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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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