George Starkeys' PILL VINDICATED From the unlearned Alchemist and all other pretenders, With a brief account of other excellent specific Remedies of Extraordinary virtue, for the honour and vindication of pyrotechny.  
THat the ●ill of Mr. Richard Matthews, was in truth mine, and that he had the receipt from me, as it is really so, and known to very many, so it is acknowledged by Mr Andrews, Mr Kendal, and others, as in the Appendix to the unlearned Alchemist may be seen, to which I also added an Epistle, owning, and avowing the same.  
The universality of it, was but a mistake in the unlearned Alchemist; rather a shift he was driven to, for the secret being rather a Mystery of preparation, than a bare receipt, was looked on by me as a store-house or Common place from which various compositions might flow, for the Corrector (as Mr. Matthews calls it) is a means by which all vegetal malignity is totally extinguished, and is a true natural means to prepare vegetable concretes by, which being made of salts alcaliz●●e and oils essential united, might be advanced with oil of Cinnamon, Mace, Cloves etc. or any other sort at pleasure, and might be farther enriched with any spirit or tincture made by spirits, besides the alterations to be made by various concretes, in which (as need requires) the latitude of that Pill extends itself to all the Herbs, Seeds, Roots, Gums, Flowers, etc. in the world, as also to all oils, and salts (volatile and fixed) of Herbs all spirits, and tinctures also may be made use of, in their time, and place, to alter and vary this preparation as occasion required.  
Now Mr. Matthews being no scholar, nor daring to profess giving advice as a Physician, was necessitated to take this course, to pitch upon one more general composition whose latitude of virtue was larger than other specifications are, where Opium is either wholly lest out, or added in small quantity, and cry it up for universal, lest if he should have given expectation of any variation of the Pill, as need required, he should be compelled to use judgement, in advising when and where, and how to make his alterations, which being a task beyond his abilities, he avoided by commending the Pill beyond its proper limits, a profitable, but disingenuous trick.  
He that hath read or shall read my Books sent out, to wit Nature's Explication and helmont's Vindication, and Pyrotechny asserted, shall find the ground of these and far nobler preparations; and that these Pills, and su●h other specific remedies, are only succedaneous to greater secrets yet sufficient for the full cure of many diseases, which need no other, and where the effect may be attained by an inferior, what need a more rare and secret remedy be sought? I shall therefore say no more by preamble, but come to the business intended, and shall give the virtues and manner of use of several medicines made, and publicly exposed to sale by me. And first,  

My Diaphoretick Diuretic and Anodynous Elixir.  
It's operation is by sweat, and urine, assuaging pains or any ordinary violent disturbance in the body, it pacifies the Archaeus, and by a resolutive faculty opens obstructions very powerfully and pleasantly, it is a medicine deserves great commendation, and hath been (in Mr. Matthews his name) very famous all England over, and in neighbouring Countries.  
This of mine exceeds his beyond comparison, as I shall appeal to any man's experience, For his was my way used in my younger years, from 1651 till 1655. when I communicated it to him, since when I have so far exceeded my preparations therein, that it is below me to make them as formerly, and those that deal with me will not buy them, besides he did not come up to the height of that preparation as I taught him, as Mr. Kendal and others, whom I taught the same process, know who make that common preparation far better than Mr. Matthews, for his Pill wanting the closing part of an Artist, is fain to begiven with Cautions of lying so many hours, to wit fourteen at least; and yet it makes giddy, suspends the urine, and causeth great drought, and burning heats, with costiveness, the symptoms of a defect in the operation, which I would not after teach Master Matthews to mend because he had dealt ill by me, but Mr. Kendal Mrs. Marden, and Mr. Luddinton, Mr. Andrews and others do mend that fault, and find the difference beyond credit. But my Pills are far higher graduated than any of theirs, as may be tried in Autumnal, and winter Agues, old Coughs, old Pains, old Gonorrhaea's, and old inveterate venereal maladies, old obstinate uterine obstructions, and the like, in which Cases experience will soon discover the excellency of mine beyond any of theirs, so as not to admit a paraled, nor comparison.  
The preparations is opiate, and he that doubts the safety of that when corrected, let him consider, that there is scarce any Antidote or Theriacle, without it, and the virtues of such opiate Compositions, were by the Ancients held in great esteem, of which sort of preparations he that pleaseth may read at large in Scroderus, and Mirepsus Of Opium saith the noble Helmont: happy is that sick party, whose Physician knows how to correct the deadly quality of Opium etc. and instances in the Cough, how great effects it hath had in one night's time, Yea experience confirms this daily in hundreds of examples, in acute diseases especially, or in acute paroxysms of Chronical distempers, so that where such a cloud of witnesses appear, to deny or doubt a thing, is so to run mad in malice, as to incur the Censure of Crests: In my Pyrotechny asserted, as also in nature's application, I have demonstrated the safety, and excellency of these preparations so clearly and fully, that I need but send the Reader thither for satisfaction, and shall briefly give directions, when, and how to administer this Pill, and in what cases especially it is most effectual.  
In continual Fevers, such as are common upon surfeits, or colds, it is a very effectual and speedy remedy, in such cases, give of it an ordinary dose at a time, and let the party be attended so as to sweat sound, giving him drink in his sweat, if he desires it, but let it be warm, and in each draught of drink he desires, give him five or six drops of true spirit of Salt, (not that rascal phlegm, which is of late cried up about town) which true spirit is ponderous, tincted, and eminently acid, this spirit helps both to promote sweat, and to take away all the foulness in the tongue, throat, and mouth of the stomach, and so after sweeting cools the body and bowels, exceedingly, to the great ease, comfort, and refreshing of the patiented.  
You may either give the medicine in form of a Pill, and let the party drink a draught of warm Ale or posset drink after it or dissolve it in warm Ale or  wine, and let him drink it, but lie so, as to promote sweat by and by after the taking of it.  
But where the weakness of the party is great, or the age very young, let a dose convenient be dissolved in some pleasant liquor, and give it gradually at 4, 5, or 6, times, allowing two hours between each time, and so nature finds help insensibly, and revives ostentimes beyond expectation.  
The ordinary dose for a man is to 20 or 24 grains, sometimes to 30, but in Fevers twenty grains are as large a dose as is needful, and let it be repeated once in twelve, or sixteen, or 20 hours according as the disease is violent. The same dose and observation in Pleurisies, Calentures, Measles, Purples &c. or any acute disease that threatens life most eminently.  
Where the party is young or weak, 10 or 8 grains is a dose, to children very young 3 or 4 grains sufficient, and may be repeated as occasion requires, till recovery, which with God's blessing will be in 3 or 4 days, sometimes in one dose, or two at most, the party so recovers as to need no more.  
In Coughs, and Flixes it is an excellent remedy, taken to bedward either dissolved or in Pill, and drink a good draught of warm wine after it. The dose here is as in Fevers, only the time to bedwards, but where the disease prevails so as to make the party keep his bed, give the medicine at any time, forbearing to eat an hour or two after it, and repeat it oftener till recovery, but where the party walks abroad, take it last at evening, and lie so as to favour sweat, and repeat it only every night, for 3 or 4 nights together, then forbear 2 or 3 days, and take of true Ens veneris 6 or 8 grains, morning and evening, then take this Pill, again 3 or 4 evenings, then Ens veneris for 2 or 3 days, so continue both till recovery of perfect health, which will with Go●s blessing be in a short time.  
In Agues give this Pill 20, 24, or 30 grains at a dose, about 2 hours before the fit be expected, either dissolved, or in Pill, and drink a good draught of warm Ale, or burnt wine after it, lie down and keep warm, the cold fit will not at all be felt, and the hot fit will be changed into a sweat: The intermittent day or days take Ens veneris morning and evening eight or ten grains at a dose.  
In acute torturing tormenting pains, this is an admirable remedy, restoring them if not very deeply fixed, or if fixed, easing the horror and rage of the paroxysm wonderfully, there give it every evening to bedward, and Ens veneris in the morning, and if the pain cause feverishness, and that drought, give of spirit of Salt 5 or 6 drops in beer, as oft as thirst calls for it And it is to be observed, that if in Chronical cases recovery be not in 30 or 40 days, o● so notable progress in recovery, as to give the party hopes, and encouragement to expect a final cure by these means, he than seeks out for higher remedies, of which I shall give notice by way of Advertisement at the end of this Schedul of directions for more ordinary, and generally useful specific preparations.  
In hysterical eases this proparation is effectual, such to wit as are not graduated, and so in scorbutical dissempers, but where an highly graduated or deeply rooted uterine exorbitancy is, or an inveterate Scorbute, there Salt of Steel truly ma●e, and sweet, or the Salt of Amber, or the volatile tincture of Red Coral equal in such cases, the highest Arcana's, which where need is, I shall furnish the desirous with all, with full directions for their use time, and dose.  
And let the ingenuous Reader note, that this Pill is a very general remedy as to ordinary use, and seldom fails in acute cases, The small Pox by this given in time, repeated duly and orderly, and the party kept in a sweeting frame, do so waste gradually, as not to fill, yea I have often seen where the feverishnese of the sick party, his dry burning, idle talking, and the like symptoms, have threatened very much rigour, and the spots have so fully appeared, that the Flocks have been feared, yet by taking this medicine, and repeating it once in 12 hours, for the first 4 or 5 days, and sweat being promoted, they have so wasted, as that scarce 20 or 30 have come to maturity, all the body over, so sew, as only to let the party know what danger he had escaped and that hath been all.  
But observe that when the small Pox have filled, before the Physician is called, there give cooling absterfive remedies, as spirit of salt and Ens veneris, and now and then give of this Pill to send out the malignity, but keep not party in a swerting temper then, being unseasonable.  
Now to speak a word or two Concerning the Lues that modern monster, the sour sawee of bewitching venery, it is a loathsome disease, an sopportune punishment for a filthy loathsome sin. The unlearned Alchemist looked on his medicine with an unreasonable muistiplying glass, when he would teach the cure of it thereby. It is an obstinate disease, which appears at first either in a sore between the Glandula, and praepuce, or in the running of the reins, the former is the more dangerous, for that soon infects the body with scabs, Buboes, aches, eating ulcers in the nose, and throat, nodes in the shines etc. and those cause horrible nocturnal pains, oftentimes palsies, palpitations, dangerous Coughs etc. the other to wit the Gonorrhaea if old and of long standing, especially if it be the second, third, fourth, or fifth, the party hath had, it becomes each time more and more obstinate, for it seizes the Radical humidity and though cured, yet leaves its odious relic●s behind, which transplant into posterity, Scrophulus, scirrous, strumous, Apostematicall, seeds, hence proceed Chronical distempers, which every day grow worse and worse, hence also appear each year new obstinate diseases to the amazing of Physicians.  
The milder sort of Gonorrhaea's are cured by this Pill given every night, and Ens veneris in the morning for about 10 or 12 ays together, sometimes continued for three weeks, so as every fourth day a Pill of Diaceltatesson be given, omitting the other, and then repeat it again. In case of an ulcer, the sweet oil of Colchotar of vitriol, or the true Basamus fuligi is of Helmont and Paracelsus will perform perfectly the external cure, and the Pill with Ens veneris, and my Diaceltatesson will complete what is required internally.  
But where this disease is come to its height, there my Diaceltatesson must be given often, every day at first, for about a week, than every other day as long, than every third day, and so continue till the cure be complete, and when the Diaceltatesson is intermitted, give of this Pill at evening, and Ens veneris in the morning, causing the patiented to sweat sound after the Pill.   

A brief Index or Catalogue of other remedies admirable in specific cases, made by George Starkey who is a Philosopher by fire.  
I may say confidently that I was the first that made this in England (that is known) in the year 1●52 I prepared it, 
Ens veneris or Elementum ignis veneris.  for the Honourable Robert Boyl Esq one of the Royal society, who hath wrote of its excellency, as his extant Treatise thereof can testify. Of this Helmont truly saith, nothing works more powerfully on the radical humidity than it, it is most excellent in feminine disease, especially menstrual stoppages, rickets of children, lingering fevers, obstructions of the spleen and mesaraicks, but especially for women after childbed, taking away after pains to admiration, helping their cleansings so kindly, and without violence, as is admirable, and hindering all feverish symptoms to which many women after travel are subject, to the incredible ease and comfort of them, but this I must assure those that are concerned, that what I made in 16●1, for the Honourable Robert Boyl Esq and and is by him commended, is so inferior a preparation to that as is made by me now, that the former deserves not the same name with this latter, which is yellow as the purest gold, and in taste rich of the Venus, so that it exceeds the other beyond all comparison, and nearer approaches the Element of fire of Venus. This I add not to discommend the former, but to show the difference between that and this.  
This is a higher gradation of the former preparation by separating the sulphur from the white metal of Copper, which will abide fusion hammer and test, and is white as Luna, though yet differing from it, and totally dulcifying the saline nature from the sulsur, 
The sweet anodynous fixed Sulphur or true Element o● fire of Venus.  by which it was prepared, advanced, and perfected. This is the Nepenthes verum of the Philosophers, the true Laudanum without Opium, lengthening the life by God's permission, and conquering powerfully monstrous tragical maladies, such as the Epilepsy, A poplexy, Palsy, Coma, Vertigo, madness Hypocondriack melancholy, and uterine frenzies, with several other like diseases to the stupefaction of nature, of this and Mercury, is made the Horizontal Gold that is truly and perfectly universal.  
In the Belgic Edition of helmont's works under the itle of preparation of medicines, mention is made of a middle Diaceltatesson, which is Antimonial, 
A double dia●eltatesson, first the media via of it according to Helmont.  and purgeth only, this I call my Diaceltatesson Commune, and it is excellent in Chtonick diseases to give every third day or every other day to the quantity of 30 or 24 grains in two Pills, and my sweeting Pill the other day at eve●ing with Ens venesis in the morning, the party may go abroad in the afternoon avoiding intemperancy if the day be clear when he takes it.  
The other Dinceltaresson is my true Corallatum, curing radically the Gout, 
The true diaceltatess on or Coralatum of Paracelsus and Helmont.  Lues, and all ulcers in the throat, lungs, bladder, and kidneys, as also it roots out all Agues; and hectical fevers (though never so inveterate▪ where the ●ill and Ens veneris fail, this given every day, or other, or third day with an inferior abstresive medicine between, will cure the most deplorable maladies, and is a true Arcanum, though not so highly excel lent as the Horizontal God &c  
There are also volatile Spirits of Alcalays, especially of Tartar, and Tobacco, 
Vibatile Alcaly of Tactar etc.  which as Helm●nt saith truly, do cleanse all obstructious in the veins, and cut off the occasional causes, of most diseases, especially if coagulated upon dissolved Concrets, of these the Elegy of Paracelsus and H●lm●n is true, that where that reacheth no other thing that is more powerful will reach, it cures then by an universal absttesion, and mundifying the vessels, and performs the desire of a careful Physician, to the great comfort of the patiented, the dose is from 10 to 20 or 30 drops, in whitewine or Ale fasting.  
In Histerical distempers there is great variety, 
The esience of Amber, Salt of Steel, and v●●atile ●●●ct●re of red Coral.  for the uterus in the feminine sex is not unfitly called by Physicians (animal furio●um) for it is in its extravagant exorbitancies strangely operative in women causing all sorts of diseases, as palpitations, vertignes, Epilepsies palsies, with other distempers, and is exasperated by love, anger, grief, frights and all passions, in these cases the Salt of Steel (I mean the magisterial Salt of it) in which the whole substance of steel is by an Alchachestical preparation resolved into a Magistery, so a so the Essence of Amber, and the volatile tincture of red Coral are appropriated specisicks, that equal the grand Arcana, the dose of Salt of steel is 20 grains, of 
* Note this is not the oylof Amber but the whole Amber ●●duced to a magisterial ess nt all salt, only that ph●oyme●se erased an● this w●●hout em●yrheume by the C●rcula●●m maius of Helmont and paracelsus.  Essence of Amber from 8 to 16 grains, of the volatile Tincture of Coral ●0 drops, and they are also admirable Scorbutic Splenetic, and pulmoniack remedies in both sexes.  
These with several other specific abstersives, as spirit of salt, spirit of Sulphur vive, the essential sulphurous spirit of vitriol of Venus, Antimony, and other bodies, with the Magistery and spirit of Saturn, are truly prepared by Geo●g● Stark●y, and as occasion offers are to be had of him with larger direction, for the use  
But my Pill and true Ens venesis being of the most large and general use, I resolve to expose them to public sale, and they may be had at the Authors near the Exchange in Bartholomew lane, by the Excise Office, at Mr. Dasarnes an Accountant, and at Mr. Samuel watson's at t●e Coffee house at Ave Mary lane on Ludgate hill, and at Mr. S●on●s a Cossee house hext door to the Whalchone in Lothbury, and at Mr. Livewell Chapman. Stationer in Exchange Alley near Cornhill, and at the sign of Mara the great, a Coffee house in Exchange All●● and at Mr. Needle●s on Tower wharf    

Postscript.  
Courteous Reader, I desire thy Candour in judgement, not to imagine that I writ here notional conceits, and apprehensions, but really what I have done, can do, and have at Command the true keys to effects and perform, the horizontal ●old I shall be master of Ere long, with other Arcanas as the Tinctura L●li, the Metallus Masculus, its Tincture reduced to a Vinum Vitae, the milk or Element of Pearl, but I must make things successively, and every true Arcanum is truly tedious in preparation, those therefore I shall at present only dispose of myself, leaving the two forementioned Medicines of my true pill, and sincerely prepared Ens veneris at the places above mentioned, for they are the most general in virtue and to be made in greatest quantity, Other specificks, which in Cases to which they are appropriated, Equal the A●cana, as Tincture of Coral, the Magisteriall salt of Amber etc. in women's distempers, and in anxie●es of the spleen in both sexes, as also in scorbutic C●ses, and inveterate Jaundice, so the lacteous liqvor of Cra●se●es for lingering ●abid fevers, the afterpains of Women in Child bed, etc. with several other specificks which paper and time will not give me leave to instance by name, shall be disposed only by myself, because in them there is a choice, where several belong to the same Cases, which my experience of them will enable me better to inform such as would use them to make choice of accordingly, than they can advise themselves, Therefore in cases where the pill and Ens veneris Either fail, or promote the Cure but slowly, upon notice by writing I shall Concealing the name of both pa●ient and Doctor Candidly, give my advice and counsel in public writing, and shall upon such Emergencyes, have occasion of advising, restraining altering or otherwise varying the administration of specific remedies, according as by eighteen year's practice both in the fire, and in the Art of Medicine I have been instructed, and where the Extremity of disease cuts of all hopes of specificks, there I shall advise and supply true universal, of the highest gradation, and not otherwise, they being difficult and tedious to prepare, and Frustra●per plura fit, quod fieri potest per pauciora nor will scarce the sortreth disease, that shall be met with in practice require any other remedy; then my pill, Ens veneris and diaceltatesson, which last will rarely be absolutely needed, but where it is, I shall (and am provided to) supply such as desire it.  
George Starkey, 
An add●t●ional advertiser ●nt of 〈…〉.  known by the title of Philosopher by the fire.  
Also for the stone is to be had the Ludus of Helm●●● truly prepared, by the same George S●a●k●, of whose virtues none that hath Read Helm●●t but is instructed, the dose 20 drop, which cures it radically, both in the Kidneys and bladder, and takes away all suture inclinations thereto.  
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