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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

to be kept close in fine powder severally in glass-bottles The greatest dosse for men Antimony ten grains Scamony fourteen grains Tartar eight grains The ordinary dosse for men Antimony nine or ten grains Scamony eleven or twelve grains Tartar six grains The lesser dosse for men Antimony fix grains Scamony nine grains Tartar five grains For children betwixt seven and fourteen Antimony seven or eight grains Scamony five or six grains Tartar three grains For sucking children and under seven Antimony two or three grains Scamony four or five grains Tartar three grains To children give it with Sugar or some sweet liquor but to others as you please if the Ague or disease cease not at the first time give it again four or five times ever diminishing the quantity because the humors being once stirred they are the easier carried out or if this portion do little the first day then add more with discretion This Powder you may use in all diseases where humors do offend either simple or compound hot or cold thin or gross clammy or windy worms or extention above nature it helpeth the stopping of the Flowers the extention of the belly the Dropsie in the beginning Tertians Quartans and all sharp Feavors Choller ill appetite watching thirst unquietness of mind i● helpeth the small Pox and Plurisie it is not to be given where is great evacuation but explition and fullness it is much better then letting of blood As for this portion of Physick rightly prepared and applied I do believe considering the inconsiderableness of the preparation the world never had any better and I trust in God I have done good service unto my Country in bringing it to light but if any be envious and is disposed to cavil at it all that I desire of him is that he would let it alone The true preparation of Crocus Martis Take the filings of Steel what quantity you please which you may buy at the Druggist and put it in a broad earthen well glazed dish and sprinkle it twice a day with strong Vinegar set it in the hot Sun or cover it with another dish and let if stand upom Embers the night time do this for one month now and then stir it up and again give it Vinegar till thou perceive it is all become rusty dry it well and beat it to sine powder then take a large glass body and put it into it and pour upon it distilled Vinegar which must needs be so otherwise thou wilt be as much troubled with the fecis of the Vinegar as the thou wilt be with the damd Terra of the Crocus let it be covered with a blind head but first stir it well set it in a Furnace of ashes or in Balneo Maria for four or five days look that the Vinegar be deeply colloured red if not shake it well together and let it stand in the fire till it is then cast off the clear into a clean vessel put on more Vinegar and this repeat till thou seest that it wil ting no more take all thy Vinegar and filter it thorow a double Cap paper it will thorow by reason of the sharp penetration of the Vinegar then in a clean glass vessel vapor all the Vinegar away or with a head and receiver draw off thy Vinegar and in the bottom thou wilt receive a fair red Crocus but if thou wilt take the pains to repeat this labor again that is to dissolve it in fresh Vinegar after thou hast taken it out and put in a clean new earth vessel and let it be gently calcined for four or five days and again desolved filtred coagulated thou wilt have a Medicin of more worth then gold God be merciful to men and women which in stead of this have only the rust of Iron put into their bellies this Medicin is vast in its effects but most omninous in all kind of Fluxes let it content thee for this time I have given thee a true receit To prepare the Sugar of Saturn Take what quantity of lead thou wilt and in a Iron Kettle melt it and with a ladle of Iron stir it this continue till all the lead be turned into an Ash colloured powder if thou wilt as I have done add Bay salt and continue it over a strong fire till thou perceive it begins to attain a red collour let it cool put it into a clean vessel not greasie and wash out all the Salt well and be sure thou take all the Salt taste away as by thy tasting the last water thou maist perceive then dry it well in a clean vessel then grind it well upon a Pursry with distilled Vinegar fit for to be used with a pensill put it into a clean glass cover it six fingers with distilled Vinegar put on a blind head and let it stand in ashes or Balneo Maria three or four days let all cool thy Vinegar will be as sweet as Sugar to thy taste cant of the clear put on more distilled Vinegar proceed as afore till it will yield to thee no more swee tness filter all as before of thy Crocus vapor away till thou see a scum arise upon the top let all cool set it in a cool place or seller and it will shoot into most transparent Chrystals which is called the Sugar of Saturn note if it do not shoot into Crystals thou hast not vapored it enough away when thou hast took out those Chrystals vapor the rest and it will shoot Chrystals afresh but if thou wilt take these Chrystals and calcin them again and then disolve filter congeal as is said above it will yet excel I have done it five or six times over I cannot tell thee what this is good for I know it is a great astringer it is no part of my indeavor to make my self wiser then I am let it suffice thee for this time that I have given thee a true receipt for I dare not write beyond the labor of my hand if thou canst believe me there is no deceit in what I commit unto thee thou maist as I have done also work this out of Red-lead hut it did like me better to work it out of lead it self I will now give thee a true and plain Receipt of one of the most potent stateliest Medicins that I think is attainable in the world The true preparation of the essence of Venus commonly called Ens Veneris Take from the Dunghill at the Refiners his dead head commonly called Caput mortuum that which is left of his Aqua Fortis the blacker it is the better it is for that is most burnt put it into clean water and it will disolve stir it let it fine cant off that water but on fresh water this repeat till you by taste find no more sharpness in it keep that water together dry well the red earth take of this red earth what quantity thou wilt of Salt Armoniake equal parts grind them well together put them into a sublimatory of good

the biggness of a gray pease swelled or twelve grains or ten or fourteen grains to twenty grains where is strength but to a child new born no more then a pin-head and not a great one neither but about one quarter of a grain My advice and councel is to all both old and young that they be sure they take little enough at first and in so doing there is great safty always having regard to the strength and condition of the patient forasmuch as the thing in its one property is a mear cordial and a great fortifier of nature too much you may take without safty as a man may drink too much wine but too little you cannot take as to safty so that the least grain is profitable to whole nature and not in the least prejudicial therefore I do warn and charge that you begin with little enough and that you do increase afterward as you find by good experience the patient can bear it unto a child of ten or twenty hours old give as much as a small pins-head and so increase with care as you shall find it to work it at once brings them to rest causeth them to eat and suck lustily and drives out any thing amiss in them and for a child a year old give as much as a great pin-head still increasing as you do perceive strength to bear it but it is better to give it either to old or young a little and oft always taking it when you are going to bed or in bed and you must alow twelve or fourteen hours unto its working and above all things take heed of colds but if you should get a cold haste to bed take a good Pill it is gone it will do no hurt if you find your head to be giddy and unsettled and also your stomach to be heaving it is best to give it time and repose by sleep least you be very sick and vomit which you will not do if your stomach be not very foul note that it is not in its strength till four or five hours taken there is no observation of diet but for men and women to keep a wholsom open clean diet avoyding all things that is cold and windy in operation but always keep your stomach warm with that which is good wholesom also always drink a wine-glass of the best Beer Ale or Wine after the taking of the Pill it is to be noted that if a mans head and breast be well he may rise at any time I my self do frequently rise after the taking my last Pill about two hours this is in hot weather not but that I must sleep after again you must further give what time you will if your stomach be foul and poisonous you will vomit I do in the Winter time frequently when I am abroad and find my self not well take a little Pill of four grains or a grain or two more as I like my self and drink a cup of good Beer after it this doth raise me up beyond all belief its common operation is by sweat and Urin which you may increase as you please you shall find that a double portion will have a double effect so that you may do what you will with your self it is further to be noted that after three or four days this Pill will purge your body but with hast and pleasure generally it doth purge you will also find a fiery sharp humor to go away and although it make you a little sore for the present yet will you have cause to give thanks to God for its discharge although with pain you will do well to let it take its own course and follow natures law it oft appears most by Urin I know many because of its strange working have slighted it and left it and spake ill of it thorow their own fears unto their own hurt and yet at last it hath been their last and best refuge these are not a few in and about London and now who shall commend it like these it is no new thing to have the best substances thrown by if they do not in all things appear according unto received circumstances I do wish all that are weak to do as I do my self to use this Pill more or less as they find occasion and always have within their reach a cup of the best a spoonful of good cordial-water is good in cold weather my Pill doth hate all small drinks that are fomented or wrought with yeast which fills with Wind and Rhums keep ever your stomach warm with wholesom meat and drink and care not for being a little hot let it suffice thee that my Pill although hot yet doth it kill all unnatural heat whatever I have always by me a bottle of a rich cordial-cordial-water and a pot of strong Beer or Ale with Sugar or of the Sirrop of black Cheries which after my way of making doth excel and sometimes I do use these apart and sometimes together as I do find my self and sometimes none of them all but of any drink whatever it be be not to free with it at one time but rather a little and oft you will find this Pill to coarse and follow wind up and down from head to heel as a dogg followeth a Hare thorow every hedge and bush and in this working you will of a suddain find a little faintness then a spoonful of that which is best is acceptable and well applied at that time besure to keep your head on your Pillow and while one would tell fourty it is gone and thus it will do till it hath found some natural purger for his enemy but if thou dost not break wind by a sensible way of evacuation yet thou shalt find it gone thou knowest not which way thou maist observe that thy Pores are set open all over thy body and by secret breathings at those little Pores it will oft make his way and sometimes by Urin it will follow natures law and use those purges which is most apt and spontaneous and what pains soever thou hast old or new will give way and thou at ease as if thou ailedst nothing for the most part it is so but if thou find it rake too high upon an old grief know it is in order to heal and cure it therefore I say condescending unto thy weakness and unbelief prove it first with a little and increase with judgement as you find strength and courage to bear it thou maist know that it hath power if thou hast wisdom to apply it It falls out oft upon surly griess as Sciatica and Gout in the feet that it will nibble at them more strongly then thou wouldst therefore mark what I have said to thee In my first Bill I did not commend it to women with child both because my Pill is not now as then neither had I experience but now I do commend it to them above any thing in the world for the health both of mother and child

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

on of water till it be no more sharp let all be clean filtred and vapor away the half or above and it will shoot into transparant green Chrystals very fair Vitriol vapor yet again and it will shoot again if thou hast vapored enough of it away take all the Chrystals or Vitriol and lay it abroad on a well glazed dish and set it in a stove or in the Sun in his strength and it will break into white powder then put it into a clean distilled water and it will dissolve filter it again coagulate it into Chrystals it will shoot into far more fairer Vitriol then the ●irst this ought to be repeated so oft till it will ●et no more fecis but at this twice it will be in a very honorable condition and so far I have gon● dry it well it will be a white yellow powder and keep it close ●●opt in a glass for thy use of this powder ten or twelve grains in the morning and so for a week toge●he● ●is profitable to bring the Flowers if drunk in good white wine and stirring upon it it sometimes causeth vomiting sometimes purging and sometimes neither it easeth the breast of stopping helps Rickits and killeth worms give to children three or four grains according to their strength it is a choice Medicin as I have proved If thou would draw the Oyl of Vitriol thy self take good Copperas and in a new earthen pan boyl it dry beat it to powder put it in long necks lute fast draw it with judgement as much as the Oyle of Amber is some calcine it red first as I have done my self but for this work it need not so be done A true Receit of the powder of Sympathy or the Sumpathetical powder made of Roman Vitriol lately commended by Sir Kenelme Digby but no plain Receit given which I here perform and freely give thee knowing that there is none better Take what quantity of Roman Vitriol thou wilt dissolve it in rain water but put no more water then will dissolve it always leaving some undissolved in the bottom filter it as clean as possible let thy water be milk warm in thy dissolution put it in a clean glass-body set in sifted ashes and give it gentle heat so that it never exceed the heat of thy belly and in that heat let it vapor away till thou see it covered with a Catecula or thin scum or cream then withdraw thy fire let it sland unmolested for three days covering it well that nothing fall into it then with a glass spoon or wooden spoon take out the coagulated Vitriol which is shot into fair green Chrystals then kindle thy fire again and with like degree continue till it be covered with a scum withdraw thy fire again let it stand other three days take up again with a wooden spoon the coagulation this you must repeat untill thou hast the substance of thy Vitriol again but freed from much of its filth take all thy Vitriol which thou hast gathered spread it on a glass or well glazed dish in the heat of the Sun or in defect thereof a clean stone of equal heat with the scum and take heed thou dost not exceed for then wilt thou leese its vital parts which are quickly volatil and subtil neither wilt thou attain any more greenness on thy Vitriol which when thou perceivest begin again all is lost understand thy degrees of fire better but if you give it its dew heat then will it break into a white powder and the greenness which is its life will obscure and hide it self then take it again and in rain water distilled twice dissolve it as at first Now mark I bring thee again to thy beginning and there I leave thee for this work thou shouldst repeat so oft and so long till it set no more fecis to thee but conclude when thou wilt thou seest what Sir Kenelum Digby doth write viz. The Antients did use this Vitriol in its grosse body beat to powder I have here given thee so true away as I know none better for in this thou bringst it beyond what is fit to be written and doth hold preserve and keep all its power both spiritual sympathetical fixt and Volatil If thou hast ears I have said much what is wanting unto thee consult with Van Helmount Aswall Groby Mr. Boulton and Sir Kenelme Digby Being moved fully with good will I will here give thee one receit more the like I confidently affirm never saw the light for the good of mankind and whosoever will be perswaded upon my faith and credit always to have it truely and faithfully prepared may with much confidence cease from all other things in the world quietly commit themselves and relations into the hands of Almighty God in the use of this with quietness and rest and I speak boldly if this prove short to correct thy Feavor and heal thy disease and hath not power to purge thy blood and throw all out that is noxtious unto thy vital Spirit let thy ailes be what they will look not for it to be done in this world I pitty thy fugitive mind and pray for thee when I see thee hunt from one man to another and from one Medicine unto another which is indeed the harbinger of death but if thou art admonished from thy vain worshipping of men to fall off and with a quiet mind pray and use this and therein rest waiting upon God I am sully possest and perswaded in my conscience it is sufficient for thee and if thou as blind as Bayard cry out of the strong poison of the subjects viz. Poppey and black Hellebor thou snarling fool cease and first learn the power of Salt of Tartar and do not bewray thy folly and ignorance till thou hast proved its power least thou give just occasion of perpetual laughter unto those whom experience hath taught informed I do confess I can exempt no Medicin in the world but my Pill and Antidote whose receits I may not at present here give thee and this I protest unto thee that if thou hast made a right use of this that I have here in full and plain words taught I should have small hope with any thing I am made Master of to help and cure where this cannot and therefore as thou hast respect unto thy life consider what I now teach thee I say I teach thee under God for I have not had the least light or guide from any breathing or from any book but God Almighty my Lord and good Master hath been my guide and therefore I with joy do ascribe unto him all praise and thansgiving for ever Rec. Take one pound of the best White Rhennish Tartar and one pound of India Salt-peeter bring them to powder in a stone Morter serce them thorow a Hair Sive take a Pipkin that was never used set it upon Charcole let the bottom heat as the coals do kindle put in a spoonful of this

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