Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:

THE EPISTLE To the Reader.

COURTEOUS READER,

IT's a very sad and lamentable thing, even against the Course of Nature, and a way to tempt the very GOD of Nature, wilfully to impead and hinder our Health, or not to seek Meanes to continue it when we have it, or not to recover it when it's lost and gone. God sends severall Diseases and Sicknesses, and hath appointed severall Medicines or Reme∣dies to encounter them; Therefore honour the Physician, and with Ezekiah, Lay a plaister up∣on the Boil. Say not, Man hath his period as well as the Sea it's bounds, which it cannot passe. What God hath decreed, is already done in Heaven, and shall also undoubtedly

be done in Earth. Who hath ever resisted his will? Rom. 9.19. Say not, Life and death is not in our own hand; for some seek death in mise∣ry, yet finde it not; others meet with it at Feasts and Gaudies, and where they would faine forget it. Say not, When the Glass is run, do what we can, we can stay no longer, and the Clock will strike when the minutes be past. That which must be, shall be, what shall means do? For, by the like reason thou maist excuse thy wickednesse, and be desperate∣ly careless. But in matters of Hope where the End is not known, use Meanes with Asa, though relye not upon them, (as he did:) Although ma∣ny times they avail not, yet notwithstanding take we all the fairest wayes of all lawfull Remedies, when Gods Determinations and Purposes are concealed from us. Thou hast (Courteous Rea∣der) in this little Book, most exquisite Medi∣cines and Remedies presented to thy view, for divers (if not all sorts of) Diseases and Mala∣dies incident to Mans fraile and weak Body; It's therefore thy duty to make a right and dex∣terous use thereof. Here is a Price (a precious Jewel) put into thine hand, God grant thou want not an heart, to lay bold of it. Thou needest not waste thy Estate, or spend all thou hast up∣on Physicians, and yet be ne're a whit the better for't, as she in the Gospell is said to have

done, Mar. 5:16. Lo, here is Physick for every Patient, a Salve for every Sore, a Cure for e∣very Wound, a Medicine for every Disease, and a Receipt or Remedie for every Mala∣die; and it to be had at a very cheap and easie rate: So that even the meaner and poorer sort of People, who for want of ability, cannot go to the Physicians for cure in time of Sickness and Visitation, may finde eaese and comfort by per∣using this small Treatise, as well as those that are of greater abilities. But to what purpose do I spend time, or waste paper in praising or commending this little Book? The thing is able sufficiently to speak for, and to commend it selfe. It was truely and wisely said of one that was a most learned Physician, That Morbi non cu∣rantur eloquentiâ, multò minùs loquentiâ: Diseases are not healed with Eloquent spee∣ches or Rhetoricall flashes, much less with vaine babling or multiplicity of words. There∣fore not to insist too long upon Introductions or Preambles, lest it should be said to me as once a flouting Cynick said to the Citizens of Myn∣dus, a little City with great Gates: Shut your Gates lest your City run out; I take my leave, and rest

Thine in all Offices of Love and Service T. A.