An advertisement concerning the most famous, safe, cathartique and diurectique pills [electronic resource] : being an incomparable medicine in all chronical and dangerous diseases : wherewith was cured the late Lord General Monck of the dropsie, in 1669 : many hundreds before and since, having received absolute cure thereby : they are also the only and most certain purging remedy in the world against the scurvy, and all other sharp, salt, and watry humors : helps the kings-evil, and causeth all ulcers, cancers, and spreading sores, the sooner to be made whole : they purifie and sweeten the blood to admiration, and are never failing to prevent and perfectly cure the foresaid distempers, if made use of in time, and expels all those poisonous humors caused by taking of mercurial pills, together with a restoration of former health / prepared and set forth only by William Sermon ...