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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

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

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