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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

things onely and I think a notabler cure is seldom done as some of good quality can bear testimony a young woman comes to me pained in her throat head and bowels of this disease as all supposed and she her self did much fear because her husbands first wife were noted for a light huswife this good woman almost killed her self with grief and for two years ran up and down amongst Doctors and Chirurgions but in vain and the Chirurgion made holes in her throat by lancing it and such like foolish things at last she comes to me I gave her of these Pills and by that time she had spent one shilling she told me she was as well as ever she was in her life and I am confident in three years time I did not take five shillings of her money but she continues in perfect health I could not have believed it till time hath made it evident Cures some kind of Gouts easeth the most malign brings the patient unto quiet rest A woman lame eight years of a Gout which did disable her in all her limbs that she could neither stir hand nor foot when she sent to me her joynts was very much knotted the first Pill she took being in a kindly sweat both she and her husband told me this story she began to stir her fingers which was very strange to her and a while after she could get her hand unto her mouth to be short in three dayes time she could go about the Chamber which she could not do in two years before that time A Gentleman removing her dwelling into Lime-street got an extream cold and Surfeit as she doth report I do suspect it to be otherwise how ever so it was that she could neither stir hand nor soot but was perfectly useless to her self onely as by main strength of two o● three which was alwayes ready did list her and this uselesness of Limbs accompianed with extream pains this woman in a matter of three weeks time using onely my Pills although it was cold weather was perfectly well unto all demonstrations and I by accident saw her go along the street and truely although an ancient woman yet she did hold up her head and went as straight and as nimbly a good lusty pace as any young woman whatever and although she sen● me word the was well yet it was far from me to think she had been so well and that in frosty weather it is to be noted when I sometimes say they have nothing but my Pill I do includ the extract of my Pill and also the Oyl of Amber with which oft times I do annoint and all is but my Pill A woman in Saint Johns street was so sorely afflicted with the Gout and Sciatica that in her extreamity she did roar out in such a hideous manner as did much disquiet the neighbors and no ease or cure could be attained her husband come to me with such pittiful moan for his wife as did much exceed I was much troubled for him and gave him of my Pills and sent him away and told him that by that time the Pills was warm in her breast that she would have ease and her pains would sease and that she would go to rest he did as I ordered him and when he came again he said that by that time his wise had taken a Pill in one quarter of an hour she did find such case as if she had been in heaven and truely this man in the name of his wife did so load me with thanks as if I had done it I bless and praise the God of heaven who hath saved my life and brought me thorow great pains and sickness for this happy end even to be a poor instrument in his hand for ease and refreshing of many and further as I take it about three weeks or a month I am not certain which this poor woman comes from Saint Johns-street unto the Tower to me to fetch for her self more Pills A little boy having four of his fingers out off of that disease called the Kings Evil this boy at the place where his fingers was cut off did alwayes stand with a drop of water upon them but next day after the taking the first Pill there was no drop of water as formerly at which the parents did much wonder and the boy grew extream quick and lively in what ever he did that they was very sensible of his real benefit Another Boy lame of his Limbs and Feet from a child so that he could not go to stool nor hold a pen in his hand and by that time he had taken three of my Pills he was grown so strong that he ran up a pair of stairs before me and I made him hold a Tobaco-pipe in form of a pen and he then held it as stedily as I or any in the room could do which indeed was far more then was to have been expected in so short a time And many that have been troubled with one arme shorter then another and with great pains in particular joynts this Pill thorow Gods good-ness have proved ready help unto them An old man belonging unto the Charterhouse many years troubled with Tisick straightness of breath that with great difficulty he went about also one arm begun to shrink and grow stiff so that he could not make use of his pocket as formerly he had done with a little use of my Pill did receive his breath at length and his Arm at length also and as he and I was going together along the walk before the Charterhouse said he to me look you how I go and what pace I go I could not have done so before I took your Pills but I must have stood and gaped like a Camelion for breath I do not know how oft in going the length of this walk A vertuous Gentlewoman of good note and my very good friend whom it hath pleased God to visit with much sickness for a great many years and now lately it sell out to be very sore in her head this Gentlewoman having made use of the ablest Doctors but her grief could not be helpt in so much that this good woman almost in a dispair did much fear her senses and all that could be done could not bring her head to purge untill she met with my Pills which did most powerfully accomplish her desire and did set her head a purging at her ear and shortly very sweetly cured it to her exceeding great joy and comfort with the joy of her family A Gentlewoman that liveth at Westminster that well knew the use and worth of my Pills went with some other Gentlewomen to Barnet where she drank water in abundance but without judgment she presently fell into a extream scowring she sends with what hast could be to me for half an ounce of my Pills the use and vertue of which she very well knew but before they could come at her she was far spent and had entertained a Doctor

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

what will you do when you shalt appear with your works following after you when God that cannot lye will set your sins in order before your face I know you labor to stiflle such thoughts as these O beast of men O most devilish whilst men How is your vengeance hightening have you professed the fear of God many of you to end in this accursed Apostacy for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever O that there were thoughts of returning in you hell beneath hath enlarged her self to receive and meet you at your coming O miscreant of man how long dost thou think to wallow in thy lusts serving evil concupisence drinking iniquity like water made fat for slaughter I aske whether these be not they for whom supplication is not to be made Alas alas my heart bleedeth within me when I confider that some of you have not onely professed the name of Christ long but also suffered both imprisonment and fled into far Countries out of a zeal for his name and now have spewd up all at once and returned unto your old lusts from which you were purged as a dogg unto his vomit or a sow that was washed unto her wallowing in the mire receiving the just recompence of your error viz. seven hellish spirits far more worse then the first that you might fall into the damnation of hell and be damned together even the condemnation of the devil be not deceived God is not mocked as a man soweth so shall he reap and of these I speak aloud expecting nothing but plague and pox to follow them the reward of their labor I know it boiles amongst them already I know some will wonder why I have spoken so much of these and of this disease and why I have spoken unto good people with these therefore this thou maist know First I speak unto all men and all sorts and ranks of men to admonish them all Secondly a clean heart is not hurt nor will be offended at any thing I have said And thirdly I could not break this order with the discharge of my conscience And fourthly without this that I have said both in whole and in part I darst not give thee the true and clear way of cure of this detestable disease and all roots from this ground the difference twixt this disease and most other this with abundance of wickedness and sin first against God secondly against thy one body which ought to be the Temple of God preserved in holiness unto him and not given to a harlot thirdly against thy relations who hath power over thy body but other diseases which are common to man proceed from sundry other causes which is not in themselves sinful and for these causes I have thus spoken and hope thereby to be an instrument in the hand of God to pull some poor soul or other out of the fire and indeed as I said at first had it not been for the sakes of some who are clean but bestowed with some such beast or bruit of mankind which hath polluted them I should have said nothing of this disease at all but I do judge it much better that many of the worst partake of the blessing with the best then that one of the best should languish in the torture of the first and therefore I do set down the most safest way speediest cheapest and freest of pain and torture I verily believe that is in the world Rec. Take two ounce of my Pill and lay it thin upon a well glazed dish set it out of the Sun and it will quickly be fit to bring to powder drive it thorow a Lawn or Hair five put this powder into one quart of White-wine or that which is better viz. make a Lixivium or stronge lye of Chalkes Vive or White wine for this is most slately and operates very potently both by sweat and Urin as is much proved everyday and is although dispised a great blessing and moreover I assure thee from knowledge is chief with some as universal who have a vulgar same in Physick use which thou wilt I do by experience commend this last to excel let this be done in a glass bottle shake it oft and in twenty four hours it will be fit to use but longer is better dispose thy self a part if thou wouldst suddainly be well and thy illness require thee and have warm accomodation and a good tender and careful Nurse eat and drink the bed that can be got for mony and always have ready good wine and strong-Strong-water by thee because of a suddain will a windy fainting come upon thee and of a suddain gone at such a time a spoonful of a good cordial water is necessary for thee see that thou sweat by day and not in the night when thou maist have good tendance sweat not with this extract but every other day and then do it to purpose as thou finds thy strength if thou beest of a middle strength the first time begin with six spoonful in six spoonful of White-wine and then observe by that how thou dost bare it and increase accordingly so also in all cases begin with little enough and come on with discretion but know in this disease thou must charge home to the end it may accomplish thy desire and at once as it were it will whirle all thy disease into thy in skin the superfices or most extream parts and in the other night the day that thou dost not sweat thy greatest sweat take at night a good Pill of 16 or 20 grains if thou findest thou art able to bear it and that wil maintain and keep what the other hath gotten for thou must know that thou dost take the strength of at least eight or ten Pills when thou dost take the extract thereof for thou art not not able to bear this earthly body it would suffocate the but being onely his more subtile and spirituous part it works safe and miraculous not onely in this disease but in many or all other diseases and when thou hast it all in thy skin fear not but go on the same way and if any part break and run fear it not it will not fail thee if thou do not neglect thy self but it will both throw all out and heal it when it is out as thou maist perceive by the instances set down in this book onely use thy self to great carefulness in the time of thy cure and always sweat and be hot till thou art well for there is no danger but in taking cold which thou maist easily prevent if thou be careful of thy self and follow while thou art in the way and all will be done at an easie rate for I have deserved twenty pounds when l have not had twenty shillings I never undertook any cure in my life nor never mean to do yet have helped many at small rates at ten shillings at five shillings the most that ever I had of any was three pounds five shillings for my

powder if the bottom be read hot it will burn put in one spoonful after another till all be burned it is then for this work prepared if thou hast wrought well thou wilt have of a white Salt but yellowish seventeen ounces again of thy two pounds Take half a bushel of White-lime put it in a clean tubb and put on it fair water that the water may cover it four inches let if stand all night take two gallons of this water and put in it thy salt and it is prepared for thy work then take one pound weight of Poppe-leaves good and red newly gathered as near as thou canst stamp them and put them into thy prepared water take also one pound of Juniper berries and do likewise also take one pound of black Hellebor which thou maist buy at the Druggist for a small matter beat it grosly and put it into the rest stir all very well let them simper upon a fire twenty four hours in a glass-body or in a Tin vessel or Pewter but let it be close covered then drive all through a Hipocris bagg and its prepared for thy use drink of this three or four spoonful in White-wine and Sugar but give more or less as the patient is strong or weak to weak children half a spoonful or a spoonful with Wine or Sugar note thou maist do what thou wilt with this if thou knowest how to apply it for thy health I desire thee whatever thou art to praise God for this the like I believe is not made manifest for the preserving of thy health against all diseases infections Feavors Surfeits this will not fail thee of relief let thy pains be what they will nor of cure if God permit if thou hast patience and will give it time I have from my conscience spoke my belief grounded upon reason and experience and freely give it thee beseeching God to bless it to thee and inlarge thy heart as mine is inlarged that is that thou maist do for thy neighbor as I now do for thee presenting nothing in this or any thing about it but the labor of my hand and what I daily put into my own belly and let me further tell thee I had much wrestling with my self as in the presence of God before I could prevail upon the gain-saying that was in me to draw so nigh thee for thy unvaluable benefit for if thou considerest the things are easie attained every ditch offering the some of them and the preparation so trinial that there is as much art to make a mess of pottage in this above all other I have deserved well at thy hand if thou hast a heart to improve it neither do I doubt although many will be angry and snatter at it but this entrance which I have given in this receipt will stand while the world indures and get strength and my memory held in honor for so good service in it This book hath swelled beyond my intention yet I am constrained to give thee one receipt or two more in few words and so I for this time shall rest praising God who helped me before I go out of this world to perform some real service for the good of mankind in general To make the drink that is now much used called Coffee The Coffee Berries is to be bought at any Drugist about three shillings the pound take what quantity you please and over a Charcole-fire in a old pudding-pan or frying-pan keep them always stirring untill they be quite black and when you crack one with your teeth that it is as black within as it is without yet if you exceed then do you wast the oyl which onely makes the drink and if less then will it not deliver his Oyl which must make the drink and if you should continue fire till it be white it will then make no Coffee but onely give you its salt the Berry prepared as above beaten and serced thorow a Lawn Sive is then fit for use Take clean water and boil one third of it away what quantity soever it be and it is fit for use Take one quart of this prepared water put in it one ounce of your prepared Coffee and boil it gently one quarter of an hour and it is fit for your use drink one quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it note that instead of Coffee take English Wheat and thou wilt find it in all points as good and as profitable for thee as I have wrought and proved it and speak it from knowledge and I do from my heart bear witness to this drink as the best and safest for the health of mans body and further I do know that it doth abate the fury or sharpness of the Accrimony which is the gender of those diseases called Cronical and although it doth want fermentation yet hath it the true strength of the grain if be well prepared and doth in no wife sume to intoxication for that it is unfermented and undoubtedly those which loves health will love this drink and is an absolute enemy unto natures enemies I had thought to have spoken much and from good grounds of the worth and benefit of this drink but being already inlarged beyond intention I am constrained to leave it for this time I have wrote many things which will have an ungrateful taste yet of mighty force for thy health I cannot conclude this book but I must give thee one receipt more which will be acceptable unto thy foolish fancy that in truth thy appetite never tasted a more stately thing or higher cordial for health and yet cheap and of very easie and vulgar preparation as followeth Take twelve pound of Black-Cherries that is full grown and sweet break all their stones in a morter put them in a Limbeck or in a small common Stillers Still put to them one gallon of fair Spring water distill off again one Gallon or on gallon within a point this water doth far exceed that which is commonly sold for black-Cherry water take all out and run it throw a Pulpring sive and wash with clean water the still or the Limbeck and what runs thorow the Sive of it self keep to make thy Surrup of the rest drive thorow the Sive by force that nothing be lest but skin and stones and that keep by it self for thy Surrop take the first that is thin and run thorow the Sive of it self put unto it for each pint two pound of sweet sented Lisborn Sugar and put into one quart of Rose water and one quart of Sparmint water boyl all at least eight hours Note that if from first to ●●st the matter be not boiled twelve or fourteen hours it will not answer thy intention but if thou wilt feed it with fire twenty four hours thou therewith may do wonders I have so wrought it and baked it over and over several times and thou maist know that a Black Cherry is a substance unknown and cannot by fire be made dry but as soon as it is cold it will draw to it self a moist air and will relent do what thou canst yet I have so fired him or fed him with fire that I could not touch it with my teeth such hath been its mighty force and for obstructions all have flown before it and when I would taking but a little more then ordinary it would loose my belly and give a stool or two but if thou wilt make a Surrup of it without this extream firing it will not then be worth an half penny but will be only toothsome as other ordinary Sirrops is I leave thee to judge of it as thou wilt I know for my self many years ago it was precious in its effects unto me and from that experience I had of it I now moved with good-will commit it unto thee FINIS