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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

Spirit of Life is the same in all things and separate by a natural process these three substances give them their due cleansing viz. for the Salt give a natural calcination then disolve filter coagulate and again calcin repeating these so long untill they will yeild unto thee no more fecis but be sure thy calcination do not excite too much for thy Salt doth consist also of three sorts a fixed Salt and a Nitrous and a Volitil and if thou stir him too much be sure thou wilt give wing unto the Vollotil this wisely prepared is a great treasure be as careful and as natural in the cleansing and rectifying of thy Sulphur and likewise of thy Mercury each one according unto his kind and being cleansed according to Art then conjoyn them according unto the poise of nature then feed them by Vulcans hand but let not his Bellows be to bigg untill all reunite again and do fix and make it lively this work being finished I do demand of all men what this wanteth of a universal Medicin or fifth essence Now that Salt Oyl and Water will really become a body is evident for the mediation of Oyl or Fat or Sulphur binds or brings together the two extreams viz. Salt and Water the one being fixed of kind and the other being Volitil the sweet Mediation of Sulphur brings these extreams into unity and this is apparently seen in a vulgar working of sope and although that working be violent and unnatural yet is there such a conjugal imbracing each other performed and that in few hours as would pusle a good Artist to undo truely for some moneths if it can ever be done at all it is not sables I speak of nor scraped out of books without reason but is the daily work and labor of my hand with reason upon experience that enforceth me to believe this matter and I have spoke the more unto it because many that want not ignorance do laugh at a universal Medicin but I am upon good grounds bound to believe that all and every thing in the world hath it yea the most dispised creature that the most high God hath created and made and further I freely grant the least or worst of things that have being doth carry so much of the Wisdom of its Creator in it that the more I have and do labor to know its extent the more I am at a loss yea indeed I become the more a fool confessing freely that I know nothing as I ought to know it and if of creatures thus to speak in general then what shall we say of the most choisest creature man this then I do certainly take also for granted that there is no sickness or Aile attends the body of man but his cure is of and from his one body he always hath it with him if he knew how and what and when to apply it to himself either of his substance or of his excrements From hence may the miserable estate of poor man be discerned who of all creatures when he is sick is the most helpless miserable full of tormenting pains and as ignorant of his one cure or what should cure him for men in health think not on sickness untill they be sick but spend their time in the beastiality and sordid covetings after the things and pleasures of this life blinded in sin and drenched with Surfeiting either abusing Gods creatures or themselves in inordinate desire after them so that they neither know God in his word nor in his works nor themselves or what is good to help them one word further which sets out mans misery and I hope may awaken some to amendment of life I would ask why is it a man suffers such intollerable pain in sickness and death more then a beast I will give two reasons for it first the intireness of natures composition together with the length of time in his maturation for things where in nature hath but a weak and short time of coction admits of a easie and suddain dissolution or separation every one in every thing discerneth this but man hath the most perfect composition of any thing that hath a animal life with sence and feeling and add to that the great time he requires before he come up unto his full strength this must needs require some hard knocks in the dissolving as well as it did receive time and strength in cocting Secondly that which is more then this is the force of his imagination and apprehension both of death and of Gods displeasure for sin all which doth make him so mightily sensible that the terrors of death is oft born before it come as in Agag King of the Amalekites a word to a wise man is sufficient because this is not my proper discourse intended in this place What hath been said let it admonish all men as they tender the wellfare of body or soul not to be unfurnished for either assuring that they will not be hurt by true knowledge and do therefore conclude that the Medicin that strengthens and comforts the Vital Spirits fortifies the heart and purgeth and cleanseth the blood is a Universal Medicin for what temper or quality aboundeth and exceeds the poise of nature that is he an enemy unto as if a man have a Feavor that I suppose will be granted to be too much fire he is a perfect enemy of that or if Wind drives away that these things are common with me performed with my Pill judge of it as you please I shall count it sufficient thorow Gods rich mercy and goodness frequently to cure and frequently to ease pains Ailes counted uncureable It being tak●● 〈◊〉 granted that all diseases for the most part proceed from a poisonous quality Hetrogenial to nature If any man list to deny or dispute this I would gladly he informed by him For Agues if this Pill be taken in reasonable doss two hours be ore the fit and a glass of Sack or Ale drank after it That is to say so much as the Patient finds by good experience that they can bare and observe this order two hours before the fit comes take two Pills in the intrim of fits take one Pill The Patient being put into a warm bed disposed for sweat at three tim●s taking it for the most part is absolute cure let it be never so malignant The Pill working by sweat principally in this disease requires a warm bed and that two hours before the fit because by that time the Pills will contribute their vertue all over the body so that instead of having a cold and shaking fit the patient will be a sleep and in a fine sweat provided that you have given a right doss that is so much as the strength of the patient can bare the disease doth require it hath fallen out oft that one Pill alone hath cured an Ague and it falls out that some that are compounded with other diseases will not be cured with twenty yet all

unsatisfiedly dry his drinking was out of measure but still inwardly burned worse and worse and being spent grew very weak and feeble in so much that his wife and friends did dispair of life and I being locked up in the Tower could not be spoke with till betwixt six and seven in the morning being sent for I hasted and took with me one gill of my Antidote for Pills I knew they had in the house and when I came to him he was so weak he could not speak unto me his face and nose his hands and feet was all as cold as earth I had little hopes of his life for contrary unto these his stomach did burn like fire which indeed caused him to pour into his belly so much small Beer and by this time had no strength to evacuate it again that his Surfeit now was double as well from unreasonable drinking of small Beer as of Respass wine and Venison with his wives good liking I gave him three spoonfuls of my Antidote in four spoonful of Treacle water praying for a blessing yet much feared his life it gave him a little ease as we conceived by his quiet lying I hoped all vomiting had been staid thinking that to have been the best for him he lay still while one might tell treatably half a thousand or thereabout then he began to stretch out himself and turned up the white of his eyes we all that were spectators was sorely distressed for him expecting nothing but that his last breath was going from him but contrary unto our expectation he gathered up his seet and twisted himself about and start up a great Bason much like a Barbars bason being ready which he had used in the night and there at once comes up such a full torrent as his mouth could admit which quickly filled the great Bason such a vomit as I never beheld in all my life and am perswaded never shall again and in the end of it comes his Respass wine and his Venison unwrought on by nature for it is evident that all the former vomitting did not reach the root of the matter this vomit being over and another Bason ready he gave again another easie strain and brought up again my Antidote just as he put it into his belly both for quantity and collour as neer as we could guess look you said his wife unto me here is your stuff again well said I blessed be God for this stuff he hath done well for this time the Lord make us thankful I would not for more then I will speak of your husband had dyed you would have thought ill of me and my Antidote thorow the goodness of God this man was about his business in two dayes time this my friend with all the rest present are ready to witness what I have said and more touching this matter unto God eternal immortal Lord of life and death be praise and honnor and glory for ever Amen for he taketh the strong and hardy and casteth them unto the dust of death according to his will and again he taketh that which is ready to dye and restores it to life at his good will and pleasure and who is he of the hardiest of men that can withstand God It removes pains of the Breast trembling of the Heart cleanseth the Blood I have not known any pains stand before it but in Feavors or any other grief wherein is great crying out of pains and oppressions of the Breast but the first Pill gives relief there is a very aged woman by me on Tower-hill hard by the Scaffold who was almost off of her leggs with extream trembling and aching of her Heart which was occasioned thorow a fright and much grief and she took this Pill for almost or altogether this three years and thanks be to God is now lusty and for stronger and better then when she began to take it at first that it is a forcible cleanser of the blood it is evident by its universal sweating and purging by Urin. It helpeth suddain fits of Sounding and Convulsions A young man much troubled with fits and oft would fall down and foam in his fits I do not know what to determine them to be and with the use of this Pill and my Oyl of Amber found present relief which he thankfully acknowledged beyond expectation and very many of each Sex and Ages frequently have received the like benefit It drunk with whit-wine cleanseth the Reins and Kidnies of Gravel openeth the Vrany passages drive● out the stone if it be not coagulated and oft times at Vrine sends forth like jaggs of cloth of paper of sundry collours Of its power in cleansing the Reins Kidnies and Bladder many hath plentifully found by good experience to their exceeding joy and comfort A good friend of mine going to Colchester finds a kinswoman very sick and near death of the stone and Gravel he gave her two or three I am not certain but he brought me home five or six stones of considerable bigness full of sharp spikes as pin points and three square which I have reserved they also seemed as if they had been hung upon a string many more there were which we have not but thorow the goodness of God this woman although near eighty at once recovered hereon praised be God A man that came from Ireland who had married a Irish whore who had a husband of her own Countrymen did poison this English man three times the last time wrought so strongly that it took him off his business his hair and nails came off this man very weak came to England in hope of relief this man had a perpetual thirst and did drink without measure but could not Urin it out so that he was swelled ready to burst and all means which could be gotten could not help him until God so ordered it that I heard of him for a very good friend of his did desire my charitable assistance I sent him six Pills which wrought such happy effects that after one of them given him he fell a making of water so out of measure that he filled what was by him for that service and then had no retention but let all go in his bed his friend had for him one quarter of an ounce more I never saw the man nor never heard more of him but what I have said is the true and faithful relation of his friend as near as I am able to give it you A very old man in Ducksfild-lan● lay at the point of death with the Stone and could make no water for many dayes and nights together so that in the judgement of his neighbors there was no hope of his life one of his neighbors which did know the worth of my Pills came unto me and desired me to administer unto him I told her that she knew well enough that I never did undertake any thing and that she knew well enough the power and force of my Pills and if she should venter to

whose advice she was forced to follow such was her weakness of a suddain but so it was that this lusty young Gentlewoman in a matter of six or seven days was brought home in a Hors-litter hard put to it for life this Gentlewoman lay under the Doctors hands for two months and was brought unto such extream weakness as is not fit for me to relate nothing but death expected all this while my Pills was too low for them and the Gentlewoman had abundance of other things forced on her but in vain at last she beseeched her husband if he loved her to fend for me otherwise she was a dead woman pleading her conformity to him in using all the while what means lie and their friends thought good this Gentleman being touched with pitty to her at her request sends a letter to the Tower but I was in the Country and he straight sends a letter unto Wansor where I was and I not hearing any thing from the time her messenger came unto me from Barnet much wondered that she should suffer so long sickness and I not hear thereof at my coming she was glad and I was much surprised to see so stout and lusty a woman so strangely reduced to nothing in so much as had it not been that I was sent for in her name I could not have known her I took with me Pills and Antidote I gave her two spoonfuls of my Antidote which did answer my expectation for it put her into a breathing sweat and also she slept a matter of four hours I stirred not my foot till thorow the blessing of God I had very good signs of her recovery but when I saw the surly behaviour of all as well the servants as kindred thorow the whole family I did not wonder I was not called sooner the Gentleman himself I never saw all the time of the cure the gentlewoman could trust no creature with my things I was fain to give with my own hands as much as possibly my business would permit till the Gentlewoman got strength and kept the Pills alwayes about her and and had regard to her self it was an unusal time before this Gentlewoman could get abroad the reason all may discern was the withholding from her that which did her good and in stead of it give her that which did no good and being of a good nature in this case proved to her great hurt but blessed be God she soon did attain health and so remains using my Pills now and then to keep her in health as she has occasion For Small Pox which generally doth light on children and young people this I say upon good experience that my Pill is always good and profitable whensoever it is taken at any time of the disease either in the beginning of them or the middle of them or the latter end of them it can never be taken a miss except you give such a dosse as is not proper for them that take it for it always strengthens the vital spirits cleanseth the blood and fortifies the heart and if the small Pox be struck in again this Pill doth forthwith throw them out again with great safety as we have much experience hereof but if it be taken before they appear that nature be able it will relieve them by working the Surfeit out by vomit or by siege or sweat or Urin all the ways that nature hath to friend but if the Surfeit have got strength enough that they cannot be prevented then doth it throw them out in a most gallant easie manner so that the patient being freed of all Feavorish symptomes and alwayes lying in a breathing sweat is so sweetly disposed as he doth hardly fail of a meals meat all the time he hath them upon him but suddainly will recover with great strength and freedom A lusty young man having got many Surfeits one upon another felt himself not well for two or three dayes together but not knowing what sicknes was would not yield unto it while he was able to hold up his head and being in my company much complained how ill he was and that he doubted he should be able to hold up his head no longer I gave him presently a little Pill about four grains which now he is well one six fold so big would hardly fur him but as soon as it was well down his throat he fell into a vomiting with extream violence I could tell him his breast was full of poison but what was the matter further with him I did not know for the present he had some ease after his vomiting I gave him a Pill at least 18 grains to take when he went to bed which he did and that in like sort set him a vomiting most of that night and most of the next day it also purged his gall of divers collours but the woman where he lay would let him take no more the two that I lest for him she threw them in the fire and cries out against my Pills for making him sick but that night the Small Pox appeared all over his skin and being over-ruled was not so happy as to continue with my Pills which had drove them from his heart into his skin and for want of more the disease grew extream upon him and he all over covered with them and in flux extreamly and was for a time stark distracted and talked idle of he knew not what they imployed two called Doctors but to no purpose indeed it was beyond all mens judgement that he did escape withlise but as soon as he was master of himself he called for mare of my Pills which he had but did not vomit any more he saith and I believe will say while he liveth that nothing that ever he took did him any good but my Pills which did free his heart of them and as means did save his life which is undoubtedly true and I am confident if they had been given to seconded that which I did give him his sickness would not have been above the tenth of what it was for such is our experience that if it cannot altogether prevent them yet it doth so dispose them that they are not like the disease for some that in reason would have been as bad as any yet by their constant and thorow use of my Pills all the time of their being ill have hardly missed one meals meat but quickly with strength and vigor have been restored It helpeth the shaking and trembling of the joynts strengtheneth the brains and increaseth memory I have already spoke enough of the Palsie or shaking of the joynts for strengthening of the brain and memory I say I am thorow Gods rich mercy and goodness a living monument and testimony of its true vertue power and effect for they are at this day far better then when I was but seventeen yeers old and my sight as good as ever since I had them for any thing I can perceive and that is as good as any