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B05801	An advertisement concerning those most famous cathartique and diuretique pills. Being an incomparable medicine in all chronical and dangerous diseases; wherewith was cured the late Lord General Monck of the dropsie: : some hundreds before, and many since, having received absolute cure thereby ... / Prepared only by William Sermon ...	Sermon, William, 1629?-1679.	1671 (1671)	Wing S2624A; ESTC R183736	11,413	32

bed at night or how you find them best suit with your Constitutions swallow them in the pap of a rosted Apple or with any warm liquor You need not drink Posset or Broth as with other Physick but if dry what you please as Beer Ale White-wine c. They may be taken every day every second or third the greater occasion the oftner if strength will permit They operate with much ease and only upon peccant humours by which means some are Cured in a very short time others not so soon according to the Constitution and habit of the body c. Therefore all may not expect perfect Cure by two or three small boxes of these Pills though many have enjoyed that great felicity but if need require take more and be not inveigled by persons of a base self-interest against that Medicine which with Gods help will absolutely cure this pernicious disease viz. the Dropsie when all others fail as by dady experience doth appear So let me advise the Ingenious not to prolong time as many to their utter ruine have done otherwise there need not have died of the Dropsie in this City last year nine hundred and nineteen These Pills may be safely taken at any season of the year if they chance to grow hard before you take them then roul them a little between your fingers and they will work as well as if newly prepared though you have had them by you seven years The boxes are sealed up with my own Seal The 4 s. Box contains 20 Pills The 8 s. Box 40 Pills The 12 s. Box 60 Pills which are disposed of by my trusty Friend Mr. Edward Thomas Bookseller at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain whom I have solely deputed under my hand and seal to make sale thereof and he to appoint others also to sell them not only in the City of London but in all other parts of the Kingdom c. And are at present to be had as followeth At Major Nath. Brookes at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange Mr. George Calvert's at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane Mr. Edward Brewster at the Crane in St. Paul's Church-yard Mr. John Place next Furnivals-Inn-gate in Holborn Mr. Allen Banks and Mr. Charles Harper at the Flower-de-Luce in Fleetstreet Mr. William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar Mr. William Cadman Bookseller at the entrance into the New Exchange Mr. Thomas Parkhurst at the Golden Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel Mris. Anne Michel in Westminster Hall Captain William Newman at the Anchor in Seething Lane near the Navy Office Mr. John Massam Stationer at the sign of the George in Cow-lane near Holborn Conduit Mr. William Wilde under the Cross-Keyes near Hicks's Hall in St. Johns-street Mr. John Christmas over against the Cock in Suffolk street near Charing-Cross Mr. Thomas Thomas in the City of Bristol Bookseller Mr. Alexander Davis over against the golden Heart in South-gate-street Glocester Mr. John Jones Bookseller in the City of Worcester Mr. Isaac Purss in Walton Cardiff near Tewxbury in the County of Glocester Mr. William Newton Bookseller in Blandford in the County of Dorset Mr. William Wombwell at the Coffee-house in Coney-street in the City of York Mr. William Callis an Apothecary in Leicester Mr. Robert Harford Stationer at the Hand and Pen upon the Point in Portsmouth Mr. John Jones in Brantham in the County of Suffolk near Ipswich Mr. William King in Leominster in th● County of Hereford Mr. Tho. Salmon Bookseller in Bath Mr. Robert Eveleigh in the City of Exeter Bookseller Mr. William Thorpe in Westchester Book seller And at my house in Eastharding-street a the two Black-Posts near the sign of Gold smiths Hall between Fetter-lane and Shoe lane London where by Gods assistance 〈◊〉 am now settled for the remaining part of m● Life And certainly besides the Dropsie according to the best method of Physick Cures any other difficult and dangerous distemper in the shortest time and with the greatest ease imaginable And for such as desire in any disease 〈◊〉 private Cure may be accommodated at m● own house where without fraud shall soo● have their desires accomplished POSTSCRIPT I Had almost forgot to let the discreet Reader know that there are many malicious and Idle Empericks daily perswading the harmless to their graves telling them they understand the Composition of my Pills c. These are therefore to advertise all persons to beware of those fraudulent Impostors who with no less Arrogance than Ignorance falsely to ruine others pretend to the acquisition of this excellent secret through Gods mercy of my own Invention wholly lock'd up in my brest incommunicable to any my Wife only excepted to whom I have made known the whole preparation thereof that if it please God she survive me it may still be prepared for the benefit of my Country FINIS

c. I rest Yours in all I may Jo. Cox Bristol Feb. 8 1670 1. Another Letter as followeth Doctor Sermon I Have a long time desired to write but feared to be troublesome but understanding your Candor and Ingenuity to all I took this boldness upon me I am not able to describe my own distemper but as I can I shall give you thus I have been three or four years under a sore affliction that took me as a violent Ague shaking me an hour or too then a violent burning continued twenty four hours which I suppose stirred up those Hidropical humours that lay near the skin for they would be very sore and swell and I had no remedy but Plasters to draw them but hearing of your Pills this Winter I took them which brought abundance of water from me I have taken four boxes of them and this effect I find my fits are now so little that I scarce know when they come but only by stirring the Humour They did formerly take away my strength that I was not able to stir at all or to turn my self in my bed but now I lose no strength praised be the Lord so that I hope I am near Cured Sir I have commended your Pills to a Kinswoman of mine who I perceived was under a sore hidropical Humour and had used much means but to no purpose And with one box of them is recovered after she had taken two then three she vomited but coming to take four and after that five it brok a cake congealed in her body which came forth by stool since which time she is very well recovered her mother came to me and desired me to acquaint you with this miraculous Cure and returns her and her Daughters hearty thanks I have many Friends that visiting me have sent for your Pills and find very great good thereby I have been bold to give you this trouble which pray you pardon and take the tender of my thankful gratitude to God and you for all the good I find and shall rest Your ever loving and thankful Friend Isaac Rey. Neyland in Suffolk Feb. 20. 167● Since the receipt of the former Letter I received another dated March the seventh 167● that informs me that those most sad and terrible fits had quite left Mr. Rey. Another Worthy Sir I Have received yours and do much desire that the great Cure which by the blessing of God your Pills have effected on my Wife should be made known to the World she was very far spent in the Dropsie and Scurvy and extremely swelled all over her head and face arms body thighs and legs and the swelling very hard her legs were swelled in bigness above half a yard about and sometimes her eyes were swelled up that she could not see she was likewise troubled with a violent Cough and a rising in her throat which would stop her up and many times take away her speech she was also troubled with a violent pain in her head and many times distracted with it Her Condition was so dangerous that she made use of all the ablest Physicians that we could here of without finding the least benefit by them and they had all left her off and said that she could not live many days And it pleased God that she heard of your Pills which Cured her perfectly in two months viz. in June and July 1670. which was a great and miraculous Cure and a wonder to all that knew her Thus with my humble service and hearty thanks to you I remain Sir yours whilst I am John Jones Brantham in Suffolk near Ipswich Feb. 25. 1670 1. Mistress Anne Brinley the Wife of Mr. Alderman Brinley in the City of Worcester most horribly afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy her belly thighs and legs extremely swelled and almost deprived of breath she had made use of many eminent and able Physicians who questionless used their best endeavours yet to no purpose and so left by all her nearest Relations for a dead woman but accidentally hearing of my Pills and making use thereof according to directions forthwith evacuated abundance of water by stool c. her swellings all abated in a short time and she became perfectly well to admiration This great Cure was effected about Midsommer last 1670. Since which time many more of good quality in and adjacent to that City have found wonderful good thereby Mistress Seawell in Well-yard in little St. Bartholomews very dangerously afflicted with that Dropsie called Tympanites her belly extremely swelled she had lost her appetite and was very weak but through Gods mercy by taking of my Pills was perfectly restored to her former health Mr. John Walker Attorney living over against the sign of the Whale-bone in Lothbury sorely troubled with violent straining and every morning subject to vomit also tormented with vapours arising from his stomach c. which did much offend his head but never received benefit by any Medicine before he took my Pills The Daughter of J. P. in the County of Glocester near Bath Aged 37. for seven years troubled with an ill distemper which she called the Whites also a great weakness and pain in her back sharpness of Urin c. and broke forth over all her body much like to a Leprosie the humour salt and sharp by taking my Pills one Spring and Fall was perfectly cured The days she took no Pills I advised her to drink the Decoction of Plantain Yarrow Knotgrass and the middle bark of Elme And sometimes she anointed the sores with the ointment made as followeth Take Oyl of Roses three ounces the white Oyntment with Camphir two ounces Sal. Prunellae one ounce Crude Antimony reduced into very fine powder half an ounce mix them all together and keep it for use A good old woman formerly a Souldier in the Wars of Venus not living many miles from the place aforesaid forely afflicted with the Scurvy c. with a kind of a pocky humour in her Eyes and a filthy stinking Ulcer in her throat by reason of which she could not speak and when she went to drink it would run out at her Nostrils was at last perfectly Cured by taking four 4 s. boxes of my Pills with the use of the Gargarism page 11. Another woman Aged about 60. living near the City of Bristol troubled long with an Ulcer in her throat and had violent nocturnal pains in her Legs c. was cured in a short time by the Means aforesaid only she took of the following Bolus three times and sweat as directed ☞ How to prevent and cure the Gout especially where it is not hereditary or long contracted with all other violent pains in the joynts by my Pills and the following Bolus which I have often proved to be true ☞ Take Venice Treacle one drachm the powder of Virginy Snake weed Gascoign powder Diaphoretick Antimony of each 10 grains Saffron Salt of Scurvy-grass Wormwood and Salt of Ash of each 5 grains make it up into a