LAUNAEUS REDIVIVUS: OR, A True NARRATIVE Of the Admirable Effects of Delaun's Pill, That Ancient& Excellent Galenick Medicine, Approved of, and Sold for above Fifty years, In blackfriars, Now newly revived, And exposed to Sale, at the sign of Delaun's Head there, for the good of All, but especially the Poor, whose Purses reach not to whole Boxes or Bottles of physic.  
FOR, The Patient is not now obliged to expend above Six pence to prove the Operation of this Peerless Pill; One being a sufficient Dose for most Constitutions: Yet is above twice as costly, and but half the purchase of any other.  
With some reflections On the danger of Mercurial Medicines, practised and invented by ignorant and impudent empirics.  
As also, A short Discourse and Description of the Scurvy, dropsy, Venereal, and other Distempers.  Omne bonum eo ●●elius, quo communius. 
By Nathaniel Lomax, Student in physic.  
Printed by J. C. for the Author, 1675.  

With Allowan●●.    

To the Judicious Reader.  
AS there is n● new thing under the Sun, so neither w●ll I apologize for the publishing of these, in any other than the old way, viz. the importunity of Friends, which though it be but a blown-upon Excuse, yet it carries with it a sound truth, as well as the ancient Medicine( I here recommend) does most certain virtues.  
And, I faithfully declare, that it was not only the Vulgar who had formerly experimented this Pill, that moved me, but also Eminent Artists in physic that urged me to it, as well for their own as their Patients health; since they, of late, knew not elsewhere to get it faithfully prepared.  
For, there is a Pill called Ex duobus, mistaken and sold by the Apothecaries, for this of Delawn's, whereas, that Ex duobus( being but of two Ingredients) hath those two( yet not of equal quantities) and above twenty more; and these twenty, not at all, or very little Purgative; yet so suited, so contrived and discreetly fitted to the cathartics, that the Correctives and gentle Purgatives( which seem to alloy and lessen those two) strangely strengthen them.  
Which unheard-of Effects considered, we cannot but conclude this peerless Pill to be equally miraculous in its extraordinary virtues: being so closed and adapted to the very Nature of Man, that 'tis a real Remedy, and no less easy than absolute.  
The Right receipt whereof( waving the wa●… of its curious Composure) I shall ingenuously declare, to the Ingenious Inquirer. But should I be free, and conceal nothing, I should have the less reason to suspect a Rival in this my retail'd enterprise; where every person is as welcom●… for Six pence as Six shillings.  
For, he that shall conscientiously prepare thi●… Pill, with choice Ingredients, and manage th●… the Mixture thereof, with such art and skill such elaborate care and toil, as is really requisite, shall have small encouragement( if no●… spurred on with Charity) to interpose in th●… Sale thereof.  
And I can make it appear upon two or thre●… of the Artists Oaths( Sacramental) yet living who in Delaun's days prepared it for him, an●… of whom I obtained this Rare Receipt, Th●… there is one( only) Ingredient in this Pos●…hume Pill, that doubles its Price( as well 〈…〉 multiplies its virtues) which aromatic, Co●…dial Balsam( were it left out) yet the Medici●… would be as excellent as any other extant.  
But since this grand Ingredientis so curio●… a Corrector of the rest, and gives so sweet 〈…〉 Odour, that 'tis more like a Pomander than a Pill; insomuch, that persons most averse to physic( who see and smell) cannot choose but swallow it,( for that welcome scent that so comforts the Brain, persuades the Stomach also to participate of its diffusive virtues) it therefore cannot, must not be omitted.  
And, that this Rarity may be really right, I myself prepare it( together with the whole Medicine) with my own hands, justly, conscientiously; and am free to do it in the view of any honest Artist.  
And I declare that there's none of this Balsam now to be bought in England, but what comes from beyond Seas; which I do not, I dare not trust to.  
And this, as well as any thing in this Tract written, I am ready verbally to aver, justify, and dispute, with any Momus whatsoever.  
And Delaun himself( another Longaevus Iäpis) who lived near an hundred years, and died worth as many Thousand pounds) would often say, that this his 

— Spargitq▪ salubres Ambrosiae succos& odoriseram Panaceam,  
Fovit câ vulnus lymphâ longaevus Iapis.  Virg. AEnead. lib. 12.  Panacean Pill added to his days, but not to his Estate; nor was he so kind to this Kingdom, as to disperse and dispose it to sale, in all its Counties, for the good of the Poor; which I now have undertaken, my design being to be as active in undeceiving the world, as empirics have been in deluding it.  
My Original knowledge in physic, I aclowledge to Pharmacie, being bread in that Profession, under that Great Inquirer into Nature( and who first found out the Circulation of the blood) Dr. William Harvey, as his Apothecary: And( grounded on his Precepts, practise and Institutions) have, with no less delight than Charity, studied and administered physic for about twenty years, with a liberal hand to the Poor, and making no advantage of the Rich; and now attempting only to preserve, not get an Estate.  
From my Laboratory and Habitation at the sign of Delaun's head in Blackfryers, London, May 1. 1675.  Carpere vel noli nostra, vel ede tua.  

SO shone the Sun, and Python did destroy,  
As now those ills which mankind do annoy  
You conquer, since these Arts you do employ.  
A. OLDIS.   

QUaint epithets, rhetoric, Eloquence,  
In graceful style, Encomiums commence  
Of great Delaun; but all fall short; his Pill  
Speaks its own worth, more than the Authors Quill.  
Grant one word more, spoken with integrity:  
The Medicine's choice, and managed faithfully.  
EDWARD MOLINS, Shoe-lane London, chirurgeon.   

DElaun revived! blessed news! for sure that name  
Revives both Rich and Poor ( if sick or lame.)  
The Rich take less, but better physic; Poor  
Can purchase now, Quacks barred them from't before.  
What! a sufficient Purge for six pence sold?  
enriched within with balsam, gilded with Gold:  
That frees the tortured head from ache and grief,  
And to the pensive heart, gives like relief;  
The subtle Pox and dropsy quiter roots out;  
The lazy scurvy, and the sturdy Gout!  
Whatever Malady mankind assails,  
This matchless medicine cures, and never fails.  
blessed news indeed! this peerless Pill let's try:  
What's six pence Sirs? let't go, rather than die.  
Its virtues urge the sick, its looks and smell  
Tempt all to take it, whether sick or well.  
ISAAC tailor, Educated under Dr. Delaun.   

JAmque opus exegit Lomax quia {αβγδ} edit  
Launaei: aegrotis gratum opus indigenis:  
Divitibus gratum:( fautor Deus ipse medelae:  
Pilula Launaei grata, perennis erit.  
WILLIAM HILL, Educated under Dr. Oldis.   

What's this? Correctives( that seem to alloy  
cathartics) quicken! Pills that nere decay  
Most costly, cheapest! one, purge more than ten!  
Potent! Peerless! matchless Medicine!  
Safe! Panacean! Sweet! strange Mystery  
couched in Delaun's and th' Author's Pharmacie!  
Yet, proved by Artists true, and justified.  
Go on great Soul, sure Heaven's on thy side.  
A. BALDWYN M. D.   


DELAUN revived, &c.  
I Cannot but take notice of the ridiculous humour and levity of this Age, in mens Doting on, and gaping after Novelties, insomuch that error and Non-sense, in a modish Garb, is now adays become more eligible than true knowledge in an ancient dress. And this notorious folly is so grafted and insinuated in the minds, especially of the Vulgar, that 'tis not only practised in their Habits, Postures, Diet and Discourse, but also in matters of greatest moment ( viz.) their Bodily health, the greatest Jewel upon earth.  
For, they are no sooner sensible that their present Malady requires Remedy, but they reckon up how many hundreds this or that upstart Impostor, hath inserted in his Papers to have been cured by his own invented Quintessence, Panpharmacon, or other crampnam'd Arcanum. And, he that hath pretended to most Cures, 'tis no matter whether he hath really done any or not, is most credited, most admired. For, Why should not that cure me( say these credulous Creatures) that cured so many hundreds? never consulting how many thousands it hath killed, nor how many millions Dame Nature hath restored to perfect health, from most dangerous Diseases, without one Grain of physic; which if a confident Quack had success in the seeming Cure but of half a score, the Reputation must be ascribed to himself, and their Names( with ten times more that he never saw or heard of) together with their Diseases, publicly put in print, to fill up his impertinent Pamphlet, to the Disrepute and Damage of many worthy persons.  
For, there are several Reasons why several men and womens Names, Abodes and Diseases should not be published, especially by the scandalous Pens of illiterate empirics. And certainly 'tis the Patients ignorance of the Laws against such Libellous offenders, only, that suspends their punishment.  
As to the great number of Names of persons pretended to be cured by these Ill men, and copious Copies of vouching Epistles, inserted in their Bills and Books, you shall not hear of the name of so much as one person that ever died, miscarried, or relapsed: no, nor a word to any such purpose, nor a syllable of the sad Effects and dangerous Consequences of their fatal physic: the Dead cannot, and their living friends are ashamed to publish them.  
I must confess, 'twere a Wonder( amongst so many thousands that have been tempted to meddle with their Medicines) if some of them should not happen to be cured, or pretend to be so; if some of them should not pen a compliment in praise of their Doctor, but that perhaps not so much to promote his interest as their own; the diseased( next to the indigent) being evermore the most unwelcome Guests.  
But, suppose none of them should do so, how easy is it to contrive it? for, what Quack cannot Create correspondents in all Countries to compose literal Encomium's of his learned friend and physician? whereas( in truth) many of those who pretend to much in their Bills and Books, are so far from any tolerable literature in the Greek Tongue, which is fundamentally necessary for the understanding of the Art of physic, that they never understood one line of latin; nor can they, without help, pen their own Papers.  
Pardon me, some of them doubtless do, and I dare swear 'tis their own, 'tis so like them; yet such popular Non-sense( the more's the pity) Vends best with the Vulgar, and Ignorance is now adays become as necessary a qualification in physic, as it used to be in Preaching.  
But, what need they the help of any Greek or latin Authors? for the greatest Dunce, the most nonsensical Ignoramus amongst them, will tell you that he knows more than Galen, Aristotle, or Hippocrates, those giants in physic and Philosophy, to whom the most eminent Physitians of this Age, will own themselves to be but Dwarfs, and, that they stand but on their shoulders; and that( notwithstanding the undeniable late new improvements in physic) most of the Rules, Methods and Medicines of the ancients are still of necessary use and consequence, in the curing of Diseases; Nay, of the very scurvy, which these Pseudo-Chymists so much pretend to the Cure of; and prate of the Newness of that Disease, as it were but of yesterday, and that their new-invented Medicines only, can cure it.  
But, the Truth is, and all able modern Physitians concur, that the Scorbute, Scelotyrbe, or scurvy, hath been as ancient in England, and other maritime Countries, as the very first Inhabitants: And, that ever since men were mortal, and subject to Diseases, the Climate and Temperature of the Air did dispose the blood and humours of those who breathed it, to that dyscrasy or ill temper which we now call the scurvy, and so rendered it a Malady Epidemical. Which Distemper, and all others, these men of Confidence pretend to cure with their own new invented Arcanum's, which, for the most part, are composed of Mercury, which is Quicksilver, or Antimony, or both: the Administration whereof, too often brings slight Distempers, into dangerous and mortal Diseases.  
Nay, I dare affirm and justify, that Mercury, though never so carefully killed,( as they call it) which is commonly made up into Pills, with other cathartics or Purging Ingredients( and given as a specific against Gonorrhaea's and all Venereal Distempers) does absolutely poison the body, and infect it with the very Pox,( if I may properly so say) and makes more work for chirurgeons and Hospitals, than Mars in his tragic, and Venus in her most lascivious Dress.  
'tis dangerous Mercurial Medicines that torture the poisoned Patient with horrid Pains, Pangs, and intolerable Twinges in the Head, Shoulders, Arms, Thighs, Legs, and other parts. 'tis Mercury, that hellish Companion, that lurks, sometimes many years, in the languishing Body, flying about till at last it fouls the Bones, sinks the Nose, and produces such sad and dismal Effects.  
I further assert, 'tis a gross error in those who think they can alloy, or carry off this Devil with any kind of Concomitant Cathartick, though never so skilfully managed: for Eye-experience( that infallible mistress) hath often shew'd us, that in opened Bodies, the very Mercury( in specie) hath been left behind, reunited into the bigness of pins heads, of several sizes, in several parts of the poisoned Carcase. Whenas it was( nevertheless) as carefully and judiciously killed, and mixed with as suitable Purgatives, as the most exquisite Artist could contrive.  
Some of these miserable mortals were judged to die of a Lethargy, some of the Gout, Rheumatism, palsy, others of Frenzy, gripping in the Guts, &c. when, in truth, 'twas nothing else but mere Mercury that murdered them. It is an old saying, that Mercury cures the Pox, but what cures Mercury?  
But, no wonder that crude Mercury should be so unwelcome a Guest, when that delicate Preparation called Mercurius dulcis, famed for its harmless and easy operation, should, in some Constitutions, not be administered without apparent danger, ( viz.) in such bodies( saith the learned Sennertus) whose Stomachs and blood abound with fluid salts, and are troubled with a pungent sharp liquour or Juice, as those generally are that have the scurvy.  
To such, I say, it may probably fall out to be of ill consequence, since there is danger that in the Stomach( which abounds with Vitriolick Salts) the dulcified Mercury,( by such extreme Acidity) may be again reduced to be Corrosive.  
And the Ingenious Dr. Castle, in his chemical Galenist saith, he hath observed that there is less danger( in this dangerous Medicine) when administered to Children,( whose stomachs abound with Crudities) than to riper aged persons, who are troubled with an austere sharpness in their liquors.  
How dangerous then is it? and who but mad men will make use of these Mercurial Medicines? which, if they chance not to pass upwards or downward, but stick in the coats of the Stomach, or be entangled in any tough viscous matter, the miserable Patient can hardly escape with life.  
No honest physician will deny any act of Charity in his Directions to the poorer sort of people; nor any Apothecary extort so much of them for safe approved Medicines, as these {αβγδ} or off-scums of mankind do for their poisoned Potions, Pills, and other their destructive Doses, which reach even to Posterity, destroying Nature, wasting the Genital juice, and affecting Mankind with incurable Sterility.  
And these( forsooth) these whimsical Quacksalvers call their Secrets: as if they were the better for being so: no certainly, those Remedies must needs be best, that are no Secrets; but best known, as being confirmed, by ancient Authority, and prescribed by the joynt-consent of a college, or the chief of them, and established by the unerring and infallible Experience of the world.  
Such a safe well-known Galenick Medicine,( no single conceit or proud product of my own brain) I now offer to the world, it being the very same Pill that was so long, and with such grand applause sold in Blackfryers by Dr. Delaun, and approved of by Sir Walter raleigh, Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Prujean, and others of Eminence, and of the most Learned Society of Physitians in the world.  
Those Oracles deemed this Pill, as the choice general Medicine in the Universe. And 'tis at this day held sacred for its virtues, throughout France, insomuch that the Doctors and chirurgeons of the Hospitals there, have experimentally concluded with the most knowing ones of this Kingdom, that no Cathartick in the world operates so kindly on the offensive humours, in all Distempers, as this single Six penny Pill doth, nor thrusts forth the Excrements with such ease and safety, without raking the Body, separating the weal-public matter from the Mass of blood.  
I say, such a safe well-known Medicine I commend to the Kingdom, for the good of straightened Purses, that cannot purchase whole Boxes at Three or Four shillings price; and to commode the better and graver sort, who love not to be loaded with multitudes of Medicines, nor like the infatuated Rabble catch at every new Conceit, or pretended Secret; whenas( indeed) there is no new thing under the Sun: besides, there's many good people that may spare Six pence or a shilling, for a Purge, when they cannot well part with Four or Five.  
As to the infinite Cures it hath really done, should I attempt particularly to enumerate but the tenth part of a Tithe of them, 'twould prove a Task impossible; or should I publish any their Names, I may be offensive, and in both these impertinently voluminous.  
But since Delaun's Pill hath been of late in part forgot, through his Death, and consequently its great virtues lye latent from the Younger sort of this City, but especially from almost all remote Dwellers; 'twould be a sin to be silent, and not to speak to at least some of them; but of those as Concise as may be.  

Distempers of the Head.  
First, in a most principal Nature, it is a most Infallible Remedy against all Aches, Twinging pains, and other Distempers in the Head and animal parts, ( viz.) the Apoplexy, epilepsy, Giddiness, palsy, Lethargy, Melancholy, Sleepiness, Convulsions, Catarrhs, or distillations of salt sharp matter upon the Lungs.   

Gums.  
It is an approved Remedy against all Tumours, Aches and Pains that affect the Gums or Jaws in the time of a tormenting toothache, by fortifying the Nerve, and ridding it of that Rest-opposing Rheum.   

Deafness.  
It is also potently prevalent in the Cure of Deafness and all Auricular Deficiencies, strengthening the Auditory Nerve and Membrane, easing Pains, Drumming and Singing noise in the uneasy Head, curing all Disorders that obstruct the Sense of Hearing.   

Sore Eyes.  
It highly helps and strengtheners the Sight, fortifies the optic Nerve, even to admiration, rectifying all Running Rheums, Misty dullness, Inflammations, and other Weaknesses in that tender part; insomuch that pretenders to the Cure of Distempers in the Eyes, Ears, or Teeth, and that knew this Medicine, never used to be without it.   

Hard Drinking.  
It settles the Brain, assuages all irregular and tumultuous Ebullitions excited in the animal faculties; it strengtheners the Memory, and carries off all sottish Swimming, Dizziness, heedlessness of Breath, and other Indispositions occasioned by Excessive drinking.  
And by this it's appropriated power to the Brain and animal parts, it equally Lords it ore the Vital and Natural faculties.   

Heart, Stomach.  
Its boundless benefits extend to the Heart and Spirits, to the Lungs, Liver and Spleen: and by equal prerogative fortify the Stomach, creating there a good Digestion, concocting Crudities, correcting nauseous indispositions to meat, insomuch that the Patient will sooner want that than an Eager Appetite.   

Lungs.  
It is of grand importance and advantage to the Lungs, when they are burdened with a dolorous Asthma, mistaken by the Vulgar for a Stoppage in the stomach; for such complain commonly of Pains and Stoppages of the Stomach, when the Lungs are in fault, and too often of the Lungs, when the Stomach is.  
It helps Pthysicks, and Shortness of breath, Hoarseness, Wheesing in the Throat, and other Distempers in the Lungs, whether Ulcerated or otherwise.   

Fits of the Mother.  
'tis sure( and hath ever been successful) in the Cure and prevention of that dismal Disease called Fits of the Mother; When something like a Globe seems to rise up with violence towards the Throat, accompanied with a gnawing pain in the Stomach, trembling at the Heart, despairing Voice, falling down for Dead, and other sad Symptoms.  
But, note that this Pill is not to be taken in the time of the Fit, but at other seasons, ( viz) a day or two after, and continued two or three times a week for a fortnight together.   

Barrenness.  
To prevent Abortiveness and Barrenness, it hath been well Experienced, both in this City and elsewhere, that no Medicine hath succeeded like it; which may be made appear by, and is well known to, many Midwives, as well as other persons of Eminence.  
The Greensickness, stoppages of Terms, Weakness in the Back, and other Diseases incident to women: The Stone-collick, involuntary Issuing of Urine, Ulcers in the Bladder and kidneys.  
All Agues, chillness in the Bones, Itches, Tetters, Pale and discoloured Lips, gripping in the Guts.   

Pimples.  
And nothing certainly is a more prope●… Purge to check that lawless humour that boult out into the face with a fiery Fury, dartin●… out blackish, read Pustules, Pimples, and uncomely Carbuncles; for the avaricious essence of this piercing Pill clears the blood of that offensive humour, challenging an undeniable Cure in course.   

Helps the Sense of Smelling.  
It comforts the Brain, and is assistant to the Sense of Smelling; hastens the Cure of old Sores, Cancers, gangrenes, Lameness, Bruises, &c. which several chirurgeons of this City must thankfully aclowledge, being forced to this Medicine, when rebellious Sores will not yield to outward Applications.  
Tunbridge, Epsom, Bath, and other Waters, whether they operate by Stool, Urine, or Sweat, this incomparable Pill is of singular use, taken as a preparative two or three times before: and of equal benefit in the time of drinking them two or three times a week, as well as of necessity afterwards, to carry off the Dregs, Feculencies, and earthy Impurities that may be left in the Body, supplying those Defects, and perfecting those Cures which weak waters could not reach to.   

Seamen.  
'tis a necessary Companion for Seafaring persons: and it hath been approved in the West and East-Indies, the Streights, and other parts, for that it n●ver decays in its virtues, and is of as important necessity to those that dwell near the Sea-side, it being so sovereign a Remedy against the scurvy.   

Spleen.  
The Spleen, 'tis so friendly, and of such important use to that Bowel, that it helps to sacrify the blood, and renders it brisk and lively, free from Curdling and Stagnation, fit to circulate, for the better supply of the Natural, Vital, and Animal constitutions.   

Gout.  
The Gout, which too often assassinates miserable Mortals with intolerable Tortures, whether in the Hands, Feet, or other parts, it doth not only alloy, but eradicate and drive out of the infected joints, leaving behind it a comfortable warmth in those parts, as a guard against the future fury of that unwelcome Enemy.   

scurvy.  
The scurvy, which crowds itself into the acquaintance of almost all, from the Prince to tne Peasant, from the Madam to the Milkmaid, and consists in the Blood's being overcharged with fixed or fluid Salts, and thereby degenerated from its Spirituous balsamic condition, into a sharp, salt, and austere liquor, producing disorderly Fermentations, Stoppages, Weariness, Pursiness, Difficulties and Shortness of breathing; defects in Motion, Palpitation, Spots, Rawness in the Gums, Soreness, and sometimes little Ulcers in the Mouth, Scurfs, Pains in the Head, Swelling in the Limbs, varieties of shifting Pains, and at uncertain hours, nay in the warm Bed and night-time,( which opportunity the Pockie Pest chiefly challenges) when the Conscious suspect, and the Innocent are surprised at this repose-opposing Malady.  
This excellent Never-failing Remedy carries off, and cures, and that in a short time, even to miracle, above any other Cathartick.  
For it causes a true and just Fermentation in the blood, maintains a regular flamme in the Heart, and gives a seasonable Supplement, with a soft Juice and a well-rectified animal Spirit. And by such amicable efficacy and friendly close with Nature, diffuses its all-healing virtues to the Bowels, and most remote and hidden recesses thereof.   

dropsy.  
The dropsy, whether Ascites, Tympanites, or Anasarca, it fully frees from offensive fullness of aqueous Impurities, dreyning the Legs, Belly and Body, as well as( sometimes) the Brain, from that watery weakness.   

jaundice.  
And 'tis of equal efficacy against the jaundice, when discoloured Eyes, seconded with fainting Obstructions, give too much cause of jealousy of obtaining their wonted looks. This Pill purges, purifies, and opens all Oppilations, reducing those lost Luminaries brisk and lively, in a well-cur'd Countenance.   

Running of the Reins.  
The gonorrhea, or Running of the Reins, swelling Bubo's in the groin, Tumours in the Testicles, Ulcers in the Privities, Warts, weeping remainders by ill-begun and uneffected Cures, with other usual accidents, this Unequall'd Pill most certainly and safely performs; rooting out that Venereal Venom so effectually, that there's no fear of any subsequent Relapse, or danger of a confirmed Lues.   

The POX.  
Contracted by contagious Whoredom, and Coition with infected persons,( for I deny, contrary to some Assertions, that it can be otherwise got) with all its miserable attendants, Nocturnal Pains, Nodes, dreadful Memorandums in the tortured Brain, though settled in the Bones, grissle of the Nose, and Palate; and though that pernicious Pest hath corrupted the whole mass of blood, and be complicated with a Rheumatism, Gout, Scorbute, or other contumacious accident, and the body poisoned with Quick silver-Medicines, this Antimercurial and Antivenereal Pill, by degrees, subdues, quells, wastes, and utterly extirpates Root and Branch, causing Fruitfulness and a clear Complexion in both Sexes; furnishing the blood with an amicable Nitre, and rendering it as sweet as Milk; affording a vital oil to the Lamp of the heart, in order to the long life and well-being of mankind, Quantum in Medicinâ.  
Quid multa? it serves safely on all Occasions, Constitutions, Sexes, as well to the sound to prevent, as the sick to cure a Disease.  
Much more might be said in applause of this Posthume Pill; for since 'tis granted to be the Grand cephalic in the Universe, it may justly challenge the Appellation of catholic or Universal: for since the Brain and animal Constitution, the Nervous juice, and principal parts, the heart and head, are hereby kept in an equal temper, who can suspect this Prince of Pills to be insufficient in governing the meaner parts of man?  
But since {αβγδ}, I will desist, save that I must speak something of the Nature and Operation of this matchless Medicine.  
As every Disease is contra Naturam, so there is a certain Antipathy between Nature and purgative Medicines: Wherefore I shall not tell you, as some do( that neither know nor care what they say or do) that any kind of Cathartick can be desirable, palatable, or grateful to the Stomach; but, I aver it to be as acceptable to the Stomach as any thing that quits a Disease, though perhaps not so pleasant as some Mercurial ones, that only attenuate the Excrements, slip through the body, and take no Cognizance of, but( by their destructive atoms) add to a settled Ach.  
This Pill pierces into the mass of blood, and works its Effects by stimulating the fibrous parts in the most inward recesses of the Bowels, fighting against, separating and exterminating the weal-public matter. And in this War between the Remedy and the Disease, it cannot be expected but that the Patient must be sensible of some slight Gripes, Swimming in the Head, Qualms in the Stomach, or other unwelcome Disorder, during this intestine Conflict.  
Of Delaun's parsonage I shall be silent, since the grateful Company of Apothecaries are my Spokes-men. Those Worthies are now erecting his costly, comely Effigies, in their Magnificent Hall, to aeternize his neverdying Name, and grace that goodly place;( all Artists admiring this man for his Medicines sake.)    

Directions for taking them.  
First, I advice every person to take rather too little than too much; and by the oftener taking a moderate quantity, the Disease is the sooner reached to, and admits of a more certain Cure. Besides, there's no danger in this Pill, if it should chance not to work with you; for 'tis of such an wholesome healing nature, that 'tis( then) officiating in the body, as a Balsam, for the salving of some inward Sore.  
Persons of ordinary Constitutions, or strength of body, may take one of these Pills; the stronger, one and half; persons very young, and those of very weak Constitutions, may try with half or three quarters of a Pill, and by degrees more or less, as they find, and would have them to work.  
Take them in the morning in any Liquid thing you think will best drive them down, at any time from three or four till eight or nine; but the earlier the better.  
You may stay at home, or go abroad; drink, or forbear drinking after them, at your pleasure: but in could weather, a warm Chamber( with tender persons) suits best, as well as warm liquor, viz. either Ale, Broth, Posset, drunk two or three hours after, and in the time of the working.  
If your affairs require close attendance next day, you may take one going to bed; it may then disturb your Rest, but not hurt your body, so as you do not catch could.  
You may therefore use this Pill as you find it agree with your body, and svit with your business.  
Note, That I do not advice this Pill to Infants, whose tender years cannot have contracted any settled Taint: To such I commend Cassia, Manna, syrup of Roses, Succory, with rhubarb, &c. such lenient Laxatives svit best with such tender Stomachs.  
Nor yet to feeble, feverish, wasted, weak Constitutions, otherwise than in very small quantities; though I aver it to be much more safe, easy, and friendly to Nature, than any other Extant, of such quick and easy Operation.  
Note, That this Pill is pliable always as Wax, so that you may divide it into twenty parts, if you please, for your convenience to swallow it.  
Every Pill is, as formerly, gilded with Gold; and for the further convenience of its carriage, and advantage to the Buyer, is now( not formerly) put up single in a little Paper-box, and with every Pill given a printed Paper, briefly declaring its virtues, and Directions to take it.  
Yet the Price is no more than Six pence, though it be most costly to the Composer, and most advantageous to the Buyer, of any Pill in the Universe.  
There is also( always ready, for such whose sturdy Maladies require so many) Six of these Golden Pills, put up in a Tin-box, sealed with my Seal; which amounts to Six sufficient Purges, the price Three shillings; and therewith given ( gratis) this Book, which at the Booksellers is sold for Six pence.  
I  told you before, that this Pill was no Secret, no conceited whimsy invented by my own, or any other single judgement, but what hath been approved of by the joynt-consent of Eminent Artists in physic. Yet I must also tell you, that there's none of these Pills ( rightly prepared) to be had at any Apothecaries shop in England, though they all pretend the contrary. Some believe, nay will swear, 'tis nothing but Pill Ex Duobus: Some guess that there's intermixed Aggregativae: Some Macri; others Aureae, Cochiae, &c. all really mistaking the Medicine, both in quality and quantity. Yet I aclowledge that several Physitians now dead, and Dr. Oldis now living, and Dr. Isaac tailor of Newport in Staffordshire, Cotemporaries, both bread under the Great Delaun, and one or two Educated under these, know also this my( now) Medicine.  
And I doubt not, but they will be coadjutants in dispersing it over this Kingdom, for the future safety of the Sick and Lame, who of late, have been liable to be lost; I know not whether rather through the Diabolical diligence of Impostors, or the unactive sloth of true Artists; which, if they do not timely retrieve with equal industry, I must tell them that they are wicked, in not improving their Talent. For 'tis no less a sin not to do good( where we may) than to commit a wilful wickedness.  
These Pills are exposed to sale by my trusty Friends  

Mr. Henry Eversden, Bookseller at the Crown near the Royal Exchange in Cornbill( where also this Book( by itself) is sold.  
Mr. Leeson's, Barber-chyrurgeon in Bow-lane, that incomparable Operator for the Teeth.  
Mr. montague, Tobacconist at the corner of Shoelane, Fleet-street.  
Mr. Hale, Barber-chyrurgeon in Ivy-lane near Newgate-street.  
Mr. John hid, Grocer in Newgate-street entering the Market.  
Mr. Golling, Barber-chyrurgeon in Sweetings Ally by the Royal Exchange  
Captain Grant, Distiller near Bethlem-gate Morefields.  
Mr. Edward Hartwell, Barber-chyrurgeon over against the Hoop-Tavern, Leaden-hall-street.  
Mr. Girlington, Tobacconist near the Artilleryground in Chiswel-street.  
Mr. Holliwel, Stationer at the Lion in the Wood on little Tower-hill.  
Mr. David Hilliard, Distiller at the three golden Lions near the Hermitage.  
Mr. John Holbeech, at his house in Poplor; whom I have also deputed under my Hand and Seal, as my Agent for Wappen, Ratcliff, Rotheriff, Shadwel, Deptford, Bow, Blackwall, Stepney, and Mile-end.  
Mr. Brook, under the St. Martin-Tavern in Blowbladder street.  
Mr. James Bean, Stationer over against Ivy-bridge in the Strand.  
Mr. Robert Stephens, Confectioner without Cripple-gate.  
Mr. Barreckler, Distiller at the Still without Smithfield-bars.  
Mr. Battersby, Stationer at Thavies-Inne-gate in Holborn.  
Mr. Charles Bandon, at the three tons and frying-pan in Clare-market.  
Captain Howkins, Distiller without Bishops-gate.  
Mr. Rooks, near White-hall-gate, Haberdasher.  
Mr. William britain, Distiller near the falcon at the Bankside Southwark.  
Mr. Halstead, Grocer next the Griffin-Tavern in Chancery-lane.  
Mr. John Yarling, Haberdasher at the three Horseshoos in Fetter-lane.  
Mr. Emot, Sword-cuttler at the five Bells in Chancery-lane.  
Mr. John Harland, Grocer next the Cheshire-cheese at Charing-cross.  
Mr. Robert Fage, at the Sugar-loaf in St. James's Market, Grocer.  
Mr. Bates, Oylman at the Kings Head in Tuttlestreet.  
Mr. Alking, Confectioner over against Creed-church in Leaden-hall-street.  
Mr. Bletso, Grocer in Honey-lane-market.  
At my Country-house, Shawes, near Godstone in Surry, and in all Counties in England, as well as at  
My Laboratory, the sign of Delaun's head in blackfriars, where I am resident, and ready to advice and accommodate all persons in all Distempers.     

POSTSCRIPT.  
I Hereby declare, That I and my Ancestors, and others of the Profession, have often made use of Delaun's Pills with admirable success in all Distempers of the Head: and some of us have now lately( also) experimented those of the Author's composure, and find them equally excellent( and certainly in all respects the very same) with the former: For, I have good reason to believe, and am well satisfied, that he hath the real Receipt, and is no less skilful, than just, in the mixture and management of this incomparable Medicine.  
E. Molins of Shoelane, London.  
Note, That there's no other Medicine in England( now exposed to public Sale) that's justified( as this is) by able Artists in physic and chirurgery; as may appear by their several Encomiums, in the beginning of this Book.  
FINIS.