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death_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	6,646	5	5.2190	4	false

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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

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

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

did lift up his father from the grave beyond all expectation I willed him to be careful of him and told him that if he did neglect him one night it would indanger his life about three months as I do remember I met him again said he to me but that I know you are an honest man I should have thought you had been a Witch for said he we forgot to send for Pills till it was too late and the next day my father dyed then I remembred what you said Another old man near fourscore being lame in his limbs and also greviously afflicted with a Rupture was bed-rid and could in no wise help himself not so much as to Button his Doublet and to all demonstration was very near his end this man with the use of my Pills did begin to feel his arms and limbs so that he could do some necessary offices for himself and continuing began to stagger upon his leggs and to feel himself upon his Cruches and in short time this man first threw away one Cruch and then another so that now at this time this old man will go from Ratcliff to to Westminster and back again in a day on his feet about his business with onely a little short stick in his hand praised be God A very old man upward of fourscore lay two yeers bed-rid meeting with my Pill did so recover that as his servant tells me that the last Summer he did buy him a horse to take his pleasure in the Country withall A Knight lay bed-rid and lame of all his limbs in the Kings Bench in such sort as that he could not scarcely stir one finger but his hands fingers pulled on heaps this Knight received six Pills which had so happy effect on him as at once untied and set him at liberty he sent for me I did not make so much hast to come at him as he desired my friend from whom he had the Pills goes to visit him and he had took horse and was gone about his business thanks be alwayes given to God Also upon Tower-hill doth live another old man aged fourscore and six years who for some years lay bed rid and past hope as to this world this man with the use of my Pill doth now comfortably injoy himself and ruleth over all his pains and A●les and doth rise up and walk up and down the house and keep the fire side warm and prevents his kindred of their expectations to his great ease and comfort to God alone who commands and it is done be all praise and thanksgiving for ever more Amen In Coleman-street also liveth a very aged woman who for a long time went to Fish-street to setch sewing work and thorow much weakness made five or six restings by the way with very great pain and grief in a little time making use of my Pills doth now go it with ease and without any stop or turn for which the old woman doth return all hearty praise and thanks unto God I solemnly protest that I do in my conscience believe that I do receive more strength and nourishment by a good Pill then from the best meales meat that ever I eat in all my life and therefore the madness of those do appear which thorow their ignorance do charge my Pill with destroying Nature but the best is those that so do are such as never took any of it they may better be allowed to spend their verdict both old and young that use it find the contrary by good experience for I do not commend a thing in the air or beyond Sea but a thing that near or altogether one quarter of a pound is taken every night and certain things concerning it may be attained and I do wonder at the shameles slanders and forgeries of some that one would think should a little more respect their credit but it is best for me to let them forge on till they are weary I am perswaded their lying is the way to make me thrive Sometime since I met a very good friend who was not well I gave him six large Pills fit for his own taking but they being all run into one by that time he came home his wise made the six up into nine and that night she took six of the nine regarding not rule or order that I had given and indeed any of the six had been a portion sufficient for her to take this woman about twelve a clock in the night began to vomit and so coutinued till ten the next day and much foul matter it brought from her and after she had gained rest and received meat she found her self well and much eased of her oppressions a while after I met her husband who thanked me for working a wonderful cure upon his wife I replied I negave her any thing then he told me what his wife had done and said that although he was afraid that she had killed her self yet it proved very happily for said he your Pills have not onely cured all the pains and illness of her body but likewise they have cured all her ill conditions too at which I and some friends with me fell a laughing why said he it is true for before she took your Pills she was so apt to be angry and peevish I could please her in nothing but since she took those Pills she is the lovingest woman that may and so pleasant that I give you thanks for them for my wise for I my self took none of them although this story is matter of laughter to those that heard it and a Proverb unto this day and it may be as ridiculous to you that read it yet if you please to consider that it is pain that oftentimes makes peevish the ease of pain doth remove away such peevishness A woman comes to me sorely afflicted along time in all her limbs and her torment was such as is not to be credited the woman I perceived was exceeding sensible and in most greivous extremity cried out I hasted and gave her of my Pills she comes the next day and did so load me with thanks and praise that my heart did ake within me least God should be dishonored this poor woman giving so much to me A Lady of an honorable family in this Nation was sorely tormented all over her body accompanied with shaking of joynts was held sixteen weeks under no small means but to as small effect she sends for me in great haste she desired my help I presented her with such things as I had whereof my Pills was chief the first Pill that she took took off her great pains and when I came there about two dayes after her pains was not onely gone but her joynts lay as quietly together as my own did for when I first took her by the hand her bones did start and tremble as if they would never came near each other again I say no more God will requite every one according as his work shall be It