I Shall not need to set down what Cures I can do, for there are thousands will say, they can do all manner of great Cures, but where have they cured any? It is not the saying I can or would do great Cures, but he that is known to do such Cures you must look after, if you intend to have help, and if you please to read over this little book, you will find that there is but few Cures to be named, but what I have Cured, the Peoples names and places where they live, which are your neighbours round about you, so that you need not go far to know the truth of it, neither need you question, but that I shall do the same Cures so long as it pleaseth God to continue the blessing with me, and when he please to take it away, I shall do no more.

My name is Jones, the English Physician, who through the blessing of God, with my own industry for the space of twenty three years practice on the worst of Distempers, have found out how to help any Distemper (so far as Curable,) and give my Books and Judgement to all for nothing.

I live at a corner-house in Hatton-Garden, in Holborn, three doors from the sign of the Golden-ball, almost o­ver against Baldwin's Garden-gate, at the upper corner near the sign of the George. And whereas I said in my former Book, that if I stayed any longer than Midsummer next, I would give you notice a quarter of a year be­fore that time, This is therefore to let you know, that I have taken a new Lease of my house for two years lon­ger, but I intend, God willing, to go to my Country-house at Mars [...]field, five miles this side Bith, on the fourteenth day of June, every year, and continue there till the 14 day of August, and then September, October, and November at my house in Hatton-Garden, then December, January and February at Marshfield, then March, april and May at my house in Hatton-Garden; where I will deal faithfully with you, as I have done, to the great com­fort of thousands in and about London, since my coming, as you may [...]d of some of their names set down in this Book. And in my absence I will leave of my Cordial-Pill and [...] of Balsoms in Pots, and sealed with my own Seal, and in the hands of a trusty friend which I will leave on purpose in my house in Hatton-Garden, and another in my house at Marshfield, in Glocester-shire whilst I am here at London.

NOw I will tell you of some of the greatest Cures that have been done in this Age, the peoples names, and places where they live, if you will diligently read over this little book; and as it is said that by the mouths of two witnesses the truth of a matter shall be confirmed, you have not only two witnesses to con­firm the truth of this little book, but many: insomuch that if you will believe that there is any truth in the world, you may believe this. I never practised in London before the date hereof, being from the third of June, 1669. and in this little time have done Cures as followeth, with thousands more.

I have with Gods help given help, and Cure according as it is here set down. I helpt the wife of Mr. Richard Su [...]rance of Tower-hill two doors from the sign of the Black-dog a Silk-weaver, of great pain of her Head and Stomach, she being so weak not likely to live. Mr. Philip Luke of the Neat-houses, of the Stone, and have it to shew. Mr. Ralph Swain at the Soho, almost over against the Prince of Orange's-head a Carpenter, of the Ague and Feaver. The wife of Mr. Charles Parsons, at the sign of the Black-raven in Pear-pool-lane, of a Feaver, with great pain at her Stomach. Francis Hollis in Wapping, at the sign of the water-house, of great pain in his Ancles, who could not get help in three or four years. Mr. John Worane near the sign of the Crooked-billet and Ship upon the Green-back in Southwark of the Sciatica and a Feaver. Mr. William Ash of Bedual-green, over against the old Chappel, of the third day Ague and Feaver. Mr. John Weston of the Neat-houses of the third day Ague and Feaver. Mr. Nicholas White of White-hart-yard in East-Smithfield, of the Consumption and Cough, and Shortness of breath. Mr. John Davis of Pickled-herring-stairs, at the sign of the Five Tobacco-pipes, of the Ague. Mrs. Clipson at Saffron-hill, the next door to the Roul of Tobacco, of a Cough, who could not get help by any other. The son of Mr. Thomas Billington a Baker in Peters-lane, at Cow-cross, the next door to the sign of the Fox, of the Convulsion-fits ever since half a year old. Mrs. Jane Sidow at the Back-side in Southwark, over against Hollands leger, near the sign of the Two Cats of a sad Cough and distempered Stomach. Mrs. Elizabeth Marland the next door to the sign of the Peter and Key in Peters-lane near Hicks's-Hall of Deafness. Mrs. Mary Porter in Three-Oake-lane, joining to Joneses- [...]ane, near the sign of the Dun-Cow near Cow-cross, of great pain in h [...]r Legs, who could not get help in two years. Mrs. Martha wells of the same place of a sore Leg. The wife of Mr. Iohn Mead, the next door to the sign of the Sugar-loaf and Two Flying [...]orses in Fashion-street near Spittle-fields, of [...] [Page 2]Feltmaker, of Deafness, Mrs. Elizabeth Fish at Hodsdon, the next door to the sign of the Three Kings of great pain and lameness in all her Limbs, and the gripes of the Guts. I did much good to Mr. Edw. Mulasi [...] Long-acre in Coxes-alley, for a great pain in his Stomach and Back. Mrs. Mary Pain at Holborn-Conduit, next door to the Golden-lyon, of the Cough. Mr. Will D [...] next door to the Church in Rood-lane in Fanchurch-street, of an Ulcer in his Leg, of twelve year, and I [...] him well in about two months time with Gods help. Elizabeth Cleverly, the next door to the Th [...]e Neats-Tongues in Silver-street in Boomsbary, of the Plith-sick and ough, who was so bad therewith, that she was likely to lose her speech. Mr. Ioon Langly at the Coffee-house near the 3 Cranes on great Tower-hill, of a double third-day Ague. Mary Moor at the Half-moon-Inn near the Kings-Bench in Southwark, of Deafness. Mr. Henry Taylor near Shoreditch-Church, at the sign of the Cradle, of the third day Ague and Feaver. Mr. Edward Curtis, of the Neat-houses, of great pain and stoppage at his Stomach, he is a Gardiner. Mr. Iohn Baker a Ship Carpenter at D [...]ptso [...]d, near the sign of the Chequer, of a Feaver, with great pain at his side. I did much good to Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, the wife of the aforesaid Iohn Baker, for the windy Gout. Mr. Samuel Chadwell in Tully-street near Horsty-down, the next door to the sign of the Worlds-end, of the Feaver and griping of the Guts, Southwark. Mr. Iohn Wicks Junior, of Fig-tree-court in Barbican, at Mr. Taylors house at the upper end of the Court, of the Dropsie. I did much good to Mrs. Terill of the Red-Lyon in Wapping (the carved Lyon and the Carver liveth over against it) for the Apoplexy and Palsie, all one side; I mended her speech also. I cured the Child of Mr. Grimes living between Vi [...]e-street and Mutton-lane, near Clarken-well, a Clock-maker, of the Rickets, and Consumption, when he was almost at deaths door. I saved the Leg of Mr. Iohn Hale of Angel-all [...]y in Bishops-gate-street, from retting off. Mr. Thomas Anyon in Bedford-bury, over against the Tabacco-roul, of Looseness, and Vomiting, and a Cough, and Feaver, with great pain. Mr. William Stone a Seaman in Wapping, near the Gun-Tavern, of the Ague and Feaver. The son of Mr. Iames Bell in the Cole-yard in D [...]ew [...]y-lane, at the upper end of the yard, at Mr. Lawlys house, of the Feaver and gripes of the Guts. William Dawson in the Red-bull Play-house yard near Clarkenwell-green, of the Cough, and great pain in his Back. Mr. Samuel Jones living near the Red Lyon in Grays-Inn-lane, of the third-dayes Ague. Mr. Abel Barton at the Brew-house at the upper end of St. Iohn-street, of the Gout, being near threescore years of age, and lay so lame with it, that he was not able to turn in his Bed, this being at the Fall of the Leaf, about two years since, and he not expected to leave his Bed till the Spring; however with Gods help I made him perfectly well in a month or six weeks time. Alice Baker over against the Black-swan in Turnmill-street at Mr. Corners house a Brick-layer, of looseness of her Teeth, when they were all ready to fall out of her head, and made them fast again, she being near fourscore years of age. The child of Mr. Henry, Standly in Red-rost-street in Covent-Garden, at the sign of the Sedan, of the Consumption, when he was [...]most at deaths-door. Mr. Iohn House of Bull [...]alley in B [...]tby-street, Southwark, of the third day Ague and Feaver. Mr. Shepheard, next door to the sign of the Golden Ball in Hatten-Garden of the New Feaves, and the Gripes of the Guts; and his tongue was as black as Ink, yet with Gods help I made him as well as [...] he was in his life. The wife of Mr. Ralph Holloway at the Nags-head in Grayes-Inn-lane, of a Feaver, with great weakness, when none thought she would have lived. The wife of Iohn Right of Brick-lane in Old-street, in Key and Swar-yard, Deafness. Mr. Iohn Michel a School-master in Angel-alley in Grays-Inn-lane, of a sore and Rheumy Eye, who had made tryal of able men for the space of seven or eight years, and could not get any remedy, and with Gods help I made him well in nine or ten weeks. I helpt his wife also of great pain in her back, I helpt his child also of the Chin-cough. Mr. Thomas Love near Shore-ditch Church of the Jaundies, he being above fourscore years of age when he was cured. Mr. Richard Young of Park-street, near St. Alboas, of a Wen on the top of his head, who could not get help by any other in twenty years, and I took it out at twice dressing, not spilling one drop of blood. Elizabeth Brownsier of Swan-alley in the M [...]ories, of the Convuision-fits, and shortness of Breath. Sarah Fox in Axe-yard in Blackman-street in Southwark, of the Ague. Iames George on the Bark-side near the Bear-garaen, in Southwark, of great pain in his Shoulders, Arms, and Hips. Mr. Graves at the sign of the Blind-Begga [...] at Cow-cross of the Winid-gout in all his Joints. Mr. Edward Squire, in Goswell-street at Mr. Matthew B [...]ow [...]es house, a Shoo-maker, over against the Pump, between the sign of the Maiden-head and the Bell, of a Cancered Wen in the side of his neck, near as big as a penny loaf, which grew fast to the Man­dible or Jaw-bone, and the Veins and Sinews grew through it, and I cured him without hurting the Veins and Sinews Insomuch that none can hardly see where it grew, and if he be not there now, Mr. Brawn, the man of the aforesaid house can give you an account of this great Cure. Henry Clarre of a Consumption, when he was so much wasted that his flesh was all withered away, that he had not left to cover his bones but the skin; I did never see any man so bare of flesh, neither dead nor alive, and using my things he grew strong and lusty, and flesh grew up and covered his bones, in so much that he hath as much flesh on his bones as any ordinary man; and thus we may see how God blesseth the means sometimes, contrary to our expe­ctation therefore 'tis good for every one to use lawfull meant to the [...] [Page 3]her Hip, being so had therewith that she could not take any rest night nor day, and I helpt her of that, and also of the Fits of the Mother, Aged above fifty. Robert Dayily of Kingston upon Thames, ten miles from London, of the vomiting of blood. The wife of Nicholas Bishop, at the Sign of the Childes Coat in the Hay-market at Pickadilly, of great pain, with deafness, noise, and singing in her Head. Mr. William Medbere of St. Martines in the Fields, Coach-maker, the next door to the sign of the Sugar-loaf at a Glass­makers, of the Sciatica Gout in his hip, and at times in all his Joynts, who lay very weak, and could not get help by any of a long time, and I gave him case of pain in three hours; and in a fortnights time cured him. Anne Fisher of Church-yard-Alley in Chick-lane, of deafness, and singing in the head. Hester Wood of Church-yard-Alley in Chick-lane, of the stone in the Bladder, I took away her pain, and brought the Stone from her, in less than twelve hours, when she was in such torment that cannot be exprest, and of great age. I have the stone to show any that please to see it. The Son of Mrs. Mary Clark, near the sign of the Lamb in Islington, of the Lethargy, with great pain in his Head and Deafness. Mr. Adam Prince, at the sign of the Boot in Kings-street in Westminster, of the Stone and Cravel in the Kidneys and Bladder. Elizabeth Theson of Newington-Buts in Blackman-street in Southwark, in Lamb-Alley, of a Cancer in her Breast almost as big as a mans-head, and I consumed it away without cutting, or putting her to any pain, or hindering her bu­siness. Robert Mills of Kent-street, the next door to the Rose, Southwark, of the Ague and Feaver. Mr. Iohn Arnil at the top of Saffron-Hill of the Ague and Feaver. Mrs. Tomasin Estcot of White-Cross-street, in Bare and Rag­ged-staff-Yard, of a deafness, with noise in her head. Mr. Thomas Ward of Bishops-head Court, in Gray's-Inn-lane, of the griping pain in the Guts, and gave him present help; I also cured his daughter of a Scald or Leprosie head. Mr. Gregory Coe, living on the Bank-side near the Bear-Garden in Southwark, of the Palsie, who had not the use of his hands to cut his meat, or to help himself not any manner of way, for the space of three years, and about two months, being near fourscore years of age, and I soon made him well, with Gods help, and he hath the use of his hands as well as any of his age. Michael Smith, near the sign of the Grisffen in Russel-street in Covent-Garden, of great pains in his limbs, and the Cramp. Mr. Fawey at the Black-Raven in Long-Acre, of the Sciatica in his Hip. Mr. Thomas Day of Old-street in Blue-anchor-alley, of a Fistula. Margaret Wheatley in Swan-alley in the Minories, of the Tooth-ach, and also of great pain in her Head and Ear. Mr. Bull, near the sign of the George in Grove-street in Hackney, of the third day Ague.

I will give you notice of one or two of these wicked fellows which do endeavour to cheat you, I say, to pre­vent your being poysoned, for those which minister Physick without a [...] if they Care one by chance, they may kill above a hundred to every one, for it is with them as the Band man hit the Hair: it was twelve or thirteen years before I could bring to pass to minister things with safery to do good though I both studied and travelled hard, and practised continually upon the worst of Distempers in all bodies; which do make me admire the impudence of these wicked fellows, who do not at all value the lives of people, so they can but cheat them of their money. As one Bullin whom I took in out of the Streets and relieved him a whole Winter, otherwise he had starved. As also one Perry a Pottet which I implayed to give out my Books, and to make clean the Streets before my House, till he bred such difference and disquiet in my Family, that I was fain to put him away; there are many others that Counterfeit my things, but I do not give you notice of it for fear of any hinderance they can do me, for I bless God I have enough to maintain me and my Family: but for fear they should poyson any of the people before they are found out; for I have given you but a hint of the Cheats, to what they are in number.

Now I will set down some of the Cures which I have done in the Country, and first one great Cure with witnesses to it, and here followeth a true Copy of the Certificate. He cured me John Ashcot of Totness in De­von-shire of the Stone in the Bladder, I [...] about Th [...]escore years of age when he cured me, I was so bad that I was not able to make one drop of water, and my pain was so terrible that no tongue is able to express, and he gave me a powder which in six hours time broke the Stone to pieces and brought it from me; and from this time my pain left me, and I could make water very well; and was not troubled any more with the Stone or pain; In witness whereunto we have put our hands, John Astcot, John Sampson, Peter Brag, Prolomcus Sampson, John Sampson, Zach. Punchad, Anthony Langworth, John Amat, 1668. This is a true Copy of the Certificate, and any that please may see the Certificate. Richard Pope of Brickham two miles off Dartmouth, of great pain in his stomach, sides and back. John Beard of Totness in Devonshire, of lameness in all his Limbs, and I soon made him lay by his Crutches. John Day of Churiton-Bushel, nine miles from Exeter, of great pain in his head, which black Catharacts breeding in his Eyes, I helpt him of his pain of his head; and also the black Catharacts which were breeding in his Eyes, and made him see very well, though he was almost blind, and did it without putting him to any pain, or putting any thing into his Eyes. William Blackaller of Totness in Devonshire, of the Apopl [...]xy and Palsie [...] [Page 4]and within a reasonable time with Gods help, recovered him. William Randal of Stook, three mile-off Exeter, of the Megrim, with a Cough, and great pain at his stomach and back. Judeth Doab [...] living near the South gate in Exeter, at Mr. William Butlers, of the Evil and blindness. William F [...]iggy of Glaston, four miles from Wells, of great pain in his side, being aged, and could not get help by any other. Mistress Susanna Butsoe of Otery, five miles off Honington in Devonshire of the Convulsion Fits; the Fit used to take her every day, or every other day, and hold her twelve hours every Fit, and I took away her Fit in a quarter of an hour, and could not hear that ever she was troubled any more therewith. Robert Brownsy of Honington in Devonshire, of the Cough with pain and weak­ness in all his Body, and I made him able to go about his work in three or four dayes, with Gods help. Judeth Brownsie of the same Town, of the Collick and Spleen. Re [...]cca Phillips of the same Town, of a sad pain in her Head and Breast, she being near fourscore years of age, and a very weak woman, and had made trial of many, and spent much money to no purpose, and I gave her speedy Remedy, with Gods help Mary Wilson of Backeril Parith, two miles off Honington, of looseness of her Te [...]th when they were ready to fall out of her head. Susanna Woran of Stockland, five miles off Honington, of the Ague and Feaver. William Cook of Newton Abbot, of the Ague. Mr. Wholly of Wells, of Limeness, who was not able to rise out of his bed. William Grigg of Atherford, six miles from Tauntoa in Devonshire, of great pain and weakness, which was caused of a great Surfeit, and all that had him in hand had given him off for a dead m [...]n, and I gave him present ease, and cured him. John Far [...]'s son of Kison, a mile off Taunton, of the g [...]ing pains in the Guts. Walter Colies of Charlton Adom, eight miles off Taunton, of Deafness, with noise and singing in his head, who could nor get help in many years, being of great age when he was cured. And you shall hear of some of the great C [...]res I have done at Bristol. I cured the wife of William Thomas in Cock-lane, going out of Care-street to Nicholas-street in Bristol, of a Cancer in her lett breast and side, when they which had her in hand gave her off for a dead woman, the Distemper being so bad with hardness of red, yellow, and black coulours, which was very sad to behold, and they every day put in a Tent between her Ri [...]s quite into her body, about the length and bigness of a mans singer, so that I judge the end of the Tent must needs go within an inch of her heart; she had also a con­tinu [...]l Feaver attending o [...] her, so that there could not any thing be expected but death, I presently caused the Tent to be laid by, and I never applied Tont nor Instrument, but gave her present ease, and cured her in about nine or ten weeks time, with Gods help. Benjamin Holut, living in Swar-lane Court on the Key in Bristal, of the Third-dayes Ague, who could not get help in twelve or thirteen moneths Mr. John Brooks his wife in the back lane without the Castie Gate in Bristol, of the Second dayes Ague and Feaver. Thomas Roads of Broud-Mead of the Phthisick and Cough, with Consumption, with an extraordinary great pain and stoppage at his stomach. William Patchia [...]ear the sign of the Leg in Temple-street of the Sciatita Gout in his hip, who was so lame therewith, that he was fain to creep about the house on his hands and knees, being near threescore years of age, and could not get help by any other, and I made him as well as ever he was in his life, with Gods help. Thomas Elot near the Leg in Temple-street of the Cough. John Doubting of Luence-Mead of great weakness. Anne Doubting of the same place, being in great danger of death with Feaver and Surfeit, and with Gods help I made her perfect well. William Day near the Grey-hound in Brond-Mead of Deafress, being near threescore years of age when he was cured, and I made him as well as ever he was in his life. James Bramble of Downing in Maurge [...]field Parish, three miles from Bristol, of the Dro [...]sie, with great pain and swelling over all his body, and I took away all pain and sweeling, and made him as well as ever he was in his life. Mr. Kympton's son of Rackly-street of the shaking Palsie in his head, shoulders, arms, hands, and feet; and I made him well in a short time. I did much good to Deb [...]rab Wilips over against the Three Kings in the same street for the Fits of the Mother, great pains in her stomach, and great weakness, who could not get help by any other. Mistress Colli [...]s living near the Castle Gate of an Imposthume in her Ear. These are some of the Cures I did at Bristol Now you shall hear of some of the Cures I have done at Bath and Worminster in Wiltsshire and thereabouts. I cured John Stephens of Swansmick two mi [...]s off Bath, of the Sciatica pain in his hip and side, being above threescore years of age. John Cox of Bath, of Lameness, who could not get help by any other. Benjamin [...]ot of B [...]th, of two sad Ulcers in his foot. John Powel of Donker­ton, three miles off Bath, of a Wen in his Eye-brow, he being about thirty years of age, and brought the Wen into the world with him, and he cured him without cutting. Stephen Higgies his Child of Steekly near Calice in Wiltshire, of the Rickets and Feaver. John Sal [...]on of Marshfield in Gloceste-shire, of great pain and lameness in his shouldler. John Cryars son, about [...] [Page 5]Ague and vomiting Blood. Elizabeth Garish of Worminster in Wiltshire of the Consumption, with great pain at her stomach, head, and side, who could not get help by any other in three years. John Butcher of Hay-Grove, a little way out of Horminster of the Cancer in his shoulder, neck, and throat, when he was so bad, that none would meddle with him but my self, and when I had undertaken him, the Doctors thereabouts laught; and one said he would give me fifty pounds if I cured him, and others likewise; but when I had cured him, there was not any would give me a penny but himself; however with Gods help, I made him as well as ever he was in his life. William Davies his daughter of the same town, of the Evil in her neck. Elizabeth Bacher of the same town, of a Scald, or leprous head, who was twelve or thirteen years of age, and brought it into the world with her; I also cured her sister of the same Distemper. John Statuban of Chicklit, six miles off Worminster, of the Ague. Anne Penny of Froom, five miles off Worminster, of the Evil in her neck. Henry Bealing of Gilling­ham Parish, seven miles off Worminster, of the Sciarich Gout in his hip and side, being about three­score years of age when he was cured. These are some of the Cures which I have done at Bath and Worminster in Wiltshire, and now you shall hear of some of the Cures I have done at Coventry, I cured Mr. Brooks his daughter of Fillingsly three miles off Coventry, of the Evil and Blindness The wise of Robert Harrison of Cowndon, a mile off Counter, of the Consumption, Feaver, Surfeit, Jaundies yellow and black, having these five Distempers all on her at once, and all that had her in hand had given her off for a dead woman, and yet God was pleased to give a blessing to the means I used for her, and restored her to her former health again. William Hayght of Alsly parish, a mile off Co­ventry, of the Sciatica pain in his hip. Samuel Graviner's son of Coventry, both the bones of his Arm were broken and sticked out through the skin, and I made him as well as ever he was in his life. Elizabeth Weltons son of Hill-Worton, six miles off Coventry, of the Evil and Blindness. The wife of Thomas Wenton of Forshill, two miles off Coventry, of the Mother and Spleen George Moris of A [...]sty, four miles off Coventry, of the Cancer on his Face, who could not get help in fourteen years, be­ing near threescore years of age when he was cured. These are some of the Cures I have done at Coventry, and now you shall hear of some of the Cures which I have done in Northamptonshire, Darb [...]shire, Notting-ham-shire, and thereabouts. I cured [...]r. Hen [...]y Chap [...] of Monston, three miles from Northampton, whose hand was to be cut off, and I cured him without the loss of a Joynt. Mr. F [...]a [...]cis [...]owmans daughter of Wott [...], two miles off Northampton, of the Palsie, withered Ha [...]d and Arm. Mr. Vicars daughter of Little Oakley, in Northampton-shire, of the Evil and Blindness. John Smiths daughter of Northampton, of Convolsion Fits. The wife of William Lacke of Grundon, six miles from Northampton, of a Cancer in her neck. The wife of Mr. Bornham of West-hadingham, seven miles off Northampton, of lameness in her b [...]ck and hips, which came with Child-bearing, and I soon made her throw by her Cru [...]c [...]es. Richard King's child of Backnell n [...]ar [...] worth in Northampton-shire, of the Rickets and Feaver, being four years of age, and never could bear a [...]y strength to stand, and I made the Child able to go about the strets in a fortnights tune, with Gods he [...]. William Rabet of Kettering in Northamptonshire, of the Ague. Thomas G [...] of Rodington, three miles off Northampton, of the third-day Ague. The wife of Robert Austin of Hitchin in Hartfor [...]shire, of a lame Leg and shrunk Sinews, who could not set her foot to the ground, nor get help in twenty years, and I made her as well as ever she was in her life. Iohn Smith of Kings Waldon three miles off Hitchin, of a Wen on his fore­head, without any scar. Timothy Robleson of Soothill parish near Hitchin, of the third-dayes Ague. Richard Dear of Shillington three miles off Hitchin, of Deafness. Peter Shadbott of Gravenst, four miles off Hitchin, of the Ague. Matthew Negus of St. Needs of the third-dayes Ague, who could not get help in three years. John Rock of Swacy, three miles off St. Ives, of the Ague Rober T [...]ureon of Hadinham in the Isle of Ely, who had kep his bed a long time of Lameness with great pains, and could not get help by any, and I cured him in one weeks time, with Gods help Mr. John Acton of Howbick Hall near Work [...]p in Nottinghamshire, who had been quite deaf above twenty years, being about fourscore years of age, and I made him hear as well as any, in a month or six weeks time. Robert Pillngs of Nottingham, of the Ague Thomas Rainer of the same town, of six Ulcers in his Leg, who could not get help in many years. The wife of William Biges a Smith in Darby, of the Mother and Spleen. Thomas Foster of Darby, of the Scurvy all over his body. Mary Tomlins of Ilkuston on the Hill near Darby, of the Evil in her hand. Margaret Vaslance of Long-Moston near Wosworth in Darbyshire, of the Evil in her Neck. Mr. Cook of Spal [...]ock, three miles off St. Needs, of the Sciatica Goat. John Lodson of Southward near St. Needs, of the Evil and Blindness.

These witnesses I suppose are sufficient (although I could produce many more) to ascertain the truth, but to those that will not be perswaded from the mouths of so many witnesses, it is altogether in vain to use any further Arguments. I know there are many persons which make it their business to cast an Odium upon [...]

THis my Balsom helps the Tetter, Ring-worm, Shingles, or any sorts of Worms in the Face, Nose. Mouth, Teeth, and Gums. It helpeth the Tooth-ach, and fasteneth loose Teeth, though they are read [...] to fall out; It will soon take away the Scurvies out of the Gums, and help any soreness in the Mouth and Throat. It will help any sort of Head-ach, and is present help for bleeding at the nose if you put it up plentifully into that nostril that bleedeth, and hold it close on to the side of the grissel of the Nose where the vein is broken, and it helpeth presently. For the Head-ach, anoint the Nostrils, and Temples, but if you have not present ease by so doing, anoint the Head where the pain is, and in so doing I never knew it fail: for the Tooth-ach, apply it to that Tooth and Gum that acheth, with a little fine linnen ragg, and wear it as a plaister, and so fast as the rheume washeth it away, put on another till the pain is gone, which is most commonly in less than a quarter of an hour: for loose Teeth apply it as for the Tooth-ach, and wear the plaister all night, and it will not fail you: and for soreness in the Mouth, and foul Teeth, you may anoint the Mouth, and for a sore Throat, take as much as a small Nut every night going to bed. It doth help the Consumption and Cough, by taking the quantity of a small Nut in the morning fasting, and last at night. It will help the Running of the Reins, Gonorrhea, weakness and wasting in the Back, and the heat and wasting of the Kidneys and Reins by taking the quantity of a small Nut evening and morning; this kind of wast is very dangerous, and you may know it by a thin white cloud on the top of your Urine in the morning, or a bricky substance sticking to the bottom and sides of the pot. It will take away the Leprosie at two or three dressings though they bring it into the world with them, that is outwardly, but they must take some­thing to take away the cause inwardly; for the Cramp, you must rub it well into the part grieved with your full hand, and it taketh it away presently; and if you will help the shrinking sinews, you must wear it on the part grieved with a piece of thin bladder, to keep it soaking in, and sometimes bath it well in with the heat of the fire. It doth not fail curing a Stinking Breath that proceedeth from the Sto­mach, and when you would not have any to smell your Breath, rub a little of it up in your Nostrils. All Itch and Scabs by anointing. All sorts of Worms in the Stomach and belly of old and young, by ancint­ing the Stomach and Belly for three or four nights going to bed, it doth asswage the Bellies of Children which are swelled, and sometimes gently purgeth, if the Body be foul: but you must bath it well in with the heat of the fire, morning and evening, and lay a linnen cloth warm thereon; and so wear it for pains in the Stomach, sides, and belly, you must chafe it well in with the heat of the fire, and then apply it with a piece of thin Bladder and so wear it; for the pain of the B [...]ck in like manner, only do not rub it in, but wear it as a plaister only: for the Piles and Hemorthoids anoint the part grieved. It helpeth pains in the Feet, sore Nails, or any dead flesh that groweth thereon by applying it with a piece of thin bladder to keep it soaking in. It will Cure a new wound with a few dressings, though the Member be cut three parts off, if you take it quickly and bind it up plentifully with the Balsom, and renew it once in a day, and in a few dayes it will grow together again: it will help if a man be run through a Leg or Arm, if it be taken at the first and applied plentifully round the member grieved, a [...] [...]enew it morning and evening: and for any sort of old sores, you must apply it as a plaister morning and evening, and it will cure though the bones be half rotted off, but you need not apply any tent with it not to any new or old sores; take it upon my word, I do believe it is the best that ever was found out for old and new sores both in­ward and outward. It giveth comfortable rest by anointing the Nostrils and Temples going to bed, that is if the body be not very foul; it will dissolve and cure hard kernels, and knobs that grow in the necks of boyes and girles without pain or breaking the skin. It taketh away red pimples, or any such like Distemper in the face, killeth the black-headed worms in the face and nose, by anointing when you go to bed; it giveth present help for any sharp humour that breaketh out, but you must anoint for that out once in two or three dayes. It helpt Mr. Bailiff a Scrivener in Chippingham in Wilts-shire of the shaking Palsie, by applying it to the wrists for three or four dayes, in so much that some Gentlemen of the coun­trey thereabouts, would not believe till they had seen, but sent for him and me also; and when they saw he could lift a glass of beer to his mouth without spilling, they believed because they knew he had not any such use of his hands of a long time before. However it hath done greater Cures since, for instance one Mr. Gregory Coe living on the Bank-side near the Bear-garden, of the Palsie, who had not the use of his hands to cut his meat for some years, being near fourscore years of age, and by the means of this my Balsom of Balsoms he soon had good use of them. It did help Mr. Ward of Grunden six miles from Nor­thampton of the Palsie, when he was not able to turn in his bed, and no other means would do him any good. I could mention many which have been Cured by applying my Balsom to the Member grieved, and it faileth not doing good for the Palsie; it will soon take away all pains from the shoulders, armes, hands, knees, ankles, and feet, by applying it with a piece of thin bladder as aforesaid. It helpeth any kind of sore Breasts: It did save and help the wife of Mr. Richard Yockney of Wall. Minster in [...] [...] [Page 7]well. It doth Cure any fleshy Rupture by applying it to the part grieved: it giveth case to children breeding Teeth by anointing the part grieved on the out-side. It helpeth those whose limbs are wasting, and their flesh withering away if they be not too far spent. It will give present ease for the Fistula in the Hip, or any other part of the Body, when no other means will do any good, and will bring out the little pieces of rotted bones without pain. It Cureth and giveth present ease for all Burnings and Scaldings, and taketh away the pain so soon as laid to the part grieved. I have taken notice, that when I have scalded or burnt my singer, I have applied my Balsom, and it hath given ease of the pain so soon as I have laid it on, and taken out the fire in two or three hours, so it does in any kind of burning and scalding if it be not blistered before you lay it on; which if it be, it will require a little longer time. And for Surfits, want of Appetite, want of quiet Sleep, or any sudden Distemper, you may take as much as a small Nut going to bed, and you will find good for most Distempers, if it be taken when any Distemper first takes you. It will cure all Squats and Bruises, Strains in the back, or any part of the body, or those that get Scrains with over-lifting; I do believe, that if it were possible for a man to live and practise with it one hundred years, that one might make it cure all diseases both inward and outward. I fell it in pots one ounce for a shilling, and they that have a pound together have it cheaper; It will last good forty years, it is good Merchandize in other Countreys, and I believe those that take this and my Cordial Pill with them upon that account, must needs get twenty for one.

I never heard that the Cheats did ever give any Books before I came to London, and gave out my Books, but now many of them make Books like my former Book, and there tell you a fine story of a Cock and a Bull, how they have things to cure all diseases, but cannot tell you of any cures that ever they did; I do believe there is a thousand Cheats to every one that deals honestly, that will pretend to do cures, and you cannot know them one from the other but by their works, he that cheats you will please you better in words than he that deals honestly, but where are the Cures they have done all this while, have they practised so long and ne­ver did one Cure, surely they are unfortunate Physitians that are not able to speake of one Cure they have done, it may be they will tell you a lye and show you a reason for it, say they will not speak of the Cures they have done for some good reason, but say they we could put the names of hundreds in our Books but will not; but if you will know the right truth why they do not put the names of some in their Books, because they never cured any body, and that is the true reason why they put none into their Books. There­fore let them not try experience on your bodys, but find out such as are known to do great Cures, make use of them; and let not these young Doctors practise on your bodys, for fear you lose your money and your lives also. Pray inquire of the Cures I have done, they that are honest will speak the truth.

NOw I will set down some of the virtues of my Cordial-Pill: it helpeth any sort of sore and Rheumie Eyes though never so bad, all swelling in the Face, Lips, and Nose, it helpeth Melancholy and cheareth the Spirits. It will help those which are Mad, or through abundance of Melancholy are grown foolish, it expelleth wind upward and downward, strengtheneth the Stomach, cleanseth the Head, Stomach, Kidneys, Reins and Bladder of all tough slimie Humors which nature is not able to carry away; and all sharp humors which breed Cancers or Kankers in the mouth, and at the root of the Tongue, which you may see when they are breeding if you draw forth the [...]ongue a little way side-wayes, then you may see the tongue will be a little raw on both sides near the throat, then is the Blood throughout the whole Body corrupted: this Distemper most commonly breedeth without pain, and that is the reason so many die of it, because they seek not for help till it is too late, but when it doth begin to be painfull, they are almost past Cure, because the blood is all Adust. This distemper is very dangerous and caufeth many a terrible death, it is caused by a sharp humour that distilleth down from the brain, and this Cordial Pill drieth and carrieth away all such sharp and mixed humors which breed this Distemper, which to the best of my knowledge there is not any thing in the world like it, for taking away such humors; it is continually drawing of all tough slimie humors from all parts of the body, which no other medicine will or can reach, and it doth it by its gentle and mild ope­ration; for if you eat as much as a small Nut of it in the morning fasting before you go about your busi­ness you shall seldom hear any more of it till six or eight hours after, and then it may give you two or three stools; and not gripe nor distemper you in all this time: and if you take a like quantity when you go to bed, it will do the like in the morning; and note that whatsoever humour offendeth it bringeth it off, as in some it bringeth away green Choler, in a other black Choler, and in another yellow Choler, and in another thin watry humours mixed with yellow and black, and sometimes mixed with green according as they are gendred in the body, and it is such a friend to Nature, that they joyn hand in hand to drive [...] it is received into the body [...] [Page 8]it doth correct the sharpness of all tough slimy humours, and draweth them back out of the Veins and Arteries to the Stomach, and so sends them away down through the bowels, and so by that means it leav­eth not any foul corner of the body unswept, and reason will tell you that if three or four ounces of it wi [...] cure such a distemper of Melancholy as you read before, that there can but few distempers come amiss but what it doth good for, and them I shall name at the latter end; and you know it is but two shillings the ounce, and that serveth ten or twelve times taking and hinders no business, and reason will also tell you, that if it will carry off such tough sharp mixed humours, it must needs take away the Scurvey out of the body both Root & Branch, and the Dropsie and all other distempers that joyneth with it, and reason may tell you also, that if it draweth away all this vicious matter out of the Veins and Arteries, that it must needs free the Liver and Spleen of all obstructions, and so by that means helpeth the Fits of the Mother and Spleen, and all other distempers which are caused by that obstruction: and you may understand that by the drawing away this vicious matter out of the Veins and Arteries it must needs cleanse the whole mass of blood to the purpose, and by that means help the Gonorrhea, running of the Reins, and wasting weakeness in the Back, Kidneys, and dryeth up all Venereal distempers, and restoreth to strength; it doth so much cleanse the blood of all melancholy, that in young people it changes the colour of the black and swarthy skin, it is good for them that are well to take it Spring and Fall to preserve health, for it will not suffer any foul and novsom humours to breed in the body. It is good for nurses which give suck, for it will cleanse her Blood, and causes good and wholsome Milk, for the Milk is bred of her Blood, and sometimes her Blood being hot and foul, causeth the child to be sickly and cannot go to stool but seldom; this being taken a little now and then as aforesaid will keep her Milk in good order, and the Childs body also; and in re­gard it doth draw away all rough slimy humours out of the Veines and Arteries, reason will tell you that it is such humours which breedeth the Stone, Sand and Gravel in the Kidneys, Reins and Bladder, and therefore by taking away those humours must needs prevent the breeding of the Stone, and also the Sand and Gravil; It will not help the Consumption, nor no sort of Feaver, nor the Jaundice, nor the Gripes, nor looseness; but for any other distemper there is hardly any but it doth good for it. A Man or a Woman may easie to work may take of it once a day as much as a small Nut in the morning before you go forth about your business; and it will give you two or three stools in the afternoon, and if you take the same quantity going to bed it will do the like in the morning; and for Children give them a little bit according to their age and strength, and dissolve it in any liquid thing the Child will take it in; it hath a plea­sant taste, and you may eat it as you eat bread, or roll it in little balls, or dissolve it in any thing any way, so it goeth into the body, it will do its work; you cannot err in giving it to Children, for it is as safe as a bit of bread. I sell it for two shillings the ounce, and one ounce will serve ten or twelve times taking for a Man or Woman, and for a Child or young People it will serve many times. This my Cordial Pill and my Balsom of Balsoms lasteth good forty years. And note, that violent purges cannot carry off such sharp and mixed hu­mors, because they go speedily through the body and leave the distemper behind, and make the body weak to little purpose. Now this my Cordial Pill is always gently drawing it away night and day, and weakens not the body, nor hinders labour.

I have another sort of Balsom which is taken inward only for ulcerated Gonorrhea, it giveth ease for that, and for Ulcers in the Bladder and Kidneys, and presently taketh away the sharpness of Urine, and helps diffi­culty in making water. It doth cause a fresh lively colour in the Face, and cheareth the Spirits exceedingly, it must be taken as much as a small Nut every morning fasting; I sell it for Five shillings the Ounce, and that will serve ten or twelve times taking.

I make a Water that infallibly cureth the Sciatica pain in the Hip, if the Bone be not out, the price is five shillings the two quarts, and most commonly that quantity doth the work.

I have a Powder that doth often break the Stone in the Bladder, and bringeth it away in Sand and Gravil; the price is half a Crown the Ounce, a Man or a Woman may take as much as will lie upon a shilling in a draught or White-Wine every morning and evening, and for Children as much as will lie on a two pence a groat, six pence: you cannot err in giving it, it is so safe.

This thing though small in quantity yet it doth good, according as it is here set down, as I have found by mine own Experience. It giveth present ease and comfort to a disquiet mind and wandering dispairing thoughts, which is as bad a Distemper as any is. It strengtheneth the Memory exceedingly, and sometimes recovereth the Senses lost. It drieth up all manner of Rheume which distilleth down from the Head, which doth many times breed Ulcers in the Mouth, in the Lungs, and Cancers in the Throat, and also a Con­sumption and Cough. It taketh away this Rheume though never so sharp, it abateth it within an hours time, it strengthens the Stomach, purgeth Wind downwards Twenty four hours every time you take it. That is, if [...] [Page 9]to the Head, which make some Women by Fits as if they had lost part of their Senses. It doth help Swimming in the Head and Swouning fits. It helpeth the Dropsie and Scurvy When these two Humours are mixed together and hard to be parted. It doth help sower Belches, and causeth a good Appetite, the obstruction of the Liver and Spleen, Agues and Feavers of all sorts. It presently helpeth Vomiting, and giveth present ease for the Griping pains of the Guts, and in a few times taking it maketh a Cure, as it may be witnessed by Mr. Ward of Bi [...]hop's-head Court in Grayes-Inn-Lane, and Mr. Michill of Angel-alley in the same Lane, for himself and daughter, with Thousands more which are bound to bless God for the speedy Comfort they have found by this thing: the Wind-Collick, and Strangury, and pains in the Bladder. It doth presently help bleeding by Urine or Stool, the Jaundies yellow and black; the Mother and Spleen, Running pains in the Joints. It doth pre­serve Women from miscarrying: what I say of it, is of a real truth, and it is as safe to take as a bit of Bread, and doth not Purge, nor Vomit, nor distemper the Body any manner of way but giveth ease in most Distempers in about an hours time, with the blessing of God: and for the pain of the Collick, if it be of Wind, Sand, Gravel, or tough slimy humors, it doth give present ease as aforesaid: It doth commonly bring away Stones as big as Pease, and abundance of Gravel from Men and Women: what I have spoken of this thing is true, for I have proved it for many years. It helpeth the Rickets in Children, and such as are torubled with Pthisick, Cough, or Consumption, and pining away with loss of their flesh, if they be not too far spent, it will soon recover them, it is no matter what age they are; I have helpt hundreds since my coming to London, as you may read of some of their names in this Book, which were pined away to skin and bones, and done it in a short time with small charge.

I cure all sorts of Blindness, or any distemper in the Eyes (so far as curable) without pain, or putting any thing into them, and take away the causes thereof, so that they are not troubled any more therewith: therefore I advise you not to put any thing at all into your Eyes, for that never taketh away the cause, neither can it cure but causeth much pain, and many times putteth the Eyes out, or at least maketh them past cure; then for you that ever intend to have cure, put not any thing at all into your eyes.

I cure any sort of Bursteness in Men, Women and Children, and keep a Truss-maker on purpose to make Trusses for them; otherwise they cannot be cured.

I cure any sort of Deafness provided it came not with blowes, the sound of B [...]lls, the shooting off Guns, or that the Organ of the Ear be not fallen together, then you may have cure without pain.

I cure the Scald or Leprosie-head, without pain or loss of a hair of the head, as you may read among the cures you will find where I have done the like. I have present help for such as cannot make water but with great pain, and take away all sharpness of Urine though never so bad, and give present ease. I cure all sorts of Wens without cutting, or any other sort of Tumor let it be what it will. I cure Convulsions, Falling-sickness, and Fits of the Mother, Dropsie and Tympany, Consumption, and Cough, in such as are almost at Deaths-door, the Jaundies yellow and black, the Evil of any sort, the Cancer, Wolf, Fistula, the Ague and Feaver, all pains in the Head though it be Megrim, Vertigo, Lethargies, or Apoplexies, pains in the Shoulders, Armes, Stomack, Sides, Belly, and Bick, Knees, Legs, Ankles and Feet.

I would not have any to be so foolish as to question the truth thereof, seeing you have the names of so many witnesses set down in this Book which I have already cured, their names and places where they live round about you, and you will find it as true as I say, and if there be any cure, you shall have it speedily and for small charge.

I should not need to have spoke so much, but that I find the people some of them very faithless, and I suppose that is, because the Cheats have guld them of their money, therefore I advise you not to make use of every one alike, but diligently to enquire for him that is known to do great Cures, for by such means you may have help, for he knows presently what good can be done for you, and do you good if possible there be any help, but those that have practised but a little while, they must practise on your bodies seven and seven years, before they can have the experience to do Cures. I have had several times in my travels ten or twenty pounds for a Cure, after the Women and other unskilful persons have done with it, which if they had gone to an able Physician at the first might have had help for a Crown, or it may be less, but there are so many of these young Doctors in every corner, that no sooner any person falls into any Distemper, but they are ready at hand, and will undertake the Cure presently, there they podder with their sorceries till they have either killed them, or made them past Cure, and if they cure one by chance, though they kill hundreds afterward, they will say their times were come, and in this manner Thousands of the meaner sort of people lose their lives; the truth is, Millions of people are bound to curse all that practise on peoples bodies without art, for Physick is a very dangerous thing for unskilful people to meddle with.

[...] will of their own [...]

There are some Men and Women, because their friend doth practise Physick, they will make use of none but him; It is true, my friend will do what he can for me, but when my life is gone my friend cannot help me to it again: therefore if I hear of any that hath more skill than my friend, I will make use of him, and yet love my friend well, but my life better.

Many of the people before they are helpt, when they lie in great misery, Oh! what they would give for ease, but when I have made them well, they say surely it was but a small Distemper, because he did it with so small a matter, and for so little money.

I helpt the wife of Mr. Midaleton, at the sign of the Golden Patton, over against the Kings-beech in Southwark, of the Dropsie, who had lost the greatest part of her blood, so that she had little or nothing left in the Veins but watery humours which, turned to a sad Dropsie, with great weakness, and this came with a miscarriage of two Children at one birth.

I cured Mr. Iohn Chersly, living at the Sign of the Swan and Key in Brick-lane in Old-street, who had been Deaf and troubled with great noise in his Head about forty years, he was quite Deaf, and threescore and seventeen years of age when I cured him; both he and his wife returned thanks both to God and me, and he heareth very well. Mr. William Shearman in Black-Fryers over against the Dark-entry, of the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys and Bladder, and of the Sciatica pain in his Hip, and I helpt him in a fortnights time with Gods help two years since, and cannot hear that he was troubled any more therewith.

I helpt Mr. Ralph Steel of Clarken-well, the next door to the sign of the Flying-horse, of a Consumption and great weakness. Now if I should advise you to have of my Balsome of Balsoms, and keep it in readiness in the house, it may be you would say I speak for my own ends to sell my Balsome. I say no, I do not, for it is but one shilling the ounce, and it is ready if you should have a Burn, a Scald, or Squat, a Bruise, a Straine, a Cut, or any other mischance, which will come in Families, and you may look for them every day; and when any of these distempers comes, and having nothing to apply so soon as it is hurt, it runs on till it doth cost a Crown or an Angel the cure, and sometimes lose the use of a member or a joint, after you have endured so much pain and misery. This my Balsome taketh away the pain of a Burn or Scald, so soon as laid to the part grieved, and cureth without Scar, they which know the goodness of it keep it in the house by them; reason may tell you that if it were not so good as I say, it would not be for me to stand by it, and vindicate the truth of it, which I shall do whilst I have breath.

I helpt the wife of Mr. Olive at the sign of the Cock going into the Market place in Newgate Market, of the Stone and Gravil, when she was very bad indeed.

The Cheats and their relations will say, he is a Mountibank, why will you go to him? But I say if I am a Mountibank, where is my Stage, why do they belie me?

You may have more good of me for a Crown, or an Angel, than you can have at any other place for forty shillings.

I cured the wife of Mr. Isaiah Palmer the next door to the sign of the Old Shears in Great Wood-street of a cancered Wen on her hand which was breeding about twelve years. The Daughter of Mr. Mi [...]a [...]ith at the sign of the Five Bells in Grey [...]-Inn-lane, of the Feaver with gripes of the Guts. The Daughter of Mr. Bignall at the sign of the White-horse ne [...]r York-house in the Strand, of the Evil in her Neck. Mr. Seal at the Soap­box in Holborn, of the Feaver and gripes of the Guts. Mr. John Hayes's son of Crown-Court, in Baldwins-Gardens, of a lame Arm, who had no use of it, and I made him as well as ever he was in his life.

I cured the Child of Mr. John Sarrit, living at the upper end of Sea-alley in Kings-street in Westminster, being pined away with a Confumption to skin and bones, being above two years of age, and could not bear any strength to stand, and people thought it was unpossible for that Child to be recovered; however with Gods blessing he is grown as brave a lively Boy as any about London.

I helpt the Child of Mr. John Scott of Rose-alley in Golden-lane of the Convulsions and the Evil in his eyes; the daughter of Mr. Standbridge in Catherine-wheele-yard, over against the Sheep Pens in Smithfield of the Feaver, with Gripes in the Guts; Mrs. Margaret Guiny of Church-yard-Alley in Chick-lane, of great pain [...]her stomach and back, and Vomiting; Mr. Barnes of Hornsie four miles from London of the Ague, the son of Mr. Keytte of Catherine-wheele-yard in Smithfield of the Consuming feaver which is the worst of Consumptions.

Mrs. Mary Rogers, of Harp-ally in Smithfield, of the Feaver and Gripes of the Guts, when she lay so weak that none thought she would have lived, I cured her at the Golden-Cock in Shooe-lane, where I cured Mary Cox also of the same Distemper; the Chid of Theophilus Farmer, of Harts-born-lane, near the Sign of the Plow, in the Strand, near Northamberland-house, of the Rickets, who was two years old and a half, and could not bear any strength to stand, and pined away to skin and bones, and I made him able, with God's help, to goe about the house by hol­ [...] [...]

I would advise all those that have unfortunately taken Mercury, and that it hath not all workt it self out of the Body, which you may know by little pricking Pains in the Head and Nose and other parts of the Body, with great Weakness, I have a Pill which will fetch it out though it hath lain never so long in the Body, and not hinder any business; I have proved it by hundreds within these two years, and it never failed me.

I cured Mr. Fidiman at the sign of the White Lyon at the lower end of Hatton Garden in Holborn, of the Cough, about two years ago, who hath not been troubled [...]ce.

Mrs. Mialeton at the Golden Patton, over against the Kings Be [...]ch in Southwark, of a most violent Head-ach, who could not get help by any other.

I shall here set down the Cure of one Mrs. Terry, being desired so to doe both by her husband and her I if;☜her Disease was a stoppage fallen into her Kidneys which caused an extraordinary racking and torturing P [...]in in her Back also a great paine and weakness in her Hips an Limbs downwards: this Distemper seased her immediately after my going into the Country, whereupon she cousulted the best means she could for her Cure, but found none to be effectual; at my returne to London she sent her water to me, by which, and other circumstances I found her to be in a very desperate Condition, and that in all likelihood, she could not [...]ive above a day or two, whereupon I administred some thing to her, and in once taking she found a great benefit by it, which gave me Incouragement to proceed in the Cure which it pleased God in a very short time to make effectual and parfect; she liv [...]th at the bunch of Grapes near the Kings-bench in Southwark where both she and her family are able to attest the truth hereof.

The Cordial Pill being taken often when Woman is with Child prevents miscarying.

Since my going it to the Countrey, the Cheats have been at work again, saying they have a Cordial Water or Spirit to cure all Diseases, and use all the chief words of my Book in their Papers for the selling of them, word by word as it is set down of my Cordial Pill, and by that means they have deceived many; Therefore I desire you to beware of them, for I have had great Complaints by many people, how they have been Cheated of their money, because they thought those Waters or Spi [...]its had been set forth by my Order, they finding the same words of my Book in their Papers. I desire you will but make farther enquiry of those who sell these Waters or Spirits, and I suppose you will find them to be but young Beginners, and know little or nothing in the Art of Physick; and therefore you will be at a great loss if you let them try Practice on your Bodies; for you may lay any thing that is Purging in steep all night, in any Strong-waters or Spirits, and drink off the li­quor, and it will Purge more or less as you will. But woe to them that drink it, because these Waters or Spirits will be always sending the Physical part into the habit of the body, so that at other times when you are not well, and must be forced to take Physick, take notice that whatsoever you take will work upon Nature more then upon the Distemper, and the sign will be your flesh will fall away when you take any thing to Purge. Any able Doctor will tell you, that Strong-waters or Spirits drank wherein Purging things have been infused, cannot cure a di­stemper, but will corrupt the whole mass of blood, and shorten life, though it may be pleasant in time of taking by such as love strong Liquors; therefore have a care you are not cheated of your money, but your lives also, for I utterly disown that ever I have any hand in selling, or ordering any such Spirits or Waters to be sold, neither shall there be any such Waters or Spirits sold by my order or consent. That Strong-waters or Spirits which is distilled and made of mens blood, whosoever drinketh thereof will be troubled with the same distem­per the man or woman was, which they had the blood from; and if that man hath any distemper afterwards, the man or woman which drank of those Waters or Spirits will have the same distemper, as I have it by Tradition.

Also the Strong-waters or Spirits made of men and womens piss, which have been too frequently sold of late, are very unwholsome.