A Rational Discourse touching the Universal Medicine.  
BEing now confined to on Sheet and a half, I cannot therefore to the convincment and amazement of all gainsayers, as indeed well I could, (were there but mor Paper allowed me) inlarg on this Subject; but only in a few words hint at thes eight Points. 1. The Division of Medicines. 2. The Nullity of a Specifical Purgativ. 3. The Necessity of an Universal Medicine. 4. That Specific Purgatius used as Catholics are not so dangerous as Restoratius, administered also upon the same account. 5. The proper and  us of Specificks. 6. The Consistenc of Medicines. 7. The us of this min Universal Purgativ: Together with the Does and Pric thereof, where it is to be had, and from whom. 8. An Account of the Author himself.  

SECT. 1. The Division of Medicines.  
IN Genere: They are either Specifical or Universal. Nature itself hath form all of them Specifical, Though some do award, that some Individual Medicaments (as namely, Gold, Mercury, Autimony, Amber, Magnetis, Crocus, Uvae Juniperi, Sai and Sulphur) are Catholic: But upon a second Adviso: They will find, that not Nature, but Art only doth structurat that which is Universal. Only therefore in this cas the Universalist, but not the Specificalist doth add any thing to Nature, as it's Adjument: However, there be so many Specific Medicaments, as there are Individuals thereof, whether of Vegetabls, Animals or Minerals. As for the Universal, the Philosophers Adept divid them into three, viz. Cur itself, C●r the Great, and Hermes his Medicine, called also the Elixir, Pantarva, 〈◊〉 the Ens P●imum (not of the Vulgar Chemist) but of the Adopted Spagyrist. This indeed is the choicest of all, neither can it admit of a Parallel, whether in Nature, or by Art. The other two, I call them Panthiatisms, and Panchymagogams. The Panthiatisms, are only fiv.  

1. Adquadrant to the three Radical Principles of Nature, viz. Sal, Sulphur, Mercury.  
2. Analogant, to the three Anatomical spirits, viz. Animal, Vital and Natural, Which is indeed an Aurun●-P●tabile, not that of the Pretender, or Quacking Chemist; But on exactly form as corresponding to thes three Anatomical spirits, and then is it indeed The Great Cordial.  
3. Correspondent, to the four primary Qualities.  
4. Homologant, to the seven cardinal parts of the Body; viz. The Brain, the Heart, the Liver, the Lungs, the Spleen, the Gall, and Keins.  
5. Consonant to the 12. Properties and Operations of Medicine as answering to 12. particular extremities in Natur. Of Defect Six, viz. Numbness, Stupidity, Parsimony, Reflux, Influx and Increscency.  
And of Excess Six, viz. Sensility, fullness, superfluity, afflux, efflux, and excrescency.   
This Medicine is only external whether in the form of a Plaster or of a Balsam. All the rest are Internal; this the Internal-Restorativ, and this the External-Restorativ. Of the Panchymagogums there are three: On is Anotick, i. e. Vomitiv. Cathotick, i. e. purgativ by stooling, and Diuretic, i. e. by Urin. Thus is this of min, which of them all I have as yet only mad, though all the rest are known to me as well as A B C.  
Another is Diaphoretick also: i. e. Purgativ, by Sweeting. Though I no ways fancy that of the Quacks, Mountebancks and Common Chemists, as also would refrain, so much as were conveniently possible, from Transpiratiu-medicins: Yet must I tell you, that an Adepted Philosoph, who knows how to form, and how to administer it so, as not to Byas, but to tract Nature in its operation can make a very choic Panchymagogum: allowing it a Diaphoretick-property, with the other three also. But the third and last, as it doth no ways become the Skills to meddl with it, it being composed with a Philosophical Mixtur of the greatest and strongest poisons, In lik-manner it must never be administered, but in desperate cases as namely, Cancers, Palsies, Apoplexies, the King's Evil being inveterat, Herpes, Schirrus, Leprosy, the Gout, and falling-sickness.  
By this, an other Quality (but a dangerous on, in an unskilful hand, though nothing like it, for the forsaid Maladies, beside the Elixir or Pantarva itself, being arightly administered, dextrously form, and prepared, this indeed is a Cur the Great) I say, by this an other Quality is added to the Panchymagogical Medicine, viz. The Operation by Antiperistacy. Thus in few words: all our Universal Medicines do either operat by Sympathy, (but chief the Philosophical Magnet, i. e. the Panacea) as all the fiv sorts of the Panthiatisms abov written, among which chief, the Aurum Potabile: for it is, being truly form, the very next to the Quintessential-Medicin itself. Or else they do work by Antipathy, as namely all the three sorts of Panchymagogums.  

ANIMADVERSIONS.  
1. We call it not an Universal Medicine, because it will undoubtedly, unavoidably, and infallibly cur all Diseases; Not Hermes his Medicine itself, but only the Divin Power can do this: I mean a Power far abov all that is in Nature, or Art.  
2. Only my meaning is, that secluding divin Determination, the Pleasur of God, or his Judgements, death itself and the fatality thereof, i. e. its power overcoming the virtue of the Medicine, whether by a divin hand only (as when the Elixir is administered) or by a Preternatural activity of its own, as it is very apt to do, notwithstanding the administration of any of all the rest, whether Panthiatisms, or Panchymagogums. I say with thes exceptions, there is not any Disease whatsoever, which the Catholic Medicine is not good against, according to all that goodness, which Nature and Art either do or can afford. Yea, even in thes Limitations, it is only per accidens, and not per se that all Diseases are not cured by it. For as a sharp axe, v. g. in on's hand is of itself a very fit instrument to hue wood, so indeed it well can, if nothing intervein by accident to hinder the hewing therewith: As when this Man's Neighbour will needs hinder him from hewing therewith, though on his part or on the part of that instrument in his hand, there be nothing wanting to hue by, Yet in the Interim, by this Interveining Caus of his Neighbour, he is put by from hewing. Lo, all the whil, this is but per accidens and not per se. Just so it is, with the Universal Medicine of itself, it is fit, and on its part, nothing wanting to Cur all Diseases; Only by accident, something or other (by which it is mastered) doth intervien, by which its virtue is interrupted, which if it had not interviened, to stop its Energy; without doubt it had cured, what it did not, as being of itself apt to do so, if not interrupted by an overpowering Obstructer.  
3. Neither do I mean, That this my Panchymagogum, now in us is Sufficient, to perfect the Cur of all Diseases Tum in Effectibus, Tum in Affectious. The very Pantarva itself could not do this, as hereafter will somewhat appear. Only this min Universal Purgativ doth serve to discuss all Diseases in their effects, as being of it self-fitted, to remov the cause of all diseases whatsoever, And yet by accident, upon no terms must it be administered to some Persons: as those: who are excessiuly weak and puny, whether by old age, or otherways: And in some diseases as namely Pthysis, and Tabes. Nothing for such beside the Panacaea, like to the Great Cordial or Aurum Potabile. But they must stay, till they can get it: for I am sur, they cannot have it, but from the Adepti. Beside, though indeed it is a Cur the Great; i. e. fit to Cur the greatest of all Diseases, viz. Epilepsies, Eistulas, Cancers, Gouts, Dropsies, Leprosies, and the rest of those desperar Diseases abou-written: yet must I tell you, That without the forsaid Antiperistatical Addition which as yet it hath not, neither do I indeed intent it (if ever at all) but in such desperate cases, it is not and cannot be so Energetical, or Effectual against them, though even in all thes Maladies; it is a most Sovereign Remedy. Whosoever tries it will find it so.    

SECT. 2. The Nullity of a Specifical Pungativ.  
A Specific Medicine is that which is appropriated to this or that particular Disease, to this or that particular Humour, or to this and that particular Complexion and Constitution: Now, to spend our tim in such a way of Administration, whether by Purgatius or otherwis, is quit beside the Butt for reasons which I cannot now enlarg, but only nam, because tedious and endless, a looking into mens Urinal, enquiring into Symptoms, considering the Complexions, feeling of Pulses, attending on Critical days, together with the hearing of the repetitions and needles discourses of the Patient or his substitut is enough verily to make a man grey ere he be old: Let me tell you, that an Adeptus can dispatch mor Patients in a day then this drolling way can afford to do in a year: And with what differenc in point of success, let Work bear but witness of it. 2. Dangerous. 3. Hurtful. 4. Intemperate.   

SECT. 3. The Necessity of the Universal Medicine.  
Necessary it is; first: Because as it is temperate in its operation (though not in the Method, Matter or Preparation, whether of Crollius or of Quercetan, so some Diseases, (as Cachexia and Pthyriasis) where there is a Confluenc of all humours perhaps equally predominant, do of necessity requir it. I would fain know, how a Specifical Medicine can Cur that Patient, in whom at on tim Nature is oppressed with Diseases of all humours, as indeed I have found it by sad experienc in myself. At on tim I was afflicted with the Scurvy and Black Jaundic; there was Melancholy: with the Yellow-Jaundic, and there was Choler, with an inveterat Cough together with the Colic; there were Pituit and Phlegm: much about the same tim was I also infested with the Pills, there was Blood: Sur this could never be cured by Specificks: for that which at on tim should have corrected on distemper, would needs have exasperated his Cross Companion.  
Secondly, Because all the virtuous Qualities, which indeed should be in Medicines, do all at one conspir in it, viz. Safety, Certainty, Expedition, and Efficacy.  
The first it hath from its Preparation and Method; the third and fourth from its Matter; but the Second from all the three, i e. from Matter, Method and Preparation: I mean, it hath all thes properties in it so far, as Nature and Art either doth or can allow to any on particular Species thereof in its proper Series. Thus verily is my present Panchymagogum form; for by Art I have so composed it, as that in its proper Series its Matter, Method, and Preparation are unalterabl, to which, whether by Nature or Art, nothing can be added, nor any thing diminished therfrom, Sav that in a higher and lower Series of this Medicinal Preaicament we may find the virtue of Medicines either higher or lower; but though Specificks neither have, nor can have all thes Qualities in them; yet I will tell you, that in expedition and efficacy, high & nuns, they do exceed some of our Catholics: as namely, your Mountebank-Spirits, and some of your pretended Quacking-Catholiks; which in effect are but Specificks: for instanc, some of them work by the Antimonial-Cup, the antic Sulphur of Antimony, and Mercurius Vitae as Universal: whereas a wis man knoweth, that Antimony per se helps nothing but the Spleen, even as Mercury curs nothing per se, but the Maladies of the Liver: However, though Specificks per Acciden, yea and somtim per Antiperistasin, (which makes your Ignorants, though they know not the reason of it, but that now I tell them it, venture to giv them for all Diseases, as some of them do; but others of them, (not daring to venture so far, concluding the impossibility of an Universal Meaicin) do administer them for many, yea for the most of Diseases:) I say, though for thes Reasons they do counterfeit an Universality of operation, with a great deal of efficacy and expedition, wonderful for the tim, to all Spectators, but chief pleasing to the Patient himself, yet be sur of this, That Latet A●guis in Herba, I tell you, such Medicines, because not of a temperate operation, do only make the Radical Moystur to flush for a tim, and flow out; but ere all be done, they either quit drink it up, or else do exceedingly Impeach it: And so in process of tim the Patient is quit killed, or mad worse than better thereby, so that in such Medicines that Proverb is verified, Soon rip, soon rotten: yet must I tell you, That as no Carrion can kill a Crow, (some bodies are so antidoted against, or rather so unsensibl of Medicines that be destructiv to them) so there is a divin hand, by which peopl (though all do not observe it) are preserved from the violenc of many things, that they receiv into their bodies, enough to kill them, and yet they do not so much as hurt those that taken them.   

SECT. 4. The differenc between a Specific Purgativ, and that which is Restorativ.  
There is not so much danger to administer that which is Purgativ, though Specific to all Diseases, as that which is Restorativ and but Specifical: for, as that very currently doth evacuat per accidens, all other humours beside to which it is not appropriated; so this, but haphazard by an Antiperistasy, doth cur this or that Disease, to which it is not a proper cur.   

SECT. 5. The proper and  us of Specificks.  
This is twofold, 1. As they serve for the Matter of the Universal Medicine, linked together by a Methodical Union, according to the Rules of Approprtation, just Approportion and Contemperation. 2. By themselves, and a part to prevent that torment and other inconvenients, to which the poor Patient is exposed by Chirurgeons Instruments, or of the Operators, and other hard means: There is indeed great us of thes fiv sorts of them. 1. stiptics for Rupturs. 2. Attractius for rotten- Teeth, loose- Teeth, achd- Teeth, doubls- Teeth, Corns, and Warts. 3. Diuretic, to dissolve and break the Ston whether in the Bladder, or Kidneys. 4. Cathareticks for Wens, and Cut-arteries. 5. narcotics, in cas some member or other must needs be cut off: they will likwis be great us of Attractius, for Thorns, Spiks, Pricks, Splinters and the like: I tell you plainly, even as no man by this my Panchymagogum can perfect all diseases, in their effects and affects too, without the joint concurrenc, not only of all the other Panchymagogums, and Panthiatisms, but also of all thes Specificks; In like manner, though the very Elixir or Panacaea itself were not wanting, yet room would be left, (of necessity too) for those Specifieks abov written.   

SECT. 6. The consistene of Medicines.  
Below the Consistenc of Hermes his Medicine, Which though this be rar, yet that is but common, nothing like to that which is in the form of a spirit: I would have mad this my present Medicine so; only that as there is a necessity for its Purgativ Quality, (thus mor frequently needful, (though of itself not so choic) than the Great Cordial.) In like manner I behoved to refrain from this Extraction, because than I should have altered (at least in some of its Materials) its Purgativ faculty: However, as now I have form it, it is so well, as that now thou mayst, if thou wilt, not only administer it inwardly, whether in the form of Pills, or of a Liquor by Infusion; but also apply it outwardly, as a Plaster or Balsan: Note, the higher the Preparation is, (as indeed Spirits are of the highest in the vulgar part of Alchemy) the mor dangerous is that Medicine so prepared, if it be Specifical.   

SECT. 7. The Us, etc. of this present Panchymagogum.  
The Us.] It is twofold. 1. Operativ, i. e. It servs to evacuat all humours, and so to discuss all Diseases in their Causes and Effects. 2. Directiv, Shall I need to tell thee? That in taking it thou must keep warm all day, not stirring out of doors, walking to and again, now and then in thy room, taking it betim in the morning, by the 7 or 8 hour at least, keeping thyself from sleep, till it hath done working; (yet mayst thou taken it a bed, and rest a litl immediately upon it, but be sur to be up ere it fall a working;) neither eat nor drink till it hath done working: but if it be three or four hours ere it work, then drink Broth mad of tender fresh meat, to provok it: When thou wouldst have it to cause vomiting, so much or so litl as thou likest, drink thy broth only fresh, or taken none at all, unless as said is, too long a working: But when thou mindest Stooling, whether in part or most, or altogether, then season thy Broth with Salt, drinking it off: In Purging beware of all sweet things; taken it either alone, or in a stewed Pruin, the pap of an Appl, or any other way thou canst best do it: But chief observe thes Twelv Directions.  

1. Except need be, taken it not but either in Spring or Fal.  
2. If thy distemper be but small, or thou dost but taken it for Conservation of thy health, or prevention of Diseases, never taken it abov one in those two seasons v.  
3. To prevent Relapses, or the Return of Distempers, taken it duly every Spring and Fal.  
4. If thou be not either perfectly cured, or at least fair on in the way after thric taking of it, cease from it, for there is but litl hops of thee.  
5. Go on still with it so long as thou findest it doth thee good.  
6. When thou must taken it thric on end, let still a day intervein.  
7. In Chronical Diseases, as the Gout, Leprosy, Hypochondrick Melancholy, etc. though it betters thee all the whil, yet taken it not abov six tims in a quarter of a year, though thou mightst be mor bold with it in spring and fall than at other seasons: The frequency of taking it then for the foresaid Diseases, I shall much leave to thin own discretion.  
8. In the Colic taken with it also three drops of the Oil of Cummin-seed, poured into Sack Posset mad of half a pint of Sack, drink it off warm an hour either after or  thou takest the Panchymagogum itself.  
9 For the Pills and Varices, see thou let blood also by Leeches applied to the Hemorrhoick veins.  
10. But in the Apoplexy let blood in the left foot.  
11. In the Pleurisy of Blood, let blood still in that foot which is just contrary to that sid where the malady lieth.  
12. In the Apoplexy it cannot well be given but in a Liquor, and so, by Infusion: This must be done also both by great cunning and great forc: Then will it be needful withal, to shav off the hair, and to rub the head, (at least to do this) very strongly with hard linen  well warmed.   
The Does.] On Pill at most, consisting of about 7 Grains. He must be no ordinary man that will taken abov this: there lies much of the Cur in a just Proportion of the Does. Do thou therefore after Trial taken special Notic whether thou tookest too much or too litl, till thou shalt find out how much of it indeed will fit thee; without addition or diminution: Remember, That the weak, infirm, and tender, must taken but the Infusion of it in a Gil of Sack, being set to infus 24 hours, thereafter well warmed in a Pottinger on liu-coals, and then gently strained thorough a clean cloth, drink it immediately off: for a child it will serve for 3 or 4 tims: and for the weaker sort of men and women the half of it will serve at a tim: But yet I say, do thou by thin own Experienc after onc or twic taking of it, find out how much of it, to a point, will serve thy Turn. In infusing see thou mix it and stir it well about in the Sack, knowing, that though it be clammy, yet the Liquor will still wash it off from that with which thou stirrest it about: In the Infusion thou mayst safely giv it in all manner of Fevers, not excepting the Hectic itself, provided it be not already turned into the Consumption: Whit Win to infus in, for Fevers; the Spirit of Winifrid good, to make Infusions by.  
The Pric.] On Shilling per Pill, considering how that in a litl Quantity thou hast what is sufficient for thee at onc, though as strong as most men.  
The Places where, and the Persons by whom, it is to be had,] are John Fensield, in Toolies-Street, near London Bridg, in Flower de Luce Yard, the second Door. And John Eames Hosier, living under Crips-Gat Church, (so called.)   

SECT. 8. An Account of the Author himself.  
My name I shall conceal; for as I lov not that my Medicine by some should be despised because of me; so I like not that I should be adored by any, because of it. A Mechanic I am not: But to those that ask who I am, and how I come by all this Knowledge, Let thes few things suffic for an Answer. 1. I was bred a Scholar at the University itself. 2. I have parts and abilities of Nature as other men. 3. The Manifestation of the Spirit is given to me as well as to others, to profit withal: I cannot say that ever I had this by Books; for they have been rather a Hindranc then Furthranc to me in point of Knowledge, though I have read and perused many. 4. I have been a Student and Practitioner in this Art about 12 years: in which tim I have cured thes remarkabl Diseases, viz. The Cholerica Passio, the Anasarca, the Dysenteria, the Rickets, the Virgin, or Green-Sickness, the Tertian Agu, the Gonorrhaea, the Convulsion, the Catarrh, Phlegmen, Imposthumations, Deafness, the Ston and Herpes: I have had Experienc enough, were it no mor, but on min own body, which from a child hath been infested with all thes Diseases tim after tim, viz. The Small Pox, the Measles, Burning Fevers, the Agu, the Gonorrhaea, the King's Evil, Heartburning, Strangury, Sc●lding of urin●, Toothache, Watering-eys, the Non Retention of Urinal, the Scurvy, the Cramp, the Itch, Scaldness of head, the Windy Ruptur, the Diarrhaea, Belly-ach, Yellow jaundic, Black jaundic, Inveterat Coughs, the Unnatural heat in my head, the Pills, Swooning, Spitting of Matter, Hypochondrick Melancholy, Constipation, Dandruff, Obstruction of the Bowels, Quincy, Morbus Ficalis, Hectic Fever, Tumours, and Palpitation of the Heart, in all 35 several-sorts of Diseases, 9 of which at onc infested me, and 7 (none of the smallest of them neither) annoyed me at another tim altogether; yea, twic in less than 3 years was I sick unto death, and each tim was I afflicted with Diseases 6 months together, insomuch that the last tim I could not stir to let my Bed be mad for abov 17 weeks together: And but lately by a mischanc was my fac poisoned, (some of it got into my eyes, some down my throat) with about 2 Ounces of the strongest poison that is, excepting the Black Toad of the Philosophers: I pray by what have I hitherto cured all thes Diseases on myself? Is not her room enough for Experienc? Yet tell I you plainly, By no Medicine that Art frams. Though, since my study of Physic I have not been wanting to myself therein, not suffering any other to medl with me. I have that which no man knows but he that hath it, by which I cur both myself and others too, now and then, far abov that of Hermes himself▪ but enough of this: Only now I declare, both conscientiously (in the sight of God) as a good man, and knowingly, as a Wis man, That this Medicine of min, in its proper Series, is so good as that it cannot be bettered by Nature or Art: If therefore thou art not bettered but worsted after taking it, I can well tell thee, and persuade thee also, with good reason so to judge, without a Ridl, why it is so: No doubt either because not following the foregoing Directions, or because smitten of God: for in reason I can assur, there is no reason why being taken debito Modo, & debito Tempore, it should wrong any, seeing by Art it is so structured as that if it do no good of itself, it can do no man harm, unless it be in this, That it hath not so much virtue to communicate to thee, as hath that, which is far better; I mean the Panacaea or Elixir, i. e. the Quintessenc. (not the pretended one's of the vulgar Chemist) an Arabiax Word, bearing such a signification: Though not the Peripatists, yet sur Hermet●sts, Turbists, and Cabalists know well what is meant by it. Howbeit, taken my Medicine as it is, (unless thou judgest thyself unworthy of it) and blame not it, whether because of thin own misgovernanc, or because of thin own iniquities, which peradventur will restrain the blessing of it from thee; for wherein I commend it, The Great Jehovah knoweth, I lie not; And to him therein do I appeal.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
Beside what formerly I did intent, I must needs add a few words mor, though I had already hinted them in the foregoing Discourse: a Word is enough to the Wis, as the Proverb is: yet he that hath to do with peopl of all sorts, must needs fit his words (if possible) to all their Capacities, to prevent either their Malicious or Ignorant Mistaks, that room be not left for Reproach: Be therefore advised with me, for thy better satisfaction, to consider thes three things:  
First, As it is very easy to form a Medicine, which worketh intemperately, whether too litl or too much: So ever since I did apply myself to the study of Physic, I did choos rather to err by Defect, (knowing that thereby there is less hurt, than by the other extreme) than by Excess: I confess neither of them is good; yet sur I am, a violent Medicine doth wrong thee mor than what is lenitiv and gend: and it's the great endeavour of the Patient's safety, that provoks me by all means possible to avoid all Excess and violent Medicines, well knowing, That all such do no less waste his Radical Moystur, (without which the body is but dead) than as doth the fir of the Lamp consume its Oil. Secondly, It is the common ignoranc of Patients, That the best Medicine is that, which worketh most: In their conceit, (which is their deceit) it cannot be good; unless it make them very sick, giv them many Stools, and many Vomits, never minding all the whil, That though such Medicines do powerfully scour the Humours, yet do they then as powerfully great on Nature itself. Now all those Physicians (though some do it by Ignoranc also) who mind their own profit mor, than the Patients good, observing this to be the common mistake of all peopl, do therefore apply themselves herein, to gratify the delusion of their Patient. To work therefore go they, with the strongest Medicine, that may be, both for Matter and Preparation, on purpose to make a speedy Cur of their Patient; (knowing that this will pleas him best) which indeed is but a speedy riddanc of the diseased, and not of the Disease, seeing (as said is) all such Medicines do, the self same way, Consume the Radical Moystur, even as the fir doth waste the tallow of a Candl, or the Oil of a Lamp: Her indeed is efficacy but not safety; Now I am for both, Neither will I indeed (to get myself a name) humour the Patient to his hurt, by administering a Medicine to him, which is both Efficacious, and Expedicious (This to do is the Easiest of a 1000 I can do it as well as other men) if it be not both saf and sur also. Thirdly, It is well known to me, That this my present Medicine, As it is most saf, (sur I am, if it do thee no good, it will do thee no harm, unless it be by, taking too litl or too great a Quantity of it at a tim) so it is as strong, powerful, effectual, and expeditious, as either Nature or Art, either will or can allow it to be, with safety and surty also: or indeed any Medicine can be, or aught to be, under Hermes his Medicine itself. Nothing administered for frequent or common us, either is or can be, (beside the Elixir) mor efficacious, and saf too, than it is, God knoweth. Only the Patient may Reproach and mistake it for thes reasons; Of which I must now Remind him. 1. Blaming it for Virtu not for Vic, i. e. Because it doth not work so strongly, (That I say not so dogedly) as other Medicines do. Allow me to tell thee, as I hat to giv thee any Physic, (which I am sur every on in their Administrations, walketh not by this Rul) but What I'll taken myself; yea, and giv the Bab on the Breast, as well, though not in the same quantities; as him that is come to ag, To the weak, (though not in a manner quit consumed) as well as to the strong; [Thus in all points it is the liker the Great Elixir:] So I declare to thee without a figure, (unless I had a mind to do him a mischief, and sought not his health) I would not giv that Physic to a Dog, which I knew would either make him very sick, or scour him very much, whether upwards or downwards: Well, I reckon that excess of Sickness, which purgeth any further, than what provoks the Scouring with delight and eas: And that I call Excess in Scouring, which from 6 as the Best, doth exceed 8 or 12 times at the most. 2. Blaming me for Impossibility, i.e. Because I do not determine to a Point, and that at the very first dash an exact Does for every person; a thing impossible to be done without reiterated experienc, for this cause I have much left it to thin own Trial, To find out the exact Does without Addition or Diminution, for thin own body, after Twic or Thric taking it. The performanc of the Cur doth much lie in the exactness of the Does, as hath been said already. Which being onc effected, Be thou also assured, that, God blessing it to thee, it will perform all that her is spoken, touching it. Whereas the Does being either too littl it will work too littl, or may be none at all, or too much, it will work too much, and it may be, whether by Antiperistasy, or by a secret restraint of Providenc, but litl or non at al. However, This I determine to the best of my knowledge that on Bill of 7 Grains is a sufficient Does for any ordinary person whosoever. 3 Blaming me for what God doth, or will not do, i. e. Because it may be, he Restrains the virtu of it from thee, causing it do thee-harm, making it not work, or but litl, or too much; Yea, and though when it hath acted its Part to a point, perhaps, as said is, He makes it either do thee no good at al. Or it may be prejudic, not blessing, but cursing it to thee, partly for thin own Iniquities, and partly for a Trial to me, Schooling me thereby not to trust in the Creature, but in himself alone. 4. Blaming me perhaps for Casualties, whether ordinary or extraordinary; some mischanc or other may happen thee, to the Retardment, Obstruction and Prejudic of the Medicine: But mor likely thin own Negligenc, in not observing my Directions punctualy, or beside thy intemperate living, whether by Penury, (it may be necessity) or Exorbitancy. 5. Blaming the Medicine, because it will not humour thee, but Nature, i.e. Because somtims it will needs Track Nature, inclining the same way only to work, as the present disposition of the Patient leads it to, viz. If to Vomiting, to Vomit only, but if to Stooling, to Stool only, etc. This indeed is a virtu, but not a vic in it: Even as is that, viz. A Working Efficaciously, but falsely also. Without which, Neither shall I be a Physician if I cannot attain it, nor shalt thou be my Patient if thou wilt not have it so, delighting only in that, which Scout thee to purpose, though not good. But putting all Reproach to a defianc, (for this Medicine shall be magnified maugre all Malic and Ignoranc) with the forsaid limitations: I declare again, as in the sight of God, it may well do thee good, but not harm, performing all that is her promised, concerning it. 6. Know, that the longer it is a working, the better it is provided, it works at length the same day thou tak'st it. Blame it not for this, which is indeed a Virtu and not a Vic, though the Ignoranc of peopl is apt to count it so. 7. All Dogmatic, though not Empiric Physicians, do make it their work to administer no Medicine, but what is saf; for this Caus, they Trad mor in the Pharmacopean, than in the Common Chemical Preparations, in Vegetabls mor than in Minerals, Thes indeed, unless in a skilful hand, far mor dangerous than those. Which non verily can arightly us, but those only who are skilled to form Panthiatisms, Panchymagogums aright, and the Panacean Medicine. Eightly and Lastly; to satisfy peopl of all humours and dispositions, I have so ordered the matter, as that they may have of this Medicine, both gentl, (for the young tender, weak and indifferent) as also strong, for the strongest and lustiest; in so much that in reason, on of such Pills, [though I know, that either by a secret restraint of providenc, or by an Antiperistasy, Sympathy, and Antipathy, [yea and for the same causes, the very least and worst of Medicines, may be and are effectual, when the best and greatest can not and do not avail] the strongest Physic, and greatest Does, that is, may be obstructed in its operation: Or some have taken [if we may credit the persons report, which I had from his own mouth] two drams of Mercurius Dulcis at onc two hundred tims in and about the spac of two years observing no other Diet all the whil, than what he used to do at any other tim;) I say in reason [at lest what is common and usual] on of such Pills is a sufficient Does, for the strongest man that is, though the strength of four ordinary Persons. But then Such must expect to pay a pric equivalent to a fourfold Does for ordinary peopl. Thes things I thought good to Anticipat, both by Word and Work, lest they should have been objected to me as my Crims. Now, not regarding the Reproach or Scorn of any, (for indeed, as it is below me, so am I abl to justifis all that which is her written,  God, Men, and Angels,; yea, and all things whatsoever.) I sit down in rest, with this as my Guard; Cede, Repugnanti, Cedendo, Victor abibis. Knowing well, That as they are but Bedlami, who expect mor from Nature or Art, or from any working or walking according to them, than what they can afford: for Nihil dat, quod non habet. Et ultra posse, non est esse or Nemo ultra posse. In like manner had we such discerning as to observe, That as the greatest of means, by God, are disappointed, and that the very lest thereof, by him, somtims are exalted, Blasting the best, and blessing the worst of secondary Causes (Working without them, with them, against them, and abov them, at his pleasure) we should then neither Deify the Greatest, nor Contemn the Least of created means; Though still in an absolute dependency on the Uncreated Being of the Two, choos the best and the greatest, as the likeliest and safest things for us to make us of. However, Though now thou mayst have that which is so efficacious, as any safety will allow; yet is it without the forsaid Antiperistatical Mixtur of the strongest Poisons, which the Adept never did, nor do make us of, but in cas of those Diseases, which they call the four Stagers, viz. The Gout, the Dropsy, the Falling-Sickness and Leprosy, with other desperate Diseases abou-written, which gained them both Credit and Success in their Attempts, calling it therefore Cur the Great. Whereas their pretended Imitators, ignorant of Matter, Method and Preparation, of this Medicine, essay to do the like, without Respect either to Persons or Diseases, to the quit killing of some, and, at the best, to the great hazard of the lives of others: which, though escaped a present Lurch, yet is that thereby left behind, (to judge in reason, setting aside how God may otherways dispos of it) which will needs shotten their days. All thes things I thought good to add, beside this, viz. That it is the Common and gross mistake of peopl, hand over head to taken any thing that comes next to hand, which will but Scour them, whether upwards or downwards, never heeding the fitness, whether of the Matter, Method, or Preparation. Many things they may have to evacuat Humours, whether by Sweeting, Vomiting, by Urinal, or Stooling. But few, namely as they us them, do do any of thes well: Whereas my present Panthymagogum is of the very best Matter, [Method, no doubt) and Preparation, that can be, for any such Medicine in its proper Series] Of Cur-al, though not of Cur the Great, (Thus it only wants the forsaid Antiperistatical Addition; as said is) it is the very Non-ultra. Know also, That the Degrees of my Medicine are Three, answering all Tempers and dispositions. 1. For the Weak. 2. For the ordinary-Strong. 3. for the strongest of all, or mor than what is Ordinary. The Outmost Does, as I now judge however Providenc or Experienc may alter it, whether by Sympathy, Antipathy, or Antiperistasy, for the Ordinary a Pill of 7 Grains, and for persons that be very Robust, on of a Scrupl, But all the 3. sorts, as they find occasion for it, may us it, whether with or without Infusion. Yet do I advis the weaker sort, to make much us of Infusion: yea and neither weak nor strong in Fevers or in any Disease, that hath brought them very low, to us it without Infusion, proportioning the Does according to their then present stat, i. e. The strongest then not venturing, abov 5. or 7 Grains at the most. But in this, Experienc will be thy best Directrix, making Trial of it by degrees, as need is. Be it also known to thee, That even as never any, but Prophetic and Apostolic Spirits knew the perfect Universal Method, In like manner without it, The Higher the Matter and Preparation be, the worse is the Medicine.   

SUB-POSTSCRIPT.  
EVen as by observing the various Sentiments of peopl, I did therefore unexpectedly, and undesiredly, superad the precedent Postscript; In like manner, I do now much mor adjoin to all that foregoeth a few memorabl Notabilia, touching the Medicine itself, occasioned by an Experimental Observation of its Virtuous Quality and Operation. Both this, together with the Postscript, were added de Novo, since the Discourse itself was given into the Press: Sith therefore a perfect Medicine, as indeed this is, in its proper Series doth requir a perfect Narration concerning it: And I myself in the Interim not willing to leave any stone unturnd, because I would needs obviate all Objections, and administer all reasonable satisfaction to all persons, to prevent all Misunderstandings, Miscarriages and Abuses, that in the us of this Medicine may occur: I have put myself to all this pains, though with the necessity of using the Trop, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too too much. But this will be easily excused, that which foregoeth being duly considered. Now to the purpose. 1. As because of its Method, it can hardly, if at all, work too violently, Though administered in an Excessiv- giftedness: So because of its Matter, and Preparation, it doth no harm but good to the Patient, even when it doth not work at all sensibly, There being either but too litl a Quantity of it taken, or else because that is wanting in the Does, by which its Energy is heightened: for even then it doth work Magneticaly, with a sensibl advantag to the patient's health, though all the whil unsensibl of its Operation. I can assur him, (to speak both in Reason, and from Experienc) It will neither harm him by too violent working: for this it cannot do, though taken at onc, I know not how much of it. Yet let none venture too far this way, as being neither profitabl nor Expedient. With the same assuranc also, do I avouch, That it will not Venom, as other Medicines do, thy body, even though to thy feeling it did not work at all, seeing it doth operat Magneticaly also; In this assimulating the Magnet of the Philosophers. 2. If at the very first it doth strongly evacuat, whether by Vomiting or by Stooling, as indeed it doth in new Radicated Maladies: for instanc, a Cough or Cold newly catched, Then know, that though then it doth evacuat much, yet not often: for Nihil violentum, durabile. Whereas, in Rooted Diseases, v. g. The Gout, of 9 Months continuanc, it doth then so grapl with the Radicated humours, as that it doth not spend its Virtue all at onc, and by wholsal, but piercing into the very Roots of the Malady, it doth work Gradatim, not much at onc, but of long continuanc, er it stay its working. As hath been formerly hinted, it doth tract Nature, but not bias it: So now I say, It doth Track the very Disease itself, fitting its Modus Operandi, to the very Modus Morbi. 3. Thou must not always expect from it, That the greater is its Does or Giftedness, the mor therefore it will work on thee: for thou wilt somtims find it like to Sugar, and other things that I might instanc, But that this is so well known, which, as it will not be dissolved by the stronger, but by the weaker Liquor poured upon it: So not a great, but a small Quantity of the same doth dissolve it best: Do not therefore mind its Quantity, but Quality, not its Bulk, but its Virtue: for as the Proverb is, Magnitudo non est Virtus. Experienc, as formerly hinted, therefore in this cas, will be thy best Directrix, how to Coaptat its Giftedness and Fabric. Howb cit, Knowing very well that the Eternal Jehovah doth sway all things at his pleasure, somtims causng Fools do what the wis cannot, the Unskilful do what the Skilful cannot, the Weak what the Strong can not, the Artless what Artists cannot, the unlearned what the Learned cannot, and the Wicked do, what the Godly cannot, making small means, bad means, things meanly prepared badly prepared, not prepared at all, meanly, badly, not at all arightly Composed, Ordered and Administered, Scarcely, Indifferently yea not at all, but quit destructiv to Nature: Making, I say, such things Effectual and Profitabl, Whereas their virtuous Opposites are rendered Ineffectual and usles by him, hic & nunc, (yea frequently too, though the sons of Men observe it not) at his pleasure: Upon this serious Consideration, God is my witness I lie not, I cannot, I must not, I dar not, and I will not, Boast myself in any thing, but Jehovah only, not taking upon me to outveigh the wickedest or meanest Practitioner that either is or can be. Only, all that undoubtedly and with Confidenc I can promise thee, concerning this my Medicine, in its own Nam, be thes two things: On is, That in its proper Series, without Addition or Diminution, it is a perfect Medicine in that since of perfection, as is abou-written in the Discourse itself. So that with this Limitation it wants for nothing, as it is in its own Series, which either Nature or Art can better it by. Another is, That in its proper Series it is, of all Medicines now in us, the liklyest and most probabl Expedient for Cur and Health: Not afraid to say, that what ever Medicine, her or there, now and then doth exceed it in this or in that, It is not because of excelling it by Art, whether in Matter, Method, or Preparation: for this cannot be, as it is in its proper Series. Only it is by a hidden Property, as some phras it; Which I say, is either by Providenc or by Sympathy, Antipathy, or by Antiperistasy. However, Let God do the Best, but us chus the Likeliest, as the Proverb goeth. To add a Diaphoretick Quality to it, which I could soon do, I do not much fancy that; but far less that which is by Sneezing and Salivation. And should I superadd thereto the forsaid Antiperistatical Property, with a Tric this might be done also, and thereby Translat it in to a higher Series: for then properly itwould be that which is called Cur the Great, being only a loted for the greatest of all Diseases. Yet, in this Structur, it must be administered to no distemper whatever, but only thes, viz. The Gout, the Cancer, the Fistula, Noli me tangere, Herpes, Schirrous, Dropsy, Epilepsy, Struma, the Leprosy, Palsy, Morbus Gallicus, Lethargy, Varices, Frenzy, Mania, Hypochondry, Apoplexy, Carbuncl and Plagu Sor. As for Hermes Medicine, though he not the first Author of it, albeit of the highest Series, Yet I do not hereby giv account, whether I know it, yea or not. Only this on thing do I profess, That no man without the knowledge of it, either is or can be Medicus Adeptus. Yea, Neither must I, as yet, either Reveal, or do all that I know: for, Tempore, Fatet Occulta Verisas. All this my carful and serious advic to thee, is not for min but t● in own profit, God knoweth, for I intent not to make a Trad of Physic; But so soon as I can with conveniency, freely to giv▪ as I have freely received: I say, my Advic is, never cease from using it duly, both Spring and Fal, to prevent Relapses, the Return of Diseases, and to maintain thin Health, as also to prevent Distempers. Neither think it enough, that thou art either in Part or in Whole bettered by it: But go on with it still, not only till the Cur be perfected, but also for Accelerating the Cur, and taking away, as by the Roots, the Reliqus of the Disease, Spar not to taken of it, even when the Disease seems to thee to be perfectly Cured. Yea, though at on tim it answers not thin expectation, yet spar not to venture on it again at another tim; But still with that Cautiousness, as is abundantly provided for, in the Directions abou-written, avoiding fleep in tim of taking it, so much as is possible.  
Finaly, This most precious Medicine is thirdly to be had by Robert Gould, in Jacob-Street, at the Sign, HAND IN HAND.  I having thus spoken, now mock on. Job. 21 3. For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Job. 17.4. If I have spoken to you Earthly things, and ye Believ not; How shall ye Believ when I tell you of Heavenly things, John 3.12. The Works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them, that have pleasure therein, Psal. 111.2. Fruere, & Vtere. 
END. LONDON, 1664.