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<HEAD>PIL&V;LAE LONDINENSES. or, The <HI>London Pills,</HI> Directed and prepared by a Phy&s;ician of many years standing in the College of Phy&s;icians in <HI>London,</HI> according to true Rules of Art, good for Prevention, as well as the Cure of all Di&s;ea&s;es, wherein Purging is proper.</HEAD>
<P>BY the advantages of a Liberal Education in the Uni|ver&s;ity, and many years Experience in the practice of Phy&s;ick in this City, the unprejudiced cannot but think me a per&s;on capable not only of detecting the innumera|ble mi&s;chiefs ari&s;ing from Quacks, and their ill compoun|ded and wor&s;e prepared Tra&s;h, but al&s;o of making Me|dicines far &s;urpa&s;&s;ing any that &s;uch Men can pretend to the knowledge of. Accordingly I have invented, and for &s;ome time publi&s;hed, for the benefit of the Publick, the&s;e Pills (the re&s;ult of Rea&s;on and Experience) which I have ju&s;tly brought their poy&s;onous and ab&s;urd Phy&s;ick under a de&s;erved di&s;reputation, all that are wi&s;e now dreading to tru&s;t their lives with tho&s;e Pretenders, by whom &s;o many have &s;uffered; &s;ince they have ample A&s;&s;urance on <HI>Whom</HI> and <HI>What</HI> they may rely. For not only the meaner &s;ort of all Ages, and each Sex, but people of Eminence both for their Rank in the World and their Parts, have found admirable &s;ucce&s;s in taking the&s;e Pills.</P>
<P>They are and have been found &s;ucce&s;sful in the Scur|vy, Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e, Gout, Drop&s;ie, <HI>Coma,</HI> Lethargy, <HI>Ca|rus,</HI> Apoplexy, Pal&s;y, Convul&s;ion, Falling-Sickne&s;s, <HI>Verti|go,</HI> Madne&s;s, Catarrhs, Headach, Scald and &s;ore Heads, fore Eyes, Deafne&s;s, Toothach, fore Mouth, &s;ore and &s;wol|len Throat, foul Stomach, bad Dige&s;tion, Vomiting, Pain at the Stomach, &s;owre Belching, Colick, Twi&s;ting of the Guts, Loo&s;ne&s;s, Worms, all Ob&s;tructions of the <HI>Pancreas,</HI> of the Mefaraick Veins, of the pa&s;&s;ages of the Chyle, and of the Liver and Spleen, the Jaundice, Cachexy, Hypo|chondriack Melancholy, Green-Sickne&s;s and mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es of the Womb, Agues, Itch, Boyls, Rheumati&s;m, Pains and Aches, Surfeits by eating and hard drinking, or by Heats and Colds (as &s;ome call them.) They are al&s;o good in ta|king the Waters. I would not advi&s;e them by any means in the Bloody-Flux, nor in continual Fevers; but they are good to purge after either of tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es is over, or to
<PB REF="2">carry off the Humor aforehand. They mu&s;t al&s;o be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> born by Women with Child. Otherwi&s;e they are good for any Con&s;titution and in any Clime. They are dura|ble many years, and good at Sea as well as on Land.</P>
<P>They are proper in the forementioned Di&s;ea&s;es at any time of the Year: And becau&s;e no people are &s;o exactly emperate, as not to contract &s;ome &s;uperfluous Humors endangering their Health, it is nece&s;&s;ary, and prudent for them every <HI>Spring</HI> and <HI>Fall,</HI> to di&s;charge tho&s;e Humors, tho' they feel nothing urgent in them&s;elves &s;o to do, more than their provident care for Maintenance of their Health they then enjoy. And a Do&s;e or two of the&s;e Pills may probably en&s;ure any ordinary Con&s;titution for half a year.</P>
<P>But I t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk">k it Charity to caution you again&s;t &s;ome cob|ling Doctors, who having no Knowledge in the Earth, pretend to a great deal in the Stars: Do but read their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">, and they will tell you their skill in Non&s;en&s;e, and their Ignorance in Phy&s;ick, notwith&s;tanding their boa&s;ted A&s;trology. Believe them as little, who dare advi&s;e Women with Child to <HI>take as many</HI> of their purging Pills <HI>as their Body will bear,</HI> not regarding the Murther of Children.</P>
<P>Nor let their impudence move you any more than to Indignation, who having no reputation of their own, boa&s;t of Phy&s;icians approving their Tra&s;h, but produce no Phy|&s;ician's name that does &s;o: You may ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect &s;uch Mens Phy&s;ick equally with their vain A&s;&s;ertions.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t of the&s;e Mountebank-Doctors al&s;o that commen|ced in a Shop, being Vagrants from their Trades, provide feigned Letters of feigned Cures, as a Pa&s;s for their poy|&s;onous Mercurial Phy&s;ick, from one Town to another, ha|ving no other Patent recommendatory to practi&s;e by, than the Fob of a Letter from &s;ome Country-Fellow, in commendation of &s;ome Phy&s;ick which he never took. The&s;e things being far remote from Ingenuity or Learn|ing, I &s;hall never trouble you with any &s;uch.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>London</HI> Pills are &s;old in &s;everal Places in <HI>London,</HI> and at my Hou&s;e on the Left-hand the Arch in great <HI>Winche&s;ter-&s;treet</HI> (where you may have Advice in all Di&s;ea&s;es; I being to be &s;poken with be|tween eight and nine in the Morning, 1 and 2 in the Afternoon, and five and &s;ix in the Evening.) They are &s;ealed up in Tin Doxes, with a Serpent encircling the word <HI>[SAL&V;S.]</HI> Their Price 2 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d.</HI> the larger Box, and 1 <HI>s.</HI> the le&s;s, with ample Directions how to u&s;e them.</P>
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