to free with it at one time but rather a little and oft you will find this Pill to coarse and follow wind up and down from head to heel as a dogg followeth a Hare thorow every hedge and bush and in this working you will of a suddain find a little faintness then a spoonful of that which is best is acceptable and well applied at that time besure to keep your head on your Pillow and while one would tell fourty it is gone and thus it will do till it hath found some natural purger for his enemy but if thou dost not break wind by a sensible way of evacuation yet thou shalt find it gone thou knowest not which way thou maist observe that thy Pores are set open all over thy body and by secret breathings at those little Pores it will oft make his way and sometimes by Urin it will follow natures law and use those purges which is most apt and spontaneous and what pains soever thou hast old or new will give way and thou at ease as if thou ailedst nothing for the most part it is so but if thou find it rake too high upon an old grief know it is in order to heal and cure it therefore I say condescending unto thy weakness and unbelief prove it first with a little and increase with judgement as you find strength and courage to bear it thou maist know that it hath power if thou hast wisdom to apply it It falls out oft upon surly griess as Sciatica and Gout in the feet that it will nibble at them more strongly then thou wouldst therefore mark what I have said to thee In my first Bill I did not commend it to women with child both because my Pill is not now as then neither had I experience but now I do commend it to them above any thing in the world for the health both of mother and child