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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

and if young women would avoyd green and hurtful fruits and windy things and instead thereof keep a good and wholesom diet and now and then if cause to use of these Pills we should not have so many miserable weak children but women will so palpably inslave their own healths and lives and their infants unto a foolish lust to that which proves pernitious unto both observing neither what is for their own or their infants health and wellfare I will relate one story of a woman with child one that lived about Safoxus-mills in Southwark and this woman was extreamly tormented but did not know what it was that troubled her she had took divers things but to no purpose and so it was that her pains● did exceed that she was weary of her life this woman meets with one of my Pills but how I did not know till afterwards and without leave takes it at a venter and contrary unto its usual course it set this woman a purging and gave her above twenty stools and then brought from her an abortive or false conception whereat she was well and so continued 〈◊〉 the month that she had to go and in her season was delivered of a lusty boy very well and so both mother and child continue well for any thing as ever I heard praised be God and after we heard of this woman we likewise heard of others which did take it in the very hour of travel with happy success and with much ease more then ever they brought child into the world before and now lately it is grown common with women that know it and use it in the time of being with child to take it in their extremity and also to give it their child as soon as born if they discern cause I will now give you one instance or two of some that have used it presumptionsly and have took too much of it it may be such like experiences will admonish the unruly to use a good thing to a good purpose and not abuse themselves thereby About a month ago I chanced to light into the company of a man that lives near London-bridge in Theams-street he said he lay one night with a Gentleman which lay at his house this Gentleman having of my Pills in a silver box took one himself and left his box on the table and went to bed this man he takes as much at twice as would have made five or six he compared it to to his thumb end the least of which would have been enough for him this portion did begin to work very high upon him and he fell into a strong vomitting in a strong sweat and after a while he needs must go to stool he in his sweat goes down two p●ir of stairs to the house of office and he protested to me that as he s●t upon the stool the sweat did drop off him upon his feet thus twice he went down two pair of stairs to purge and very ill by fits it made him that he thought he should have dyed no other death but says he I will never take more of your Pills this man is old enough to have seen his error and my Pills benefit yet this is his conclusion hence let all be admonished to follow direction given for his resolution was as rash as taking the Pills was and carries so much folly in it as it doth stand more need to be pitied then answered for who seeth not but that if he had taken a portion fit for him how profitable it would have been to him A child in Saint Martins being presently helped of Rickets and ill digestion of meat and such like griefs another of their next neighbors comes in great haste for another child in like condition I gave her Pills as the other had and shewed her by making a one or two what quantity she should give the child she follows my order the first day and she did sensibly discern such a mighty change in the boy both as to his breath and chearfulness all the next day as did much delight her and said she if so much as this little thing do my childe so much good I will give it more and that will do it more good and indeed so it proved for it cured the boy and she gave it what she thought good I shall never know how much it was she gave him but the next day the child was very sick and would eat nothing but oft fainted and vomitted much she sends to me in great hast and said she feared I had killed her child I asked her sister whom she sent if they had followed my direction she assured me that they had to a tittle in the afternoon I went to see what was the matter and by that time the boy was very wel and had broke thorow it and the woman then told me what she had done and her sister who affirmed that they had strictly followed my rules said did not I tell you you would kill the boy by giving him too much thus you may see how I am dealt with and I know in this I am not alone if this child had died I should have been called the killer of it neither should I ever have heard what the mother had done to it While I am writing at present came a man to me fit to be remembred although out of place which for two years was sore troubled with a sharp eating Rhum falling from his head that he was almost lost he looked blackish yallow wan his eys dul he was almost starved for want of meat he could neither eat nor sleep he could get no help Gods good hand direct him to me in a time of need his throat and pallate of his mouth almost eat away I looked into his mouth at his request there was a hole eat out I could have turned my finger in it it was sad to see I did somewhat suspect what disease it should be but indeed I think both he and his wife fears God and is innocent and chast in their lives I gave this man one quartern of Pills he came again in five or six days so altered as I scarce knew him he did look so chearful fresh his eyes quick his throat almost well so much more set him quite well and so he continues and he it may be spends one quartern in one quarter of a year upon him self I confess I never in my life as I can remember knew the like what the man ailed I cannot tell it is sufficient thorow Gods blessing even at once as water would quench fire so effectually did my Pill administer healing unto him which did quickly make him pull out the stuff wherewith he had stoped it with To conclude I think I need not speak more to my Pill or how to use it for what is related in the several examples or experiences will be as land marks to guide each one how and when to make application to themselves and friends with comfort and

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