DELAUN
Reviv'd
,
&c.
I
Cannot
but
take
notice
of
the
ridiculous
humour
and
levity
of
this
Age
,
in
mens
Doting
on
,
and
gaping
after
Novelties
,
insomuch
that
Errour
and
Non-sense
,
in
a
modish
Garb
,
is
now
adays
become
more
eligible
than
true
knowledge
in
an
Antient
dress
.
And
this
notorious
folly
is
so
grafted
and
insinuated
in
the
minds
,
especially
of
the
Vulgar
,
that
't
is
not
only
practised
in
their
Habits
,
Postures
,
Diet
and
Discourse
,
but
also
in
matters
of
greates●
moment
(
viz.
)
their
Bodily
health
,
the
greatest
Jewel
upon
earth
.
For
,
they
are
no
sooner
sensible
that
their
present
Malady
requires
Remedy
,
but
they
reckon
up
how
many
hundreds
this
or
that
upstart
Impostor
,
hath
inserted
in
his
Papers
to
have
been
cur'd
by
his
own
invented
Quintessence
,
Panpharmacon
,
or
other
crampnam'd
Arcanum
.
And
,
he
that
hath
pretended
to
most
Cures
,
't
is
no
matter
whether
he
hath
really
done
any
or
not
,
is
most
credited
,
most
admired
.
For
,
Why
should
not
that
cure
me
(
say
these
credulous
Creatures
)
that
cur'd
so
many
hundreds
?
never
consulting
how
many
thousands
it
hath
kill'd
,
nor
how
many
millions
Dame
Nature
hath
restored
to
perfect
health
,
from
most
dangerous
Diseases
,
without
one
Grain
of
Physick
;
which
if
a
confident
Quack
had
success
in
the
seeming
Cure
but
of
half
a
score
,
the
Reputation
must
be
ascrib'd
to
himself
,
and
their
Names
(
with
ten
times
more
that
he
never
saw
or
heard
of
)
together
with
their
Diseases
,
publickly
put
in
print
,
to
fill
up
his
impertinent
Pamphlet
,
to
the
Disrepute
and
Damage
of
many
worthy
persons
.
For
,
there
are
several
Reasons
why
several
men
and
womens
Names
,
Abodes
and
Diseases
should
not
be
published
,
especially
by
the
scandalous
Pens
of
illiterate
Empericks
.
And
certainly
't
is
the
Patients
ignorance
of
the
Laws
against
such
Libellous
offenders
,
only
,
that
suspends
their
punishment
.
As
to
the
great
number
of
Names
of
persons
pretended
to
be
cur'd
by
these
Ill
men
,
and
copious
Copies
of
vouching
Epistles
,
inserted
in
their
Bills
and
Books
,
you
shall
not
hear
of
the
name
of
so
much
as
one
person
that
ever
di'd
,
miscarried
,
or
relaps'd
:
no
,
nor
a
word
to
any
such
purpose
,
nor
a
syllable
of
the
sad
Effects
and
dangerous
Consequences
of
their
fatal
Physick
:
the
Dead
cannot
,
and
their
living
friends
are
asham'd
to
publish
them
.
I
must
confess
,
't
were
a
Wonder
(
amongst
so
many
thousands
that
have
been
tempted
to
meddle
with
their
Medicines
)
if
some
of
them
should
not
happen
to
be
cur'd
,
or
pretend
to
be
so
;
if
some
of
them
should
not
pen
a
Complement
in
praise
of
their
Doctor
,
but
that
perhaps
not
so
much
to
promote
his
interest
as
their
own
;
the
diseased
(
next
to
the
indigent
)
being
evermore
the
most
unwelcome
Guests
.
But
,
suppose
none
of
them
should
do
so
,
how
easie
is
it
to
contrive
it
?
for
,
what
Quack
cannot
Create
correspondents
in
all
Countries
to
compose
literal
Encomium's
of
his
learned
friend
and
Physitian
?
whereas
(
in
truth
)
many
of
those
who
pretend
to
much
in
their
Bills
and
Books
,
are
so
far
from
any
tolerable
literature
in
the
Greek
Tongue
,
which
is
fundamentally
necessary
for
the
understanding
of
the
Art
of
Physick
,
that
they
never
understood
one
line
of
Latine
;
nor
can
they
,
without
help
,
pen
their
own
Papers
.
Pardon
me
,
some
of
them
doubtless
do
,
and
I
dare
swear
't
is
their
own
,
't
is
so
like
them
;
yet
such
popular
Non-sense
(
the
more
's
the
pity
)
Vends
best
with
the
Vulgar
,
and
Ignorance
is
now
adays
become
as
necessary
a
qualification
in
Physick
,
as
it
us'd
to
be
in
Preaching
.
But
,
what
need
they
the
help
of
any
Greek
or
Latine
Authors
?
for
the
greatest
Dunce
,
the
most
nonsensical
Ignoramus
amongst
them
,
will
tell
you
that
he
knows
more
than
Galen
,
Aristotle
,
or
Hippocrates
,
those
Gyants
in
Physick
and
Philosophy
,
to
whom
the
most
eminent
Physitians
of
this
Age
,
will
own
themselves
to
be
but
Dwarfs
,
and
,
that
they
stand
but
on
their
shoulders
;
and
that
(
notwithstanding
the
undeniable
late
new
improvements
in
Physick
)
most
of
the
Rules
,
Methods
and
Medicines
of
the
Antients
are
still
of
necessary
use
and
consequence
,
in
the
curing
of
Diseases
;
Nay
,
of
the
very
Scurvie
,
which
these
Pseudo-Chymists
so
much
pretend
to
the
Cure
of
;
and
prate
of
the
Newness
of
that
Disease
,
as
it
were
but
of
yesterday
,
and
that
their
new-invented
Medicines
only
,
can
cure
it
.
But
,
the
Truth
is
,
and
all
able
modern
Physitians
concur
,
that
the
Scorbute
,
Scelotyrbe
,
or
Scurvie
,
hath
been
as
antient
in
England
,
and
other
maritime
Countries
,
as
the
very
first
Inhabitants
:
And
,
that
ever
since
men
were
mortal
,
and
subject
to
Diseases
,
the
Climate
and
Temperature
of
the
Air
did
dispose
the
blood
and
humours
of
those
who
breath'd
it
,
to
that
Discrasie
or
ill
temper
which
we
now
call
the
Scurvie
,
and
so
rendred
it
a
Malady
Epidemical
.
Which
Distemper
,
and
all
others
,
these
men
of
Confidence
pretend
to
cure
with
their
own
new
invented
Arcanum's
,
which
,
for
the
most
part
,
are
composed
of
Mercury
,
which
is
Quicksilver
,
or
Antimony
,
or
both
:
the
Administration
whereof
,
too
often
brings
slight
Distempers
,
into
dangerous
and
mortal
Diseases
.
Nay
,
I
dare
affirm
and
justifie
,
that
Mercury
,
though
never
so
carefully
kill'd
,
(
as
they
call
it
)
which
is
commonly
made
up
into
Pills
,
with
other
Catharticks
or
Purging
Ingredients
(
and
given
as
a
Specifick
against
Gonorrhaea's
and
all
Venereal
Distempers
)
does
absolutely
poyson
the
body
,
and
infect
it
with
the
very
Pox
,
(
if
I
may
properly
so
say
)
and
makes
more
work
for
Chyrurgeons
and
Hospitals
,
than
Mars
in
his
Tragick
,
and
Venus
in
her
most
lascivious
Dress
.
't
is
dangerous
Mercurial
Medicines
that
torture
the
poyson'd
Patient
with
horrid
Pains
,
Pangs
,
and
intolerable
Twinges
in
the
Head
,
Shoulders
,
Arms
,
Thighs
,
Legs
,
and
other
parts
.
't
is
Mercury
,
that
hellish
Companion
,
that
lurks
,
sometimes
many
years
,
in
the
languishing
Body
,
flying
about
till
at
last
it
fouls
the
Bones
,
sinks
the
Nose
,
and
produces
such
sad
and
dismal
Effects
.
I
further
assert
,
't
is
a
gross
Errour
in
those
who
think
they
can
allay
,
or
carry
off
this
Devil
with
any
kinde
of
Concomitant
Cathartick
,
though
never
so
skilfully
managed
:
for
Eye-experience
(
that
infallible
mistriss
)
hath
often
shew'd
us
,
that
in
open'd
Bodies
,
the
very
Mercury
(
in
specie
)
hath
been
left
behind
,
reunited
into
the
bigness
of
pins
heads
,
of
several
sizes
,
in
several
parts
of
the
poyson'd
Carcase
.
Whenas
it
was
(
nevertheless
)
as
carefully
and
judiciously
kill'd
,
and
mixt
with
as
suitable
Purgatives
,
as
the
most
exquisite
Artist
could
contrive
.
Some
of
these
miserable
mortals
were
judged
to
die
of
a
Lethargy
,
some
of
the
Gout
,
Rheumatism
,
Palsie
,
others
of
Frenzy
,
Griping
in
the
Guts
,
&c.
when
,
in
truth
,
't
was
nothing
else
but
meer
Mercury
that
murdered
them
.
It
is
an
old
saying
,
that
Mercury
cures
the
Pox
,
but
what
cures
Mercury
?
But
,
no
wonder
that
crude
Mercury
should
be
so
unwelcome
a
Guest
,
when
that
delicate
Preparation
call'd
Mercurius
dulcis
,
fam'd
for
its
harmless
and
easie
operation
,
should
,
in
some
Constitutions
,
not
be
administred
without
apparent
danger
,
(
viz.
)
in
such
bodies
(
saith
the
learned
Sennertus
)
whose
Stomachs
and
Bloud
abound
with
fluid
salts
,
and
are
troubled
with
a
pungent
sharp
Liquor
or
Juice
,
as
those
generally
are
that
have
the
Scurvie
.
To
such
,
I
say
,
it
may
probably
fall
out
to
be
of
ill
consequence
,
since
there
is
danger
that
in
the
Stomach
(
which
abounds
with
Vitriolick
Salts
)
the
dulcified
Mercury
,
(
by
such
extreme
Acidity
)
may
be
again
reduced
to
be
Corrosive
.
And
the
Ingenious
Dr.
Castle
,
in
his
Chymical
Galenist
saith
,
he
hath
observed
that
there
is
less
danger
(
in
this
dangerous
Medicine
)
when
administred
to
Children
,
(
whose
stomachs
abound
with
Crudities
)
than
to
riper
aged
persons
,
who
are
troubled
with
an
austere
sharpness
in
their
Liquours
.
How
dangerous
then
is
it
?
and
who
but
mad
men
will
make
use
of
these
Mercurial
Medicines
?
which
,
if
they
chance
not
to
pass
upwards
or
downwards
,
but
stick
in
the
coats
of
the
Stomach
,
or
be
intangled
in
any
tough
viscous
matter
,
the
miserable
Patient
can
hardly
escape
with
life
.
No
honest
Physitian
will
deny
any
act
of
Charity
in
his
Directions
to
the
poorer
sort
of
people
;
nor
any
Apothecary
extort
so
much
of
them
for
safe
approved
Medicines
,
as
these
{αβγδ}
or
off-scums
of
mankind
do
for
their
poyson'd
Potions
,
Pills
,
and
other
their
destructive
Doses
,
which
reach
even
to
Posterity
,
destroying
Nature
,
wasting
the
Genital
juice
,
and
affecting
Mankind
with
incurable
Sterility
.
And
these
(
forsooth
)
these
whimsical
Quacksalvers
call
their
Secrets
:
as
if
they
were
the
better
for
being
so
:
no
certainly
,
those
Remedies
must
needs
be
best
,
that
are
no
Secrets
;
but
best
known
,
as
being
confirmed
,
by
antient
Authority
,
and
prescribed
by
the
joynt-consent
of
a
Colledge
,
or
the
chief
of
them
,
and
established
by
the
unerring
and
infallible
Experience
of
the
world
.
Such
a
safe
well-known
Galenick
Medicine
,
(
no
single
conceipt
or
proud
product
of
my
own
brain
)
I
now
offer
to
the
world
,
it
being
the
very
same
Pill
that
was
so
long
,
and
with
such
grand
applause
sold
in
Blackfryers
by
Dr.
Delaun
,
and
approved
of
by
Sir
Walter
Rawleigh
,
Sir
Theodore
Mayern
,
Dr.
Prujean
,
and
others
of
Eminence
,
and
of
the
most
Learned
Society
of
Physitians
in
the
world
.
Those
Oracles
deem'd
this
Pill
,
as
the
choice
general
Medicine
in
the
Universe
.
And
't
is
at
this
day
held
sacred
for
its
Vertues
,
throughout
France
,
insomuch
that
the
Doctors
and
Chyrurgeons
of
the
Hospitals
there
,
have
experimentally
concluded
with
the
most
knowing
ones
of
this
Kingdom
,
that
no
Cathartick
in
the
world
operates
so
kindly
on
the
offensive
humours
,
in
all
Distempers
,
as
this
single
Six
penny
Pill
doth
,
nor
thrusts
forth
the
Excrements
with
such
ease
and
safety
,
without
raking
the
Body
,
separating
the
Morbifick
matter
from
the
Mass
of
Bloud
.
I
say
,
such
a
safe
well-known
Medicine
I
commend
to
the
Kingdom
,
for
the
good
of
straightned
Purses
,
that
cannot
purchase
whole
Boxes
at
Three
or
Four
shillings
price
;
and
to
commode
the
better
and
graver
sort
,
who
love
not
to
be
loaded
with
multitudes
of
Medicines
,
nor
like
the
infatuated
Rabble
catch
at
every
new
Conceit
,
or
pretended
Secret
;
whenas
(
indeed
)
there
is
no
new
thing
under
the
Sun
:
besides
,
there
's
many
good
people
that
may
spare
Six
pence
or
a
shilling
,
for
a
Purge
,
when
they
cannot
well
part
with
Four
or
Five
.
As
to
the
infinite
Cures
it
hath
really
done
,
should
I
attempt
particularly
to
enumerate
but
the
tenth
part
of
a
Tithe
of
them
,
't
would
prove
a
Task
impossible
;
or
should
I
publish
any
their
Names
,
I
may
be
offensive
,
and
in
both
these
impertinently
voluminous
.
But
since
Delaun's
Pill
hath
been
of
late
in
part
forgot
,
through
his
Death
,
and
consequently
its
great
Vertues
lie
latent
from
the
Younger
sort
of
this
City
,
but
especially
from
almost
all
remote
Dwellers
;
't
would
be
a
sin
to
be
silent
,
and
not
to
speak
to
at
least
some
of
them
;
but
of
those
as
Concise
as
may
be
.
Distempers
of
the
Head
.
First
,
in
a
most
principal
Nature
,
it
is
a
most
Infallible
Remedy
against
all
Aches
,
Twinging
pains
,
and
other
Distempers
in
the
Head
and
animal
parts
,
(
viz.
)
the
Apoplexy
,
Epilepsie
,
Giddiness
,
Palsie
,
Lethargy
,
Melancholy
,
Sleepiness
,
Convulsions
,
Catarrhs
,
or
distillations
of
salt
sharp
matter
upon
the
Lungs
.
Gums
.
It
is
an
approved
Remedy
against
all
Tumours
,
Aches
and
Pains
that
affect
the
Gums
or
Jaws
in
the
time
of
a
tormenting
Toothach
,
by
fortifying
the
Nerve
,
and
ridding
it
of
that
Rest-opposing
Rheum
.
Deafness
.
It
is
also
potently
prevalent
in
the
Cure
of
Deafness
and
all
Auricular
Deficiencies
,
strengthning
the
Auditory
Nerve
and
Membrane
,
easing
Pains
,
Drumming
and
Singing
noise
in
the
uneasie
Head
,
curing
all
Disorders
that
obstruct
the
Sense
of
Hearing
.
Sore
Eyes
.
It
highly
helps
and
strengthens
the
Sight
,
fortifies
the
Optick
Nerve
,
even
to
admiration
,
rectifying
all
Running
Rheums
,
Misty
Dulness
,
Inflammations
,
and
other
Weaknesses
in
that
tender
part
;
insomuch
that
pretenders
to
the
Cure
of
Distempers
in
the
Eyes
,
Ears
,
or
Teeth
,
and
that
knew
this
Medicine
,
never
us'd
to
be
without
it
.
Hard
Drinking
.
It
settles
the
Brain
,
asswages
all
irregular
and
tumultuous
Ebullitions
excited
in
the
animal
faculties
;
it
strengthens
the
Memory
,
and
carries
off
all
sottish
Swimming
,
Dizziness
,
Sowerness
of
Breath
,
and
other
Indispositions
occasion'd
by
Excessive
drinking
.
And
by
this
it
's
appropriated
power
to
the
Brain
and
animal
parts
,
it
equally
Lords
it
ore
the
Vital
and
Natural
faculties
.
Heart
,
Stomach
.
Its
boundless
benefits
extend
to
the
Heart
and
Spirits
,
to
the
Lungs
,
Liver
and
Spleen
:
and
by
equal
prerogative
fortifie
the
Stomach
,
creating
there
a
good
Digestion
,
concocting
Crudities
,
correcting
nauseous
indispositions
to
meat
,
insomuch
that
the
Patient
will
sooner
want
that
than
an
Eager
Appetite
.
Lungs
.
It
is
of
grand
importance
and
advantage
to
the
Lungs
,
when
they
are
burden'd
with
a
dolorous
Asthma
,
mistaken
by
the
Vulgar
for
a
Stoppage
in
the
stomach
;
for
such
complain
commonly
of
Pains
and
Stoppages
of
the
Stomach
,
when
the
Lungs
are
in
fault
,
and
too
often
of
the
Lungs
,
when
the
Stomach
is
.
It
helps
Pthysicks
,
and
Shortness
of
breath
,
Hoarseness
,
Wheesing
in
the
Throat
,
and
other
Distempers
in
the
Lungs
,
whether
Ulcerated
or
otherwise
.
Fits
of
the
Mother
.
't
is
sure
(
and
hath
ever
been
successful
)
in
the
Cure
and
prevention
of
that
dismal
Disease
called
Fits
of
the
Mother
;
When
something
like
a
Globe
seems
to
rise
up
with
violence
towards
the
Throat
,
accompanied
with
a
gnawing
pain
in
the
Stomach
,
trembling
at
the
Heart
,
despairing
Voice
,
falling
down
for
Dead
,
and
other
sad
Symptoms
.
But
,
note
that
this
Pill
is
not
to
be
taken
in
the
time
of
the
Fit
,
but
at
other
seasons
,
(
viz
)
a
day
or
two
after
,
and
continued
two
or
three
times
a
week
for
a
fortnight
together
.
Barrenness
.
To
prevent
Abortiveness
and
Barrenness
,
it
hath
been
well
Experienced
,
both
in
this
City
and
elsewhere
,
that
no
Medicine
hath
succeeded
like
it
;
which
may
be
made
appear
by
,
and
is
well
known
to
,
many
Midwives
,
as
well
as
other
persons
of
Eminence
.
The
Greensickness
,
stoppages
of
Terms
,
Weakness
in
the
Back
,
and
other
Diseases
incident
to
women
:
The
Stone-collick
,
involuntary
Issuing
of
Urine
,
Ulcers
in
the
Bladder
and
Kidnies
.
All
Agues
,
Chilness
in
the
Bones
,
Itches
,
Tetters
,
Pale
and
discolour'd
Lips
,
Griping
in
the
Guts
.
Pimples
.
And
nothing
certainly
is
a
more
prope●…
Purge
to
check
that
lawless
humour
that
bolt
out
into
the
face
with
a
fiery
Fury
,
dartin●…
out
blackish
,
red
Pustules
,
Pimples
,
and
uncomely
Carbuncles
;
for
the
unctious
essence
of
this
piercing
Pill
cleers
the
Bloud
of
that
offensive
humour
,
challenging
an
undeniable
Cure
in
course
.
Helps
the
Sense
of
Smelling
.
It
comforts
the
Brain
,
and
is
assistant
to
the
Sense
of
Smelling
;
hastens
the
Cure
of
old
Sores
,
Cancers
,
Gangrens
,
Lameness
,
Bruises
,
&c.
which
several
Chyrurgeons
of
this
City
must
thankfully
acknowledge
,
being
forced
to
this
Medicine
,
when
rebellious
Sores
will
not
yield
to
outward
Applications
.
Tunbridge
,
Epsom
,
Bath
,
and
other
Waters
,
whether
they
operate
by
Stool
,
Urine
,
or
Sweat
,
this
incomparable
Pill
is
of
singular
use
,
taken
as
a
preparative
two
or
three
times
before
:
and
of
equal
benefit
in
the
time
of
drinking
them
two
or
three
times
a
week
,
as
well
as
of
necessity
afterwards
,
to
carry
off
the
Dregs
,
Feculencies
,
and
earthy
Impurities
that
may
be
left
in
the
Body
,
supplying
those
Defects
,
and
perfecting
those
Cures
which
weak
waters
could
not
reach
to
.
Seamen
.
't
is
a
necessary
Companion
for
Seafaring
persons
:
and
it
hath
been
approved
in
the
West
and
East-Indies
,
the
Streights
,
and
other
parts
,
for
that
it
n●ver
decays
in
its
Vertues
,
and
is
of
as
important
necessity
to
those
that
dwell
neer
the
Sea-side
,
it
being
so
Soveraign
a
Remedy
against
the
Scurvie
.
Spleen
.
The
Spleen
,
't
is
so
friendly
,
and
of
such
important
use
to
that
Bowel
,
that
it
helps
to
rarifie
the
Bloud
,
and
renders
it
brisk
and
lively
,
free
from
Curdling
and
Stagnation
,
fit
to
circulate
,
for
the
better
supply
of
the
Natural
,
Vital
,
and
Animal
constitutions
.
Gout
.
The
Gout
,
which
too
often
assassinates
miserable
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
those
parts
,
as
a
guard
against
the
future
fury
of
that
unwelcome
Enemy
.
Scurvie
.
The
Scurvie
,
which
crowds
it self
into
the
acquaintance
of
almost
all
,
from
the
Prince
to
tne
Peasant
,
from
the
Madam
to
the
Milkmaid
,
and
consists
in
the
Blood's
being
overcharged
with
fixed
or
fluid
Salts
,
and
thereby
degenerated
from
its
Spirituous
Balsamick
condition
,
into
a
sharp
,
salt
,
and
austere
Liquour
,
producing
disorderly
Fermentations
,
Stoppages
,
Weariness
,
Pursiness
,
Difficulties
and
Shortness
of
breathing
;
defects
in
Motion
,
Palpitation
,
Spots
,
Rawness
in
the
Gums
,
Soreness
,
and
sometimes
little
Ulcers
in
the
Mouth
,
Scurfs
,
Pains
in
the
Head
,
Swelling
in
the
Limbs
,
varieties
of
shifting
Pains
,
and
at
uncertain
hours
,
nay
in
the
warm
Bed
and
night-time
,
(
which
opportunity
the
Pockie
Pest
chiefly
challenges
)
when
the
Conscious
suspect
,
and
the
Innocent
are
surpriz'd
at
this
repose-opposing
Malady
.
This
excellent
Never-failing
Remedy
carries
off
,
and
cures
,
and
that
in
a
short
time
,
even
to
miracle
,
above
any
other
Cathartick
.
For
it
causes
a
true
and
just
Fermentation
in
the
Bloud
,
maintains
a
regular
Flame
in
the
Heart
,
and
gives
a
seasonable
Supplement
,
with
a
soft
Juice
and
a
well-rectified
animal
Spirit
.
And
by
such
amicable
Efficacie
and
friendly
close
with
Nature
,
diffuses
its
all-healing
Vertues
to
the
Bowels
,
and
most
remote
and
hidden
recesses
thereof
.
Dropsie
.
The
Dropsie
,
whether
Ascites
,
Tympanites
,
or
Anasarca
,
it
fully
frees
from
offensive
fulness
of
aqueous
Impurities
,
dreyning
the
Legs
,
Belly
and
Body
,
as
well
as
(
sometimes
)
the
Brain
,
from
that
watery
weakness
.
Jaundies
.
And
't
is
of
equal
Efficacie
against
the
Jaundies
,
when
discoloured
Eyes
,
seconded
with
fainting
Obstructions
,
give
too
much
cause
of
jealousie
of
obtaining
their
wonted
looks
.
This
Pill
purges
,
purifies
,
and
opens
all
Oppilations
,
reducing
those
lost
Luminaries
brisk
and
lively
,
in
a
well-cur'd
Countenance
.
Running
of
the
Reins
.
The
Gonorrhaea
,
or
Running
of
the
Reins
,
swelling
Bubo's
in
the
Groyn
,
Tumours
in
the
Testicles
,
Ulcers
in
the
Privities
,
Warts
,
weeping
remainders
by
ill-begun
and
uneffected
Cures
,
with
other
usual
accidents
,
this
Unequall'd
Pill
most
certainly
and
safely
performs
;
rooting
out
that
Venereal
Venom
so
effectually
,
that
there
's
no
fear
of
any
subsequent
Relapse
,
or
danger
of
a
confirmed
Lues
.
The
POX
.
Contracted
by
contagious
Whoredom
,
and
Coition
with
infected
persons
,
(
for
I
deny
,
contrary
to
some
Assertions
,
that
it
can
be
otherwise
got
)
with
all
its
miserable
attendants
,
Nocturnal
Pains
,
Nodes
,
dreadful
Memorandums
in
the
tortur'd
Brain
,
though
settl'd
in
the
Bones
,
grissle
of
the
Nose
,
and
Palate
;
and
though
that
pernitious
Pest
hath
corrupted
the
whole
mass
of
Bloud
,
and
be
complicated
with
a
Rheumatism
,
Gout
,
Scorbute
,
or
other
contumacious
accident
,
and
the
body
poyson'd
with
Quick
silver-Medicines
,
this
Antimercurial
and
Antivenereal
Pill
,
by
degrees
,
subdues
,
quells
,
wastes
,
and
utterly
extirpates
Root
and
Branch
,
causing
Fruitfulness
and
a
clear
Complexion
in
both
Sexes
;
furnishing
the
Bloud
with
an
amicable
Nitre
,
and
rendring
it
as
sweet
as
Milk
;
affording
a
vital
Oyl
to
the
Lamp
of
the
heart
,
in
order
to
the
long
life
and
well-being
of
mankind
,
Quantum
in
Medicinâ
.
Quid
multa
?
it
serves
safely
on
all
Occasions
,
Constitutions
,
Sexes
,
as
well
to
the
sound
to
prevent
,
as
the
sick
to
cure
a
Disease
.
Much
more
might
be
said
in
applause
of
this
Posthume
Pill
;
for
since
't
is
granted
to
be
the
Grand
Cephalick
in
the
Universe
,
it
may
justly
challenge
the
Appellation
of
Catholick
or
Universal
:
for
since
the
Brain
and
animal
Constitution
,
the
Nervous
juice
,
and
principal
parts
,
the
heart
and
head
,
are
hereby
kept
in
an
equal
temper
,
who
can
suspect
this
Prince
of
Pills
to
be
insufficient
in
governing
the
meaner
parts
of
man
?
But
since
{αβγδ}
,
I
will
desist
,
save
that
I
must
speak
something
of
the
Nature
and
Operation
of
this
matchless
Medicine
.
As
every
Disease
is
contra
Naturam
,
so
there
is
a
certain
Antipathy
between
Nature
and
purgative
Medicines
:
Wherefore
I
shall
not
tell
you
,
as
some
do
(
that
neither
know
nor
care
what
they
say
or
do
)
that
any
kind
of
Cathartick
can
be
desireable
,
palatable
,
or
grateful
to
the
Stomach
;
but
,
I
aver
it
to
be
as
acceptable
to
the
Stomach
as
any
thing
that
quits
a
Disease
,
though
perhaps
not
so
pleasant
as
some
Mercurial
ones
,
that
only
attenuate
the
Excrements
,
slip
through
the
body
,
and
take
no
Cognizance
of
,
but
(
by
their
destructive
Atomes
)
adde
to
a
settl'd
Ach.
This
Pill
pierces
into
the
mass
of
Bloud
,
and
works
its
Effects
by
stimulating
the
fibrous
parts
in
the
most
inward
recesses
of
the
Bowels
,
fighting
against
,
separating
and
exterminating
the
Morbifick
matter
.
And
in
this
War
between
the
Remedy
and
the
Disease
,
it
cannot
be
expected
but
that
the
Patient
must
be
sensible
of
some
slight
Gripes
,
Swimming
in
the
Head
,
Qualms
in
the
Stomach
,
or
other
unwelcome
Disorder
,
during
this
intestine
Conflict
.
Of
Delaun's
Personage
I
shall
be
silent
,
since
the
grateful
Company
of
Apothecaries
are
my
Spokes-men
.
Those
Worthies
are
now
erecting
his
costly
,
comely
Effigies
,
in
their
Magnificent
Hall
,
to
aeternize
his
neverdying
Name
,
and
grace
that
goodly
place
;
(
all
Artists
admiring
this
man
for
his
Medicines
sake
.
)
Directions
for
taking
them
.
First
,
I
Advise
every
person
to
take
rather
too
little
than
too
much
;
and
by
the
oftener
taking
a
moderate
quantity
,
the
Disease
is
the
sooner
reach'd
to
,
and
admits
of
a
more
certain
Cure
.
Besides
,
there
's
no
danger
in
this
Pill
,
if
it
should
chance
not
to
work
with
you
;
for
't
is
of
such
an
wholsome
healing
nature
,
that
't
is
(
then
)
officiating
in
the
body
,
as
a
Balsam
,
for
the
salving
of
some
inward
Sore
.
Persons
of
ordinary
Constitutions
,
or
strength
of
body
,
may
take
one
of
these
Pills
;
the
stronger
,
one
and
half
;
persons
very
young
,
and
those
of
very
weak
Constitutions
,
may
try
with
half
or
three
quarters
of
a
Pill
,
and
by
degrees
more
or
less
,
as
they
finde
,
and
would
have
them
to
work
.
Take
them
in
the
morning
in
any
Liquid
thing
you
think
will
best
drive
them
down
,
at
any
time
from
three
or
four
till
eight
or
nine
;
but
the
earlier
the
better
.
You
may
stay
at
home
,
or
go
abroad
;
drink
,
or
forbear
drinking
after
them
,
at
your
pleasure
:
but
in
cold
weather
,
a
warm
Chamber
(
with
tender
persons
)
suits
best
,
as
well
as
warm
Liquour
,
viz.
either
Ale
,
Broth
,
Posset
,
drunk
two
or
three
hours
after
,
and
in
the
time
of
the
working
.
If
your
affairs
require
close
attendance
next
day
,
you
may
take
one
going
to
bed
;
it
may
then
disturb
your
Rest
,
but
not
hurt
your
body
,
so
as
you
do
not
catch
cold
.
You
may
therefore
use
this
Pill
as
you
finde
it
agree
with
your
body
,
and
suit
with
your
business
.
Note
,
That
I
do
not
advise
this
Pill
to
Infants
,
whose
tender
years
cannot
have
contracted
any
settled
Taint
:
To
such
I
commend
Cassia
,
Manna
,
Syrupe
of
Roses
,
Succory
,
with
Rubarb
,
&c.
such
lenient
Laxatives
suit
best
with
such
tender
Stomachs
.
Nor
yet
to
feeble
,
feverish
,
wasted
,
weak
Constitutions
,
otherwise
than
in
very
small
quantities
;
though
I
aver
it
to
be
much
more
safe
,
easie
,
and
friendly
to
Nature
,
than
any
other
Extant
,
of
such
quick
and
easie
Operation
.
Note
,
That
this
Pill
is
pliable
always
as
Wax
,
so
that
you
may
divide
it
into
twenty
parts
,
if
you
please
,
for
your
convenience
to
swallow
it
.
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
single
in
a
little
Paper-box
,
and
with
every
Pill
given
a
printed
Paper
,
briefly
declaring
its
Vertues
,
and
Directions
to
take
it
.
Yet
the
Price
is
no
more
than
Six
pence
,
though
it
be
most
costly
to
the
Composer
,
and
most
advantagious
to
the
Buyer
,
of
any
Pill
in
the
Universe
.
There
is
also
(
always
ready
,
for
such
whose
sturdy
Maladies
require
so
many
)
Six
of
these
Golden
Pills
,
put
up
in
a
Tin-box
,
sealed
with
my
Seal
;
which
amounts
to
Six
sufficient
Purges
,
the
price
Three
shillings
;
and
therewith
given
(
gratis
)
this
Book
,
which
at
the
Booksellers
is
sold
for
Six
pence
.
I
told
you
before
,
that
this
Pill
was
no
Secret
,
no
conceited
Whimsie
invented
by
my
own
,
or
any
other
single
Judgment
,
but
what
hath
been
approved
of
by
the
joynt-consent
of
Eminent
Artists
in
Physick
.
Yet
I
must
also
tell
you
,
that
there
's
none
of
these
Pills
(
rightly
prepar'd
)
to
be
had
at
any
Apothecaries
shop
in
England
,
though
they
all
pretend
the
contrary
.
Some
believe
,
nay
will
swear
,
't
is
nothing
but
Pill
Ex
Duobus
:
Some
guess
that
there
's
intermix'd
Aggregativae
:
Some
Macri
;
others
Aureae
,
Cochiae
,
&c.
all
really
mistaking
the
Medicine
,
both
in
quality
and
quantity
.
Yet
I
acknowledge
that
several
Physitians
now
dead
,
and
Dr.
Oldis
now
living
,
and
Dr.
Isaac
Taylor
of
Newport
in
Staffordshire
,
Cotemporaries
,
both
bred
under
the
Great
Delaun
,
and
one
or
two
Educated
under
these
,
know
also
this
my
(
now
)
Medicine
.
And
I
doubt
not
,
but
they
will
be
coadjutants
in
dispersing
it
over
this
Kingdom
,
for
the
future
saf●ty
of
the
Sick
and
Lame
,
who
of
late
,
have
been
liable
to
be
lost
;
I
know
not
whether
rather
through
the
Diabolical
diligence
of
Impostors
,
or
the
unactive
sloth
of
true
Artists
;
which
,
if
they
do
not
timely
retrieve
with
equal
industry
,
I
must
tell
them
that
they
are
wicked
,
in
not
improving
their
Talent
.
For
't
is
no
less
a
sin
not
to
do
good
(
where
we
may
)
than
to
commit
a
wilful
wickedness
.
These
Pills
are
exposed
to
sale
by
my
trusty
Friends
-
Mr.
Henry
Eversden
,
Bookseller
at
the
Crown
neer
the
Royal
Exchange
in
Cornbill
(
where
also
this
Book
(
by
it self
)
is
sold
.
-
Mr.
Leeson's
,
Barber-chyrurgeon
in
Bow-lane
,
that
incomparable
Operator
for
the
Teeth
.
-
Mr.
Mountague
,
Tobacconist
at
the
corner
of
Shoelane
,
Fleet-street
.
-
Mr.
Hale
,
Barber-chyrurgeon
in
Ivy-lane
neer
Newgate-street
.
-
Mr.
John
Hide
,
Grocer
in
Newgate-street
entring
the
Market
.
-
Mr.
Golling
,
Barber-chyrurgeon
in
Sweetings
Ally
by
the
Royal
Exchange
-
Captain
Grant
,
Distiller
neer
Bethlem-gate
Morefields
.
-
Mr.
Edward
Hartwell
,
Barber-chyrurgeon
over
against
the
Hoop-Tavern
,
Leaden-hall-street
.
-
Mr.
Girlington
,
Tobacconist
neer
the
Artilleryground
in
Chiswel-street
.
-
Mr.
Holliwel
,
Stationer
at
the
Lion
in
the
Wood
on
little
Tower-hill
.
-
Mr.
David
Hilliard
,
Distiller
at
the
three
golden
Lions
neer
the
Hermitage
.
-
Mr.
John
Holbeech
,
at
his
house
in
Poplor
;
whom
I
have
also
deputed
under
my
Hand
and
Seal
,
as
my
Agent
for
Wappen
,
Ratcliff
,
Rotheriff
,
Shadwel
,
Deptford
,
Bow
,
Blackwall
,
Stepney
,
and
Mile-end
.
-
Mr.
Brook
,
under
the
St.
Martin-Tavern
in
Blowbladder
street
.
-
Mr.
James
Bean
,
Stationer
over
against
Ivy-bridge
in
the
Strand
.
-
Mr.
Robert
Stephens
,
Confectioner
without
Cripple-gate
.
-
Mr.
Barreckler
,
Distiller
at
the
Still
without
Smithfield-bars
.
-
Mr.
Battersby
,
Stationer
at
Thavies-Inne-gate
in
Holborn
.
-
Mr.
Charles
Bandon
,
at
the
three
Tuns
and
Fryingpan
in
Clare-market
.
-
Captain
Howkins
,
Distiller
without
Bishops-gate
.
-
Mr.
Rooks
,
neer
White-hall-gate
,
Haberdasher
.
-
Mr.
William
Brittain
,
Distiller
neer
the
Faulcon
at
the
Bankside
Southwark
.
-
Mr.
Halstead
,
Grocer
next
the
Griffin-Tavern
in
Chancery-lane
.
-
Mr.
John
Yarling
,
Haberdasher
at
the
three
Horseshoos
in
Fetter-lane
.
-
Mr.
Emot
,
Sword-cuttler
at
the
five
Bells
in
Chancery-lane
.
-
Mr.
John
Harland
,
Grocer
next
the
Cheshire-cheese
at
Charing-cross
.
-
Mr.
Robert
Fage
,
at
the
Sugar-loaf
in
St.
James's
Market
,
Grocer
.
-
Mr.
Bates
,
Oylman
at
the
Kings
Head
in
Tuttlestreet
.
-
Mr.
Alking
,
Confectioner
over
against
Creed-church
in
Leaden-hall-street
.
-
Mr.
Bletso
,
Grocer
in
Honey-lane-market
.
-
At
my
Country-house
,
Shawes
,
neer
Godstone
in
Surry
,
and
in
all
Counties
in
England
,
as
well
as
at
-
My
Laboratory
,
the
signe
of
Delaun's
head
in
Black-fryers
,
where
I
am
resident
,
and
ready
to
advise
and
accommodate
all
persons
in
all
Distempers
.