prayer, and seeking of God, they
have had many secrets revealed to them from Heaven. Another by long
Travels through Hungary, Poland, &c. hath attained great secrets from
Kings and Emperours. Another a Gentleman lately come from Oxford, or
Cambridg, Cures the Pox, Running of the Reins, &c. in Capital Letters,
at all which what sober man cannot but laugh? Yet such as these are
inducements to many to resort to them; moreover some of them are
Astrologers, Physiognomers, Fortunetellers, Professors of Palmistry
and such other vain Arts; much applauded by the weaker sort of people.

Besides, the former they have their Emissaries, Scouts, and Setters up
and down, to cry up the skill And feigned Cures done by them, Nurses,
Good-fellows, Midwives, &c. to make up the cry and full noise.

Now it being natural to most people to admire what they understand
not, and for Admiration to infer Love, and Love Praise, and Praise the
use especially of such things as are set off with high and lofty
expressions, it necessarily follows that such persons will cry up, and
make use of, those that by these means captivate their understandings,
especially their credits being ingaged also; but above all, if they
proceed from meaner persons, of whom they are most credulous, having
in suspition wiser men, believing the former are not able, and that
the wiser are able; and therefore will deceive them. All which appears
in some with us cryed up above any Physician that ever was in England,
though for pitiful, dangerous, nay sometimes mortal Medicines, whereby
great sums of money have been gained in a short time; I shall instance
first in Lockyers Pills made of Antimony, discovered to be so by some
of my Collegues, and my self, at the first selling of them. A Medicine
as ill made as any of that Mineral, and no Physician though meanly
versed in Chymistry, but could have excelled it. Yet so great a Vogue
this Pill had for some time, that infinite people resorted to him, and
purchased them for their lives, both for themselves, and Families, and
(as I have heard) for their posterities too. Though a common Chimney
in a little time would have made enough of it to have served the whole
Nation for some years to come, and that at very small charges. But
Experience, the Tutor of too many, hath in a short time brought these
Pills into a dis-use, if not a total Oblivion, even amongst the
vulgar.

A second cryed up Medicine was Mathews's Pills, made of Opium (to