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<P><HI>LA&V;NAE&V;S REDIVIV&V;S:</HI> OR, A True NARRATIVE Of the Admirable Effects of Delaun's Pill, That Ancient &amp; Excellent <HI>Galenick</HI> Medicine, Approved of, and Sold for above Fifty years, In BLACK-FRYERS, Now newly Reviv'd, And expo&s;ed to Sale, at the &s;igne of <HI>Delaun</HI>'s Head there, for the good of <HI>All,</HI> but e&s;pecially the <HI>Poor,</HI> who&s;e Pur&s;es reach not to whole Boxes or Bottles of Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>FOR, The Patient is not now obliged to expend above Six pence to prove the Operation of this <HI>Peerle&s;s</HI> Pill; <HI>One</HI> being a &s;ufficient Do&s;e for mo&s;t Con&s;titutions: Yet is above twice as co&s;tly, and but half the purcha&s;e of any other.</P>
<P>With &s;ome REFLEXIONS On the danger of <HI>Mercurial Medicines,</HI> Practis'd and invented by ignorant and impudent EMPERICKS.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, A &s;hort Di&s;cour&s;e and De&s;cription of the <HI>Scurvy, Drop&s;ie, Venereal,</HI> and other Di&s;tempers.</P>
<Q>Omne bonum e&ograve; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">elius, quo communius.</Q>
<P>By <HI>Nathaniel Lomax,</HI> Student in Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>Printed by <HI>J. C.</HI> for the Author, 1675.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Judicious Reader.</HEAD>
<P>AS there is n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> new thing under the Sun, &s;o neither w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ll I apologize for the publi&s;h|ing of the&s;e, in any other than the old way, <HI>viz.</HI> the importunity of Friends, which though it be but a blown-upon Excu&s;e, yet it carries with it a &s;ound truth, as well as the <HI>Antient</HI> Medicine (I here recommend) does mo&s;t cer|tain Vertues.</P>
<P>And, I faithfully declare, that it was not only the Vulgar who had formerly experimen|ted this Pill, that mov'd me, but al&s;o <HI>Eminent</HI> Arti&s;ts in Phy&s;ick that urg'd me to it, as well for their own as their Patients health; &s;ince they, of late, knew not el&s;ewhere to get it faithfully prepar'd.</P>
<P>For, there is a Pill call'd <HI>Ex duobus,</HI> mi&s;ta|ken and &s;old by the Apothecaries, for this of <HI>Delawn</HI>'s, whereas, that <HI>Ex duobus</HI> (being but of two Ingredients) hath tho&s;e two (yet not of equal quantities) and above twenty more; and the&s;e twenty, not at all, or very little Purgative; yet &s;o &s;uited, &s;o contrived and di&s;creetly fitted to the <HI>Catharticks,</HI> that the Correctives and gentle Purgatives (which &s;eem to allay and le&s;&s;en tho&s;e two) &s;trangely &s;trengthen them.</P>
<P>Which unheard-of Effects con&s;ider'd, we
<PB N="2" REF="4"> cannot but conclude this peerle&s;s Pill to be equal|ly miraculous in its extraordinary Vertues: being &s;o clo&s;ed and adapted to the very Nature of Man, that 'tis a real Remedy, and no le&s;s ea&s;ie than ab&s;olute.</P>
<P>The Right receipt whereof (waving the wa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of its curious Compo&s;ure) I &s;hall <HI>ingenuou&s;ly</HI> declare, to the <HI>Ingenious</HI> Inquirer. But &s;hould I be free, and conceal nothing, I &s;hould have the le&s;s rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect a <HI>Rival</HI> in this my retail'd Enterprize; where every per&s;on is as welcom<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> for <HI>Six pence</HI> as Six &s;hillings.</P>
<P>For, he that &s;hall con&s;cientiou&s;ly prepare thi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Pill, with <HI>choice</HI> Ingredients, and manage th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the Mixture thereof, with &s;uch art and skill &s;uch elaborate care and toyl, as is really requi+&s;ite, &s;hall have &s;mall encouragement (if no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;pur'd on with Charity) to interpo&s;e in th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Sale thereof.</P>
<P>And I can make it appear upon two or thre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the Arti&s;ts Oaths (Sacramental) yet living who in <HI>Delaun</HI>'s days prepar'd it for him, an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of whom I obtain'd this <HI>Rare Receipt,</HI> Th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> there is <HI>one</HI> (only) Ingredient in this <HI>Po&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+hume Pill,</HI> that doubles its Price (as well<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> multiplies its Vertues) which <HI>Aromatick, Co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+dial Bal&s;am</HI> (were it left out) yet the Medici<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> would be as excellent as any other extant.</P>
<P>But &s;ince this grand Ingredientis &s;o curio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> a Corrector of the re&s;t, and gives &s;o &s;weet<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="3" REF="4"> Odour, that 'tis more like a <HI>Pomander</HI> than a <HI>Pill;</HI> in&s;omuch, that per&s;ons mo&s;t aver&s;e to Phy&s;ick (who &s;ee and &s;mell) cannot choo&s;e but &s;wallow it, (for that welcome &s;cent that &s;o comforts the Brain, per&s;wades the Stomach al|&s;o to participate of its diffu&s;ive Vertues) it therefore cannot, mu&s;t not be omitted.</P>
<P>And, that this Rarity may be really right, I my &s;elf prepare it (together with the whole Medicine) with my own hands, ju&s;tly, con&s;ci|entiou&s;ly; and am free to do it in the view of any hone&s;t Arti&s;t.</P>
<P>And I declare that there's none of this Bal|&s;am now to be bought in <HI>England,</HI> but what comes from beyond Seas; which I do not, I dare not tru&s;t to.</P>
<P>And this, as well as any thing in this Tract written, I am ready verbally to aver, ju&s;tifie, and di&s;pute, with any <HI>Momus</HI> what&s;oever.</P>
<P>And <HI>Delaun</HI> him&s;elf (another <HI>Longaevus I&auml;pis</HI>) who liv'd neer an hundred years, and di'd worth as many Thou&s;and pounds) would often &s;ay, that this his<NOTE PLACE="marg"><Q><P>&mdash; Spargitq&punc; &s;alubres Ambro&s;iae &s;uccos &amp; o|dori&s;eram Panaceam,</P>
<P>Fovit c&acirc; vulnus lymph&acirc; longaevus Iapis.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Virg. AEnead. lib.</HI> 12.</BIBL></Q></NOTE> <HI>Panacean</HI> Pill <HI>added to his days,</HI> but not to his E|&s;tate; nor was he &s;o kinde to this Kingdom, as to di&s;|per&s;e and di&s;po&s;e it to &s;ale, in all its Coun|ties, for the good of the <HI>Poor;</HI> which I now have undertaken, my De&s;igne being to be as
<PB N="4" REF="5"> active in undeceiving the world, as <HI>Empericks</HI> have been in deluding it.</P>
<P>My Original knowledge in Phy&s;ick, I ac|knowledge to Pharmacie, being bred in that Profe&s;&s;ion, under that <HI>Great Inquirer</HI> into Na|ture (and who fir&s;t found out the Circulation of the Bloud) Dr. <HI>William Harvey,</HI> as his Apothecary: And (grounded on his Precepts, Practice and In&s;titutions) have, with no le&s;s delight than Charity, &s;tudied and admini&s;tred Phy&s;ick for about twenty years, with a liberal hand to the Poor, and making no advantage of the Rich; and now attempting only to pre|&s;erve, not get an E&s;tate.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my Laboratory and Habitation at the &s;igne of</HI> Delaun<HI>'s head in</HI> Black|fryers, London, <DATE><HI>May 1. 1675.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<Q>Carpere vel noli no&s;tra, vel ede tua.</Q>
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<L>SO &s;hone the Sun, and <HI>Python</HI> did de&s;troy,</L>
<L>As now tho&s;e ills which mankinde do annoy</L>
<L>You conquer, &s;ince the&s;e Arts you do employ.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. OLDIS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>Q&V;aint Epithites, Rhetorick, Eloquence,</L>
<L>In graceful &s;tyle, Encomiums commence</L>
<L>Of great <HI>Delaun;</HI> but all fall &s;hort; <HI>his Pill</HI></L>
<L>Speaks its own worth, more than the Authors Quill.</L>
<L>Grant one word more, &s;poke with <HI>integrity:</HI></L>
<L>The Medicine's choice, and manag'd <HI>faithfully.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>EDWARD MOLINS, Shoe-lane London,</HI> Chyrurgeon.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L><HI>DElaun</HI> reviv'd! ble&s;t news! for &s;ure that name</L>
<L>Revives both Rich and Poor <HI>(if &s;ick or lame.)</HI></L>
<L>The Rich take le&s;s, but better Phy&s;ick; <HI>Poor</HI></L>
<L>Can purcha&s;e now, Quacks barr'd them from't before.</L>
<L>What! a &s;ufficient Purge for &s;ix pence &s;old?</L>
<L>Enricht within with Bal&s;om, gilt with Gold:</L>
<L>That frees the tortur'd head from ach and grief,</L>
<L>And to the pen&s;ive heart, gives like relief;</L>
<L>The &s;ubtle <HI>Pox</HI> and <HI>Drop&s;ie</HI> quite roots out;</L>
<L>The lazy <HI>Scurvie,</HI> and the &s;turdy <HI>Gout!</HI></L>
<L>Whatever Malady mankind a&s;&s;ails,</L>
<L>This matchle&s;s Med'cine cures, and never fails.</L>
<L>Ble&s;t news indeed! this peerle&s;s Pill let's try:</L>
<L>What's &s;ix pence Sirs? let't go, rather than die.</L>
<L>Its Vertues urge the &s;ick, its looks and &s;mell</L>
<L>Tempt all to take it, whether &s;ick or well.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>ISAAC TAYLOR, Edu|cated under Dr.</HI> Delaun.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>JAm&abque; opus exegit <HI>Lomax</HI> quia <GAP DESC="foreign"> edit</L>
<L><HI>Launaei:</HI> aegrotis <HI>gratum</HI> opus <HI>indigenis:</HI></L>
<L>Divitibus <HI>gratum:</HI> (fautor Deus ip&s;e medelae:</L>
<L>Pilula <HI>Launaei grata,</HI> perennis erit.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM HILL, Edu+cated under Dr.</HI> Oldis.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>WHat's this? <HI>Correctives</HI> (that &s;eem to allay</L>
<L><HI>Catharticks</HI>) quicken! Pills that nere decay</L>
<L>Mo&s;t co&s;tly, cheape&s;t! <HI>one,</HI> purge more than <HI>ten!</HI></L>
<L>Potent! Peerle&s;s! matchle&s;s Medicine!</L>
<L>Safe! Panacean! Sweet! &s;trange My&s;tery</L>
<L>Couch'd in <HI>Delaun</HI>'s and th' Author's Pharmacie!</L>
<L>Yet, prov'd by Arti&s;ts true, and ju&s;tifi'd.</L>
<L>Go on great Soul, &s;ure Heaven's on thy &s;ide.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. BALDWYN M. D.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>DELA&V;N <HI>Reviv'd,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>I Cannot but take notice of the ridiculous humour and levity of this Age, in mens Doting on, and gaping after Novelties, in&s;omuch that Errour and Non-&s;en&s;e, in a modi&s;h Garb, is now adays become more eligible than true knowledge in an Antient dre&s;s. And this notorious folly is &s;o grafted and in&s;inuated in the minds, e&s;pecially of the Vulgar, that 'tis not only practi&s;ed in their Habits, Po&s;tures, Diet and Di&s;cour&s;e, but al|&s;o in matters of greate&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> moment <HI>(viz.)</HI> their <HI>Bodily health,</HI> the greate&s;t Jewel upon earth.</P>
<P>For, they are no &s;ooner &s;en&s;ible that their pre&s;ent <HI>Malady</HI> requires Remedy, but they reckon up how many hundreds this or that up&s;tart <HI>Impo&s;tor,</HI> hath in&s;erted in his Papers to have been cur'd by his own invented <HI>Quinte&s;&s;ence, Panpharmacon,</HI> or other cramp|nam'd <HI>Arcanum.</HI> And, he that hath pre|tended to mo&s;t Cures, 'tis no matter whether he hath really done any or not, is mo&s;t cre|dited, mo&s;t admired. For, <HI>Why &s;hould not that cure me</HI> (&s;ay the&s;e credulous Creatures) <HI>that cur'd &s;o many hundreds?</HI> never con&s;ul|ting how many thou&s;ands it hath kill'd, nor
<PB N="8" REF="7"> how many millions <HI>Dame Nature</HI> hath re|&s;tored to perfect health, from mo&s;t dangerous Di&s;ea&s;es, without one Grain of Phy&s;ick; which if a confident Quack had &s;ucce&s;s in the &s;eeming Cure but of half a &s;core, the Reputation mu&s;t be a&s;crib'd to him&s;elf, and their Names (with ten times more that he never &s;aw or heard of) together with their Di&s;ea&s;es, publickly put in print, to fill up his impertinent Pamphlet, to the Di&s;repute and Damage of many worthy per&s;ons.</P>
<P>For, there are &s;everal Rea&s;ons why &s;everal men and womens Names, Abodes and Di&s;ea|&s;es &s;hould not be publi&s;hed, e&s;pecially by the &s;candalous Pens of illiterate Empericks. And certainly 'tis the Patients ignorance of the Laws again&s;t &s;uch Libellous offenders, only, that &s;u&s;pends their puni&s;hment.</P>
<P>As to the great number of Names of per|&s;ons pretended to be cur'd by the&s;e Ill men, and copious Copies of vouching Epi&s;tles, in|&s;erted in their Bills and Books, you &s;hall not hear of the name of &s;o much as one per&s;on that ever di'd, mi&s;carried, or relaps'd: no, nor a word to any &s;uch purpo&s;e, nor a &s;yl|lable of the &s;ad Effects and dangerous Con|&s;equences of their fatal Phy&s;ick: the Dead cannot, and their living friends are a&s;ham'd to publi&s;h them.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, 'twere a Wonder (among&s;t
<PB N="9" REF="7"> &s;o many thou&s;ands that have been tempt|ed to meddle with their Medicines) if &s;ome of them &s;hould not happen to be cur'd, or pretend to be &s;o; if &s;ome of them &s;hould not pen a Complement in prai&s;e of their Do|ctor, but that perhaps not &s;o much to pro|mote his intere&s;t as their own; the di&s;ea&s;ed (next to the indigent) being evermore the mo&s;t unwelcome Gue&s;ts.</P>
<P>But, &s;uppo&s;e none of them &s;hould do &s;o, how ea&s;ie is it to contrive it? for, what Quack cannot Create corre&s;pondents in all Countries to compo&s;e literal Encomium's of his learned friend and Phy&s;itian? whereas (in truth) many of tho&s;e who pretend to much in their Bills and Books, are &s;o far from any tolerable literature in the <HI>Greek</HI> Tongue, which is fundamentally nece&s;&s;ary for the under&s;tanding of the Art of Phy&s;ick, that they never under&s;tood one line of <HI>Latine;</HI> nor can they, without help, pen their own Papers.</P>
<P>Pardon me, &s;ome of them doubtle&s;s do, and I dare &s;wear 'tis their own, 'tis &s;o like them; yet &s;uch <HI>popular</HI> Non-&s;en&s;e (the more's the pity) <HI>Vends</HI> be&s;t with the Vulgar, and <HI>Ignorance</HI> is now adays become as nece&s;&s;ary a qualification in Phy&s;ick, as it us'd to be in Preaching.</P>
<P>But, what need they the help of any <HI>Greek</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="8"> or <HI>Latine</HI> Authors? for the greate&s;t Dunce, the mo&s;t non&s;en&s;ical Ignoramus among&s;t them, will tell you that he knows more than <HI>Galen, Ari&s;totle,</HI> or <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> tho&s;e Gy|ants in <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> and <HI>Philo&s;ophy,</HI> to whom the mo&s;t eminent Phy&s;itians of this Age, will own them&s;elves to be but Dwarfs, and, that they &s;tand but on their &s;houlders; and that (notwith&s;tanding the undeniable late new improvements in Phy&s;ick) mo&s;t of the Rules, Methods and Medicines of the <HI>Antients</HI> are &s;till of nece&s;&s;ary u&s;e and con&s;equence, in the curing of Di&s;ea&s;es; Nay, of the very <HI>Scur|vie,</HI> which the&s;e <HI>P&s;eudo-Chymi&s;ts</HI> &s;o much pretend to the Cure of; and prate of the Newne&s;s of that Di&s;ea&s;e, as it were but of ye&s;terday, and that their new-invented Me|dicines only, can cure it.</P>
<P>But, the <HI>Truth</HI> is, and all able modern Phy&s;itians concur, that the <HI>Scorbute, Scelo|tyrbe,</HI> or <HI>Scurvie,</HI> hath been as antient in <HI>England,</HI> and other maritime Countries, as the very fir&s;t Inhabitants: And, that ever &s;ince men were mortal, and &s;ubject to Di|&s;ea&s;es, the Climate and Temperature of the Air did di&s;po&s;e the blood and humours of tho&s;e who breath'd it, to that Di&s;cra&s;ie or ill temper which we now call the <HI>Scurvie,</HI> and &s;o rendred it a <HI>Malady</HI> Epidemical. Which Di&s;temper, and all others, the&s;e men of Con|fidence
<PB N="11" REF="8"> pretend to cure with their own new invented <HI>Arcanum's,</HI> which, for the mo&s;t part, are compo&s;ed of <HI>Mercury,</HI> which is <HI>Quick&s;ilver,</HI> or <HI>Antimony,</HI> or both: the Ad|mini&s;tration whereof, too often brings &s;light Di&s;tempers, into dangerous and mortal Di|&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>Nay, I dare affirm and ju&s;tifie, that <HI>Mer|cury,</HI> though never &s;o carefully kill'd, (as they call it) which is commonly made up into Pills, with other <HI>Catharticks</HI> or Purging Ingredients (and given as a Specifick again&s;t <HI>Gonorrhaea's</HI> and all <HI>Venereal Di&s;tempers</HI>) does ab&s;olutely poy&s;on the body, and infect it with the very <HI>Pox,</HI> (if I may properly &s;o &s;ay) and makes more work for Chyrurgeons and Ho&s;pitals, than <HI>Mars</HI> in his Tragick, and <HI>Venus</HI> in her mo&s;t la&s;civious Dre&s;s.</P>
<P>'Tis dangerous <HI>Mercurial</HI> Medicines that torture the poy&s;on'd Patient with horrid Pains, Pangs, and intolerable Twinges in the Head, Shoulders, Arms, Thighs, Legs, and other parts. 'Tis <HI>Mercury,</HI> that helli&s;h Com|panion, that lurks, &s;ometimes many years, in the langui&s;hing Body, flying about till at la&s;t it fouls the Bones, &s;inks the No&s;e, and pro|duces &s;uch &s;ad and di&s;mal Effects.</P>
<P>I further a&s;&s;ert, 'tis a gro&s;s Errour in tho&s;e who think they can allay, or carry off this Devil with any kinde of Concomitant <HI>Ca|thartick,</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="9"> though never &s;o &s;kilfully managed: for Eye-experience (that infallible mi&s;tri&s;s) hath often &s;hew'd us, that in open'd Bodies, the very <HI>Mercury (in &s;pecie)</HI> hath been left be|hind, reunited into the bigne&s;s of pins heads, of &s;everal &s;izes, in &s;everal parts of the poy|&s;on'd Carca&s;e. Whenas it was (neverthele&s;s) as carefully and judiciou&s;ly kill'd, and mixt with as &s;uitable Purgatives, as the mo&s;t exqui|&s;ite Arti&s;t could contrive.</P>
<P>Some of the&s;e mi&s;erable mortals were judged to die of a <HI>Lethargy,</HI> &s;ome of the <HI>Gout, Rheumati&s;m, Pal&s;ie,</HI> others of <HI>Frenzy, Griping</HI> in the <HI>Guts,</HI> &amp;c. when, in truth, 'twas nothing el&s;e but meer <HI>Mercury</HI> that murdered them. It is an old &s;aying, that <HI>Mercury</HI> cures the <HI>Pox,</HI> but what cures <HI>Mercury?</HI></P>
<P>But, no wonder that crude <HI>Mercury</HI> &s;hould be &s;o unwelcome a Gue&s;t, when that deli|cate Preparation call'd <HI>Mercurius dulcis,</HI> fam'd for its harmle&s;s and ea&s;ie operation, &s;hould, in &s;ome Con&s;titutions, not be admini|&s;tred without apparent danger, <HI>(viz.)</HI> in &s;uch bodies (&s;aith the learned <HI>Sennertus</HI>) who&s;e Stomachs and Bloud abound with fluid &s;alts, and are troubled with a pungent &s;harp Liquor or Juice, as tho&s;e generally are that have the <HI>Scurvie.</HI></P>
<P>To &s;uch, I &s;ay, it may probably fall out to be of ill con&s;equence, &s;ince there is danger
<PB N="13" REF="9"> that in the Stomach (which abounds with <HI>Vi|triolick</HI> Salts) the dulcified <HI>Mercury,</HI> (by &s;uch extreme <HI>Acidity</HI>) may be again reduced to be <HI>Corro&s;ive.</HI></P>
<P>And the Ingenious Dr. <HI>Ca&s;tle,</HI> in his <HI>Chymi|cal Galenist</HI> &s;aith, he hath ob&s;erved that there is le&s;s danger (in this dangerous Medicine) when admini&s;tred to Children, (who&s;e &s;to|machs abound with Crudities) than to riper aged per&s;ons, who are troubled with an au|&s;tere &s;harpne&s;s in their Liquours.</P>
<P>How dangerous then is it? and who but mad men will make u&s;e of the&s;e <HI>Mercurial</HI> Medicines? which, if they chance not to pa&s;s upwards or downwards, but &s;tick in the coats of the Stomach, or be intangled in any tough vi&s;cous matter, the mi&s;erable Patient can hardly e&s;cape with life.</P>
<P>No hone&s;t Phy&s;itian will deny any act of Charity in his Directions to the poorer &s;ort of people; nor any Apothecary extort &s;o much of them for &s;afe approved Medicines, as the&s;e <GAP DESC="foreign"> or off-&s;cums of mankind do for their poy&s;on'd Potions, Pills, and other their de&s;tructive Do&s;es, which reach even to Po&s;terity, de&s;troying Nature, wa&s;ting the Genital juice, and affecting Mankind with incurable <HI>Sterility.</HI></P>
<P>And the&s;e (for&s;ooth) the&s;e whim&s;ical <HI>Quacksalvers</HI> call their <HI>Secrets:</HI> as if they
<PB N="14" REF="10"> were the better for being &s;o: no certainly, tho&s;e Remedies mu&s;t needs be be&s;t, that are no Secrets; but be&s;t known, as being confirmed, by <HI>antient</HI> Authority, and pre&s;cribed by the joynt-con&s;ent of a <HI>Colledge,</HI> or the chief of them, and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the unerring and in|fallible Experience of the world.</P>
<P>Such a &s;afe well-known <HI>Galenick</HI> Medi|cine, (no &s;ingle conceipt or proud product of my own brain) I now offer to the world, it being the very &s;ame Pill that was &s;o long, and with &s;uch grand applau&s;e &s;old in <HI>Black|fryers</HI> by Dr. <HI>Delaun,</HI> and approved of by Sir <HI>Walter Rawleigh,</HI> Sir <HI>Theodore Mayern,</HI> Dr. <HI>Prujean,</HI> and others of Eminence, and of the mo&s;t Learned Society of Phy&s;itians in the world.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Oracles deem'd this Pill, as the choice general Medicine in the Univer&s;e. And 'tis at this day held &s;acred for its Vertues, throughout <HI>France,</HI> in&s;omuch that the Do|ctors and Chyrurgeons of the Ho&s;pitals there, have experimentally concluded with the mo&s;t knowing ones of this Kingdom, that no <HI>Cathartick</HI> in the world operates &s;o kind|ly on the offen&s;ive humours, in all Di&s;tem|pers, as this &s;ingle <HI>Six penny Pill</HI> doth, nor thru&s;ts forth the Excrements with &s;uch ea&s;e and &s;afety, without raking the Body, &s;epara|ting the <HI>Morbifick</HI> matter from the Ma&s;s of Bloud.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<P>I &s;ay, &s;uch a &s;afe <HI>well-known</HI> Medicine I commend to the Kingdom, for the good of &s;traightned Pur&s;es, that cannot purcha&s;e whole Boxes at Three or Four &s;hillings price; and to commode the better and graver &s;ort, who love not to be loaded with multitudes of Medicines, nor like the infatuated Rabble catch at every <HI>new Conceit,</HI> or pretended Se|cret; whenas (indeed) <HI>there is no new thing under the Sun:</HI> be&s;ides, there's many good people that may &s;pare Six pence or a &s;hil|ling, for a Purge, when they cannot well part with Four or Five.</P>
<P>As to the infinite Cures it hath really done, &s;hould I attempt particularly to enumerate but the tenth part of a Tithe of them, 'twould prove a Ta&s;k impo&s;&s;ible; or &s;hould I publi&s;h any their Names, I may be offen&s;ive, and in both the&s;e impertinently voluminous.</P>
<P>But &s;ince <HI>Delaun</HI>'s <HI>Pill</HI> hath been of late in part forgot, through his Death, and con&s;e|quently its great Vertues lie latent from the Younger &s;ort of this City, but e&s;pecially from almo&s;t all remote Dwellers; 'twould be a &s;in to be &s;ilent, and not to &s;peak to at lea&s;t &s;ome of them; but of tho&s;e as Conci&s;e as may be.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Di&s;tempers of the Head.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, in a mo&s;t principal Nature, it is a mo&s;t Infallible Remedy again&s;t all <HI>Aches, Twinging pains,</HI> and other Di&s;tempers in the
<PB N="16" REF="11"> <HI>Head</HI> and animal parts, <HI>(viz.)</HI> the <HI>Apoplexy, Epilep&s;ie, Giddine&s;s, Pal&s;ie, Lethargy, Melan|choly, Sleepine&s;s, Convul&s;ions, Catarrhs,</HI> or di&s;tillations of &s;alt &s;harp matter upon the <HI>Lungs.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Gums.</HEAD>
<P>It is an approved Remedy again&s;t all <HI>Tu|mours, Aches</HI> and <HI>Pains</HI> that affect the Gums or Jaws in the time of a tormenting <HI>Tooth|ach,</HI> by fortifying the <HI>Nerve,</HI> and ridding it of that Re&s;t-oppo&s;ing <HI>Rheum.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Deafne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>It is al&s;o potently prevalent in the Cure of <HI>Deafne&s;s</HI> and all Auricular <HI>Deficiencies,</HI> &s;trengthning the <HI>Auditory Nerve</HI> and <HI>Mem|brane,</HI> ea&s;ing <HI>Pains, Drumming</HI> and <HI>Singing</HI> noi&s;e in the unea&s;ie Head, curing all <HI>Di&s;orders</HI> that ob&s;truct the Sen&s;e of Hearing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sore Eyes.</HEAD>
<P>It highly helps and &s;trengthens the <HI>Sight,</HI> fortifies the <HI>Optick Nerve,</HI> even to admiration, rectifying all <HI>Running Rheums, Mi&s;ty Dulne&s;s, Inflammations,</HI> and other <HI>Weakne&s;&s;es</HI> in that tender part; in&s;omuch that pretenders to the Cure of Di&s;tempers in the <HI>Eyes, Ears,</HI> or <HI>Teeth,</HI> and that knew this Medicine, never us'd to be without it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hard Drinking.</HEAD>
<P>It &s;ettles the <HI>Brain,</HI> a&s;&s;wages all irregular and tumultuous <HI>Ebullitions</HI> excited in the a|nimal
<PB N="17" REF="11"> faculties; it &s;trengthens the <HI>Memory,</HI> and carries off all &s;otti&s;h <HI>Swimming, Dizzi|ne&s;s, Sowerne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Breath,</HI> and other Indi&s;po&s;i|tions occa&s;ion'd by <HI>Exce&s;&s;ive drinking.</HI></P>
<P>And by this it's appropriated power to the <HI>Brain</HI> and <HI>animal</HI> parts, it equally Lords it ore the <HI>Vital</HI> and <HI>Natural</HI> faculties.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Heart, Stomach.</HEAD>
<P>Its boundle&s;s benefits extend to the <HI>Heart</HI> and <HI>Spirits,</HI> to the <HI>Lungs, Liver</HI> and <HI>Spleen:</HI> and by equal prerogative fortifie the <HI>Sto|mach,</HI> creating there a good Dige&s;tion, con|cocting Crudities, correcting nau&s;eous in|di&s;po&s;itions to meat, in&s;omuch that the Pa|tient will &s;ooner want that than an <HI>Eager Appetite.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lungs.</HEAD>
<P>It is of grand importance and advantage to the <HI>Lungs,</HI> when they are burden'd with a dolorous <HI>A&s;thma,</HI> mi&s;taken by the Vulgar for a Stoppage in the &s;tomach; for &s;uch com|plain commonly of Pains and Stoppages of the Stomach, when the Lungs are in fault, and too often of the Lungs, when the Stomach is.</P>
<P>It helps <HI>Pthy&s;icks,</HI> and Shortne&s;s of breath, Hoar&s;ene&s;s, Whee&s;ing in the Throat, and o|ther Di&s;tempers in the Lungs, whether Ulce|rated or otherwi&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Fits of the Mother.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis &s;ure (and hath ever been &s;ucce&s;sful) in
<PB N="18" REF="12"> the Cure and prevention of that di&s;mal Di|&s;ea&s;e called <HI>Fits</HI> of the <HI>Mother;</HI> When &s;ome|thing like a Globe &s;eems to ri&s;e up with vio|lence towards the Throat, accompanied with a gnawing pain in the Stomach, trembling at the Heart, de&s;pairing Voice, falling down for Dead, and other &s;ad Symptoms.</P>
<P>But, note that this Pill is not to be taken in the time of the Fit, but at other &s;ea&s;ons, <HI>(viz)</HI> a day or two after, and continued two or three times a week for a fortnight together.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Barrenne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>To prevent <HI>Abortivene&s;s</HI> and <HI>Barrenne&s;s,</HI> it hath been well Experienced, both in this City and el&s;ewhere, that no Medicine hath &s;ucceeded like it; which may be made ap|pear by, and is well known to, many Mid|wives, as well as other per&s;ons of Eminence.</P>
<P>The <HI>Green&s;ickne&s;s,</HI> &s;toppages of Terms, Weakne&s;s in the Back, and other Di&s;ea&s;es in|cident to women: The <HI>Stone-collick,</HI> invo|luntary I&s;&s;uing of <HI>&V;rine, &V;lcers</HI> in the Blad|der and Kidnies.</P>
<P>All <HI>Agues, Chilne&s;s</HI> in the Bones, <HI>Itches, Tetters,</HI> Pale and di&s;colour'd Lips, <HI>Griping</HI> in the <HI>Guts.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Pimples.</HEAD>
<P>And nothing certainly is a more prope<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Purge to check that lawle&s;s humour that bolt out into the face with a fiery Fury, dartin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="19" REF="12"> out blacki&s;h, red <HI>Pu&s;tules, Pimples,</HI> and un|comely <HI>Carbuncles;</HI> for the unctious e&s;&s;ence of this <HI>piercing Pill</HI> cleers the Bloud of that offen&s;ive humour, challenging an undeniable Cure in cour&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Helps the Sen&s;e of Smelling.</HEAD>
<P>It comforts the Brain, and is a&s;&s;i&s;tant to the Sen&s;e of <HI>Smelling;</HI> ha&s;tens the Cure of old <HI>Sores, Cancers, Gangrens, Lamene&s;s, Brui&s;es,</HI> &amp;c. which &s;everal Chyrurgeons of this City mu&s;t thankfully acknowledge, being forced to this Medicine, when rebellious Sores will not yield to outward Applications.</P>
<P><HI>Tunbridge, Ep&s;om, Bath,</HI> and other Waters, whether they operate by <HI>Stool, &V;rine,</HI> or <HI>Sweat,</HI> this incomparable Pill is of &s;ingular u&s;e, taken as a preparative two or three times be|fore: and of equal benefit in the time of drinking them two or three times a week, as well as of nece&s;&s;ity afterwards, to carry off the Dregs, Feculencies, and earthy Impurities that may be left in the Body, &s;upplying tho&s;e Defects, and perfecting tho&s;e Cures which weak waters could not reach to.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Seamen.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis a nece&s;&s;ary Companion for <HI>Seafaring</HI> per&s;ons: and it hath been approved in the <HI>West</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies,</HI> the <HI>Streights,</HI> and other parts, for that it n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ver decays in its Vertues, and is of as important nece&s;&s;ity to tho&s;e that
<PB N="20" REF="13"> dwell neer the Sea-&s;ide, it being &s;o Soveraign a Remedy again&s;t the <HI>Scurvie.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Spleen.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Spleen,</HI> 'tis &s;o friendly, and of &s;uch im|portant u&s;e to that Bowel, that it helps to rarifie the Bloud, and renders it bri&s;k and lively, free from Curdling and Stagnation, fit to circulate, for the better &s;upply of the Natural, Vital, and Animal con&s;titutions.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Gout.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Gout,</HI> which too often a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inates mi|&s;erable Mortals with intolerable Tortures, whether in the Hands, Feet, or other parts, it doth not only allay, but eradicate and drive out of the infected Joynts, leaving behind it a comfortable warmth in tho&s;e parts, as a guard again&s;t the future fury of that unwelcome E|nemy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Scurvie.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Scurvie,</HI> which crowds it &s;elf into the acquaintance of almo&s;t all, from the Prince to tne Pea&s;ant, from the Madam to the Milk|maid, and con&s;i&s;ts in the Blood's being over|charged with fixed or fluid Salts, and thereby degenerated from its Spirituous Bal&s;amick condition, into a &s;harp, &s;alt, and au&s;tere Li|quour, producing di&s;orderly <HI>Fermentations, Stoppages, Wearine&s;s, Pur&s;ine&s;s, Difficulties</HI> and <HI>Shortne&s;s</HI> of <HI>breathing;</HI> defects in <HI>Moti|on, Palpitation, Spots, Rawne&s;s</HI> in the <HI>Gums,
<PB N="21" REF="13"> Sorene&s;s,</HI> and &s;ometimes little <HI>&V;lcers</HI> in the Mouth, <HI>Scurfs, Pains</HI> in the Head, <HI>Swelling</HI> in the Limbs, varieties of <HI>&s;hifting Pains,</HI> and at uncertain hours, nay in the warm Bed and night-time, (which opportunity the <HI>Pockie Pest</HI> chiefly challenges) when the Con&s;cious &s;u&s;pect, and the Innocent are &s;urpriz'd at this repo&s;e-oppo&s;ing Malady.</P>
<P>This excellent <HI>Never-failing Remedy</HI> carries off, and cures, and that in a &s;hort time, even to miracle, above any other <HI>Cathartick.</HI></P>
<P>For it cau&s;es a true and ju&s;t Fermentation in the Bloud, maintains a regular Flame in the Heart, and gives a &s;ea&s;onable Supplement, with a &s;oft Juice and a well-rectified animal Spirit. And by &s;uch amicable Efficacie and friendly clo&s;e with Nature, diffu&s;es its all-hea|ling Vertues to the Bowels, and mo&s;t remote and hidden rece&s;&s;es thereof.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Drop&s;ie.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Drop&s;ie,</HI> whether <HI>A&s;cites, Tympanites,</HI> or <HI>Ana&s;arca,</HI> it fully frees from offen&s;ive ful|ne&s;s of aqueous Impurities, dreyning the Legs, Belly and Body, as well as (&s;ometimes) the Brain, from that watery weakne&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Jaundies.</HEAD>
<P>And 'tis of equal Efficacie again&s;t the <HI>Jaun|dies,</HI> when di&s;coloured Eyes, &s;econded with fainting Ob&s;tructions, give too much cau&s;e of jealou&s;ie of obtaining their wonted looks.
<PB N="22" REF="14"> This Pill purges, purifies, and opens all Op|pilations, reducing tho&s;e lo&s;t Luminaries bri&s;k and lively, in a well-cur'd Countenance.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Running of the Reins.</HEAD>
<P>The <HI>Gonorrhaea,</HI> or <HI>Running of the Reins,</HI> &s;welling <HI>Bubo's</HI> in the Groyn, <HI>Tumours</HI> in the Te&s;ticles, <HI>&V;lcers</HI> in the Privities, <HI>Warts,</HI> weep|ing remainders by ill-begun and uneffected Cures, with other u&s;ual accidents, this <HI>&V;n|equall'd Pill</HI> mo&s;t certainly and &s;afely per|forms; rooting out that <HI>Venereal Venom</HI> &s;o effectually, that there's no fear of any &s;ub&s;e|quent Relap&s;e, or danger of a confirmed <HI>Lues.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The POX.</HEAD>
<P>Contracted by contagious Whoredom, and Coition with infected per&s;ons, (for I deny, contrary to &s;ome A&s;&s;ertions, that it can be o|therwi&s;e got) with all its mi&s;erable attendants, Nocturnal <HI>Pains, Nodes,</HI> dreadful <HI>Memoran|dums</HI> in the tortur'd Brain, though &s;ettl'd in the Bones, gri&s;sle of the No&s;e, and Palate; and though that pernitious <HI>Pe&s;t</HI> hath corrupt|ed the whole ma&s;s of Bloud, and be compli|cated with a <HI>Rheumati&s;m, Gout, Scorbute,</HI> or o|ther contumacious accident, and the body poy&s;on'd with <HI>Quick &s;ilver-Medicines,</HI> this <HI>Antimercurial</HI> and <HI>Antivenereal Pill,</HI> by de|grees, &s;ubdues, quells, wa&s;tes, and utterly ex|tirpates Root and Branch, cau&s;ing Fruitful|ne&s;s and a clear Complexion in both Sexes;
<PB N="23" REF="14"> furni&s;hing the Bloud with an amicable <HI>Nitre,</HI> and rendring it as &s;weet as Milk; affording a vital Oyl to the Lamp of the heart, in order to the long life and well-being of mankind, <HI>Quantum in Medicin&acirc;.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quid multa?</HI> it &s;erves &s;afely on all Occa|&s;ions, Con&s;titutions, Sexes, as well to the &s;ound to prevent, as the &s;ick to cure a Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Much more might be &s;aid in applau&s;e of this <HI>Po&s;thume Pill;</HI> for &s;ince 'tis granted to be the <HI>Grand Cephalick</HI> in the Univer&s;e, it may ju&s;tly challenge the Appellation of <HI>Catholick</HI> or Univer&s;al: for &s;ince the Brain and animal Con&s;titution, the <HI>Nervous</HI> juice, and princi|pal parts, the heart and head, are hereby kept in an equal temper, who can &s;u&s;pect this Prince of Pills to be in&s;ufficient in governing the meaner parts of man?</P>
<P>But &s;ince <GAP DESC="foreign">, I will de&s;i&s;t, &s;ave that I mu&s;t &s;peak &s;omething of the Nature and Operation of this <HI>matchle&s;s Me|dicine.</HI></P>
<P>As every Di&s;ea&s;e is <HI>contra Naturam,</HI> &s;o there is a certain Antipathy between Nature and purgative Medicines: Wherefore I &s;hall not tell you, as &s;ome do (that neither know nor care what they &s;ay or do) that any kind of <HI>Cathartick</HI> can be de&s;ireable, palatable, or grateful to the Stomach; but, I aver it to be as acceptable to the Stomach as any thing that
<PB N="24" REF="15"> quits a Di&s;ea&s;e, though perhaps not &s;o plea|&s;ant as &s;ome <HI>Mercurial</HI> ones, that only attenu|ate the Excrements, &s;lip through the body, and take no Cognizance of, but (by their de&s;tructive Atomes) adde to a &s;ettl'd Ach.</P>
<P>This <HI>Pill</HI> pierces into the ma&s;s of Bloud, and works its Effects by &s;timulating the fi|brous parts in the mo&s;t inward rece&s;&s;es of the Bowels, fighting again&s;t, &s;eparating and ex|terminating the Morbifick matter. And in this War between the Remedy and the Di|&s;ea&s;e, it cannot be expected but that the Patient mu&s;t be &s;en&s;ible of &s;ome &s;light Gripes, Swimming in the Head, Qualms in the Sto|mach, or other unwelcome Di&s;order, during this inte&s;tine Conflict.</P>
<P>Of <HI>Delaun</HI>'s Per&s;onage I &s;hall be &s;ilent, &s;ince the grateful Company of <HI>Apothecaries</HI> are my Spokes-men. Tho&s;e Worthies are now erecting his co&s;tly, comely Effigies, in their Magnificent <HI>Hall,</HI> to aeternize his never|dying Name, and grace that goodly place; (all Arti&s;ts admiring this man for his Medi|cines &s;ake.)</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="25" REF="15">
<HEAD>Directions for taking them.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, I Advi&s;e every per&s;on to take rather too little than too much; and by the oftener taking a moderate quantity, the Di&s;ea&s;e is the &s;ooner reach'd to, and admits of a more certain Cure. Be&s;ides, there's no danger in this Pill, if it &s;hould chance not to work with you; for 'tis of &s;uch an whol&s;ome healing nature, that 'tis (then) officiating in the body, as a Bal&s;am, for the &s;alving of &s;ome inward Sore.</P>
<P>Per&s;ons of ordinary Con&s;titutions, or &s;trength of body, may take one of the&s;e Pills; the &s;tronger, one and half; per&s;ons very young, and tho&s;e of very weak Con&s;titutions, may try with half or three quarters of a Pill, and by degrees more or le&s;s, as they finde, and would have them to work.</P>
<P>Take them in the morning in any Liquid thing you think will be&s;t drive them down, at any time from three or four till eight or nine; but the earlier the better.</P>
<P>You may &s;tay at home, or go abroad; drink, or for|bear drinking after them, at your plea&s;ure: but in cold weather, a warm Chamber (with tender per|&s;ons) &s;uits be&s;t, as well as warm Liquour, <HI>viz.</HI> either Ale, Broth, Po&s;&s;et, drunk two or three hours after, and in the time of the working.</P>
<P>If your affairs require clo&s;e attendance next day, you may take one going to bed; it may then di&s;turb your Re&s;t, but not hurt your body, &s;o as you do not catch cold.</P>
<P>You may therefore u&s;e this Pill as you finde it
<PB N="26" REF="16"> agree with your body, and &s;uit with your bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> That I do not advi&s;e this Pill to Infants, who&s;e tender years cannot have contracted any &s;et|tled Taint: To &s;uch I commend <HI>Ca&s;&s;ia, Manna, Syrupe of Ro&s;es, Succory,</HI> with <HI>Rubarb,</HI> &amp;c. &s;uch le|nient Laxatives &s;uit be&s;t with &s;uch tender Stomachs.</P>
<P>Nor yet to feeble, feveri&s;h, wa&s;ted, weak Con&s;titu|tions, otherwi&s;e than in very &s;mall quantities; though I aver it to be much more &s;afe, ea&s;ie, and friendly to Nature, than any other Extant, of &s;uch quick and ea&s;ie Operation.</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> That this Pill is pliable always as Wax, &s;o that you may divide it into twenty parts, if you plea&s;e, for your convenience to &s;wallow it.</P>
<P>Every Pill is, as formerly, gilt with Gold; and for the further convenience of its carriage, and advantage to the Buyer, is now (not formerly) put up &s;ingle in a little Paper-box, and with every Pill given a printed Paper, briefly declaring its Vertues, and Di|rections to take it.</P>
<P>Yet the Price is no more than Six pence, though it be mo&s;t co&s;tly to the Compo&s;er, and mo&s;t advantagious to the Buyer, of any Pill in the Univer&s;e.</P>
<P>There is al&s;o (always ready, for &s;uch who&s;e &s;tur|dy Maladies require &s;o many) Six of the&s;e Gol|den Pills, put up in a Tin-box, &s;ealed with my Seal; which amounts to Six &s;ufficient Purges, the price Three &s;hillings; and therewith given <HI>(gratis)</HI> this Book, which at the Book&s;ellers is &s;old for Six pence.</P>
<P>I told you before, that this Pill was no Secret, no conceited Whim&s;ie invented by my own, or any other &s;ingle Judgment, but what hath been approved of by the joynt-con&s;ent of Eminent Arti&s;ts in Phy&s;ick. Yet I mu&s;t al&s;o tell you, that there's none of the&s;e Pills
<PB N="27" REF="16"> (rightly prepar'd) to be had at any Apothecaries &s;hop in <HI>England,</HI> though they all pretend the con|trary. Some believe, nay will &s;wear, 'tis nothing but <HI>Pill Ex Duobus:</HI> Some gue&s;s that there's inter|mix'd <HI>Aggregativae:</HI> Some <HI>Macri;</HI> others <HI>Aureae, Cochiae,</HI> &amp;c. all really mi&s;taking the Medicine, both in quality and quantity. Yet I acknowledge that &s;everal Phy&s;itians now dead, and Dr. <HI>Oldis</HI> now li|ving, and Dr. <HI>I&s;aac Taylor</HI> of <HI>Newport</HI> in <HI>Stafford|&s;hire, Cotemporaries,</HI> both bred under the Great <HI>De|laun,</HI> and one or two Educated under the&s;e, know al&s;o this my (now) Medicine.</P>
<P>And I doubt not, but they will be coadjutants in di&s;per&s;ing it over this Kingdom, for the future &s;af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ty of the Sick and Lame, who of late, have been liable to be lo&s;t; I know not whether rather through the Diabolical diligence of Impo&s;tors, or the unactive &s;loth of true Arti&s;ts; which, if they do not timely retrieve with equal indu&s;try, I mu&s;t tell them that they are wicked, in not improving their Talent. For 'tis no le&s;s a &s;in not to do good (where we may) than to commit a wilful wickedne&s;s.</P>
<P>The&s;e Pills are expo&s;ed to &s;ale by my tru&s;ty Friends</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Henry Ever&s;den,</HI> Book&s;eller at the Crown neer the Royal Exchange in <HI>Cornbill</HI> (where al&s;o this Book (by it &s;elf) is &s;old.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Lee&s;on</HI>'s, Barber-chyrurgeon in <HI>Bow-lane,</HI> that incomparable Operator for the Teeth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Mountague,</HI> Tobacconi&s;t at the corner of <HI>Shoe|lane, Fleet-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Hale,</HI> Barber-chyrurgeon in <HI>Ivy-lane</HI> neer <HI>Newgate-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Hide,</HI> Grocer in <HI>Newgate-&s;treet</HI> entring the Market.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Golling,</HI> Barber-chyrurgeon in <HI>Sweetings</HI> Ally by the <HI>Royal Exchange</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captain <HI>Grant,</HI> Di&s;tiller neer <HI>Bethlem</HI>-gate <HI>More|fields.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Edward Hartwell,</HI> Barber-chyrurgeon over a|gain&s;t the Hoop-Tavern, <HI>Leaden-hall-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Girlington,</HI> Tobacconi&s;t neer the Artillery|ground in <HI>Chi&s;wel-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Holliwel,</HI> Stationer at the Lion in the Wood on little <HI>Tower-hill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>David Hilliard,</HI> Di&s;tiller at the three golden Lions neer the <HI>Hermitage.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Holbeech,</HI> at his hou&s;e in <HI>Poplor;</HI> whom I have al&s;o deputed under my Hand and Seal, as my Agent for <HI>Wappen, Ratcliff, Rotheriff, Shadwel, Deptford, Bow, Blackwall, Stepney,</HI> and <HI>Mile-end.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Brook,</HI> under the St. <HI>Martin</HI>-Tavern in <HI>Blow|bladder &s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>James Bean,</HI> Stationer over again&s;t <HI>Ivy</HI>-bridge in the <HI>Strand.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Robert Stephens,</HI> Confectioner without <HI>Crip|ple-gate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Barreckler,</HI> Di&s;tiller at the Still without <HI>Smith|field-bars.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Battersby,</HI> Stationer at <HI>Thavies</HI>-Inne-gate in <HI>Holborn.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Charles Bandon,</HI> at the three Tuns and Frying|pan in <HI>Clare-market.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Captain <HI>Howkins,</HI> Di&s;tiller without <HI>Bi&s;hops-gate.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Rooks,</HI> neer <HI>White-hall-gate,</HI> Haberda&s;her.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Brittain,</HI> Di&s;tiller neer the Faulcon at the <HI>Bank&s;ide Southwark.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Hal&s;tead,</HI> Grocer next the Griffin-Tavern in <HI>Chancery-lane.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="29" REF="17">
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Yarling,</HI> Haberda&s;her at the three Hor&s;e|&s;hoos in <HI>Fetter-lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Emot,</HI> Sword-cuttler at the five Bells in <HI>Chan|cery-lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>John Harland,</HI> Grocer next the Che&s;hire-chee&s;e at <HI>Charing-cro&s;s.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Robert Fage,</HI> at the Sugar-loaf in St. <HI>James</HI>'s Market, Grocer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Bates,</HI> Oylman at the Kings Head in <HI>Tuttle|&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Alking,</HI> Confectioner over again&s;t <HI>Creed-church</HI> in <HI>Leaden-hall-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Blet&s;o,</HI> Grocer in <HI>Honey-lane</HI>-market.</ITEM>
<ITEM>At my Country-hou&s;e, <HI>Shawes,</HI> neer <HI>God&s;tone</HI> in <HI>Surry,</HI> and in all Counties in <HI>England,</HI> as well as at</ITEM>
<ITEM>My Laboratory, the &s;igne of <HI>Delaun</HI>'s head in <HI>Black-fryers,</HI> where I am re&s;ident, and ready to ad|vi&s;e and accommodate all per&s;ons in all Di&s;tem|pers.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>I Hereby declare, That I and my Ance&s;tors, and others of the Profe&s;&s;ion, have often made u&s;e of <HI>Delaun</HI>'s Pills with admirable &s;uc|ce&s;s in all Di&s;tempers of the Head: and &s;ome of us have <HI>now</HI> lately (al&s;o) experi|mented <HI>tho&s;e</HI> of the Author's compo&s;ure, and find them equally excellent (and cer|tainly
<PB N="30" REF="18"> in all re&s;pects the very &s;ame) with the former: For, I have good rea&s;on to be|lieve, and am well &s;atisfied, that he hath the real Receipt, and is no le&s;s &s;kilful, than ju&s;t, in the mixture and management of this in|comparable Medicine.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>E. Molins</HI> of <HI>Shoe|lane, London.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P><HI>Note,</HI> That there's no other Medicine in <HI>England</HI> (now expos'd to publick Sale) that's ju&s;tifi'd (as this is) by able Arti&s;ts in Phy&s;ick and Chyrurgery; as may appear by their &s;everal <HI>Encomiums,</HI> in the beginning of this Book.</P>
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