HAving through the Blessing of God, (from whom alone cometh every good and perfect gift) been so successful in my endeavours, especially in the Chymical Preparation of Mi [...]erals, which hath been found, and is generally [Page 2] acknowledged by the most experienced Practitioners in all ages, to be most effectual for the extirpating and rooting out the ground of all Chronical Distempers; which, for the diffi [...]ulty of their Cures, arising from the want of good Medicines, are generally the shame of Physicians.

Having, I say, (through his goodn [...]s [...]) attained to the singular preparation of a Medicine thence, which for its excellent efficacy deservedly merits that Title; by which I would more peculiarly express, or give you to con­ceive by way of Analogy, of its excellent properties, which are of a solar nature, dispelling those Causes in our Bodies, w [...]ich continued, wou'd not only darken the Lustre, but extinguish the Light of our Microcosmal Sun: which however, that it may more perspicuously appear, I shall give you to understand its Medicinal Properties, which I in my felf have experi­enced for confirmation of the same.

I cannot but commend this Medicine to all tender Mothers of children, which although they seem to be very lusty, yet are suddenly snatcht away by death, having the Convulsion Fits, and in this Distemper you may give to a child of a month old, the eighth part of one of these Pills in a little of the Mothers Brest milk; and after resting three or four days, you may safely give it the child the second time: but if in process of time it shall so happen that the Fits return again, you may increase the Dose, and give the child a little more then at the first time, and so continue as the childs body can bear, until the disease be totally vanquished, And here I cannot but pity the ig­norance of some Physicians, which I have known in other Countries, that have given to an Infant new-born a Wine-glass full of water, with a little Pe [...]al beaten to powder, or the powder of Beasoar Stone, which are Medicines of no virtue at all to prevail over such diseases.

This Medicine is far more secure, safe and effectual, than all other Medicines whatsoever; for it resists and prevails against all the obstructions of the Spleen, which is the common Sewer or Scavenger of the body; as namely, for Melancholy, and also all obstructions of the Liver, the which unre­moved corrupteth the Blood, from whence flow grievous dis [...]ases, as the continual pain in the head (the which causeth many a young Miad to descend into her grave, there being the vacuity of the course of Nature.) In Women the Suffocation of the Matrix, Suppression of the Monthly Flowings, Tremblings, Palpitations of the Heart, Swooning, Vertigo of the Head, and especially that hideous Torment, (in that part commonly called) the Mother; Feavers, Leprosie, Gout, Falling Sickness, Dropsie; Frensie, Vertigo, the Palsie, Rheums, Defluxions, Headach of all kinds, Convulsion-Fits, Difficulty of Breathing, Stoppage of the Stomach, Cough, Ptissick, Inflammation of the Lungs, Consumption, want of Appetite, bad Dige­stion, pain in the Stomach, Worms of all kinds, the Scurvy, Colick, In­flammation and Obstruction of the Liver, Corruption and Putrefaction of blood, Jaundies Black and Yellow, hard Swellings, Tympanies, Pain and Inflammation of the Spleen, Overflowing of the Gall, Tremblings of the Heart, Swoonings, Stoppage and Scalding of the Urine, Bloody-flux, Gravel and Stone in the Reins and Bladder, Rickets in children, Kings-evil, the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins, the violent Hectick Feaver; [Page 3] Agues Quotidian, Tertian, Quartan; Green-sickness, Fist [...]la, the Cancer, the Emerods and Piles, Stopping of the Terms and Whites. It exalts the Generative virtue, cleanses and strengthens the Spermatick Vessels, resists all foulness and infection in the act of Generation. It mundifieth and cleanseth-the Skin, restoreth and increaseth Beauty, makes old Age comly and beauti­ful, and the countenances of all to be chearful and sanguin, and is an An­tidote against infectious Diseases; although I have mentioned many Di­seases, I might have saved that labour, for of all these and many other such like Diseases known and unknown, being without name or number, this Medicin is a full and effectual healer. The Pills may be taken alone; and if the Dose be precisely observed, the Operation will be almost insensible because it works so gently, that it is a Restorative to Nature, it restores the Radical Moisture, which is the Magazin of Life, and in a wonderful man­ner expels all that is noxious out of the body, and will not leave a sluttish corner unswept in any part thereof.

It is a Preservative from all Accidents, as contagious Airs, for it stands Sentinel in the body, and will not admit any enemy of Nature to enter: if you increase the Dose, its Operation will be the more active and visi [...]le, exercising its Virtues upon the body by expelling the Disease; sometimes it works upward, and sometimes downward, and may be both ways at once: For it sweeps every hole clean, and carrieth away what thing soever is offensive or destructive to Nature. And according to the Dose, it works more or less, but always without any violence: I have seen it conquer many peoples Diseases in a very small Dose, and without any visible Ope­ration.

It demoilisheth and vanquisheth most, if not all manner of Distempers notwithstanding there are certain Infirmities which have been of long continuance, which have taken root as it were in the body, and these do re­quire a more visible Operation, and cannot be expelled with a small Dose.

It is excellent against the Leprosie, and such like detestable Diseases where no part is found: there is not in the world a surer, safer, more efficacious and speedier Remedy, provided that Nature be not utterly spent in them that take it.

And as for that irksom and unclean Disease, so commonly called the POX, there is nothing more safe and sure, so that the Patient take it in a proper Dose: that is, he begins with two Pills, and so increasing one Pill every day, until he comes to six or seven, that he may sweat, and that the Medicin may have its Operation both by Vomit and Stool, and so con­tinuing, without resting one day in a week, and the Cure shall be very wel perfected upon him witho [...]t any other means at all.

Now the great difficulty many men make in curing of this Disease, an [...] the great charges they put people upon, make them slow, and ashamed t [...] go to any for a remedy until they are almost rotten; which I know might b [...] prevented, if the party at the first feeling of himself ill will take but on [...] of these Boxes of Pills.

The Gout, Leprosie and Dropsie, are esteemed Diseases for the most par [...] [Page 4] incurable: towards the cure of which and such Diseases, this Medicin is wonderful prevalent beyond credit, and it worketh in a short time more than any Medicin in the world ever did, for in a very short time it extracts from the whole body all turbulent, pestilentious, infectious humors, and that many times insensibly, and yet fully and perfectly, but often so mildly, that it is hardly perceivable; and so all true Cures should be wrought: it is not con­venient (but destructive) to lay violent hands upon Nature; for all her ways are gentle and mild, and so should her Cures be.

And so in the cure of the Gout, though the wringing Pains thereof are in­tolerable, but it shall day by day hereby be a little mitigated and asswaged, the Fits every day decreased, and return not so frequenty as at the first, and gradually vanish quite away never to return again, which is a blessed riddance. They that are well, and desire so to be, let them take the Pills once in a Week.

Now all that take these Hills for the Gout and Dropsie, let them take three or four Pills every day. Many people of late after they have lost their Agues. have been very much troubled with the swelling in their Legs, which this Pill hath soon cured; and if they had taken it sooner, it would not only have cured the Ague, but prevented the Swelling in their Legs.

Also a most wonderful Operation it hath to produce Fertility or Fruitful­ness in the most barren of Women, provided the cause be in themselves. This (Gods appointed time being not come) is able to withstand it. This Pill is very necessary for those that take long Voyages to Sea, as to the East and West Indies, in which Voyages, both the Soldiers and Mariners are much weakned and sorely troubled with the Scurvy, and have no Remedy with them, that can do them any or very li [...]tle good; whereas this Pill will enable them to [...]inish their journey with joy and comfort, both going thither, and also com­ [...]ng home, by the blessing of God.

Truly in the Universal Nature I have not hitherto found any Medicin near equal to this, by many degrees, which doth so effectually resist all Putre­faction both of Bloud and Bowels; and this Medicin both Soldier and Mariner may car [...]y, though never so far. It resists also all Obstructions, the prime cause of most Infirmities. Also it never corrupts, though kept an hundred years, which Drugs will quickly do, and lose both savour and virtue. But this, as I said and say again, is a sure Medicin, always at hand, easily administred and administrable: In the effects there is no Medicin in the whole world more healthful.

The Mariner who continues at Sea many months, and the Soldier in the Camp, suffring there all possible or imaginable inconveniences, cannot want, because this is a Medicin without a Plaster, it is in it self instead of a Plaster and will cu [...]e wounds or old Ulcers being taken inwardly, therefore Chirurgions in Ships, and they in the Camp, should take care to be provided with this one Medicin above all other; for by it they might preserve the lives of thousands of Mariners and Soldiers, which are under their care and tuition, and one only Ounce alone of these Pills, which is but a very small price, will make above an hundred Doses, and cure the sick with more facility than they can do other­wise by all their Art, though furnished with Chest fulls of Medicins; yet not [Page 5] valuable in comparison or competition with this. If Physicians of Chirurgions in the Camp or Navy, were provided but with some few Ounces of these Pills, they might save the lives of ten thousands, which miserably perish through want thereof. It is the duty of a General of an Army, to provide for the Soldiers under his Command, for when they are afflicted with the Plague, Scurvy, Fluxes, and other Epidemical Diseases, they fall like leaves in Autumn from the trees, or like flies in Winter, when the cold weather comes, they die by heap for want of help, whereas this incomparable Medicin might save the lives, if not of all, yet the greatest part of them. For this ve [...]y cause, and in commiseration of mankind, who is subject to so many casualties and infirmi­ties, I will hereafter be sufficiently stored with this Medicin, which God hath blest my study and labors with, which many Rabbies have inquired for, and mist, and; now I publish it, that they which will, may make use of it. It is a Me­dicin so useful powerfull and precious, and yet not costly, that there is not the like.

A word or two to [...]y kind Country men, that live in Country Villages far from Physicians or Apothecaries: When sickness comes upon them, their wives, children or servants, then for a Garduus Posset, and if that do it not, they are in a straight, and know not what to do; whereas if they had but one of these Boxes of Pills, they might do their family much good, and their poor Neighbours which are about them, if the Lord gave them hearts so to do; and in so doing, you shall manifest your selves to be like unto our Saviour Christ, of whom the holy Scriptures record, That he went about doing good, Acts 10.38. And this is the practice of some Merchants in this City, and likewise some Gentlemen in the Country, which have many Boxes of these my Pills, to give away to poor people.

If any man shall imagine or presume upon my Commendation of this Pill, that therefore any Disease though never so inveterate may be removed, he is deceived, and in this doth orr; for I speak here only of such Diseases as by natural means and Gods Blessing may receive and admit of cure, for in some cases the internal parts, the bowels, are so stuffed and obstructed with ill Humours, that no Medicin will prevail, in some their Lungs are rotten and putrified, and the Liver also, before they think of a Physician, or call for help. In such a case, what Physick can help or restore a principal member when it is quite lost, or make new bowels when the old are perished?

And somtimes it pleaseth God to strike a man immediately with a Disease which no man can heal, whereof divers examples are extant in the Word of God, as we may read of Jehoram, it is said, That the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable Disease, and in two years his bowels fell out. 2 Chron. 21.18. Likewise Jeroboams hand dried up, 1 King. 13. And likewis [...] Gehazies Leprosie, 2 King. 5.27. Acts 12.13. and such Diseases imposed by a Divine Hand, no hu­man power can mitigate; only Sauls evil spirit, of a melancholy Devil, Davids harp did mitigate, but did not cure, 1 Sam. 16.23. To God all things are possible, whose Hand can only help what the same hard harms; as Miriam's Leprosie was cured by the Prayer of Moses, Num. 12.13. Hence it is to be concluded that some Diseases are Incurable, and there my Pill must needs fail: but in Natural distempers they fail not: For my part I take the Pills once every, [Page 6] Week, though I am not troubled with any Disease, only for my Healths sake, and to prevent Diseases, and I find much good by them; for about the sixtieth year of my age, I felt some stifness in my Limbs, and in regard of my age, I was afraid I should have fallen into such a Distemper as I had twenty years ago, for then I was so lame (and nothing seen) yet in so much pain that I de­sired death rather then life. But as God would have it, it parted from me: and as it came of it self, I knew not by what means, so (by the Blessing of God( I cured my self of that Distemper: that is I applyed my self to these Pills, and by the Blessing of God upon them I was set at Liberty, and my Limbs were as nimble as they were thirty years ago; for now I can Leap, walk, or run, with ease and refreshment, which before was a burthen to me; and I find them in my self to be a great Restorer of Nature, for I have used no other Physick about this 12 or 14 years; and I intend to use them as long as I live, for I find that they strengthen me very much, ever since I began to take them: and at this time (through the goodness of God) I am not sensi­ble of any Distemper upon me: and although the Winter 1662, was cold and long, yet no Wast-coat did come on my back, day nor night, which I had not gone without for thirty years before: One thing also in regard of my Age, makes mee marvel, that I am grown two inches bigger in my body within these twelve months.

I have also a preparation from the same matter of this Pill, with a little Addition to it, will cure those that have been deaf many years, these Pills are to be taken as the other, and the price 5 s. the box,

And I'll tell you, as these Pills are Extracted from the best of Minerals, so they are the best of Medecins, and not to be made without great Expence, much Pains, Time and Operating in the Fire, the which is something tedi­ous now to me, being the 72 year of my age, only I am assisted by my Cousen John Watts: I have lived in the Parish where now I live, these 18 or 20 years, and have wrought from Animals, Vegetables and Minerals; and although I have found out many pretty Experiments from the two former, yet I affirm Experimentally, None like the Mineral Kingdom for Medicins; from which (through the goodness of God) I have gained this great Secret, which is the best that ever I knew, or care to know, nor do, or shall any know it, but them that I have Informed you of.

It is objected by some, that the Pill in some bodies doth not operate up­wards and downwards, as some Physick usually doth: yet my Pill, under God, though (insensible, it may be in some bodies) the operation may not be over in a day, or two or three after: It works by expelling wind, water and by sweat and (if need be) in due time by Purge or Vomit, (if there be cause.)

Forasmuch as my Pill is well known through most parts of the World, to be a sveraign Remedy for any Diseases; Seamen and Merchants (from ex­perience) having communicated them almost into all parts; some there are that seek to counterfeit my Pill, which Pill they understand as well as Wal­thams Calf, for it requireth a better wit then lieth in any of their heads, to know the Materials, the Fire and the Water, the Order and the Time to be observed in making thereof; which I have not gained easily, but by long and chargeable experience: But if any of them be able to convert the blood of [Page 7] the Serpent into a Salamander, able to endure a violent fire, and take from him his blood, soul, and spirit, and throw him headlong into the Salt Sea, that man shall be like another conquering Jason deserving great honour, but these deserve an —rather.

I understand also by some Persons, that there are great Disputes and Con­jectures amongst men, what my Pill is made of; some say it is made of Tu [...]pethum Minerale, others of Sulpher of Antimony, and some say it is made of Crude Mercury or Quicksilver: but not one grain of either of these did I ever use to the making of my Pill. So much for the Negative. It matters not what it's made of, it being so safe and harmless, that women with child do o [...]st antly take them, and much good they find by them, for they strengthen both them and the child. And I do conclude in the Affirmative, it is good for any Disease (as I said before) curable by Physick.

Now that none may be deceived for after time in buying Pills for mine which are not, I therefore first declare to all that shall read these lines, that the Pill was never taught me by man, neither do I know any man that can make them but my self. But since the Printing of my Book, May the 2. 1664: I have given my Secret to three persons, one of whom in regard of his Greatness I dare not mention, considering what Solomon saith, The Kings wrath is as the roaring of a Lyon, but his favour is as the dew upon the grass, Prov. 19.12. The other two are, as I told you before, my friend, Mr. Tho. Fyge, and my Nephew Mr. John Watts, of whom, or of them they ap­point, the right Pills can only be had after my death.

Now forasmuch as my aim in making this Medicin, was that all might have benefit thereby, I have so ordered the business that they are to be sold for me in several places of the Nation: but be careful to buy of those whose names are in my Book, I have done enough to keep you from being cheated both now and hereafter, if you are wise; if not I cannot help it. To prevent it if posible, I shall inform you that the great pretenders to know and make my Pills, are several servants that have lived with me, both male and female: now if these thievish servants had stole no more of my Pills, than they did of the way to make them, it had been some hundreds, if not more in my way; for they are as little skilled in the pre­paration, as an Horse is in Hebrew: And though every one of them make Pills different from one another, yet they will all assert they are mine, though never a one of them is so truly. The trick they have to vend them by, and put them off with, is that which takes only with simple folks, that they shall buy them cheaper of them; but it's dear enough that they pay, which take them with the loss of their lives, or sell them to the loss of their credit for them: for if there be an unskilful hand in such preparations, the best Medicin will degenerate into the worst and most pernicious.

I am informed they much desire my death, supposing that then they may cheat the world without controul: but I have ordered the business so, that you may be saved out of such Rooks hands, and buy for many years to come at mine own Hou [...]e, of my Nephew, such as I have taken care to prepare and provide for posterity when I am dead; they being be­ter for being older.

In this Tract are presented several Cures to your view, and a thousand more might be added, but I need not have mentioned these, but to make some ashamed of their belying so generous and general a Remedy, and becau [...]e they have been before now often Printed I shall give you the briefer Ac­count.