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A47242	An appendix to The unlearned alchimist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent diaphoretick and diuretick pill, purging by sweat and urine, commonly known by the name of Matthew's pill : with the exact manner of preparing and making of it, and the particular nature and virtue of the several ingredients, as also of the pill / by G. Kendall ...	Kendall, George, 1610-1663.; Mathews, Richard, d. 1661. Unlearned alchymist.	1664 (1664)	Wing K283; ESTC R8493	25,129	66

what is offensive It is that Nepenthe Homer speaks of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It frees from Choller trouble and obliterates all evils Delenefica vi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 moderatur et expultricem facultatem iratumque archeum placat Circea quasi virga tactum It moderates the sensitive and expulsive faculty and pacifies the enraged Archeus as it were with a charm and this not by stupefying the sences or laying as some frequently affirm by this Pill the distemper asleep as some of the following virtues wil make more manifest 2. Upon this depends a somniferous virtue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 asswaging pain it doth usually bring to a quiet sleep not stupefying and hurtful when duly corrected but most pleasing and refreshing to the senses making the spirits more fresh and lively after it 3 It is excellent for the staying of all fluxes bloody and dysenterial as well as others It dryes up Rheumes and Cattarhes that destil and drop upon the Lungs it stays a looseness corrects the immoderate working of any purging medicament 4. It hath a singular virtue in the repressing mitigating the violent fits of Agues Fevers in curing of them Trallianus in his 12th Book Chap. 8. commends for singular antidotes in the cure of Feavers those which have Opium in their composition and Galen himself in his book of the way of curing Feavers doth affirm that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 w●ch is our Venice treacle known to most to have Opium for one of the principal ingredients to be of great efficacy for the removing of Feavers 5 It is eminently sudorifique purging the body by sweat more effectually then any other Vegetable whatsoever and this not in a troublesom offensive way but in a sweet pleasing manner composing the spirits without desire of moving or tumbling from place to place as is usuall in other sweating whereby it purges the superflous and offensive humours from all the parts of the body And how effectual and safe such diaphoreticks are even in deplorable diseases few are ignorant of Now that the sweat proceeds from the taking of Opiate medicines is principally caused by the Opium take Diascorides his testimony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The very smel of the Opium is spread through the whole body The sweat procured by that means oftentimes having the very sent of the Opium 6 It is also Diuretick purging by Urine which is not so evident in the quantity as the quality of it being more high coloured bringing away slimy stuff often like rags and frequently causing both Gravel and stone to be voided 7 It hath also a purgative faculty where there is need of it Frequent experience saith a learned doctor hath taught us that two or three grains of the Opiate Laudanum being given at night hath purged both upwards downwards in the morning which quality proceeds from the bitterness of it Opium saith Quercetanus is bittter by reason of the Salt which being separated from its Oyl or Narcotick Sulphur is no less purging than all other bittter things as Gentian Centory and the like and Van Helmont makes mention of an Opiate medicine he gave in the evening which caused a vomit the next morning took away the and by spitting purged away the flegme 8 It is very powerful for the expulsion of wind and that to admiration It asswages the torments and gripings of the Stomach and bowels and drives out the wind both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upwards and downwards The true cause of all gripings saith my author is a preter-naturall acidity which is hostile wherever it is found Now acidity hath the Spleen for its seat and is the ferment of the stomach by which the digestion is performed but if this acidity be over-exalted there it causeth torments and wringing gripings usually called Orexis Stomach● if the least acidity descend into the bowels Meseraickes or messenteriall vessels not fully transmuted into a Saline nature it there also causeth torments and pain with ventosity and flatulent winds To these Opium is specifically accomodated when corrected both giving ease in the tormenting griping pains and extinguishing the malignant acidity which is the cause of them These are the virtues that by authors of good esteem are attributed to Opium and if any of them seem to be opposite to or contradicting of others be not too hasty in rejecting all and passing a rash sentence on the discourse severall parts of the same simple are found by the experienced to have different effects the Sulphureous part may work one way the Saline a quite contrary way and the same thing may have different effects according to the subject they work upon differing in their temperatures what binds one man hath by experience been found to loosen another Quicquid recipitur agit ad modum recipiertis And this noble Vegetable being duly corrected is made so friendly to nature that it becomes wholly serviceable to it assisting it in the performing of that service the patient that makes use of it stands most in need of The other simples in this composition that are powerful in operation are the two Hellebores of which also a large catalogue of vertues are in herballs described the principall whereof I shall briefly lay down They are both said to be dry and hot in the third degree and the black hotter than the White this cleanseth the stomach by vomit the other the bowels by stool and both purge away superfluous humours They were antiently esteemed as the appropriate medicine to purge away melancholly distempers and cure Madness that proceeded from them as appeares by Martial Dauda est Hellebori multo pars Maxima avaris Nescio an Anticyram ratio illis destinet omnem I know not saith he whether the whole sland Anticyra be not by reason appointed ●o bring forth Hellebore to cure the mad●ess of covetous persons And certainly ●here are none more mad than those who ●ake Gold their God and Gain their God●●ness that prefer Earth before Heaven and ●azard the perpetual loss of their souls for ●he obtaining a little wealth to look upon ●nly for to make use of it they have not ●earts Such mad men are they that for a ●ade in the world have sold their liberties ●●d brought themselves into bondage and 〈◊〉 mad are they that will part with Truth and ●ighteousness wherein the Image of Christ ●●nsists to scrape together a little pelf which ●●ey neither stand in need of or can expect ●●ng to enjoy I wish her that challenges the ●●le propriety in this Pill to be made sen●●le of the indirect means she hath used by ●●nting lies and slanders to defame others ●●d other under-hand dealings that she ●ight thereby ingross all into her own ●●nds and being convinced of her own ●●stemper I shall advise her to use a right way of recovery not Hellebore which the Poet points unto but what the great Physician prescribes to the Rich man Luk. 18.22 or the course that

thou as blind as bayard cry out of the strong poyson of the subjects viz. Poppy and black Hellebore thou snarling fool cease and first learn the power of Salt of Tartar and do not bewray thy folly and ignorance till thou have proved it's power lest thou give occasion of perpetual laughter unto those whom experience hath taught and informed Sal sapit Omnia Salt makes all things savoury Every one knowes it's vertue in preserving things from putrefaction and amongst all fixed Salts there is none so powerful as that of Tartar which Van Helmont calls Sua inter alcalia respublica Diascorides affirms it to be cleansing heating binding eating drying It purifieth the blood and purgeth the body saith Mullerus in the most deplorable diseases It maketh Medicines of it self of excellent vertues according to the severall wayes of preparing of it and mixed with other ingredients it corrects the venome and exceedingly exalts the virtue of the simples to which it is joyned It is of singular use in the extracting the tincture and essence of Vegetables Neither is the Salt Peter though it be here cheifly used for the burning of the Tartar without singular vertue as may be abundantly seen in the writings of several who have treated of it It resists putrefactions quencheth thirst incideth the Tartareous humours in the body resolveth coagulated blood and easeth pain and therefore is frequently used in Feavers and those the most malignant the Collect Plurisie peripneumony stone of the Reins and Bladder and obstruction of the Liver and mesereum for these and other distempers it is variously prepared The Lapis Prunellae the mineral Saccharat Christal the Corallate Niter sweet Salt Panacaea Duplicata or Duplicate Arcanum of Minsicht the Spirit of Niter the flowers and tincture with other excellent medicines highly cryed up by many authors have this for theire Basis But all salts per se are of a sharpe and corrosive nature which is taken a way by the addition of and fermentation with essential Oyles til they be saciated with them and become one body and so they may be made an excellent Balsome Now among all essential Oyles there is not any in the vegetable family doth excel the Oyl or Spirit of Terebinth or Turpentine which is admirably Diuretick and Abstersive healing both outwardly and inwardly as it is very well known to experienced Physicians and Chirurgeons It is hot emollient discutient opening purging Beguinus saith it helpeth the Cough and ptysick it resisteth pestilent Poyson purgeth the Stomach provoketh Urine expels the Stone helpeth the Strangury and Ulcers of the Bladder it openeth and strengtheneth the Nervous-parts dissolveth coagulated blood and helpeth the Matrix Large are the encomiums that by many are given of it and it is plentifully to be had without danger of being adulterated With this Oyl the Salts are to be so long digested till being fully opened they drink up thrice their quantity in weight which you shall in the operation see them after some time greedily as it were thirsting for with which they are to be supplyed till they are fully satisfied neither as yet is there a firm union for after this the Salt will cast forth all the Oyl again and betake it self to the bottom and then become obdurate like a coy Lover that hath taken offence seeming hard to be reconciled yet after this with many sollicitations and much patience it wil yeild to entertain and embrace the Oyl again and to have the Gordian knot knit which cannot be losed This is a six-months work at least yea I have by experience found it in some above a twelve-month before it hath been brought to perfection and if some may have a more speedy way and can facilitate their work yet knowing the proverb difficilia quae pulchra I shall with the poet say Accipe tu facilem Da miht Dificilem This is the corrector of all Vegetables yea the most truculent and virulent stripping them of all their Poysonous and hurt ful qualities and making them safe and excellently medicinable This doth ripen the crudities separate the Gummousnes correct the venome and exalt the vertue of all simples and makes them truly diffusive of their vertue through all the parts of the body where as if they be taken crude or according to the Galenical way of preparation they onely disturb the stomack irritate the Archeus of nature which being enraged may cast forth what is in the stomack and bowels so that which is bad being cast out with the good some benefit may by accident be obtained by them yet not without prejudice to the patient the Faeces of the drugs remaning behind which after leave dangerous consequences Let him that prepares this be sure there be an intire union between the Oyl the Salt and a transmutation of the Oyly Sulphur into a saline nature which may be known by this as by a sure sign viz. if they will dissolve in any liquor without separating any Oylynes swiming on the toppe and then is it made truly volatile and may by an experienced hand be dissolved and distilled of it a Spirit made of farre more excellent vertue The vegetables of which this Pill is composed come next in place to be treated of whose properties are in every Herbal set forth yet in regard every one that shall desire to make vse of this Pill may not be furnished with those Books I conceive it will be of use to give you a breif account of what Authors have writ of them The Opium and the two Hellebores have admirable vertues in them though in regard of a venemous quality connatural to them they have Nol●me tangere writ upon them without a due correction but when that virulency is by a due correction extinguished they prove admirably efficacious for releife in and the cure of many not onely ordinary distempers but astonishing and desperate diseases And first for the Opium it is a great Narcotick and therefore cryed down as a Stupefactive Lethal ingredient by many physicians and yet it is a cheif ingredient in many of their principal Antidotes witness Mitridate Diascordium Venice and London treacle Philonium Laudanum and other medicines of which he that peruses their Dispensatoryes may furnish himself with a catalogue what they correct the malignity of the Opium with in those medicines let the makers of them seriously consider I am confident there is no way proposed in those Dispensatoryes that is sufficient to do it except the multiplicity of ingredients do drown in part their virulency together with part of their vertue The Stupefactive venome of Opium consists in the Sulphureous part of it which by often made factions with this correctour and drying again is exhaled and then it becomes amicable to nature and doth powerfully put forth the following vertues 1. There is an anodinous vertue eminently appearing in the operation of it whereby it quietly asswages pain in a pleasing and almost insensible way driving out

weeks ere you use it and it is fit for use Onely the older it is the better it will be Comparing this and the former receipt we shall not stand in need of a judge endued with the wisedom of Solomon to decide who is the true Father of the child one of a meaner capacity may determine the controversie and if any shall still doubt I shall desire them to read seriously Mr. Starkey's Pyrotechny-asserted and he shall there though in more obscure termes see the foundation and ground of it It will be needless to say any thing for the explaining this Receipt having spoken already to all the ingredients But here you may see some variety in the Alkali The way prescribed to purisie the Salt is worth your serious consideration The Tartar cannot be brought to so pure a Salt by burning but you shall have some feculency adhering to it which by this means is taken away The Art and manner of the composition is of singular concernment The Opium whereof that which comes from the Streights is best cannot be cleansed without dissolution in the doing whereof not any of the vertue is diminished and if it be done with spirit of wine it rather helps to the correcting of it The severall moistenings and dryings of the Pill is of excellent use by this means the Sulphureous part of the Opium in which the malignity consists is exceedingly wasted and totally subdued And now whosoever thou art that shalt undertake the making of this Pill see that thou beest very cautious Thou dealest with dangerous subjects It is not a work for a raw or careless youth Two or three things are much feared in the publishing this Receipt The one lest that the making of this Pill be adventured on by indiscreet persons that want judgment or careless and rash persons that shall without due caution and circumspection mixe these things together and they not being brought to maturity may retain their noxious qualityes and so have dangerous consequences I have severall times heard Mr. Mathews say that he durst not trust bis people in this for if his eye was not on them they were very subject to do amiss an evident experience of whose carelesness was seen in the last preparation for the Pills he made before his death but let such persons consider that this Receipt is not made authentick by being inserted in the dispensatories therefore if any miscary by it through want of due preparation they must not expect to have their fault buried in the Grave without being questioned as is too usuall in those miscariages that are by authorised Physicians The second thing feared is lest this falling into the hands of mercenary men who mind their own gain more then other mens good this medicine may be spoiled and rendred inefficatious and that either by making use of decayed drugs which have lost their virtue or such as are adulterated as much of the Opium which is brought from the Jndies is if credit be to be given to that excellent Herbarist Mr. John Parkinson Or it may be spoiled with additionall mixtures that are either of little value or of a contrary nature either of which may so clog the due ingredients that they shall not be able to put forth their true vertue This hath been the lot of many excellent medicaments which have been reported to be of admirable efficacy in their first Originall and rise but now they are become contemptible and destitute of that power and virtue they at first appeared endued withall The Epithites of Sophisticate and adulterated are not more commonly than truly given to many medicines that are usually sold I will instance only in the Oyle of Amber a thing of singular vertues if rightly prepared from the pure and simple amber many authors have written very highly of the praise thereof and my own experience with the relations I have had from severall persons who have had of this from me hath confirmed the truth of their writings For farther satisfaction you may read what Mr. Mathews affirms of it in several places of his book principally in that part which gives directions how to draw it But this Oyle of Amber that is commonly sold by the Druggists and Apothecaryes is by some of them that are more candid and ingenuous than others acknowledged to be a great part of it Oyle of Turpentine or at the best Oyle of Spike only the Amber over ruling in giving it the sent and tincture for say they were it pure and simple without mixture it could not be afforded at that low price it is sold at How weak and inconsiderate are those persons that having occasion to make use of that Oyl or other the like things will to save a little in the price buy trash to put into their bodys or for outward applications which is likely to afford them little or no releif and how Sordid are those practitioners that will obtrude it upon their patients or direct them to the use of such debilitated and invallid medicaments The third thing feared is lest the very names of the Opium and Hellebores do so affright weak and timerous persons that they shall not dare to make use of it and truly this is the bugbear that doctors do labour to deter people from the use of it by Take heed say they what you do there is Opium in it and Opium will be Opium when all is done to it that can be done whereas this Opium is a principall ingredient in many of their prime medicines as I have formerly shewed and to use Mr. Parkinson's own words It is an ingredient of much respect in those great compositions of Therica Mithridaetum c. the like may be said of the Hellebores But let such persons consider that as the onely wise God placed Cherubims with a flaming sword to keep the way of the Tree of Life so he hath fenced and armed those simples which have most virtue in them for the recovery of mans lost health with some venome that must by wisedom and diligence be destroyed by them that would enjoy the benefit of them The bush that beareth the fragrant Rose hath its sharp prickles and the Bee that affordeth the sweetest hony is armed with a sting which he that will gather the honey must take heed of And if it be lawful to compare temporal things with spiritual I may say true Chymical preparations do somewhat resemble the work of the All-powerful God in the mystery of Regeneration wherein he makes choice of the worst of men many times to make of them the most active instruments for the propagating his Truth and glory Saul the greatest of sinners is made by him the chiefest of the Apostles and one that laboured more abundantly than all the rest in the work of the Ministry where true mortification and renovation passes upon such as have been the most deadly enemies to the Church and cause of Christ they become the most glorious