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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

the retort withall put in thy Ambe● confect therein lay thy jugg upon thy Iron bar within thy Furnace let the nose lie out about one inch let not the nose incline but look a little upward set to another jugg whose mouth will go over his mouth lute them fast together proceed in all points as formerly and thou haft thy desire and if thou wouldst rectifie those vessels be sure that they be very well burned and glazed otherwise thou maist go seek thy Oyle or thou maist very well make thy first drought in Gawbers first Furnace if thou have any of them or any Potter will make thee of them I will yet commend unto thee another way which is no sable but what I have wrought with my own hand and of my own invention which I am sure no ingenious man will dispise Take a large Funnel of Crooked-lane-plate or of thin brass as my own is of that I have used the same way and for the same purpose and cut so much of its small end off as thou maist turn thy thum in it get a Plate of thin Iron or Brass and fit it unto the top of thy Funnel so artly that it may lie a straws breadth within the rim of thy Funnel and if thou canst not get a Plate conveniently take an old Frying-pan bottom if none of these then an earthen dish but it will require a stronger fire upon i● be careful that whatever it be that it fit thy Funnel or Tunel then take another earthen dish about two inches deep or a little less and let it be almost as wide as the Funel put it into the Funnel and take three or four six penny nails put them betwixt the dish and the Funnel side that there may be a straws breadth or a nails bredth betwixt the Tunnel and the dish for the vapor to go down by put thy Amber grosly beaten into the dish but be sure that thy plate above do reach within an inch or inch and half at farthest then lay over thy plate then take a live Charcole and lay thereon which may warm the Plate have ready chalk beaten to fine powder and a strong lye made of Bay salt and thereof make thin stuff as if thou wouldst make Pancakes and with thy knife lay this lute upon the edge of thy Funel which will bind fast the plate the Funnel that nothing can vapor that way take thy Funnel and set it into a large glass with a narrow mouth and lute it well with a Iinnen cloth and some of thy lute and set thy glass where thou wilt in thy window or one thy table it is great pleasure to behold this working thou maist govern it as thou wilt by thy increase or decrease of fire this I have done and it is speedy easie and delightful and almost without charge onely note thy Oyl comes very thick clean all thy vessels with warm water and soap and then thou maist rectifie therewith thou must take heed to blow away the ashes that the heat may take the Iron plate under it more aptly the gentlier thou dost fire the better will thy work be Of this Oyl if a vollum were writ of its power and vertue it would be short of what is contained in it I will content my self with giving thee two or three instances leave thee to judge of it as it seems good unto thee At the beginning of these unnatural wars I think about seventeen or eighteen years ago for so long I have used it I my self being extream week even as water languishing by degrees after a sore fit of sickness which held me from Bartholmew-tide unto Shrove-tide and for near seven years passing my days in as great affliction as might be and go upright nothing that I could take doing me any good able to digest no wholsome food and if I had gone the length of Tower-street it was pains enough for me to lie on the bed all the day after it indeed having inward peace I did long for death but it fled away as God would have it I knew not what I ailed onely whole nature wasted and spent and being deaf I imployed a man to serreng my ear I founded under his hand four times that they thought I should then have dyed the man told me I was the weakest man that ever came under his hand willed me to get good Oyl of Amber and drink three or four drops in the morning fasting and he would warrant my recovery I inquired what it was and till I came unto Hans Honger in White-chappel the Hungarian I could not learn its vertue he commended it as one of the most absolute things in the world he prepared me one ounce for which I gave him ten shillings and if I had given him ten pounds he had deserved it I took three dtops as I was directed and two mornings it purged and no more but brought me to a right order viz. once in a day but before I had I know not how many stools in a day and also made water almost at ever post through weakness but in three weeks or a months time I was renewed from head to heal and was like a boy of fourteen years old no ground could hold me even at once released of all the sore burdens and oppressions that I lay under which did much amaze most that knew me and I told them with what although few would believe it this relation is true praised be God for this Oyl as a blessed instrument thereof for presently I broke wind began to feel an appetite and digest that which I did eat which was happy effects to me that for some years knew I not what it ment and God so ordered it that at that very time I fell in with a French Emperick which was servant unto the Prince of Orringe and from the time I have labored in this art of Alchimy A child being near death with Convulsion-fits its father mother grandmother coming into th● Country where the child was at nurse intending to bury it before they went home to London the child having had thirty fits some black and some white nothing could interpose I desired them to annoint the breast with some of this Oyl and indeed it was the first draught onely it stopt the fit coming and the child had no more fits while she had it to nurse unto their great astonishment the Nurse said to me that if I would have asked at that time five pound a drop I might have had it but eighteen pence did serve the turn Another time I did use to go oft unto a friends house where one lay sick of the Pestilence I fancied with my self not to be afraid neither can I say I was afraid but so it was that I felt something rise and swell under my right arm I let it alone two or three days till at last it was so bigg that I could not get my arm unto my side as I was wont and to

do feel their benefit at the very first taking of it which will give them incouragement sufficient to persevere and give it time if it be so that the disease require it for you may take notice that the Ague is but the beginning or forerunner of many other diseases far worse then it self as Dropsie Scurvy Jaundies and ofttimes Consumptions yet thorow the bounty of God I have helped many far gone with all these with this Pill and very little other things to help it is also to be noted how irregular many are in the use of means which will neither give themselves time nor rest but finding their fit at the first and second taking to be gone will no longer be ruled and will take no more and thus in six or eight dayes their fits come again whereas indeed they had need to take them at least fourteen dayes after the fits are gone that nature may get strength and the blood thorowly purged and some that will not be ruled have come again and again and urged their business permitted them not but some of these by that time the Winter have come unto its depth their business has permitted them to dye I do make mention of this to second my admonition and I do warn and charge that although the first Pill that you take to your thinking hath conquered your Ague that you notwithstanding expect it as soon as the power of the Pill is wrought out except you supply with another and that for sometime you may fear its coming again there is not any case wherein people have more abused themselves and me in my credit and my Pill then in this business of Agues all which might be easily helped if people would follow home as they should but let him that is disposed to play with his Ague assure himself his Ague will not play with him neither let him think that it will be set going with one violent portion for experience telleth those that so doing they do but drive themselves into the Dropsie as extream vomitting with unknown powders not but that a vomit is rational and necessary with other means there would be no end for me to write particulars the cures have been so many for many hundreds have been cured herewith and many have helped their friends with my Pills whose faces I never saw and they are a living testimony of the power of my Pills The like for all kind of Feavors onely in stead of Sack drink white wine but if the Feavor have got head before this Pill be taken and the patient weak and wanteth the benefit of nature by siege there is a proper Glister to be taken to cleanse open and cool the patient but upon their life not to neglect the taking of the Pills As to Feavors through the bounty of Almighty God I think greater wonders have hardly been seen how speedily and effectually this Pill in few hours doth over-rule the disease and in a little time doth cure them as may appear by the instances following One of my neighbors comes unto me and brings another with her and desired me to visit her daughter which lay at the point of death about eleven or twelve yeers of Age her sickness was a high Feavor accompanied with extream shortness and want of breath lest of a very honest and able Doctor who told her Father and Mother that if she desired any thing they should give it her for he would not prescribe or give any thing more unto her and further that she could not live untill the morrow morning she also said that she would desire me if I thought good to give her any thing if she should dye yet it would be no discredit unto me for they all looked upon her as dead although she were alive I went with her and took of the extract of my Pill and truely I never saw in all my life greater weakness and yet live at her mothers intreaty I gave her half a spoonful of my extract in White wine and Sugar and said if it please God that she do sleep and sweat for neither of them she could not be brought unto I do not much fear b●t that she may yet recover while we were speaking a very little while her mother telling me the manner how she fell sick she turned her ●elf about said she I think my child is a sleep already I wished her to feel one her sorehead and it was a little moist I caused all to depart the room and I went home this was at four in the afternoon and just about eight the neighbor that came with her mother came in great hast and told us that she had slept and sweat all that while and now she was awaked and called for meat and they desired to know what they should give her I will say no more of of this what is said is true and will speak for it self it is sufficient through Gods wonderful blessing upon the Pill as the means this child is in perfect health as far as I am able to judge neither do I doubt but this with other instances will stand in the face of envy it self praised be God who giveth me many such like witnesses whose record is true and will stand on my behalf both in heaven and earth Another instance I will give you more strange then this a Gentleman well known comes to me with a grave Gentlewoman with him and he told me he had a onely son of about thirteen yeers old who had laid sick of a Feavor about seven days and that he neither did eat sleep nor sweat but did burn as if he were one fire and that for want of rest he did talk idle and that he had used means uneffectual and did much fear his life desired me to give something that might do him good I gave with him a little bottle of the aforesaid extract of my Pill and willed them to make hast and presently give him one spoonful in two of White wine and Sugar which as it appears they did I told them as I did unto the other that if it did produce sweat and sleep I did not doubt the recovery of his son in an ordinary way of Gods providence and that I had daily experience in like cases and I further willed them to give him the like portion every half day untill he was well if they thought good to follow my advice which advice cost them nothing about two days after the ancient Gentlewoman comes again with the same bottle and I am sure I did hardly miss one spoonful in so much that I would have forced her if I could to have taken all her mony again but I could not and she said that they made haste as I bad them and what was wanting they gave it him at that time and he presently fell asleep and also into a gallant breathing sweat and so he lay asleep in his sweat six hours for nature having ease the patient will soon

give it him I would give her some but to give it him by my advice I would give none blaming her for letting it be drove so far the old man near death she replied the case was desperate and other means was uneffectual and she would give him a good Pill although he did dye for there was no way else but that for him I gave her Pills with her she gives him a good Pill the old man by reason of pain had not slept for many nights and days he presently falls a sleep and slept four or five hours and when he waked calls for a pot and did so Urine that they had hardly things to receive it and of a suddain this man was up and about his business blessed be God for all his unspeakable mercies A loving friend of mine who lives at present at Chattam who knew well the worth and safty of my Pill by much experience he had made having a friend of his that was much troubled with the Stone and difficulty of making water my friend gives him a good Pill and the next day as he stood draining against a Brick wall to make water at last there flew out a stone from him and snapt against the Brick wall where he stood of an incredible biggness to be of a mans voiding upon which this man was wonderfully released to his great comfort which Stone my friend bring to us and we have it at this present by us unto God Almighty be all thanksgiving for ever A man comes unto me in behalf of his wife a young woman that was desperately afflicted but none could tell her what her grief was notwithstanding the woman was weary of her life her pains and knawing at her Breast was so exceeding much and the most conceived she had the foul disease it was indeed a foul disease and I did also mistrust it and I think the woman did likewise but notwithstanding made many protestations for her self I let them have Pills for their money not doubting but they would make a discovery what the matter was and so it was that my Pills did provoke strong vomiting and at last comes up as her husband telleth me a thing that either was a worm or like a worm but it had a strange ugly head and was at least twelve or fourteen inches in length I did not see it nor could hear any more of it A woman at Richmond a long time grieved but knew not what her grief was but fore oppressed at her Breast a neighbor of hers gives her one of my Pills which caused her to vomit in a strong and violent manner she brought forth at her mouth clots of putrified blood and matter of divers collours that hung together that it might be drawn out betwixt ones hands and like jaggs of linnen cloth or paper thorow Gods blessing it did preserve her and she in good health at this day praised be God for his rich mercy and goodness A very ancient Gentleman well known in the City of London being much afflicted with the Stone and Gravel in the Kidnies riding unto his Country house received a very gentle fall from his horse upon the sand notwithstand it did stir him too much insomuch as that his Urin was all blood and as might be guessed in reason that the Stones in the Vessel wherein they were bred being sharp pointed pricked the Kidnies which might produce bleeding this Gentleman being careful of himself caused a Coach to be that night sent for and hasted to London where in reason help might be attained and such was his care that when the Coach came in hard and stony way he got out of the Coach and went gently one foot he applied himself unto the best means for help as in reason were to be attained but still in vain in so much that he did much fear his life by reason of his much bleeding and as near as he could guess he had lost above two Gallons of blood and watter a friend of mind visiting him perswaded him to take some of my Pills which he did and with good and happy effect for it did both stop his bleeding and yet also brought away handfuls of Gravel this Gentleman came unto me for more of my Pills and this is the true relation as near as I am able to remember and thorow Gods mercy is ready to attest above what I have written praised be God who gives life from death at his good will and pleasure An Aldermans wife of this City being also grievously wasted with a flux of blood that her condition was very doubtful a woman that I am perswaded fears the Lord in truth she desired to speak with me to take my Pills and in two or ●●ree days finds great relief and in a day or two more perfectly healed and she was about her business blessed be the God of all our mercies A woman by Bishops-gate newly brought to bed but very sick of inward griefs takes one of my Pills which did bring a Stone I might guess as bigg as my great finger end but long and one end much bigger then the other her little daughter lighting one it did bite off as she said the bigger end and if true then was it bigger then I have spoken she brought it us and left it for some moneths with us further she telleth us that this Pill did bring from her by siege a thick hard congealed matter discoloured and like Orange Pills at which they did more wonder then at the former this woman did recover and injoy much ease and health long after it the most high who dwelleth with him that is of a humble heart and trembleth at his word be all praise and glory for ever Amen for I am perswaded this woman did truely fear the Lord and put her whole trust in him A gentlewoman that was rich but of adiscontented Spirit being near the point of death heard of my Pills she took of it but not according to my rules but did mix it with stuff of her own she lived about twelve months after she did be-begin with them but got no ground but grew weaker and weaker till at last she took the Pills alone and when she was so weak that she would take no earthly thing neither bread nor broth nor any Cordial either of her own or of any other bodies she would take a little of my Pill and that alone did keep her alive and sustain her for ten dayes to the great wonder and astonishment of all about her and had the use of her fences so far as to be much troubled at her kindred about the dividing of her estate for she had no child and was rich this is a true relation which the Nurse which was alwayes with her doth give me A very old man near death and bed-rid for a good while meets with my Pill I know not how and did revive exceedingly his Son in law being accidentally in my company told me how it