Dr. LOCKYER'S Vindication; AND An infallible experimental Confirmation of the virtues of his UNIVERSAL PILL, By certain LETTERS Sent to him from Ireland and other parts, containing some eminent CURES performed thereby. Veniet tempus quo ista quae nunc latent, in lucem dies extrahet, & longioris aevi diligentia. Senec. Nat. Quaest. LONDON, Printed for the Author, in S. Thomas's Southwark. M.DC.LVIII. To the Judicious( viz. the Indifferent) READER. WHen I set myself to writ about this Pill, I call to mind what the famous Roman Historian said, when he was about to Register the Acts of that Nation only, He could not describe them alone without introducing the affairs of all mankind; so when I am to treat of this single Medicine, I cannot speak of it as appropriate to one particular part, and curing some one Distemper, but of its Universal Influence upon every part of this little World, the Body of Man. Were it not too troublesone a task for me, when I am so near that period of life which the Psalmist sets for the Children of Men, I could produce such numerous Experimental Cures performed by them alone, that would make some which are now no great friends and favourers of them, quit many Medicaments they now dote upon; and accept and use these only. And for your better encouragement take notice of the ensuing Discourse, which being du●● considered, your own reason may inform you, that you need not fear to give my Pill for any distemper whatsoever, to Infants or old Persons. It doth also evacuate, corroborated, correct Putrefaction, open Obstructions, exhilarate the Spirits, and excellent to cheer the hearts of melancholy people; and what more is wanting, or needful for the Preservation and Restoration of Life and Health: and this I speak from my own experience. For, during the late dreadful Mortality in the City of London, and Suburbs thereof, though I had opportunities and invitations to have left my habitation, and repaired to the Country; yet would I not comply with them: but with a resignation of myself to Divine Providence, did abide all the while at my own house, and lodged not out of it one night, and remained uninfected myself, though my man-servants and Maidservants were all visited with the Plague, and I never declined to visit them, until such time as my Coach-man had the Small-pox together with the Plague, the smell of which was so strong and nauseous, that I could not away with it. Every one of them now are recovered to their perfect health, and made use of no considerable Medicine except my Pill. I am not ignorant that there are many which have by several calumnies and false imputations endeavoured to disparaged my Medicine, and thought by this cunning artifice to bring it into disuse; some because their own credit, as they suppose, is eclipsed by it, inasmuch as they can never attain to any such excellent thing, as the Providence of God, and his blessing upon my studies and labours hath favoured me with: some because their profit is abated by it, who would take a Fee, or make a Bill for a Patient, but cannot, because they are hindered by my Pills; and that envy and interest should create me a world of adversaries is no wonder. But I would have such persons to consider, that such is the respect which I have for all practical and experimental Learning and Philosophy, that I can take notice of many of their excellent inventions with pleasure and delight, and not be envious at those which can in any thing out-vie me, or attempt to derogate a tittle from their worthy actions; and therefore I have the more reason to expect that such which are not warped by some private designs to a partial censure, but are of a candid and ingenuous tem per, will rather encourage others to, then deter them from the use of my Pills, which have obtained so much in the world by no other way then onely by the happy and blessed successses which have been consequent upon the taking of them. Let me not wholly complain of the unkind and unworthy usage which I have received from some, without taking cognizance of that great honour that hath been done me by others, and those personages as illustrious, honourable & reverend as any the world can boast of; which by frequent experience of its comprehensive power and virtues, have given so laudable a testimony to it, as is more then sufficient to counter-balance all those detractions which some obscure persons have been guilty of, on purpose for its defamation. Tis to me a strong inducement to believe, that nothing can be rationally and experimentally urged against the taking of my Pills by any persons whatsoever, because none that have been styled rational Physicians have ever yet exposed any Arguments to the world against them; and if his censure of them be credible which protested against me, they also are in the same condemnation, their whole Method being contradicted by him, and openly reproached. Nor can the virtues of a Medicine confirmed by centuries of extraordinary Cures, many of which could not be effected by a tedious course of physic, prescribed by learned and judicious Practitioners, be excepted justly against as defective, in a sufficient attestation to it from experience, though it is not very long since Heaven was pleased to crown my labours with so choice a Preparation. About twelve years. Nor am I at all startled to hear, that some which took my Pills are dead; for I did not promise to make men immortal by them; nor hath any person for ought I hear, that did ever use them, return to their old physic again, nor any miscarried in the use of mine, whose want of due observation of that regiment and temperance which I prescribe, hath not occasioned it. Nor do I wonder any more at the gripings which in some bodies happen upon the use of my Pills, then Galenists will at them which accompany their Senna, agaric, Colo●ynthis & Diagridium, &c. maugre their best correctives: And for ought I could ever learn from such which are thoroughly versed in their practise, have been attended often with such consequences, that not onely my self but other chemists may upon as good grounds decry their Cathartique Medicines, as they ours. I shall only mind them of what the comedian hath advised, Desinant maledicere, malefact a ne noscant sua. The manner of its operation is various; sometime it exerciseth itself principally in evacuation by siege, sometime it gives testimony its emetique virtue by fetching off the corruption from the stomach by vomit; sometime it shows forth its salivating nature by spitting; other times it manifests its diuretic quality by provoking urine; sometimes it displays its diaphoretique nature in procuring sweat: and sometime it doth insensibly insinuate itself into the mass of blood, & cleanse and purify it, and becomes master of diseases without any violent motions in the whole progress of the cure, and always working that way which is most agreeable to the nature of those which take it. Which I the rather take notice of, that none may be surprised with any of the said effects, or think the worse of my Pill, because it doth not work in just such a manner as they would have it, which an Universal Medicine, containing so many virtues, cannot be brought to, without a great impairing of its chiefest power. These Letters which I here offer to your view, concerning the efficacy of my Pill, are only the gleanings of a full harvest. I have been also offered many more Testimonials, by such which have received benefit by them; and could, but that it is not necessary, publish many Sheets of my own Experiment: but I shall imitate Nature( in my publication, whom I have so closely followed in my Preparation) which is neither deficient in necessaries, nor abundant in superfluities, remembering that common maxim, frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora, That 'tis in vain to multiply many Arguments to prove that which can be evidenced by few; you shall red them in their own words without any alteration. These Letters with many others I keep by me, to satisfy those which address themselves to me with desire of satisfaction; and published these and no more for general information. I need not make remarks upon any, except upon the first, and second, which refer to the clearing of a learned Divine in Ireland, from the calumnies & forgeries of an unworthy Bock-seller, a factor for as impudent and mendacious a pretender to chemistry. I do hereby manifest to the world, that the fore-mentioned Divine in Ireland never had any of my Pills at an under-rate to make profit of them, nor never did propound to me any such thing, or is known to me to be any other then a generous and virtuous person, without such petty mercenary designs as have been charged on him. By what hath and shall be written thou mayest easily perceive, That it is not from any desire of making myself or Medicine more public, that I have premised this present Epistle to the ensuing Letters, or Printed them; but out of an hearty design of promoting the health of Mankind, by the use of that Medicine: for the want of which many have long laboured under great pains and tedious diseases, and could not be recovered until such times as they made use of this Universal Pill, which is onely prepared by me. When thou reapest the profit of my labours, travels and studies, give Glory to God that hath blessed with so happy success the endeavours of his servant, LIONEL LOCKYER. From my house in S. Thomas's in Southwark, Jan. 13. 1665. The First Letter. Worthy Sir, THere is lately printed in Dublin a scurrilous and virulent Pamphlet, wherein you, as principle, I, as accessary, are very much concerned, as will appear to you by perusal of the enclosed Copy, which I sand unto you out of respect to your merit, and affection to the public, that you may vindicate yourself; and by the by to let the world know, that I make no trade of your excellent Pill, by buying them at a cheap rate from you, and felling them here at a dear one: under which aspersion I lye merely upon this account, that I promote the credit of the Pills, and vent them in great numbers. wherefore I conceive that in point of honour you are obliged publicly to disown all such trading betwixt us. You know best how to confute that made fellow, and in case you think fit, when you quit me from gaining by your Pills, let me advice you to declare unto the world, that it is not against the profession of Divinity to be instrumental to the carrying on of the great concern of the Commonwealth, by promoting rare inventions. I wish you much health and happiness, and rest, Your affectionate friend, W. Hewson. Dublin, 11 March, 1664. The Second Letter. Much Honoured Sir, I Understand by Mr. tailor that you are desirous to hear from me. I believe the cause is, that you may know what experience I have had here concerning the operation of your pills. To satisfy you in general, I have found their operation to be safe and admirable to remove such infirmities as other physic cannot reach; more particularly I have experience of their efficacy in mine own family, and very many others, sick of several and sore diseases. I myself have been sickly from my youth up, and have taken much physic, but never any to be compared to them; for my infirmities increased and natural strength abated yearly, till I met with these excellent Pills. The first occasion of my taking them, was an extreme pain in my head, of long continuance. I feared an imposthume; but after I made use of your Pills, I was soon freed from that pain, and also from divers other infirmities; my health and strength renewed to the admiration of all those that knew me formerly. I gave them to my younger daughter, sickly many years, we feared a Consumption; to mine eldest daughter, troubled with a tumour in her ear, the pain so violent that we feared either immediate death or distraction, but through Gods blessing on your Pills they were soon rid of their infirmities. I gave them to my wife, much subject to the Palsy, and great benefit she finds by them. This good success in mine own family emboldened me to recommend them to many others who find them to be excellent in very many and great distempers and diseases, both acute and chronical, as continual fevers, small Pox, pleurisy, Tertian Agues, fits of the Mother, Falling sickness, Convussion-fits, ston, Strangury, in all which they proved very effectual; insomuch that they are generally admired by all, and desired by all in these parts, save only by Physicians and Apothecaries, who exclaim against them, and raise false reports concerning them, and bear me much ill will for promoting of them. Their main objection that they use against me, is, That I administer physic, not knowing what materials it is made of. This is their main objection, which I am not able to answer, I wish I were, but secrets are not to be divulged. I must be content to know them by their effects, which have been always good so far, as I have had experience of them; and I should have had far more if I could have procured them for money: but we are at a great loss here for want of them. I would you had some one here that you might trust with your secret, or at least that you would provide store of them to be sent hither to be sold by some honest man at an easy rate; for there is great complaining for want of them: few that know them desire any other physic. Yet I am sensible of one infirmity, which I do not believe that your Pills do reach, viz. a rapture, which I have been long subject to, and increaseth with mine old age. I desire you to sand me your opinion concerning it. If I thought that I might find a Remedy I would( if the Lord spare me life) visit you at London the next Spring. I have many queries to put to you concerning the use of your Pills, I am desired to do so by persons of honour; as whether women with child may safely take them? which you have answered in your Book; what is to be done for removing the drought which commonly fellows them? what cordial is to be taken after them? and many other such like. But I know you desire not to be troubled with such questions. I fear I have been already too troublesone unto you, and therefore shall forbear to writ any more at this time: earnestly desiring the favour to have a line or two from you, whereby you shall very much engage Your much obliged Friend and Servant, W. H. Dublin, Decem. 17. 1664. The Third Letter. Reverend Doctor, IN the beginning of my use of your Pills, there came into the City of Dublin in Ireland published, a printed Book in derogation of your Pill,( as it is reported by an idle fellow) so that many( I may say most) that did use, and intended to make use of them, did quiter leave the use of your Pills, he declaring that they were made of Antimony, and did kill many; yet having begun to make use of them, I was not discouraged in the further use of them, because I had a confidence that what you yourself writ was rather the truth: so that having some experience of the operation of them on several poor people in the country, and finding the effects good, I thought myself obliged to give you a relation of the effects A servant of my own, Will. Matthews by name my Steward, who being abroad in my service, was taken, seven miles from home, with a violent stitch in his side, so that being necessitated to ride a footpace, was not able to stand still nor speak, but groaned in most terrible manner with pain, judging it to be a pleurisy, and not having a chirurgeon near, gave him four of your Pills, which gave him so much ease that he fell asleep: and after one hours waking gave him a vomit, which eased him so much, that he restend well all night, and the next day rose and was pretty well, but his side was extremely sore outwardly, and black, so that I gave him more of them, which wrought upward and downward and he was well, and so continues. This was in January last. A poor man having a daughter about twelve years of age, troubled five years with a very great belly and extremely hard, which, during the time with Doctors and chirurgeons, who applied things outward and inward, yet did her no good; and bringing her unto me I gave her some of your Pills bruised in White-wine, which wrought most upward, and sometimes downward, and sometimes operated no way visible, yet in a months time brought the bigness and hardness of her belly crown, so that now being soft and small, she eats and sleeps well, which before she did not. Another of my own servants about Christmas last became diseased with languishing sickness, a hollow Cough, loss of stomach, flesh and spirit, so that he could digest no sustenance, and was in effect a dying man. I gave him some of your Pills, which before they operated made him so sick, that he thought he should have died; and about three hours after he vomited twice adust melancholy and Choler: and making him some comfortable Broth he took it, and thought he should have thrown it up as formerly he did all that he took, but it stayed with him. Being very weak, and the weather extreme frosty, I durst not give him of them often; yet when I thought convenient I gave him again and again, which wrought both ways with him: and most commonly what he voided upwards was a glutinous substance, much like the stuff that comes from an old Ulcer, of a most ugly colour and great quantity: but in the end, with the blessing of God in two months time he was able to ride, work, eat hearty. Another of my servants on a Friday in January last was taken with an headache, and a pain in his left side; and all night both were so violent, that he was in an high Fever, his face very high coloured, and his pulse very great. I gave him three Pills, and about two hours after they gave him a vomit, which took much of his pain, his high colour and fever away, so that he restend well that night; and the next day I gave him more Pills, which did not visibly operate; and though in a feverish distemper all the day, the next day he was well, and so continues. An old poor woman being troubled for two years with often faintings and swoonings, sometimes twice a day, sometimes once or twice in two or three days, was by your Pills cured, which brought up much water, choler and green stuff. Francis Barns Wife, a Tenant of mine, after her first sleep, being taken with violent stitches, especially in one side, and the next day, when having fits feverish and hot, yet very could in the feet, with the use of your Pills, and comfortable diet and tending, in a weeks time, though very weak, was recovered, and is now much on the mending hand. I am at present administering them for other distempers, and, if you please, I shall after give you an account of the effects. I have been myself troubled with the Hypocondriach melancholy, and some times past the effects have been very tedious and bad; I have these three months past, once a week taken of your Pills, and find good by them, and trust, with the blessing of God upon them, to live more healthful and comfortable than formerly. I thought the relation hereof would be acceptable unto you, which makes me presume to give you this trouble, because of the many various evil reports many give of your Pill, which have discouraged many. I having given you great trouble of a tedious Letter, I beg your pardon for it, and beg your acceptance with the favour of a return. I remain, Reverend Sir, your friend, R.B. Dunbuan near Dublin, the 14. of February, 1664. The Fourth Letter. Honoured Doctor, HAving this opportunity, I thought to acquaint you with the effect of your Pills upon myself, in reference to my distemper,( which is the ston both in the Reins and bladder) I have taken them at times near two years, and I will assure you I did never take them, but they did bring away stones, or sand, or both from me; Except one time that I took them, for an extraordinary pain in one of my shoulders, which pain was so exceeding great, that I could not move my arm to put on my clothes, neither did I take any rest for two or three days and nights; then I took five Pills,( which is my asual dose) and I could not perceive them to work any where else about me but in my shoulder, where my pain lay, and they did quickly give me ease, and cured my shoulder. I seldom find any pain or heat in my back or reins if I take Pills I am sure to be well quickly. Not long since I was taken with a violent pain in my back, on the left side, where I used to be pained with the ston, which continued from monday noon till Thursday morning, all which time I was in much pain: the Thursday morning about five of the clock I took five Pills, which in less then two hours gave me much ease, and I did perceive the stones move down into my bladder, where they did cause much pain some days; then I voided one great ston, as big and of the same form of a small filbert kernel, it was so big, that when I saw the top appear, I was forced to pluck it out with my fingers, and with it came many more less; that after-noon I voided above seven score, and the next two days about forty more, since which I have felt little pain. Sir, I could writ much more concerning your Pills what they have done in these parts for many diseases, but that I would not be too tedious to you, whom I know to be generally better employed then to red such large Letters as this would prove to be. Sir, I shall onely say this, that according to my knowledge they have done many people good, but did never know them do any one harm. Sir, this is all at perfect from him that is Your highly engaged friend, Johan Duncombe. Windover June the 5. 1665. The Fifth Letter. From Francis Drury, Cambridge Nov. 7. 1665. THese few lines from John Richardson, Sir, here about and in Cambridge have been occasioned by the much good done by your Pills. A Minister that now useth of your Pills against a deep Consumption, told me he hath used the Antimony Cup a long time, and found much good, but now will use onely your Pills, he finds them far exceed it. Another in a neighbouring Town hath told me, that through Gods goodness he using your Pills is recovered out of a lingering and wasting disease, the Physicians having given him over, and he doth believe would have brought him to the grave long ere now. And others that have been at Baths, and used many means, do find your Pills the best for them. The Sixth Letter. Noble Doctor, I Have( with some small intermissions) taken your Pills these fifteen months, the necessity of my disease forcing me to make a full experiment of them. When I began to take them, I may truly say I was deploratus à Medicis, having suffered much from divers learned and worthy men, without any success, besides the increasing of my prison-diseases, which were, Scurvy, dropsy, Wind-Gout,( the last the worst and most tormenting.) These complext and contrary diseases I laboured under for three years in my prison, in which, what was administered against the one, brought and increased the other upon me. Sir, I intend not to trouble you with any large discourse, I know it would be tedious, onely in thankfulness to God, from whose influence and blessing alone depends the efficacy of every creature, and in due acknowledgements to you, I think fit to let you know, that by the blessing of God upon your Pills I am( so far as I know) prefectly cured of the dropsy and Scurvy,( when I began to take them my teeth were ready to fall out, and my gums festered like a gall'd-horse back, and I was swelled from head to foot.) And as for my other tormenting disease,( the Wind-Gout) though I cannot say I am perfectly cured of it, yet I bless God it is so mitigated, that it's tolerable, and though it doth return upon me, yet holding on in taking your Pills, they always prevail against it,( though with great strugglings) and it grows less and less. The manner of working of these Pills is so various, that I believe none can promise how they will work three times together; sometimes by Vomit, sometimes by Stool, sometimes by both, sometimes by neither, but most constantly by spitting, and ever concluding with the old wives remedy for the wind. The truth is, Their operation is as if they were rational rather then natural Agents, what they find at present most, annoying or threatening nature, that they fall upon, by affording and applying to nature a succour and a virtue against it. Sir, God has put a great honour upon you, in making you the instrument of bringing forth this rare Medicament into the world, for the good of Mankind, the like to which I do not think has been since the world began. Sir, I am bound to subscribe myself Your very thankful and obliged friend and servant, J D. Tower 1. of May. 1665. The Seventh Letter. Sir, I Shall here declare what the goodness of God hath done for me by the means of your Pills. I had some nine or ten years ago taken, by means of my employment at that time, exceeding violent Colds one after another, which did occasion a wind and a water to gather in my flesh, at sometimes to such a pain, that I had no rest night nor day, but was so torn, that I could not contain myself from crying out many times, in much bitterness, yet no swelling, nor any thing to be seen. I was so lame that sometimes I have been taken off from my employment six weeks, sometimes eight weeks, nay, sometimes more then ten or eleven weeks together. Then it pleased the Lord I heard of your Pills, and took the quantity of four or five boxes of them, by which means I doubt not but there is perfect Cure wrought upon me, besides some other inferior distempers quiter removed; so that now, through mercy, I am in very good health. I desire to give God the glory, and you thanks. So I rest, Thy friend in love, Will. Pryer. From Martin's lane in Colchester. April 10. 1665. The Eighth Letter. London, the 14 of June, 1665. Sir, HAving had experience of the incomparable virtue of your famous Pills, have thought good in gratitude to give you an account of the benefits I have received by them. About August last, by the persuasion of some friends, seeing me in a every sad and deplorable condition, having then been under the Doctors and surgeons hands nigh twelve months for the cure of a Fistulo in ana, but found no help from them, but rather after much torture despair in myself ever to be recovered, did procure a box of your Pills, which did, to my admiration, within three weeks that I made use of them, take away the pain and cause of the distemper, so that I was able to go healthfully about my occasions, and in November last rid on horse-back three or four hundred miles; since, thanks be unto Almighty God, I have continued in very good health. I do intend shortly to give you a visit, and shall declare more unto you; in the interim I remain, Your faithful friend and servant. Nich. Hudleston. POSTSCRIPT. I Shall not omit to acquaint you with a strange Cure was done by your Pills. I being at my Brothers in Lincoln shire, his wife lay bed-rid and had so done for some months, the night before I came thither her neighbours did not expect she would live till the next morning; about a month or two before she had her thighs and legs launched and cut for the dropsy she having been diseased six or seven years, and could get no cure: hearing some discourse of your Pills, desired me to give her half a score of them, which I did, and she making use of them, recovered so, that within a fortnight I had a Letter from my Brother for a Box of your Pills, with an account, that his Wife was then able to go about the house Jd. N.H. From the Three Horse shoes near St. Dunstan's hill. The Ninth Letter. Friend, I Have sent thee the mans own declaration of what thy Pill hath done for him, he is an honest man, and hath spoken nothing but the truth: and as for myself, I was so lame with a pain in my hucklebone for three years, that I went in much pain with a staff, and with sore legs for twelve years, so that I was in such misery that I could not rest night nor day: and when I came up to thee first, I could not get on a show on one foot; and it broken out of my hips with a salt rheum that I could not sit nor lye down, but in such misery, that when I rose up from the place I either sate or lay down on, I thought my flesh would have come from my bones: but by the goodness of God upon thy Pill, I am now in perfect bodily health, and in my limbs. Under my affliction formerly I could not go from my house a quarter of a mile without resting three or four times, now I came from London in less then a day and a half. My Wife remembers her kind love to thee. Thy loving friend, Joseph Reeve. From Colchester the 10 day of the second, month. The Tenth Letter. My honoured worthy Friend, My first to you, like the blind mans Arrow, got me that which in twelve years time, hath for the present, freed me of such a distemper and disease, being the Scurvy and dropsy, that all my Doctors skill, with much cost and pains could not do, far beyond what I can express in Paper; ever blessed be his Name that taught it you, and you also for your love in sending me one Box and Book, for which I now sand you only four shillings. Somewhat else I intend is not yet ready well to be sent you. I had sent to you sooner, but thought my son should have been with you this Term, forbore till now this happy opportunity of taking it you by the hand of this our friend, who if employed to dispose of your Pills; for you here might do infinite good if you sand another Box, and if he doth not pay you, it shall certainly be well requited when my son comes to you, from your ever Thankful Friend and Servant John Lockyer. Ilchester, Septemb. the 24. 1666. SIR, I had forgot a Dispute I had lately concerning your Pill, with a person professing skill in physic, who in our Discourse, he thought, as he said, something in it above Nature, as he and others judged by the effects it hath here wrought upon several persons. God give you long life and happiness is the Prayer of Yours J.L. The Eleventh Letter. Honoured Doctor, THe good affection I bear to you upon the Repute of your Pills, I am obliged to give you a demonstration of the names of some persons which they have done perfect Cures on, and have also inserted the place of their Residence, as followeth, viz. 1. Thomas Readshey living at stanley in the County of Durham, dangerously ill in a shaking Ague, was perfectly cured. 2. Margaret Farlese living at Hedley-hope, extremely ill at her stomach, in a very short time, was perfectly cured, and many Worms cast up in her Vomit. 3. Mr. Wasey's Daughter of Newlands, extremely ill of a fever, was by these Pills cured. 4. William Wrane living at Billirow, dangerously ill, and his body brought extreme weak by bad Digestion and Melancholy, was with half a Box perfectly cured. 5 George Barley living at Lowraw, a distemper came upon him so violently by drinking could water when he was extreme hot with working, as no body thought he could live, with half a Box was perfectly cured. 6. Henry Marchall, near threescore and ten years of age, living at stanley being extremely troubled with a tumour in his leg many years, with taking half a Box was perfectly cured. 7. Mr. Robert Fresell living in Durham, having such a pain in his Bowels, as the Physicians gave him over, was by these Pills perfectly cured. 8. Jane Hedley living at Hedley-Hill, dangerously ill of a fever, with a dozen Pills was perfectly cured. 9. John Arrowssmith's two Children living at Cornsey, were both perfectly cured, the one of the Rickets, and the other of a lameness in his joints, which had made him a Cripple some years. 10. Luke Harle living in New-Castle, having been long and grievously troubled with a Fistula, though much helped by other means, yet was never perfectly cured until he took Doctor Lockyer's Pills, which took away the very cause of his Distemper, and so is perfectly cured. 11. Mr. Anthony Lorraine of Walker, very sore perplexed with a violent headache, with taking half a Box of these Pills was cured. There are many which have been almost cured, and have found abundance of good by them, but I shall name none of them; and this I can only say, I have heard of none that ever yet got harm by them. Sir, Your humble Servant Charles Sanderson. From Hedley-hope Jan. 13. 1667. The twelfth Letter. Loving Doctor, I Having heard the false reports concerning thy Pills in rendering them of no value, I did judge it my duty to declare my experience of them. I was very much troubled with the Spleen thirty years and better; and in the time of my Childhood my Parents did use all the means for my recovery both private and public: but I could have no cure till by Gods Providence I came to take of Doctor Lockyer's Pills, by which Pills, through the blessing of God, I have received my perfect, cure and have not been in pain this eighf years; and this I testify for the satisfaction ot those who scruple the virtue of them. Thy loving Friend Arthur Fisher. Southwark, the 26. of the 5th month called July, 1668. The First Advertisement. I Have in my other Book( now in Print) given the World to understand that I have been, and still am abused by some base persons in counterfeiting my Pills, which to prevent, be careful to buy Pills of no person whose names are not in my Book; for if I am truly informed that any person whom I have favoured to put his Name in my Book, shall dare to take any counterfeit Pills, and sell them instead of mine, they shall never sell any more for me. By the present fraudulent pretences and practices of some unworthy and dishonest persons, I am fore-warned that after my Decease, that many may be apt to start up and give out to the World that they can make my Pills; therefore that no Pretender may abuse any which have a desire to take these Pills which are truly mine, nor any remain doubtful which are the true ones, I do by this manifes●o declare that I have freely and faithfully discovered the Receipt of them, with the exact process or way of preparing and impregnating the same, unto Mr. Thomas Fydge an Apothecary at the sign of the Sugar Loaf in Bishopsgate-street near the Spittle, whom alone I entrust and appoint to make and sell them after my decease, if he survive; and that none may be deceived with any counterfeits in lieu of mine, all the Boxes then disposed of shall be sealed not only with my own Coat of Arms, but also with the Arms of the said Mr. Thomas Fydge, viz. six Flower-de-luces and three Spur-rowels. The Second Advertisement that you may not be cheated. AS for Mr. Robert horn, in the first Court entering out of Bishopsgate-street into Gresham college, or now the Exchange, Book-seller, I here own to the World that he sells my Pills by my order; but for one rooks in the same place, to pretend that he hath any Pills from me it is false. Now for a Conclusion of this Book it highly restoreth the Radical moisture, cleanseth and strengtheneth the spermatic Vessels, increaseth and animateth the Seed in both Sexes fortifieth the Womb, preserveth the embryo, strengtheneth the Child, and preventeth miscarriage, restoreth the lost delight of Nature; and absolutely cureth all Barrenness cure-able by Medicine. It is also an Antidote against all contagious Airs and infectious Diseases, and perfectly resisteth all foulness and infection in the act of Generation, it mundifieth and cleanseth the skin, restoreth and increaseth Beauty, maketh old Age comely and beautiful, and the Countenance of all to be cheerful and sanguine. These things I thought myself bound in Conscience to publish for the common good, that I might not by my silence be the cause that any who may and would be helped, should be like unto Hagar, who was near unto perishing when means was hard by her, Gen. 21.19. By me lionel LOCKYER. From my House in St. Thomas in Southwark, over against the Meal-market, at the sign of the three Bores-heads, Aug. the 20th 1668. Advertised. 〈◇〉 as much as my Friend Mr. Thomas Fydge 〈…〉 hecary, at the Sugar-loaf in Bishopsgate-street, intendeth to publish many memorable Cures performed by my Pills, It is desired that such persons which are acquainted with any extraordinary Cures done by them, would be pleased to communicate the same unto him, that he may be furnished with Instances of all kinds to complete the said Work, which will be sufficient to give all men satisfaction concerning their Universal Nature. The second Impression with the addition of three Letters. FINIS.