PILULAE LONDINENSES. or, The London Pills, Directed and prepared by a Physician of many years standing in the College of Physicians in London, according to true Rules of Art, good for Prevention, as well as the Cure of all Diseases, wherein Purging is proper.  
BY the advantages of a Liberal Education in the University, and many years Experience in the practise of physic in this City, the unprejudiced cannot but think me a person capable not only of detecting the innumerable mischiefs arising from Quacks, and their ill compounded and worse prepared Trash, but also of making Medicines far surpassing any that such Men can pretend to the knowledge of. Accordingly I have invented, and for some time published, for the benefit of the public, these Pills( the result of Reason and Experience) which I have justly brought their poisonous and absurd physic under a deserved disreputation, all that are wise now dreading to trust their lives with those Pretenders, by whom so many have suffered; since they have ample Assurance on Whom and What they may rely. For not only the meaner sort of all Ages, and each Sex, but people of Eminence both for their Rank in the World and their Parts, have found admirable success in taking these Pills.  
They are and have been found successful in the Scurvy, Venereal Disease, Gout, dropsy, Coma, Lethargy, Carus, Apoplexy, Palsy, Convulsion, Falling-Sickness, Vertigo, Madness, Catarrhs, headache, Scald and sore Heads, fore Eyes, Deafness, toothache, fore Mouth, sore and swollen Throat, foul Stomach, bad Digestion, Vomiting, Pain at the Stomach, sour Belching, colic, Twisting of the Guts, looseness, Worms, all Obstructions of the Pancreas, of the Mefaraick Veins, of the passages of the Chyle, and of the Liver and Spleen, the Jaundice, Cachexy, hypochondriac Melancholy, Green-Sickness and most Diseases of the Womb, Agues, Itch, boils, Rheumatism, Pains and Aches, Surfeits by eating and hard drinking, or by Heats and Colds( as some call them.) They are also good in taking the Waters. I would not advice them by any means in the Bloody-Flux, nor in continual Fevers; but they are good to purge after either of those Diseases is over, or to carry off the humour aforehand. They must also be 〈◇〉 born by Women with Child. Otherwise they are good for any Constitution and in any climb. They are durable many years, and good at Sea as well as on Land.  
They are proper in the forementioned Diseases at any time of the Year: And because no people are so exactly emperate, as not to contract some superfluous Humors endangering their Health, it is necessary, and prudent for them every Spring and Fall, to discharge those Humors, tho' they feel nothing urgent in themselves so to do, more than their provident care for Maintenance of their Health they then enjoy. And a Dose or two of these Pills may probably ensure any ordinary Constitution for half a year.  
But I t k it Charity to caution you against some cobbling Doctors, who having no Knowledge in the Earth, pretend to a great deal in the Stars: Do but red their 〈◇〉, and they will tell you their skill in Nonsense, and their Ignorance in physic, notwithstanding their boasted Astrology. Believe them as little, who dare advice Women with Child to take as many of their purging Pills as their Body will bear, not regarding the murder of Children.  
Nor let their impudence move you any more than to Indignation, who having no reputation of their own, boast of Physicians approving their Trash, but produce no Physician's name that does so: You may justly suspect such Mens physic equally with their vain Assertions.  
Most of these Mountebank-Doctors also that commenced in a Shop, being Vagrants from their Trades, provide feigned Letters of feigned Cures, as a Pass for their poisonous Mercurial physic, from one Town to another, having no other Patent recommendatory to practise by, than the Fob of a Letter from some Country-Fellow, in commendation of some physic which he never took. These things being far remote from Ingenuity or Learning, I shall never trouble you with any such.  
These London Pills are sold in several Places in London, and at my House on the Left-hand the Arch in great Winchester-street( where you may have Advice in all Diseases; I being to be spoken with between eight and nine in the Morning, 1 and 2 in the Afternoon, and five and six in the Evening.) They are sealed up in Tin Doxes, with a Serpent encircling the word [ SALUS.] Their Price 2 s. 6 d. the larger Box, and 1 s. the less, with ample Directions how to use them.