Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.

Vpon this help for the poor, col∣lected by Robert Pemel Physitian.

WHat Herbs, Flowers, Min'rals, Trees the earth doth bear, For man his use and help, prepared are: And God the bounteous Maker of them all; Who first them planted on earths massy Ball, And with their various Virtues them endew'd, Intended them unto poor peoples good; As well as of rich Lords, and Ladies, Gent. Poor men in pain meet help and ease do want; But Oh the love of gold and sordid gain, That doth the Lords rich bounty much restrain! Let a rich man lie sick, or pained be, Upon his least request, to him doth flee The Physick Doctour, or the Surgeon, Their Soveraigne Medicines them to trie upon; And him to cure, the love of large reward, Which there he hopes, makes him the rich regard: But let the poor sick or diseased lye, Let him send for them, let him call and cry; They are as deaf as Baal to his Priests; He hath no gold to grease them in their fists. Loe here a pitiful Samaritan, That taking care for the poor needy man, Doth him provide of easie medicines,

Which nor are costly, nor are hard to finde; So his own Doctour in need he may be, Without the care of any Doctours f••e. Let then, good friends, this Authour have your praise, And thanks for these so helpful his essayes: Wherein conspires much skilful industry; With more of love and Christian charity.

J. E.