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<P>THE APOLOGIE, OR DEFENCE OF A VERITY HERETOFORE PVBLISHED CONCERNING A MEDICINE CALLED AVRVM POTABILE, that is, the pure &s;ub|&s;tance of Gold, prepared, and made Potable and Medicinable without corro&s;iues, helpefully giuen for the health of Man in mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es, but e&s;pecially auaile|able for the &s;trenghning and comforting of the Heart and vitall Spirits the performers of health: AS AN VNIVERSALL MEDICINE. <HI>Together with the plaine, and true</HI> Rea&s;ons, manifold and irrefragable Te&s;timonies of fact, confirming the Vniuer&s;alitie thereof. And la&s;tly, the manner and order of admini&s;tration or v&s;e of this Medicine in &s;un|drie Infirmities. <HI>BY</HI> FRANCIS ANTHONIE of London, Doctor in Phy&s;icke.</P>
<P>LONDON Printed by <HI>Iohn Legatt,</HI> 1616.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE TO THE INDIFFERENT and Iudicious Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_ALexander the Great, King of Macedon, among&s;t all other bla|zons of his honour, hath this not the lea&s;t: That in hearing of cau|&s;es, both his eares were open to both parties, Plaintiffe, and De|fendant: That being rightly infor|med, his deci&s;ion of the controuer|&s;ie might be vpright, not partiall. As this is the duty of euery learned and iudiciall Reader: &s;o in this que&s;tion of mine, I cannot entertaine other thought, then expectance of all inte|grity: Not onely to haue eares, and all other &s;en&s;es auer&s;ed from the tongues and quills of idly-learned &s;landerers, but al&s;o re&s;erued vnto a generous equanimitie towards the ne|ce&s;&s;arie and equable reply of the Defendant. Not doubting therefore (gentle Reader) of this your di&s;po&s;ition, I haue written, and dedicated to your hands and hearts, to take, reade, dige&s;t and cheri&s;h this Apologie of my Prepara|tion, and admini&s;tration of my E&s;&s;ence and Liquor of Gold, commonly called Aurum Potabile or Potable Golde: with a&s;&s;urance of cen&s;ure on my &s;ide, though di&s;ta&s;ting the
<PB REF="3"> A-B-C-darie and Comicall Rayler. If therefore my malicio|ners haue heretofore &s;educed you into &s;ini&s;ter con&s;tructions of this cau&s;e, it was not your fault, but their po&s;ting malice, an|ticipating and fore&s;talling that better and true Information, which this Apologie freely now offereth, and earne&s;tly in|treateth to be &s;o accepted. Many good men haue iu&s;tly com|plained again&s;t the Pa&s;quelling libertie of traducing &s;lan|derers. If a &s;ufficient conclu&s;ion &s;hould re&s;t therein, yea, or a moouing Inducement: then you with me mu&s;t needs con|fe&s;&s;e, that no vertue &s;hall haue his due regard, no man of what&s;oeuer de&s;ert, &s;hall be &s;ecure of his good name. My con|tentment and &s;atisfaction pre&s;eruatiue: my &s;hield and de|fence again&s;t the tainted darts of &s;uch aduer&s;aries, &s;hall bee &s;ecuritie again&s;t foule challenge, Impo&s;&s;ibilitie of attaint, the warrant of truth: which in her naked &s;implicitie &s;hall main|taine me, in the vprightne&s;&s;e of a good con&s;cience again&s;t all their attempts, and by Gods grace, powerfully deliuer me. Vn|to you therefore (indifferent and &s;incere Readers) I con&s;e|crate the protection both of this Treati&s;e, and of the Medi|cine it &s;elfe therein handled. Becau&s;e, as no man is created &s;olely for his owne particular, but for the profit and good of o|thers; (for nature hath made, and charitie commanded a vi|cinitie and neighbourhood betwixt all men) &s;o this being ma|terially a kinde of vniuer&s;all Medicine: it ought not to be re&s;trained from the publike te~der of profit to all men. Socrates being demanded what Countriman he was, an&s;wered, not only an Athenian but a Co&s;mopolitane, a Cittizen of that great Commonwealth, the whole world. So ought euery good Phy&s;ition in the publike profe&s;&s;ion of his facultie, not to burie his talent in the &s;oyle of one Countrey, but to remember, that the very Character of his calling doth challenge the fruits of his function for all the world, &s;o far as po&s;&s;ible capacitie ex|tendeth; &s;pecially of this neere&s;t communitie in Chri&s;ten|dome.
<PB REF="3"> Let it not therefore &s;eeme &s;trange vnto you, (worthy Readers) that without exception of Countrey or nation, I doe indefinitely appeale vnto all, and in &s;uch generality con&s;igne the&s;e fruitions, which long &s;tudy, labor &amp; chargeable experi|ence haue confirmed vnto me, in my profe&s;&s;ion and Practi&s;e of Phy&s;icke. Ari&s;t. &s;aith morally (but the &s;ente~ce is diuine) <HI>Bonu~ quo co~munius, e&ograve; melius.</HI> The more co~mo~ a good thing is, the better it is. Of which followeth one rea&s;on of this my pre|&s;ent act: <HI>Omne Donu~ quo melius, e&ograve; comunicabilius.</HI> The better any gift is, the more co~municable al&s;o ought it to be. And as it is &s;o in nature it &s;elf, &s;o ought it to be in the di&s;pe~|&s;ation of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;our. I do not herein &s;o propo&s;e, and mag|nifie mine own endeuours, &amp; the perfection of this Medicine by my &s;elfe made, with a &s;olitarie conceit, and ambitious pre|iudice, as though no per&s;on el&s;e where were &s;eized of the like (and peraduenture in a higher degree of exaltation) but ac|knowledging Gods ble&s;&s;ings and gifts, to my &s;elfe among&s;t ma|ny others, I may not hide my talent in the earth: But be&s;ide the pre&s;ent v&s;es hereof in mo&s;t vrgent cau&s;es of health, do al&s;o wi&s;h the prouoking, and virtuous emulation in others, to incite their indu&s;tries in the &s;earch and labour of excellent nece&s;&s;ity for a common good. Al&s;o that &s;o generall a Medicine may as generally be knowne to be had, to the intent to be v&s;ed in all places. The opinion of euery excellent, both ancient, and mo|derne Phy&s;itions, concerning the virtue, power, efficacie and v&s;e of Potable gold, is conue&s;ted in their owne writings: who do hold firme, that no Phy&s;ition can well &s;aue the performing honour of his profe&s;&s;ion, without Potable gold, how&s;oeuer o|therwi&s;e he be furni&s;hed with herball Medicines. In which kind al&s;o, God hath &s;tored &s;o many particular adiuments, for the reliefe of mans mi&s;erable maladies, that none ought to neglect the indagation of their virtues, the preparation of their parts, and admini&s;tration of their Remedies. Which as</P>
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<P>I gladly and happily v&s;e in fit time and place, &s;o I al&s;o com|mend the like v&s;e to others, euen with this Potable Gold, as is commonly v&s;ed in &s;undry other Polychre&s;ticke, or Panchre|&s;ticke Medicines: according to euery pre&s;ent requi&s;ition of occa&s;ions and circum&s;tances, by the aduice of any rationall and experienced Phy&s;ition. With which profe&s;&s;ion I offer and &s;ubmit the re&s;pect and acceptance of my Inuentions, de|&s;iring you all, with like regard and fauour, to re|ceiue and embrace this my will and de&s;ire of doing good, and to be profitable to many.</P>
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<HEAD>THE DIVISI|ON OF THIS TREATISE.</HEAD>
<P>_ABout fiue yeares pa&s;t I pub|li&s;hed a &s;hort di&s;cour&s;e for the A&s;&s;ertion of Chymicall Phy|&s;ick, and of true Potable gold, containing the&s;e heades or Chapters. 1. Whether gold may be &s;o di&s;&s;olued, that it become truly potable. 2. That the highe&s;t and mo&s;t powerfull excellencie of Medi|cines is in Mettals. 3. That among&s;t all Mettals gold hath the prerogatiue, concerning the Phy&s;icall v&s;e of Medicine. 4. Of what manner is the Art, and my&s;te|ry to di&s;&s;olue gold, and di&s;till it vp: which com|monly is called, Drawing ouer the helme. 5. That it were requi&s;ite by publike que&s;tion to examine and try this truth of this Magi&s;terie, that &s;o the mouth of all gain&s;ayers might be &s;topped. 6. That Potable gold de&s;erueth the name of a Generall or vniuer&s;all Medicine: and of the manifold v&s;e, and efficacie of mine owne Potable gold.</P>
<P>This Treati&s;e of mine, containing a &s;imple, naked and plaine deliuerie of a &s;imple and naked truth, and
<PB N="2" REF="5"> therefore as &s;imply and plainly in words and &s;tyle &s;et forth, though it really &s;atisfied both here and in for|raine parts many learned men, Iudiciall louers of truth, yet it wanted not the common lot of all ver|tues, to finde maleuolent eyes and detracting encom|berers: &s;uch as may &s;eeme either with blinde zeale, or ignorant opinion of omni&s;cience, rather to repine at a fee lo&s;t, then de&s;ire the true knowledge of that, which they neuer intending to labour for, yet ambiti|ou&s;ly de&s;ire an imputation of criticall knowledge therein. The &s;and of this de&s;cent was chiefely, if not only in London. The I&s;&s;ue, none haue greater cau&s;e to mourne for, then the Printers for want of vtte|rance, or rather they which bare the charge of prin|ting: for vnto Iudiciall Readers, tho&s;e labours of theirs, though they were tedious and nau&s;eous, yet &s;ome recreation followed in laughing at &s;o much ob|&s;tetrication of &s;uch mountaines in the parturition of &s;uch ridiculous mice. I hope none will expect a cry|quit an&s;wer of me to their mo&s;t powerfull arguments, being, in the mo&s;t mode&s;t terme, a &s;hamble of impo|tent and effrenat &s;colding: but rather truth and mat|ter again&s;t fal&s;hood &amp; words, leauing their tongs and goo&s;e-quils, to the iudgement and cen&s;ure of their owne reformed and better adui&s;ed hearts: of which my charitie per&s;wades me not wholly to de&s;paire: knowing &s;ome learned gentlemen of the &s;ame com|pany, not the &s;ame minde, ready to blu&s;h at &s;uch a publication, which all the learned men of Chri&s;ten|dom do laugh: And who can fancy &s;uch barking Rhe|toricke, wherein not only good words, are made the mea&s;ures of madnes, but precious houres are con&s;u|med in frothy rablings? If they be &s;till of the &s;ame &s;pi|rits, I wi&s;h them thereof full contentment therein:
<PB N="3" REF="5"> And that therefore they would in &s;ome hollow crag|gy place &s;tretch out their own &s;traines, that 1000. ex|change of intere&s;t might bountifully returne them their delightfull termes and Syllogi&s;mes in this their new Barbara. But this my Apologie &s;hall with much tranquillity, I hope, an&s;wer them, defend mine owne reputation and integritie, vindicate this verity que|&s;tioned; giue e&s;timation to potable gold, and make the v&s;e thereof more common. According to which intentions I haue diuided this Treati&s;e in three parts. In the fir&s;t &s;hall be proued and maintained that which in my fir&s;t printed booke was deliuered concerning gold, that it may be made potable and medicinable, and be e&s;teemed for a kinde of generall Medicine, or neere thereto. In the &s;econd I will &s;ati&s;fie and &s;uffici|ently prooue by irrefragable te&s;timonies, and exam|ples, that this my Medicine &s;o much canua&s;ed, both is made and doth con&s;i&s;t of gold, and al&s;o performeth the true effects, mentioned to be incident vnto pota|ble gold. In the third part I will &s;hew and teach the way how to v&s;e this Medicine in euery particular di&s;|ea&s;e. That all pacified and indifferent per&s;ons, fauo|rers of truth, and embracers of Gods ble&s;&s;ings, may enioy the fruition thereof. Some circum&s;tances al&s;o I haue hereunto annexed, &s;uch as are pertinent to this our intent.</P>
<P>It is a controuer&s;ed que&s;tion: Whether there bee or may bee made a generall or vniuer&s;all Medicine, good for all Di&s;ea&s;es. Many hold the negatiue. If they &s;peake preci&s;ely of all Di&s;ea&s;es without di&s;tincti|on, I &s;ay as they doe, and con&s;ent. For there be ma|ny fatall, mortall and Incurable Di&s;ea&s;es, again&s;t which all con&s;ultation and coun&s;ell of Phy&s;icke is bootle&s;&s;e. Therefore that my a&s;&s;ertion of a generall
<PB N="4" REF="6"> Medicine be rightly vnder&s;tood, I de&s;ire my mea|ning to bee truly and di&s;tinctly taken. For I know that &s;ome di&s;ea&s;es be natiue and hereditarie: &s;ome cau&s;ed by &s;ome outward and &s;uperuenient chance or accident: &s;ome proceeding of &s;imple di&s;temper: &s;ome of humors ioyned therewith. Tho&s;e which are natiue and hereditarie, are generally thought, and for the mo&s;t part be all incurable, though they may in &s;ome kinde receiue alleuiation and ea&s;e: And &s;ome of them al&s;o in the title of tho&s;e which happen by &s;uperueni|ent accident: As luxations, lamene&s;&s;e, Impotencies, want or &s;uperfluitie of &s;ome ioynt, blindne&s;&s;e, deafe|ne&s;&s;e, Ambiguitie of &s;exe, &amp;c. And the&s;e &s;o farre as they be re&s;taurable and capable of Cure, are chiefely vnder that part of this facultie which is called Sur|gerie, and requireth the hand, though not alwaies and in all ca&s;es. But tho&s;e Infirmities and Di&s;ea&s;es of the other kinde, proceeding of inward cau&s;es within the body, &s;uch as, for the mo&s;t part, be all Maladies whereupon all Rationall Phy&s;itions are exerci&s;ed, if by admini&s;tration of one Medicine they all (I meane, &s;o long as they are accounted curable by Rationall Phy&s;itions) may be ea&s;ed, mitigated and perhaps per|fectly cured, &s;urely &s;uch Medicine, ought and may be accounted re&s;pectiuely a generall Medicine. For as that Phy&s;ition is to be accounted perfect, and a gene|rall Ma&s;ter of his Art which knoweth according to his title, facultie and profe&s;&s;ion, how to cure all di&s;|ea&s;es, though he leaue and giue ouer &s;ome as incura|ble; not for wnat of fit meanes and skill in all ca&s;es of po&s;&s;ibilitie, but through ineptitude and indi&s;po&s;ition of the &s;ubiect being vncapable of redintegration: So al&s;o that &s;hall be accounted a Medicine vniuer&s;all, which cureth mo&s;t and the greate&s;t di&s;ea&s;es, though
<PB N="5" REF="6"> not all: not through defect of efficacie in the Me|dicine it &s;elfe, but re&s;pectiuely for the inhabilitie of the &s;ubiect.</P>
<P>This al&s;o may be proued by rea&s;on deriued from<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The fir&s;t rea|&s;on.</NOTE> tho&s;e Medicines of Rationall Phy&s;itians, which for the multiplicitie of their operatiue extent to many intentions, and curing of many di&s;ea&s;es, are called Polychre&s;ta, that is, of many v&s;es. For if there be a|mong them &s;uch as be helpful not to one only &s;ingu|lar affection, but to many different di&s;ea&s;es, why is it not likewi&s;e con&s;equent and rea&s;onable that by help of Art, a Medicine may be made much more com|prehen&s;iue of efficacie vpon di&s;ea&s;es? And as it may bee made to exceede in one degree, &s;o in 2. 3. 4. 100. and from Polychre&s;ton, of many v&s;es, be Catho|licon, vniuer&s;all, of all v&s;es. The rea&s;on is all one to rea&s;onable men.</P>
<P>If obiection be made, that &s;uch Polychre&s;t is arti|ficially made by compo&s;ition of many things, wher|in are diuer&s;itie of natures. And this vniuer&s;all of one onely, which implieth an impo&s;&s;ibilitie of different and contrary operatiue faculties: to this I an&s;were, that Polychre&s;ts are made out of Simples without commixtion: As from Rheubarbe, Vineger, Lead, Niter, Vitriall, Opium, Camphire, and many other, wherof &s;ome doe both loo&s;e and knit, &s;ome do heate and coole, &s;ome haue other contrary effects, which appeare in their operations, and are te&s;tified by Writers. The&s;e things being thus in impure mix|tures and vnperfect bodies, what doubt can there be made of the high prerogatiue and &s;upreme excellen|cie of Gold, which all the learned and experienced antiquity, and the continued deriuation from thence vnto this day haue acknowledged and magnified for
<PB N="6" REF="7"> the chiefe, if not only Trea&s;urie, and rich Cabinet of vniuer&s;alitie and Panchre&s;ticke Medicine: In which all the dowers of all other Medicines, what&s;oeuer are written and experimentally found, be vnited and na|turally inclo&s;ed.</P>
<P>Secondly, whereas the originall of mo&s;t di&s;ea&s;es<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The &s;econd rea&s;on.</NOTE> &s;pringeth from that, which the Phy&s;itions call <HI>In|temperies,</HI> that is, a di&s;temperature, being e&s;pecially in the fir&s;t qualities, hot, cold, moi&s;t or drie; there is no rea&s;on to the contrary, but that one Medicine, being without exce&s;&s;e or defect, in equall harmonie of all qualities mo&s;t temperate, and al&s;o powerfull in ope|ration, may bee &s;ufficient for the collection, qualify|ing, and rectifying of all and euery &s;uch di&s;temper. Such a like body is gold: which notwith&s;tanding it be compounded of the foure Elements, yet is this in prerogatiue aboue all other naturall bodies, en|dowed with an exact temperament and equalitie of the compounding Elements, and Elementall qualities. Euery one to the other three, and all foure to and among them&s;elues by exact naturall equalitie and perfect mixture, are &s;o compounded to the perfection of this body, that it con&s;tantly per&s;i&s;teth in the fire without diminution. From this proportionall mixture of Elements re&s;ulteth a temperament of &s;upreme mediocritie: whereupon that our learned and famous countryman <HI>Roger Ba|con,</HI> calleth <HI>Gold the meane betweene the foure fir&s;t qualities.</HI> Seeing therefore by Gods gift in the crea|tion it con&s;i&s;teth of &s;o true an adequation and &s;ubtile temperament, this mu&s;t needs appeare and &s;hew it &s;elfe operatiuely in con&s;equent effects vp|on tho&s;e fir&s;t qualities, and be powerfull again&s;t all di&s;temperatures, whether hot or cold, moy&s;t or dry, or any their combinations: Fir&s;t allaying and bri|dling
<PB N="7" REF="7"> any exce&s;&s;e therein, and &s;o by degrees and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ion ouercomming the whole di&s;cord, and re&s;to|ring mediocritie of temperament betweene all. So that the generall Axiome or Rule of great <HI>Hippo|crates</HI> is here magnified: That Di&s;ea&s;es are cured by Medicines contrarie to them&s;elues. For the meane betwixt two extremes is no le&s;&s;e contrarie to both and either of them, then one extreme to an o|ther: and more powerfull in reduction, by how much it is more habituall and fixed in the vn&s;potted me|diocritie and equalitie. Let this be vnder&s;tood of gold di&s;&s;olued and made potable, otherwi&s;e it is not operatiue vpon tho&s;e di&s;tempered qualities in one kinde or other</P>
<P>The third Rea&s;on concerneth the temper of the bodie to bee cured. Death (&s;aith <HI>Galen</HI>) doth al|waies<NOTE PLACE="marg">3 The third rea&s;on.</NOTE> follow the vnmea&s;urable or exce&s;&s;iue di&s;tem|peratures of the Heart. So likewi&s;e doe Di&s;ea&s;es. For all parts of the bodie langui&s;h with the Heart. Let vs therefore con&s;ider a little the Emperie of the Heart in mans bodie, how by his owne heate and vitall &s;pirit, it raigneth ouer, and in all parts of the bodie. Let vs al&s;o take into con&s;ideration the di&s;temperature of other parts making impre&s;|&s;ion vpon the Heart, and &s;o are cau&s;es of langui&s;h|ment and death. VVhich beeing on either &s;ide certaine, then it mu&s;t al&s;o bee true, that if golde admini&s;tred doe re&s;tore integritie of temperament to the Heart, the other parts and members of the bodie &s;hall al&s;o receiue comfort, &s;trength, re&s;tauration, and finally life to the whole bo|die. VVherefore the fir&s;t office of euerie good Phy&s;ition is, to haue &s;peciall regarde, to main|taine
<PB N="8" REF="8"> and vphold the &s;pirituall functions of his di&s;ea|&s;ed patient, which all haue their originall from the heart. For if he &s;uffer them to quaile, and ouer much to bee deiected, all Cordialls will then come vn|&s;ea&s;onably. That admonition is iu&s;t and nece&s;&s;arie <HI>Fir&s;t &s;trengthen and comfort the Heart, then apply for the Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> if neede be: for oft times, the Heart being well corroborated, the Di&s;ea&s;e imminent vani&s;heth. But &s;ome will aske, how gold, &s;o hard, &s;olide and compact, and therefore indige&s;table by any &s;trength of mans &s;tomacke, can pa&s;&s;e from thence to the heart, and &s;trengthen, comfort, rectifie and re&s;tore it; con|con&s;idering that the&s;e and &s;uch like faculties come to it by the plentie of pure, cleere, and &s;ubtill &s;pirits of the blood, which cannot be made of any thing not dige&s;ted both in the Stomack and Lyuer, and there|fore not of gold. In an&s;wer whereof I &s;ay, that long and daily ob&s;eruation hath confirmed, that many things naturally are effected by the hidden and &s;pe|cificall properties of &s;ome things, whereof no vnder|&s;tanding of man can giue a certaine and vndi&s;puta|ble manife&s;t cau&s;e or rea&s;on. We &s;ee the affinitie of natures betweene Iron and the Lode-&s;tone, and the pointing of this to the North Pole. Of which kinde there be infinite exemplarie in&s;tances. Neither doe the mo&s;t learned Phy&s;itions and be&s;t Philo&s;ophers &s;o well agree vpon the rea&s;ons of tho&s;e Purging Medi|cines which they call Electiue, as appropriate &s;peci|ally to one humour: and diuers others to &s;ome &s;peci|all part of the bodie, yea and to &s;ome &s;peciall di&s;ea&s;es: but that a great part of them doe flie to the&s;e hidden and &s;pecificall properties, &s;ome in the &s;ame, &s;ome in other termes. In which ranke if wee mar&s;hall gold, what Lieuetenant will chide? He certainly mu&s;t be
<PB N="9" REF="8"> &s;ome ouerweening man, that will que&s;tion the&s;e no|ble vertues of gold, that hath read &s;o many notable and famous Authors for that affirmatiue a&s;&s;ertion, part whereof I haue cited in my other booke, being but one Rank of a whole Armie. Here I will only trouble the Reader with a few lines out of that fa|mous Phy&s;ition and excellent Philo&s;opher <HI>Arnald. Gold altereth the euill condition of mans body, clen&s;eth and reneweth it. The vertue of many things may come neere the particulars of the operation hereof, but no one performe it all. But potable gold alone is it which worketh the&s;e mira|culous effects: this is not &s;ubiect to corruption, but is agreeable to the Complexion and temperament of man. It doth neither heate, nor coole, nor moy&s;ten, nor dry: but is temperate in all temperature, and exceedeth all things in durabilitie: It hel|peth a cold &s;tomacke, and giueth courage to Cowards and fearefull hearts: It helpeth the pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart: It is good again&s;t Melancholy: It comforteth naturall heate and tempereth the &s;ame, neither may any thing be compared to it or &s;upply the &s;tead thereof. The vertue thereof is manife&s;t in the &s;ub&s;tance of it. It clen&s;eth and clarifieth by rea&s;on of the naturall heate it hath. It giueth high and &s;upreame tempera|ment aboue all other things, by rea&s;on of the great tempera|ment of it &s;elfe: and beeing it &s;elfe mo&s;t durable, it cau&s;eth continuance and durabilitie, according to naturall po&s;&s;ibility in other things, and pre&s;erueth mans body. And becau&s;e it is like to the Complexion of mens bodie, therefore if it be pre|pared as it ought, it will ioyne and incorporate thereunto. But all the &s;ecret is in the preparation of it, which the wi&s;e Phi|lo&s;ophers haue concealed. It confirmeth and keepeth &s;ound the &s;ub&s;tance of the Heart, and pre&s;erueth it, and clarifieth the &s;ub&s;tance of the &s;pirits, and &s;endeth good blood to the skin, and with a light and ea&s;ie ab&s;ter&s;ion pre&s;erueth beauty as in youth.</HI> Thus he writeth, as al&s;o in other places of this
<PB N="10" REF="9"> Author you may reade many admirable effects and vertues of gold both &s;olide and potable. How gold is &s;o powerfull a Cordiall and &s;o generall a Medicine, is held a very difficult que&s;tion to finde the cau&s;e and rea&s;on thereof. Let euery mans opinion bee free to him&s;elfe. I will without preiudice to any other briefe|ly &s;hew you my opinion. I take it for granted that gold of all mixed bodies is mo&s;t equall and tempe|rate in the Elements and elementall qualities, &s;o that moy&s;ture with heat as agent, drine&s;&s;e with coldnes as patient and &s;ubiect to action, are in&s;eparably with na|turall concordance perfectly ioyned. Wherefore gold is re&s;pectiuely a body not only incorruptible in wa|ter, fire, ayre, and earth, and as it were an earthly i|mage of eternitie, but al&s;o mo&s;t conuenient, agree|able, and as it were allied to and with the heart of man, which of his hot moy&s;ture doth worke the vi|tall &s;pirits, and maintaine the arteriall beatings of the pul&s;e in all parts of the bodie. And this tempera|ment of gold mu&s;t bee con&s;idered two waies. Fir&s;t (as Scholers call it) Arithmetically: hence commeth the equalitie and equabilitie of qualities elementarie in the compact and &s;olide body thereof, not re&s;olued into the permanent forme of potable liquor. In this con&s;ideration it were very hard for learned Phy&s;iti|ons that build &s;o much vpon and pre&s;&s;e authoritie, to deny that gold hath and actiuely doth &s;hew many great effectiue vertues, &s;eeing the Catalogue is &s;o great of many notable and famous Phy&s;itions which extoll the effects thereof, and at this day doe v&s;e it &s;o much; as of gold quenched in wine, boyled in broth, giuen in limell or foyle in Con&s;erues and Electuaries. The hope and end thereof in all their intentions, is to Corroborate and comfort the heart. And this
<PB N="11" REF="9"> temperature in and of gold is habituate and coe&s;&s;en|tiall with the whole &s;ub&s;tance, matter and forme, in all the Elements both actiue and pa&s;&s;iue. And be|cau&s;e not the materiall but the formal E&s;&s;ence is mo&s;t operatiue and profe&s;&s;or of the noble Elements, fire and ayre, from whence re&s;ulteth in an indi&s;&s;oluble bond, heate and moy&s;ture &s;o friendly agreeable to mans nature. Therefore gold in his naturall coagula|tion and &s;oliditie, cannot &s;o fully according to the inward power of his naturall efficacie and vertue, &s;hew and performe the effects thereof, as being re&s;ol|ued, opened, and made potable, that the Elements and elementall qualities may more freely both worke and be wrought vpon, and be brought from their po|tentiality to actiuitie in application to the body of man. For then the agent and formall vertues, fire and ayre be predominant in their exaltation. Who&s;e pro|pertie, being communicated &amp; applied to &amp; with the &s;pirits of our body, is to refre&s;h, comfort &amp; &s;trengthen the heart: renew, re&s;tore, and increa&s;e the &s;pirits, by that wonderfull facultie, and neere equalitie as it were brotherhood which it hath to them. And this in the &s;econd con&s;ideration of the temperament of Gold Geometricall in that different re&s;pect, as the other is called Arithmeticall. In which that propor|tionate qualitie friendly and concordant to the heart and temperament of man, and that complexio|ned moy&s;t heate or hot moy&s;ture, is preualent or predominant. And one chiefe rea&s;on why <HI>Arnald</HI> before cited and very many others of vnreprooue|able authoritie, doe &s;o much commend, and with a re|&s;erued &s;ecrecie admire the excellent dowers of gold, is, that being made potable, it re&s;toreth, augmenteth and pre&s;erueth that our <HI>humidum radicale,</HI> and <HI>calidum
<PB N="12" REF="10"> innatum,</HI> Naturall heate and moy&s;ture, (vnder&s;tand them complexioned not di&s;tinct) and &s;o with re&s;pe|ctiue po&s;&s;ibilitie, prolongeth life, and keepeth backe old age, I meane the &s;en&s;e of the defects and infirmi|ties thereof.</P>
<P>If it be obiected that this exact temperature and e|quality<NOTE PLACE="marg" TYPE="runSum">Obiection.</NOTE> of mixture in gold being &s;uppo&s;ed, it cannot actiuely operate or worke any thing in mans bodie, becau&s;e, as euery action commeth from or by meanes of &s;ome predominant qualitie, &s;o equalitie without di&s;paragement keepes all in an vndefeazeable bond of an irre&s;oluble compound. I an&s;wer thus. In ca&s;es where the intemperature or di&s;temper of the di&s;ea&s;e (or the degree thereof in &s;ome ca&s;es) is not yet knowne, the doctrine po&s;itiue and coun&s;ell of Phy&s;i|tions is, to v&s;e and admini&s;ter temperate Medicines, which &s;hall not be offen&s;iue manife&s;tly to any quali|tie, but indifferent and allowable to all. If this be done with good adui&s;e and rea&s;on: in &s;uch like ca&s;e, it mu&s;t needs be far more con&s;onant to rea&s;on, and be|hoouefull to the patient, to giue &s;uch a Medicine as is not only temperate by qualification, but &s;o preroga|tiuely excellent therein, that it cannot lo&s;e that tem|perature and the con&s;equent efficacie thereof, by the force of any thing con&s;onant or di&s;&s;onant. Which is farre otherwi&s;e in all vegetables reputed equall in temperament, becau&s;e they are apt in &s;ome ca&s;es to cau&s;e dangerous di&s;temperature in mans body. Ex|amples are plentifull. But for in&s;tance take Manna it &s;elfe reputed a very temperate laxatiue, yet very ea&s;i|ly it &s;elfe turning into a hot Cholerick humour, and encrea&s;ing the &s;ame, and the di&s;temperatures and di&s;|ea&s;es con&s;equent thereupon according to the di&s;po|&s;ition and inclination of the body receiuing it. Of
<PB N="13" REF="10"> which there is no feare in the v&s;e of gold, for the rea|&s;ons afore&s;aid. Therefore whether the Tenure be: That Contraries be cured by Contraries, hauing re|&s;pect to the di&s;ea&s;e and the cau&s;e thereof, the qualitie of the Medicine is remedy: Or that like are con&s;erued by their like, with regard to the &s;trength of the pati|ent and comfort of the heart, according to the do|ctrine of <HI>Hippocrates:</HI> Gold (as hath beene prooued) mu&s;t needs be in both intentions the fitte&s;t and mo&s;t conuenient Medicine and remedy for di&s;ea&s;es of what temper or di&s;temper &s;oeuer, being adui&s;edly gi|uen: &s;pecially being Philo&s;ophically opened, re&s;ol|ued and made potable:</P>
<P>That there may bee a generall or vniuer&s;all Me|dicine<NOTE PLACE="marg">4 The fourth rea&s;on.</NOTE> is al&s;o prooued, by con&s;ideration taken from the nature of the per&s;on di&s;ea&s;ed, with reference to the di&s;ea&s;e. For if the di&s;ea&s;e be &s;trong, like a heauie burden pre&s;&s;ing the patient, and the poore patient weake not able to beare out the Critical day of happy iudgement of i&s;&s;ue of the maladie; I aske in this ca&s;e what ought to be done. Certainly, rather enable the body to the end of the Combate, by comforting and &s;trengthning the heart, then vainly attempt to re|mooue the log, and &s;uffer him to &s;inke vnder the bur|den. For, not the Medicine, but nature alone is the true phy&s;ition, curing all infirmities, if &s;he be not op|pre&s;&s;ed, or that &s;he be &s;o releeued, that &s;trength in her be maintained. It is not vnlike by compari&s;on vnto the charge of &s;umpter Mules or Pack-hor&s;es, which oft times v&s;e to bee fed trauelling that they may en|dure to carry their burdens to the Inne, not di&s;char|ged vntimely of their packes. And by this meanes they neede not be vnloaden at euery bayte; but pro|uendred vnder their loads for the quicker di&s;patch.
<PB N="14" REF="11"> So no di&s;ea&s;e is cured, the &s;trength not maintained: but contrarily by perfect Methode the &s;trength and power of the body is by degrees to bee re&s;tored and comforted, that the di&s;ea&s;e may be both re&s;olued, and life maintained. To this purpo&s;e did <HI>Arnaldus</HI> write in the&s;e words. <HI>The only intention of ancient Phy&s;i|tions was, to giue vigor and &s;trength vnto nature: Who being &s;trengthned, performeth what&s;oeuer is expedient. And by this meanes they neuer did ouerthrow any man. Therefore neuer cea&s;e to worke with Cordialls in admini&s;tration of Phy|&s;icke.</HI> This is the coun&s;ell of <HI>Arnald.</HI></P>
<P>Moreouer, many di&s;ea&s;es proceed from ob&s;tructi|ons<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fift rea|&s;on.</NOTE> of &s;ome vi&s;cous, &s;lymie and mucilaginous mat|ter, not &s;eparated in the ve&s;&s;els of concoction, by their imbecillity, either naturall, or accidentall. Ther|fore, if this ob&s;truent matter be &s;ubtiliated, the ob|&s;truction &s;hall thereby be taken away, &amp; con&s;equent|ly both the di&s;ea&s;e and accidents of the di&s;ea&s;e cured. Of &s;uch kinds of Ob&s;tructions, be&s;ides other di&s;ea&s;es, many kinds of fevers doe ari&s;e, burning, rotten, he|ctick, pe&s;tilent, &amp;c. Al&s;o many and dangerous &s;ick|ne&s;&s;es both hot and cold. Again&s;t which though Me|dicine made of vegetables doe often very much pre|uaile: yet becau&s;e for the mo&s;t part they be too weak, and leaue no &s;olide and la&s;ting impre&s;&s;ion: or contra|riwi&s;e worke &s;o violently, and &s;eldome without &s;ome offence, &s;carce euer with &s;uch temper, gentlenes and &s;incerity as is requi&s;ite. Therefore that Medicine which being mo&s;t temperate and equally graduated to the Elementall harmonie of mans body, ought iu&s;tly to be preferred both before them and all of that kind. For &s;uch one cannot by his coldne&s;&s;e offend the complexioned parts, nor by his heate the hot: but by opening and &s;o promotiuely taking away the Ob&s;tru|ction, be equally &amp; certainly profitable to all. <HI>Galen</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="11"> teacheth that the cau&s;e is to be take~ away, by finding out, and applying the true contrary of euery alterable nature. As to cure any di&s;ea&s;e coming of and depen|ding on Ob&s;truction, is the di&s;&s;oluing of matter ob|&s;truent, &amp; opening the Ob&s;truction. This coun&s;ell we ought to follow in al &s;uch ca&s;es, in opening that which is forcibly &s;hut. And then gentle and quiet re&s;titution commeth of temperament to all di&s;tempered parts. For, whether the exce&s;&s;e were in heate or cold, the &s;pi|rits which were &s;hut vp in pri&s;on, now &s;et at liberty, are refre&s;hed, recouer their former vigor, and health to the whole body. If the blood (&s;aith <HI>Hippocrat.</HI>) be &s;topped in his cour&s;e, and the &s;pirit with it, it cau&s;eth chylne&s;&s;e, numne&s;&s;e, giddines, lo&s;&s;e or hinderance of &s;peach, heauines &amp; paine of the head &amp; convul&s;ions, after which follow many kinds of the falling &s;icknes which be accounted cold di&s;ea&s;es. In briefe, it is mo&s;t euident, that only Ob&s;tructions be the cau&s;e of many and &s;undry di&s;ea&s;es, not only different, but directly contrary each to other. Therfore as one cau&s;e brought them in, &s;o may one Medicine expell them.</P>
<P>But pau&s;e a while. It may be demanded how hu|mors<NOTE PLACE="marg" TYPE="runSum">Obiection.</NOTE> &s;o exorbita~t &amp; abounding as they do in the bo|dies of many men, &s;hal be emptied from thence by the force of any medicine, who&s;e faculty is not to expel or purge by the common pa&s;&s;age, and who&s;e intent is to be only &s;trengthning and comforting the heart.</P>
<P>To which I an&s;wer: It is true, that in many di&s;ea|&s;es<NOTE PLACE="marg" TYPE="runSum">Solution.</NOTE> the abundance of humors are &s;uch cau&s;es, that except they be purged away in due and conuenient time and order, it is &s;car&s;e po&s;&s;ible to hope for a &s;ound recouerie: in vvhich ca&s;e if &s;ome gentle Purgation, together vvith the admini&s;tration of this vniuer&s;all Medicine be v&s;ed, both the &s;trength &s;hall be better maintained, &s;ooner recouered, and the di&s;ea&s;e ouer|come
<PB N="16" REF="12"> Yet though no purgation be giuen, but onely this vniuer&s;all Medicine at times admini&s;tred, &s;uch is the vertue thereof, that Nature it &s;elfe being &s;trength|ned and comforted aboue the malice of the offending humors and the di&s;ea&s;e, will expell the burden of tho&s;e humors by the mo&s;t conuenient pa&s;&s;ages which that ca&s;e may require, whether it be by &s;iege, vomit, vrine, &s;weate, or other exitures. For the Phy&s;ition at|tending, is not directer and Ma&s;ter, but mini&s;ter and &s;eruant in fit admini&s;tration vnto nature: which being comforted and &s;trengthned, will helpe her &s;elfe beyond all hope and conceit of man, as hath bin of|ten found to the admiration of the greate&s;t Do|ctors which hitherto haue written, and happeneth daily in our owne experience. In all di&s;ea&s;es the Phy|&s;itions part is, to promote the indeauour of nature to expel the offending humors by tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, which her&s;elfe &s;heweth and directeth; with di&s;cretion be|tweene criticall and &s;ymptomaticall euacuations, and of the conueniencie of a few circum&s;tances follow|ing the particularities of the di&s;ea&s;e: Of this I could ea&s;ily and plentifully bring many irrefragable and demon&s;tratiue rea&s;ons: but they may partly bee vn|der&s;tood by that which is already &s;aid, and partly are written by diuers others graue and learned Authors. Therfore I wil follow breuitie, &amp; only &s;et down a few lines out of that profound and &s;ingular Philo&s;opher <HI>Raymund Lully:</HI> who in the 32. Chapter of the Theo|rie of his Te&s;tament writeth thus. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be our glorious and omnipotent God who hath giuen mankinde knowledge and vnder&s;tanding to ioyne and integrate the confu&s;ed parti|cularitie of all Medicines with one reall vniuer&s;alitie, by which all things be and continue rectified. Therefore Sonne I warne thee, if thou de&s;ire&s;t to be a perfect Phy&s;ition, &s;et not
<PB N="17" REF="12"> thy Practi&s;e on the particularities of Medicine, or the parti|cular intentions of Phy&s;icke, becau&s;e they be confu&s;ed, and at this day not &s;ound, nor perfect. For nature cannot endure them, by rea&s;on of their too much confu&s;ion, but is be&s;t plea|&s;ed or &s;atisfied with and in one only Medicine. Becau&s;e there is but one Medicine truly curing all Infirmities, and comforting the &s;pirituall vertues and powers of life, &amp;c.</HI> And a litttle after in the &s;ame. <HI>He that knoweth how to re|duce mo&s;t particularities or vertues (for the intention of Curing di&s;ea&s;es) vnto one vniuer&s;alitie (of &s;ubiect) &s;hall bee the mo&s;t excellent among&s;t Phy&s;itions. In particular Medicines vertues bee confu&s;ed: but in an vniuer&s;all, they bee reall, vnited, and actiue, as the whole cour&s;e of nature &s;heweth. And this is Medicina, Medicinarum, &s;uperlatiuely by excellencie and pre|rogatiue the Medicine of Medicines. And hee that hath &s;uch a Medicine, hath a pretious gift of God. For it is an incomparable trea&s;ure.</HI> Thus far <HI>Raymund:</HI> who though he there &s;peake of that great and high Philo&s;ophicall &s;ecret, yet he plainly witne&s;&s;eth that there is in nature a vniuer&s;all Medicine: which whe|ther it be made of gold, or gold made of it, It matte|reth not much, for either way it &s;ufficiently proueth, the excellent properties of gold mo&s;t agreeable to mans nature; which hauing thus farre prooued, I will here end this fir&s;t part of this Treati&s;e.</P>
<P>Hauing thus, vnto moderate and well tempered Iudgements (for my intent and purpo&s;e in this trea|ti&s;e) prooued, that there hath bin, and therefore may be a Panchre&s;ticall Medicine, for which very many learned are either &s;earchers them&s;elues, or witne&s;&s;es of other mens happines in attaining the &s;ame: yet be|cau&s;e the peruicacie of &s;ome is &s;uch, that again&s;t ex|periment and &s;en&s;e it &s;elfe, they will (peraduenture
<PB N="18" REF="13"> con&s;ciou&s;ly) pretend the Impo&s;&s;ibilitie &amp; maintaine the negatiue: &amp; &s;ome againe, though yeelding a po&s;&s;i|bilitie &amp; maintaining the affirmatiue, wil fight in the &s;hadow of one in&s;tance: contending, that thogh they granted it may be; yet this &s;ubiect of mine, this my potable gold hath not either the true, or neere pre|paration of that &s;o renowned and famou&s;ly mentio|ned Medicine, powerfull and auaileable in all di&s;ea&s;es that may happen to men: I will applie my &s;elfe to their &s;atisfaction. My an&s;wer &s;hall be breefe, and of two &s;orts. Fir&s;t by Rea&s;on: &s;econdly, by manife&s;t and cleere demon&s;tration of effects, of manifold experi|ments and witne&s;&s;es beyond exception: which be the maine pillers &amp; onely nece&s;&s;ary &s;ub&s;tructions of all knowledg in matter controuertible among&s;t men.</P>
<P>Concerning the proofes of rea&s;on, I haue &s;uffi|ciently &s;atisfied that point in my other booke in the fourth, fift, and &s;ixt chapters. Yet further I pray con&s;ider here with me, that there bee many pathes leading to the &s;ame Towne, and many waies to one and the &s;ame end. Some in their endeauours and pur&s;uite for the attaining of a vniuer&s;all Medicine labour in Minerals and tho&s;e Mettals which re&s;pe|ctiuely bee called, and are vnperfect: Some in Salts: &s;ome in vegetables, &s;ome in the Animall kinde: euery one dittying the &s;ound of the bell an&s;werable to his owne tune. Let each of them therefore fol|low the I&s;&s;ue of his owne labors. I force not again&s;t them. But freely profe&s;&s;e that in the per&s;wa&s;ion of tho&s;e rea&s;ons which haue lead mee, I re&s;olutely &s;et downe my re&s;t for this &s;crutinie in naturall gold, and therein haue employed my Indu&s;try: with what &s;ucce&s;&s;e and happie I&s;&s;ue, I appeale to the mo&s;t cer|taine, true and vncontrollable Iudge and Doctre&s;&s;e,
<PB N="19" REF="13"> which is experience. The centonary Fropperies of Alphabetarias, of <HI>Aurum non Aurum,</HI> &s;hall nothing a|bate the vindicting of this con&s;tant truth, that by my preparation, <HI>Aurum non Aurum,</HI> gold hath beene &s;o altered in and from the compacture and &s;oliditie of his primitiue body; and in that re&s;pect it may bee called, and truly is, <HI>non Aurum,</HI> not gold, but de&s;troy|ed, concerning the gro&s;&s;e body, and altered into a &s;ub|tile, penetrant and volatile nature, and &s;o exalted into the full actiuitie of a mo&s;t precious Medicine, with all the powerfull explications of healthfull and helpfull my&s;teries which nature hath &s;ealed in that body, and left to the indu&s;trious labour of man to vn|fold. For gold is the Embleme of a magnificent and mo&s;t princely Pallace, drawing the beholders of his naturall lu&s;ter, to &s;earch what excellent Iewels bee contained within that outward wall of &s;o rich promi|&s;es. Which though they be many and admirable, yet few attaine to the fruition thereof, becau&s;e by externe apparences, they ayme at the latent and hidden ver|tues: neither doe they know the right key to vnlock that rich Cabinet. And although I cannot &s;ufficiently declare, nor prize, all the faculties (which be re&s;pe|ctiuely innumerable) of this bountifull trea&s;ury: yet I may and doe confidently acknowledge and profe&s;&s;e, that I haue found in v&s;e &amp; practi&s;e very many of great worth; which as in them&s;elues, for the v&s;e of men they be of great worth, and e&s;timation, &s;o for them, man is reciprocally bound both to ackwowledg &amp; thank|fully embrace, as Gods large ble&s;&s;ing; who comman|deth vs to knock at the&s;e gates of Nature, that they may be opened vnto vs, that &s;o we may finde and en|ioy the trea&s;ures locked therein. What man among&s;t thou&s;and hath found out and perfected the like
<PB N="20" REF="14"> magi&s;teriall &s;ecret? Who is he among many, that hath not tyred his teeth in the hard &s;hell, neuer inabled by cracking it, to come to the &s;weet kernell, in which dwelleth this mellite and gentle liquor of gold? But I will leaue this digre&s;&s;ion, and returne to the inten|ded end.</P>
<P>There is no que&s;tion but that a Medicine made of<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Rea&s;on.</NOTE> naturall gold, di&s;&s;olued without things corro&s;iue, and brought into a &s;ub&s;tance in forme like hony, and Me|dicinable, potable, and di&s;per&s;eable into any liquor, is both excellent, and iu&s;tly to be reputed potable gold. But this Medicine of mine, made and con&s;i&s;ting in it &s;elfe of gold, is &s;uch (as I haue before prooued and &s;hall further hereafter proue) therefore it is, and ought to be acknowledged for true potable gold. The pro|po&s;ition needeth none other proofe, then the con&s;ent of all famous writers of and vpon potable gold: The A&s;&s;umption, whereupon the Inference and Conclu|&s;ion dependeth, is prooued in my fir&s;t publi&s;hed booke, as al&s;o out of manife&s;t demon&s;tration, not pri|uate, to my &s;elfe, but publike in the &s;ight of many, not onely once done, but &s;undry times iterated: in which proceedings, the demon&s;tratiue tokens mentioned in Art, are apparent: the In&s;trumentall water which was in the forme of common water before it was put vpon the gold, in few daies becommeth tincted, with a deepe and ruddy colour, al&s;o when the In&s;trumen|tall water &s;o tincted, &s;hall be di&s;tilled away, the &s;oluti|on of gold remaineth in forme of hony as by Philo&s;o|phers is &s;pecified. In the whole magi&s;terie, Art or pro|ce&s;&s;e I haue not kept any thing &s;ecret, &s;auing the In|&s;trumentall water as <HI>Raymund</HI> te&s;tifieth. But &s;ome will &s;ay, If this be that true Potable gold, why do you make it common to others? Good Sirs, for&s;ooth I an|&s;wer
<PB N="21" REF="14"> becau&s;e it is &s;uch, therefore I make it common, concerning the v&s;e: Which being profitable to all, challengeth the right and law of nature and charitie, to be communicated to al. But that other great &s;ecret of the Philo&s;opher, not communicable to others, is onely profitable to the Author him&s;elf. And therfore let not this be the le&s;&s;e precious in it &s;elfe, becau&s;e in|numerable men receiue health and comfort thereby? The &s;unne giueth vi&s;ible light to the whole world. Is it therefore an inferiour Planet vnto <HI>Mercury</HI> which &s;eldome appeares in the &s;ight of men?</P>
<P>Againe. That Medicine which really performeth<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Rea&s;on.</NOTE> the true and proper vnque&s;tioned effects of <HI>Aurum po|tabile,</HI> being e&s;&s;entially made of the &s;aid &s;ubiect, ought and needes mu&s;t be accounted true potable gold. But this Medicine of mine, hath produced the notable effects, only proper to potable gold. Therfore it mu&s;t needes be the &s;ame. An affirmatiue argument from the effect to the cau&s;e is good and &s;trong: as likewi&s;e from the cau&s;e to the effect. In the holy Scriptures, a Prophet &s;hall be iudged great, by his great workes. As <HI>Elias, Eli&s;a,</HI> and the Apo&s;tles rai&s;ed the dead, as our Sauiour Chri&s;t did. (It being proper only to the power of God) who&s;e doctrine they as forerunners; the&s;e as &s;ucceeders preached, in one verity, and the &s;ame diuine gift. The Analogie and proportionall deduction of Inference, is a like true in Arts and Sci|ences, and in all workes both of Nature and Art, whether &s;ingular or conioyned. So our Potable gold, brought from the potentialitie of natures lock, vnto the actiuitie, which artificiall opening exciteth and manife&s;teth, is knowne by his owne proper and in&s;e|parable efficacies and effects, largely affirmed in my other booke. The A&s;&s;umption of this Argument,
<PB N="22" REF="15"> drawing the conclu&s;ion, I will further heereafter, by examples confirme.</P>
<P>The third Rea&s;on may be taken from the extraor|dinarie<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Rea&s;on.</NOTE> and wonderfull manner of working in the na|ture and re&s;olution of gold, whereby it is brought from fixation, to volatility, and &s;o made potable. Therefore I &s;ay thus. Who&s;oeuer can &s;o di&s;&s;olue the body of gold, that it &s;hall not by any Art be reduced againe into fixed &s;olide gold, but &s;o per&s;i&s;t; doubtles hath made potable gold, medicinable and profitable for the health of man. But by Gods ble&s;&s;ings in my endeauours, I haue often times done this, and &s;til can doe it: therefore doubtle&s;&s;e I haue often times made, and &s;till can make potable gold, medicinable and pro|fitable for mans health. The dependence and con|nexion of this propo&s;ition &s;tandeth in this: That gold in his primitiue, naturall, hard, compact body, cannot communicate his internall vertues in mans body; and therefore is not medicinable. For then the formalitie of gold is not loo&s;ened from the bridle, or freed from the bodily pri&s;on, and bonds of coagulati|on; and therefore not ea&s;ily worke vpon the &s;ubiect whereunto it is applied. But contrariwi&s;e, being vlti|matly and irreducibly &s;olute, it is then apt for action. So that if the &s;ub&s;tance of gold be exalted in his exu|berate colour, it is a true token that it is made &s;ubtile, attenuate, and therefore Medicinable; and that the aery and fiery parts, or Elementalitie thereof, are pre|dominant ouer the earthy and watery. And in this manner pre&s;eruing the naturall vnitie of the whole compound, doe draw them (not altering the com|po&s;ition, but &s;ubtiliating the &s;ub&s;tance) in the exalted &s;ymboli&s;me of the &s;ame Elements. The A&s;&s;umption hath the &s;ame proofe and confirmation which the
<PB N="23" REF="15"> other before: that is, my very often and almo&s;t dai|ly experience, whereof, if need be I, can produce ma|ny eye-witne&s;&s;es of eminent rancke, and among&s;t them &s;ome learned Phy&s;itions, again&s;t whom no one dare mutter an exception. But as <HI>Auicen</HI> in his booke de <HI>Anim&aacute;</HI> maketh three kinds of proofe. 1. <HI>Sophi&s;ti|call. 2. Logicall,</HI> and 3. <HI>Sen&s;ible</HI> by &s;ight: of which it is to be vnder&s;tood, that by Sophi&s;ticall there he mea|neth not fal&s;e or counterfeit cauillings. But leauing that apart, I will content my &s;elfe with the other twaine. The Logicall part of which we haue hitherto di&s;cour&s;ed by infe|rence of rea&s;on: And now, will we proceeede to the third, being of &s;en&s;ible and eye-witne&s;&s;ed ex|periments.</P>
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<HEAD>EXPERIMENTS AND OCVLARE <HI>TESTIMONIES, A</HI> FEVV DRAVVEN OVT OF A <HI>GREAT NVMBER, BY WHICH</HI> the Wonderfull vertues of this my Pota|ble gold in the Curing of Di&s;ea&s;es are fully <HI>&s;hewed, perhibited and auouched, by</HI> oculare and &s;en&s;ible te&s;timonies, free from all future challenge and que&s;tion.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>A PROTESTATION OF THE Author, to the writers of the&s;e Epi|&s;tles or Letters following.</HEAD>
<P>_HOnorable, Wor&s;hipfull and Worthy per&s;ons, I intreate your curte&s;ies, and con&s;ide|rate humanities, not to take in ill part or make &s;ini&s;ter con&s;tructio~, that I haue with|out your &s;peciall allowances &amp; warrants, publi&s;hed the&s;e your letters written vnto me, concerning the effects and &s;ucce&s;&s;es in the admini&s;tration of my Potable
<PB N="25" REF="16"> gold. Prote&s;ting hereby, that I entertaine not the lea&s;t thought of wronging any of you; but beeing compul&s;arily enforced to the nece&s;&s;arie defence of my Integritie and good name, intentiou&s;ly &s;candali|&s;ed in the oppugning of this Medicine, which is the &s;ubiect of this Di&s;cour&s;e. I pray you all willingly to con&s;ent to this auerrment of your owne con&s;ciences, and te&s;tifying both the Innocencie of mee, and v&s;e|full nece&s;&s;ity of a Medicine prooued by your &s;elues in &s;o many ca&s;es of dangers, left and for&s;aken after all other knowne Remedies rankly attempted: and progno&s;tically reputed de&s;perate. Which your con|&s;ents, I doubt not &s;hall record an honorable memo|rie of you, in the maintenance of &s;o nece&s;&s;arie, and healing truth. I &s;hall neuer faile by any my habilities, to be ready in any kinde of &s;eruices of good offices to|wards you.</P>
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<HEAD>TRANSMARINE <HI>TESTIMONIES.</HI> THE VSE OF THE POTABLE GOLD BROVGHT OVT <HI>OF ENGLAND, AND PRESENTED</HI> TO HIS SACRED IMPERIALL Maie&s;tie I doe approoue, by the <HI>hap|pie &s;ucce&s;&s;e in two ca&s;es of</HI> mine experience.</HEAD>
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<P>_FIr&s;t, I gaue one ounce waight thereof to a yong man naturally &s;trong, but then farre &s;pent with a malignant feuer, being <HI>febris inclu|&s;a,</HI> with Idlene&s;&s;e of his Braine. After taking thereof he &s;lept, and in his &s;leepe, auoided through his mouth, foure long and round wormes, liuing and quicke. So was he quit and free both from the feuer, congelation, and di&s;temper of the Braine. Notwith&s;tanding many Remedies had beene before prooued vpon him, and he had lyen in this ca&s;e foure weekes extremely &s;icke, in great dan|ger of death.</P>
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<P>AN other al&s;o recouered by this potable gold; Who beeing po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of a Quartane feuer, (which tooke him in the Autumne or fall of the leafe, and held him all winter) and was thereby &s;o weakened, that his &s;trength &s;eemed vtterly decayed, and ready to fall into a Drop&s;ie. This man after ma|ny Purgations, tooke of me an ounce of this Potable gold, in the di&s;tilled water of <HI>Carduus Benedictus:</HI> whereby hee fell into &s;o &s;trange and vnaccu&s;tomed &s;weat, as I cannot reme~ber euer to haue read, or heard of the like. For be&s;ide that it was naturall, with out o|ther impul&s;ion, and &s;o abundant that two per&s;ons had their hands full in drying him, yet it &s;o continued 3. daies and 3. nights. But the mo&s;t wonderfull thing of all was, that in this extraordinary &s;weat, and ab&s;ti|nence from meate the time of three daies and nights, he was &s;o farre from fainting, for &s;o much as any per|&s;on could ob&s;erue, that with this naturall and &s;ponta|neall euacuation, he did euery houre waxe &s;tronger, lu&s;tier, and more cheerefull: And at the end of the&s;e daies, he was throughly recouered and in perfect health.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I doe witne&s;&s;e this IOHN ATHMESTETT IN Pubemheimb and Weyer, D^r. in Phy&s;icke, and Phy&s;ition to the Sacred Imperiall Maie&s;tie.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Right wor&s;hipfull Sir.</HEAD>
<P>_HAuing read your true A&s;&s;ertion of that high Medicine the <HI>Aurum Po|tabile,</HI> and heard relation made of the &s;trange and wonderfull effects of the &s;ame, by my <HI>Lord Ro&s;&s;e</HI> his Maie&s;ties Amba&s;&s;adour, <HI>Sir N. Drury.</HI> and <HI>Mr. Stafford,</HI> with diuers others noble and gentlemen of England that were at this Election &amp; Coronation in <HI>Frankforth,</HI> I could &amp; would not omit to vi&s;it you with the&s;e few lines, hum|ly intreating you, that for my pay, I might be partaker of this &s;o great a gift of God. And hauing vnder&s;tood by the letters of <HI>Sir Henery Cary,</HI> that 4. ounces of this high medicine are &s;ould for twenty &s;hillings, I haue intreated this gentleman to lay out foure pounds &s;terling, that I might haue 16. ounces of it. The which, if I may attaine at your hands, as al&s;o the do&s;e, the manner and time of exhibiting it (for vnwilling would I erre contrary to your experience) I &s;hall euer hold my &s;elfe bound and behoulding vnto you. Thus humbly be&s;eeching you that for common &s;tu|dies &s;ake, you would not let me faile of my Intreatie, I re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your though vnknowne yet euer louing friend IAMES MOSAN, Phy&s;ition to his Highne&s;&s;e.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>CASSELL IN HESSEN <DATE>THIS 11. Iuli. 1612.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>RIght Wor&s;hipful Sir, I thank you mo&s;t highly for your <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> which you &s;ent me: which indeede I do neuer v&s;e, but in nece&s;&s;itie, when other Medicines wil &s;hew no help at al. I haue tried the ver|tue thereof in extreame vomitings: In the pa&s;&s;ion of the hart: In malicious and contagious Dy&s;enteries or bloody fluxes: In the ri&s;ing or &s;uffocation of the mo|ther, and the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e by rea&s;on thereof: In the Colike. In all which di&s;ea&s;es after all other helps inward and outward haue failed, one do&s;e of this Me|dicine did effect &s;o much, that all the&s;e patients after they had taken it, as it were in few houres recouered their health. I haue al&s;o tried it, in that di&s;ea&s;e which is called <HI>Melancholia hypocondriaca</HI> (in Engli&s;h &s;ome call it the Melancholie of the gutts) but haue not found that effect as in the former. Yet it hath com|forted the party maruellou&s;ly.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From Sleu&s;ingen <DATE>24. of Febr. 1612.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your euer good friend IAMES MOSAN.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>VVOr&s;hipfull D^r. <HI>Anthony,</HI> you may thinke me either forgetfull, or vnthankfull for your manifold curte&s;ies towards me. But the truth is, I can finde no conuenient meanes as I would, how to &s;hew my thankfulne&s;&s;e; and therefore con&s;trained to die your debter.</P>
<P>Your <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> is an admirable Medicine in mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es. I haue giuen it in the beginning of a Podagricall fit: Whereupon the patient fell into a &s;weat, and therewithall his paine cea&s;ed, and the pati|ent walked againe in &s;hort &s;pace. Al&s;o in the bloudy flux I haue v&s;ed it, In the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e: In the &s;u|perfluous Men&s;truall flux of women: In the wormes of yong children; In the Mea&s;els and &s;mall Pocks: Al|mo&s;t in all the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Matrice, it is a mo&s;t ex|cellent Remedie. Let all them that haue written a|gain&s;t it, talke idely &amp; nothing to the purpo&s;e. This grant them, that they haue read much, and write learnedly, but nothing to di&s;prooue your Medicine: That little experience that I haue made of it, and o|thers haue found, is &s;ufficient to &s;hew their vanitie. So I de&s;ire to be commended to you, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From Ca&s;&s;ell <DATE>this 16. of Augu&s;t. 1614.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t louing friend Iames Mo&s;anus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>_BVt that I may the better ad|uerti&s;e, declare and &s;atisfie this relation by letters &s;ent vnto me from this &s;aid wor|thy, truly learned, and ver|tuou&s;ly adorned gentleman</HI> Iames Mo&s;an <HI>Doctor of Phy&s;icke, and primate Phy|&s;ition in ordinary to the Land&s;graue of He&s;&s;. I thinke it not ami&s;&s;e here to in&s;ert that which came from an Engli&s;h gentleman named</HI> Alexander Oldfield, <HI>then beeing in Germany; who in the yeare 1613. the 22. of Iuly, in certaine letters &s;ent to Sir</HI> Richard Norton <HI>Knight, and by him &s;hewed vnto me, among&s;t other matters writeth thus.</HI></P>
<P>One thing I had almo&s;t forgotten, which I intreate your Wor&s;hip to certifie to my Lord^&s;, the Lord Bi|&s;hip of Winche&s;ter; that being at Hall the 28. of May, I met with the Land&s;graue of He&s;&s;en his Doctor of Phy&s;icke, which &s;peakes Engli&s;h very well (for he pro|ceeded his degrees in Oxford.) And talking with him about Phy&s;icke, hee asked whether I knew <HI>Doctor Anthony.</HI> I told him that I had heard of him. He told me, that his <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> was excellent Phy&s;icke: and the fir&s;t experience that he had made of it, was on a maide of 21. yeares of age, which was fore troubled with the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and &s;ince that time &s;he was neuer troubled with it, being now aboue a yeare pa&s;t.
<PB N="32" REF="20"> He gaue her one ounce therof at a time, and that &s;elfe &s;ame day &s;he fell into the pa&s;&s;ions of that Di&s;ea&s;e ele|uen times, &amp; (as I &s;aid before) &s;he neuer fel &s;ince into them. Hee gaue it al&s;o to a childe not aboue foure monethes old, which was grieuou&s;ly troubled with that di&s;ea&s;e, and it helpt the childe pre&s;ently.</P>
<P>Al&s;o he gaue it to one that was troubled with the bloudy flux, and was brought &s;o low with it, that no man thought he could haue recouered: he gaue him one ounce at a time, and that but once only, and in|&s;tantly he recouerd, and is very well.</P>
<P>He gaue it al&s;o to a woman which was in childe-bed, and was exceeding weake with the &s;couring, and nothing could &s;tay it but that <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI> For as &s;oone as &s;hee tooke that, &s;hee recouered. This him&s;elfe reporteth, and wi&s;heth that he dwelt neere vnto <HI>D. Anthony,</HI> that he might haue I nough there|of as neede required.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>ALEX. OLDFIELD.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>SIr. I am per&s;waded that you admire my long &s;ilence, which proceedes from no other then &s;undrie great bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, &amp;c. I had occa&s;ion to re|commend &s;ome of your <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> which I had for my proper v&s;e, to a principall gentleman here in the Emperours Court. By who&s;e meanes I haue bin of late much &s;ent vnto by &s;undrie principall per&s;ons, &s;ome dangerou&s;ly &s;ick, to impart it vnto them; name|ly the Baron of Cre&s;&s;y, who had two &s;onnes &s;icke of the &s;mall Poxe: the Elde&s;t of about 19. and the other of 17. yeares of age. The Elde&s;t died without taking any of the <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> becau&s;e they about him thought it was in vaine, and that they were both too farre &s;pent. The other, beeing as dangerou&s;ly &s;icke, tooke it, and is thereupon recouered. The father him|&s;elfe not being well, hath likewi&s;e v&s;ed it, and doth finde him&s;elfe much comforted, and wel againe by it. Many more in like manner. I haue beene &s;o liberall of my &s;tore, that it is almo&s;t &s;pent. Many doe wi&s;h I had &s;uch quantitie by me that they might haue a good part of it for their money. Wherefore &s;end me I pray you a good quantitie of the three &s;orts, with the price therof. Send it either by &s;ome of our Marchants that are to come to this next Mart at Frankfurth, or el&s;e by &s;ome frind of tru&s;t in the company of the <HI>Count Pala|tine,</HI> or the <HI>Lady Elizabeth,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>VIENNA <DATE>THIS THIRD OF Feb. 1612. Stile Brit.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your very a&s;&s;ured and louing friend S^r. Steph. Le&s;eiur Knight, Em|ba&s;&s;adour to the Emperour.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="34" REF="21">
<P>VVOrthy and learned friend, I write to you later then I intended, becau&s;e I thought it not fit to deliuer my opinion before manifold experience made, in a matter of &s;uch worth and con&s;equence. <HI>Experimentu~ fallax,</HI> as our great ma|&s;ter <HI>Hippocrates</HI> teacheth. But now I will breefely &s;hew you the vertue and excellency of your medicine. The fir&s;t triall that I made of it, was on mine owne daugh|ter about 16. yeeres old: which for two continuall dayes, was much troubled with vomitings, keeping nothing that &s;he eat or dranke. Al&s;o by rea&s;on of in|tollerable inward torments &s;he could not &s;leepe one winke for the &s;pace of two daies and nights. In which her extremities, hauing v&s;ed all other conuenient and commended medicines to no purpo&s;e, but altogether without any ea&s;e or mitigation of her paines, I be|tooke my &s;elfe la&s;tly to your medicine, as to a ho|ly Anchor, and la&s;t hope. She tooke the &s;ame and kept it, and then &s;lept a litle. But after 2. houres &s;he ca&s;t againe in great abundance, and &s;ince &s;he hath continued perfectly well.</P>
<P>The &s;econd triall I made thereof, was vpon a very wor&s;hipfull gentleman, <HI>Sir William Samuell</HI> Knight. He had a burning feauer, with great violence of continu|all heat, &s;o that he vtterly lo&s;t all &s;leepe: he had withall a weakene&s;&s;e in his kidneis, and could not make wa|ter. Sundry gli&s;ters were admini&s;tred vnto him, Pur|gations, vomits, and he was al&s;o let blood: All which (in my ob&s;eruation) were &s;o far from giuing him any ea&s;e, that the di&s;ea&s;e did &s;till grow &s;tronger, and all the
<PB N="35" REF="21"> &s;ymptomes or accidents euery day wor&s;e and wor&s;e, and more grieuous. I per&s;waded the giuing of your medicine. But at the fir&s;t I could not obtaine, that he &s;hould take a new and vnknowne thing. At la&s;t by the Importunitie of his friends, and the nece&s;&s;ity of his di&s;ea&s;e &s;til increa&s;ing, he yeelded &amp; tooke it. In an in&s;tant almo&s;t, he felt a gentle remi&s;&s;ion of his heat, &amp; a milde cooling; his &s;pirits comforted; his kidneis &s;trengthned, &s;o that he made water in a rea&s;onable good quantity. Since which time, he neuer cea&s;ed to extoll this Medicine, though in troth, hauing beene long afflicted with a mo&s;t violent di&s;ea&s;e, he hath not as yet fully recouered his &s;trength.</P>
<P>The third triall I made, was vpon a maid of noble familie, which being taken with dreadfull convul&s;i|ons, after &s;ome gli&s;ters taken, had al&s;o this medicine, and was thereby perfectly cured.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, I was de&s;ired to &s;end all the &s;tore I had of this medicine, to a graue Matrone, a gentlewoman al|ready &s;pent with old age, and much &s;ickne&s;&s;e, being then left to Gods mercy as at her la&s;t ga&s;pe. She pre|&s;ently after the taking of this medicine, found much ea&s;e and comfortable &s;trength in her &s;pirits, though I thinke there be no po&s;&s;ible recouering her, &s;o &s;pent as is afore&s;aid: farewell. &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>GAYTON <DATE>the 10. of Sept. 1611.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your louing friend Ioh. Markes.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>MA&s;ter Doctor <HI>Anthony,</HI> though I haue no ac|quaintance with you at all, yet being an eye witne&s;&s;e of your generall charity extended to the whole world, in bringing to the v&s;e of men the mo&s;t excellent quinte&s;&s;ence for the rectifying of na|ture, that the world (as I thinke) yet euer had, I am thereby imboldned to pre&s;ume of your fauour for &s;ome &s;ew graines of the &s;ame, which (for the &s;euerall operations that I haue &s;eene thereof, in two &s;peciall friends of mine, both at the point of death) &s;hall in my e&s;teeme for euer be held in mo&s;t precious ac|compt. For you &s;hal vnder&s;tand that about a twelue|moneth &s;ince, I came to a brother in lawes hou&s;e of mine, one <HI>Sir William Samuell</HI> knight, of Vpton in Nor|thampton-&s;hire, whom I found in great extremitie of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and thereby &s;o weakned with the continuall torment he was in, that all which were about him fea|red him greatly: he had three Doctors of Phi&s;icke, yet could none of them mini&s;ter any thing to him to giue him any ea&s;e of his torments, but rather tormented him more, vntill at la&s;t, him&s;elfe remembred that one <HI>Mr. Markes</HI> had commended this memorable medi|cine of yours. Which being brought, hee tooke, and it wrought &s;o miraculous an effect within the com|pa&s;&s;e of two houres, as neither he nor I euer &s;aw be|fore. For it in&s;tantly deliuered him of his paine, which &s;eemed before intollerable: It gaue him re&s;t, which for many daies and nights before he had bin barred of: It drew on an appetite by little and little, all meat be|fore being loath&s;ome vnto him: And (which is mo&s;t maruellous) whereas formerly, by his medicines ex|coriating tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, he &s;eemed to endure great torture vpon euery prouocation to the &s;toole: he had now in the day and night fiue &s;tooles, and euery pro|uocation
<PB N="37" REF="22"> was now as delightfull vnto him, as the o|ther were tormenting. Then did one of his Phy&s;iti|ons adui&s;e, that now he &s;hould take &s;ome Cordiall, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the faculties of nature being very weake. But when this was propounded vnto my brother by his wife, he vtterly refu&s;ed it. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, it was &s;o farre forth vrged, as that he tooke it, the Phy&s;ition bea|ring him in hand, that it was nothing el&s;e but Vni|cornes horne, Bezoar &s;tone and &s;uch like. But after taking thereof, my brother fell againe into his for|mer tortures, and more vehement then before. Wher|by he was enforced the &s;elfe &s;ame night to &s;end again vnto <HI>Mr. Markes;</HI> who releeued him as formerly he had done: &s;ince which time (by Gods ble&s;&s;ing) he hath continued well. After this manner an ob&s;tructed body was cured. It hath wrought a great effect in <HI>Sir Iohn Hunt</HI> Knight, of Leice&s;ter-Shire, who lately was very low brought with a fluxe, together with a Bur|ning feuer: and being neere vnto death, and voyde of all other helpe, he was releeued by the &s;elfe &s;ame Me|dicine only, and perfectly re&s;tored. <HI>M^r. Doctor A&s;h|worth,</HI> who partly had &s;eene, and partly heard the&s;e miraculous effects of this your Medicine, lying dan|gerou&s;ly &s;ick at Oxford this la&s;t Sommer, &s;ent his Son in very great ha&s;t to <HI>Ma&s;ter Markes</HI> for &s;ome portion of this your Medicine: his &s;aid &s;onne feared that at his returne, he &s;hould not finde him liuing But thankes be to God, he liueth, and is well: which is to be attri|buted vnto your Medicine, although peraduenture he will not acknowledge the &s;ame, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>KNIGHTHORP IN LEICESTER+Shire, <DATE>Ianuary 20. 1612.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Ready and a&s;&s;ured friend, Henry Skipwith.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>MACTE VIR PROBITATE, et Scienti&acirc; &s;ingulari.</HEAD>
<P>MY wifes brother M^r. <HI>Henry Skipwith,</HI> lately told me how friendly mention of me you made to him; He might very well haue reciprocated, and &s;aid, how oft mention he hath heard me make of you. Yet how&s;oeuer, I mu&s;t euer acknowledge my &s;elfe obliged to you in double bands. For in my la&s;t grieuous and long langui&s;hing &s;ickne&s;&s;e, when my then Phy&s;ition <HI>Dr. C.</HI> &s;taggered in his Iudgement of my Di&s;ea&s;e, and in the hope of my recouery he &s;ee|med to quaile: yea when my &s;elfe, and all my behol|ders did de&s;paire of my life; then by Gods prouidence, a friend (telling the rare vertues of your <HI>Aurum Pota|bile</HI>) cau&s;ed two graines of the &s;ame, to be di&s;&s;olued in fiue &s;poonfuls of di&s;tilled Endiue Water, and &s;o to be mini&s;tred vnto me. After receiuing thereof, within one houres &s;pace, it is incredible to be &s;poken, what alleuiation I found of my langui&s;hings, and what cor|roboration of all my vitall parts. In the morning I tooke it, and vntill night I felt a mo&s;t happy operati|on thereof. It procured &s;tooles all that day, &s;o plea|&s;ingly as my &s;oule could de&s;ire: vntil &s;uch time as that my Phy&s;ition (after he had taken his leaue of me for that night, I that I had now compo&s;ed my &s;elf to re&s;t) came againe vnto me, hauing vpon the point of a knife &s;omewhat which hee did put into my mouth, being then almo&s;t a&s;leepe. But about midnight when I did awake, I found my &s;elfe relap&s;ed as before. Then, vtterly de&s;pairing of my life, I called (as I
<PB N="39" REF="23"> thought my la&s;t call) vnto my wife, intreating her to &s;end againe to my fore&s;aid friend, to intreate him to con&s;ider, whether in his Iudgement two graines were not too &s;mal a proportion to ouercome the maligni|tie of &s;o dangerous a Di&s;ea&s;e. He therefore gaue me this &s;econd time three graines, which &s;peedily as be|fore, and wonderfully did refre&s;h my &s;pirits, and ther|by my bodie was very &s;oluble for the &s;pace of 7. daies after. And notwith&s;tanding &s;undry euacuations eue|ry day, my &s;trength daily increa&s;ed. Then was that D^r. exceedingly angry that I did entertaine his coun|&s;ell no longer: &s;ince which time he hath wrote an Engli&s;h booke, vncharitably defaming me, and cauil|ling again&s;t that famous Medicine, which by the prouidence of God re&s;tored vnto me both life and health. Now concerning the chiefe intention of the&s;e my letters, I pray you &s;end me 12. graines of your po|table gold in &s;uch forme as my brother M^r. <HI>Henry Skipwith</HI> lately receiued from you. This bearer my friend &s;hall giue you &s;atisfaction for the &s;ame, &amp;c. The Author of health is God, who perpetually pre&s;erue you, vnto whome he hath vouch&s;afed &s;uch fauour as to attaine vnto &s;o great a re&s;torer of health, and pro|longer of life, as this <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> appeareth to be. Farewell. Reu. Dr.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Vpton, <DATE>15. Feb. 1612.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t louing friend William Samuell.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>VVOrthy Sir. I am adui&s;ed by that Reue|rend Doctor, Ma&s;ter Doctor <HI>Hunton,</HI> in the&s;e parts highly accounted, to require in behalfe of our worthy friend, a knight, your helpe and aduice, in a deplored e&s;tate, wherein hee now &s;tandeth. We de&s;ire al&s;o &s;ome quantity of your <HI>Au|rum Potabile,</HI> with direction for the due admini&s;trati|on thereof. This gentleman di&s;ea&s;ed is neere 80 yeares of age, of Cholericke con&s;titution. The fir&s;t originall of his Infirmitie (as we coniecture) was by company of his wife being yong. Not long after in a Iourney which he tooke, when he was yet &s;car&s;e &s;ixe myles from his hou&s;e, he was con&s;trained oft times for to alight from his hor&s;e. Then did he make water, and in his water either blood, or &s;ome &s;ub&s;tance like vnto blood, peraduenture &s;permaticall, which hath continued now many daies. Al&s;o euen to this time he is vnable to retaine his vrine, by the Imbecillitie of his bladder as wee &s;uppo&s;e. A Gonorrhe likewi&s;e he was &s;ubiect vnto. He is not as yet free from any of the&s;e Infirmities. We expect &s;ome helpe from you. For your charges and coun&s;ell, this gentleman will giue you full content. My &s;elfe al&s;o will be with you this next Terme, and will not be vnthankfull.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Trent <DATE>the 11. of Sept. 1611.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t louing friend, N. W. Phy&s;ition.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="41" REF="24">
<P>MA&s;ter Doctor <HI>Anthony</HI> you may call to minde,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This letter came from the Knight him&s;elfe.</NOTE> if you plea&s;e, that about September la&s;t pa&s;t, you wrote certaine letters vnto me. At which time I al&s;o receiued from you fiue ounces of your <HI>Au|rum Potabile,</HI> to the prai&s;e of God, your commenda|tion, and my great good. My Di&s;ea&s;es were mentio|ned in the former letters. Be&s;ides which I had al&s;o a great &s;welling from my hucchlebone vnto the &s;oles of my feete. But it is without paine: peraduenture it came of cold, or with lying long time vpon my right &s;ide. I vnder&s;tand by Ma&s;ter <HI>Doctor Hunton,</HI> that be|&s;ides this <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> which you &s;ent me, you haue al&s;o the &s;ub&s;tance of gold in forme like hony, I pray you &s;end me thereof, and the manner how to v&s;e the &s;ame. I doe feele (I prai&s;e God) a mitigation of all my paines and Infirmities throughout all my bo|dy: the &s;welling which I mentioned doth daily de|crea&s;e: My vrine al&s;o I am able to retaine. This booke of yours Ma&s;ter <HI>Doctor Hunton</HI> reque&s;ted of me. Send me an other I pray you, your &s;tudies and endeauours God alwaies ble&s;&s;e: farewell.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>BLYBROVVGH <DATE>Octob. 10. 1611.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your friend. H. A.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>THis gentleman, of whom I &s;hall now next write, and who&s;e letters &s;ent vnto me are extant, being Secretarie to the right ho|nouable the Earle of Southampton, in his owne words had beene long &s;icke of a Quartane feuer: for Cure whereof he entertained a mo&s;t learned Phy&s;ition, who mini&s;tred vnto him a long time &s;uch Medicines as were appropriate: Neither yet had he ouerma&s;tered the feuer; nor re&s;tored any &s;trength vnto the patient. Then did this Phy|&s;ition per&s;wade this gentleman his patient to v&s;e my Aurum Potabile; which he did, and with good &s;ucce&s;&s;e. Whereupon, he wrote afterwards vnto me for more thereof, as followeth.</HI></P>
<P>Sir, I haue found &s;o much good v&s;e of your <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> as makes me de&s;ire more. For I mu&s;t truely &s;ay, I haue gotten much &s;trength &s;ince I tooke it, and recouered my &s;pirits exceedingly decaied by extremi|tie of &s;ickne&s;&s;e: my &s;tore is not &s;o &s;pent, but that I haue &s;ome left in the Country, but my &s;lay hath bin longer here then I expected; and therfore may be &s;up|plied from you with more ea&s;e then from thence. Which I de&s;ire may be &s;ent by this bearer of the be&s;t: So &s;hall I re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very louing friend, Thomas Kisley.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>SOVTHAMPTON HOVSE <DATE>THIS 26. of Nouemb. 1611.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<PB N="43" REF="25">
<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Doctor Anthony,</HI> I pray you make me &s;o much beholding vnto you as to be&s;tow me this twentie &s;hillings in that &s;oueraigne quin|te&s;&s;ence which I had of you at my being with you. For (as I told you) I was to haue but one of tho&s;e gla&s;|&s;es my &s;elfe: which, one of my e&s;peciall friends hath had of me; &s;o that now, I haue &s;carcely one graine left. <HI>Sir Brian Caue Knight,</HI> was taken with a violent burning feuer: but after taking of this Medicine, he had only one fit, and then was perfectly well recoue|red. Al&s;o a &s;eruant of mine, had in like manner &s;o dangerous a Feuer, that at my comming home I found him at point of death. The onely taking of this Medicine hath &s;o purged him by an extraordinary Sweat, (that thankes be to God) he is at this time in a Iourney abroad with me, and finds his bodie in &s;o good temper as it was not of a Twelue moneth be|fore, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured friend to v&s;e Henry Skipwith.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="44" REF="26">
<P>SIr. Some few houres after your departure, Ma&s;ter Doct. <HI>Lewknar</HI> came hither to my Lord Bi&s;hop of Winche&s;ter. And at &s;upper, after my Lord had made &s;ome relation of the proceedings and benefite he found of your <HI>Aurum Potabile, Doctor Lewknar</HI> re|plied in the comendation therof, &s;aying; That on Sa|turday la&s;t pa&s;t, he being at Cowdry, came to a gen|tlewoman who was dead to the world, being both &s;peechle&s;&s;e and knowing no body; he gaue her one &s;poonfull of your <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> in that ca&s;e as &s;hee then was. And at the fir&s;t taking thereof, &s;he fell into &s;trange convul&s;ions, wherein &s;he continued two houres: and after he gaue her as much more, and then &s;he fell into a great &s;weat: and 2 houres after, he gaue her a &s;poonfull more, &amp; &s;he fell into a fine &s;leepe, and waking &s;he &s;aid, Giue me more of that: which was done; and &s;he tooke good re&s;t after. And the next day, he went to &s;ee how &s;he did, and found her eating of a Chicken. This he told before my <HI>Lord Bi&s;hop,</HI> his bro|ther, <HI>Doctor Steward</HI> of the Arches, <HI>Sir Thomas Bil&s;on</HI> my Lords &s;onne, and my &s;elfe.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>WALTHAM <DATE>THIS 15. of Augu&s;t 1611.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your louing friend Tho. Webbes.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="45" REF="26">
<P><HI>THis Doctor Lewknar, of whom mention is made in the&s;e former letters, did after|wards write vnto me, de&s;iring to haue more of my Potable gold. For this learned Gentleman, had before found and &s;eene the effects thereof in the Cure of his daughter in law by marriage with his Sonne, being &s;trongly taken with the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e. The ca&s;e whereof &s;et downe in a part of his letter to me, which I haue &s;hewed in the end of my fir&s;t booke. Whereupon the aduer&s;aries both to my &s;elfe and the truth, haue greatly accu&s;ed (I was about to &s;ay &s;landered him) as may appeare by an other letter of his &s;ent vnto me beginning thus.</HI></P>
<P>Good <HI>Doctor Anthony,</HI> I haue beene bitterly taxed, for giuing te&s;timony of the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of your <HI>Au|rum potabile:</HI> which doth nothing at all daunt me. For I a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe, that <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> being rightly made (which few haue attained vnto) is a &s;ingular medicine how&s;oeuer, I thinke yours (as I haue expe|rienced) to be good. And therefore I pray you &s;end me two ounces by this my kin&s;man, and write vnto me, what effect it worketh in womens monethly cour&s;es, &amp;. <HI>And after it foloweth.</HI></P>
<P>I doe a&s;&s;uredly promi&s;e you, that as I &s;hall find the effect thereof good, all the Societie of the Colledge &s;hall not auert me. So likewi&s;e, &s;hall not any priuate re|gard of friend&s;hip, flattery or gaine, induce me at any time, to giue approbation to any dangerous or vncer|taine medicine, &amp;c.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your louing friend George Lewknar.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="46" REF="27">
<P>I Doubt not (my good Co&s;en) but you much de&s;ire to heare what effects your <HI>Auru~ Potabile</HI> hath per|formed in the&s;e parts. A certaine neere neighbour of mine, the wife of <HI>Ro. Downing,</HI> lay euen at point of death, after a long langui&s;hing &s;ickne&s;&s;e (for &s;hee was prayed for in the Church.) Whereupon, my Sonne <HI>Barners</HI> &amp; I, went in the after noone to &s;ee her. Short|ly after our comming, &s;he tooke a potion of a Phy&s;iti|on there pre&s;ent, which &s;odainly &s;he ca&s;t vp: at which I mu&s;ed. Then did her husband affirme, that for the &s;pace of a moneth before, &s;he had not taken downe a &s;poonfull of any thing, but &s;he did likewi&s;e ca&s;t it vp. My Son did the~ importune me, to giue her a &s;poonful of your <HI>Aurum potabile;</HI> which I was very loath to doe, &s;eeing &s;he &s;eemed but a dead woman: and, it might be &s;ome di&s;credit to the medicine, &amp; to me. Yet at the la&s;t I did yeeld, &s;he being de&s;irous thereof: I gaue her ther|fore a &s;poonfull, which &s;taied with her contrary to all our expectations. And within a &s;hort time, whereas before &s;he was &s;o cold, that they were forced to lay more cloathes on her, &s;he came to a kind naturall heat. The~ we gaue her &s;ome mace-ale with <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> which &s;he dige&s;ted, and afterwards mace-ale alone, which al&s;o &s;taied with her. The 3. day after, we &s;ent to vi&s;it her, who &s;ent vs word that the &s;ame day &s;he had eate~ the be&s;t part of a Chicke~, &amp; did hope to come to vs &s;hortly, &amp;c. You &s;hall al&s;o know that Mr. <HI>Bo&s;well</HI> a Mini&s;ter &amp; Preacher of <HI>Saffron Walden,</HI> did greatly im|portune me for one ounce of <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> for his wife, being accounted pa&s;t Cure in a langui&s;hing di&s;|ea&s;e. And &s;he by that onely ounce receiued &s;o much comfort, that he &s;ent vp to Lond. to you for more, &amp;c</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>COVVLING, <DATE>21. die Maij. 1611</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured louing Co&s;en Tho. Wolridge, Iu&s;tice of peace in E&s;&s;ex.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="47" REF="27">
<P>A <HI>Letter &s;ent to Ma&s;ter Edward Smith of the Temple, Coun&s;ellor at the common lawes, from Ma&s;ter George Wethery, Se|cretary to the right honourable the Lord Shef|field, Lord Pre&s;ident of his Maie&s;ties Councell e&s;tabli&s;hed for the North parts.</HI></P>
<P>Good <HI>Ma&s;ter Smith,</HI> my Lord would haue you &s;end pre&s;ently to <HI>Doctor Anthony,</HI> and de&s;ire him to &s;end his Lord&s;hip (with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed) the like quantity of his <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> as he &s;ent the la&s;t time; for that my Lord hath made many trials of it, and will report much good thereof; which will turne greatly to Ma|&s;ter Doctors aduantage, and the credit of his Medi|cine.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Yorke <DATE>this 30. of Septemb. 1613.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Alwaies yours George Wethery.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A <HI>True Relation made by me Elias Holmes, of the manifold vertues of Ma&s;ter Do|ctor Anthonies Aurum Potabile, tryed by the command of the right honourable, Edmund Lord Sheffield, Lord Pre&s;ident of Yorke.</HI></HEAD>
<PB N="48" REF="28">
<P>THe wife of <HI>Iohn Goul&s;brough</HI> &s;eruant to my Lord, lay very &s;icke &s;undry daies before my Lord had knowledge thereof. Then was I &s;ent vnto her, whom I found langui&s;hing and in great extremitie. Shee was greatly &s;weld in her bodie, and had al&s;o a loo&s;e|ne&s;&s;e, &s;o that it pa&s;t from her almo&s;t vnknowing to her. And further &s;he was greatly di&s;tempered in heat. She had taken no manner &s;u&s;tenance for 4. or 5. daies before, whereby &s;hee was growne &s;o weake, that &s;hee could not mooue her body but as &s;he was helpt by others. Al&s;o her eyes were greatly &s;welled: her &s;peech could not be heard the length of the bed: &s;hee de&s;ired nothing but drinke, taking no re&s;t, neither night nor day.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t &s;poonfull that I gaue her, did &s;hew &s;mall effect whil&s;t I was with her, which was &s;ome houre: but they which attended her, &s;aid, that &s;ome two houres after, it made her ri&s;t, and to voide a little wa|ter of her Stomacke. At euening I gaue her one o|ther &s;poonfull, and before I could &s;eale vp the gla&s;&s;e, &s;he was in a little &s;lumber, but it continued not long. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, &s;hee felt &s;o much ea&s;e at her Stomack, that &s;he &s;aid, What is this that my good Lord hath &s;ent me: for I giue God thankes I feele much ea&s;e to|wards that I did: with that &s;he prayed hartily for my Lord And both her &s;peech and countenance &s;eemed better then before: Then about one of the clock at midnyght, &s;he fell a&s;leepe, and &s;lept two houres. The next morning, I gaue her the third &s;poonfull; and af|ter that &s;he ca&s;t a little, and in her ca&s;ting &s;he tooke cold, which cau&s;ed her to cough, and made her &s;o ill and weake, that I thought my laboure was all lo&s;t. Her loo&s;enes al&s;o held her &s;till. But it plea&s;ed God to giue &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ing vnto this Medicine, that after the
<PB N="49" REF="28"> taking of 4. or 5. &s;poonfull more, her flux was &s;taide, her &s;trength al&s;o recouered in &s;uch &s;ort, that &s;he was able to &s;it vpright in her bed, and to receiue &s;u&s;te|nance. Al&s;o, after three &s;poonful more, &s;hee could en|dure to haue her clothes put on, and with a little helpe, to walke vp and downe the Chamber. Shee tooke in all 13. &s;poonfuls. Then did &s;he acknowledge that &s;hee was perfectly well, giuing God thankes therefore: And to me &s;hee &s;aid, Now <HI>Ma&s;ter Holmes</HI> I pray you &s;pare your further labour, &amp;c.</P>
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<P><HI>THomas Taylor,</HI> one of my Lords hou&s;hold &s;er|uants, about the &s;ame time in the former yeere had an extraordinary Maligne feuer &amp; of long<NOTE PLACE="marg">A quotidian maligne feuer.</NOTE> continuance. He was a very able and &s;trong man: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, it had &s;o weakned him, that he was &s;eantly able to goe vpright: He could endure to take no &s;u&s;tenance for a long time. Often times al&s;o as a mad man, he would ari&s;e out of his bed in the night &s;ea&s;on, and lye downe on the floore, and there lie, vntill &s;ome body came by chance to helpe him.</P>
<P>This yeare he likewi&s;e fell into the &s;ame Infirmity by all &s;ignes and tokens. His fir&s;t fit continued &s;ixe houres, with &s;uch violent paine at his heart, that he was enforced to cry out. My Lord was not willing that I &s;hould giue him any thing this fir&s;t fit. The next day after, when the former pa&s;&s;ions began to a&s;|&s;ault him, my Lord &s;ent me vnto him, and I gaue him one &s;poonfull of this Medicine. After which, he did &s;undry times ca&s;t vp by vomit, a very filthy and euill &s;ub&s;tance. When he had done ca&s;ting, I gaue him another &s;poonfull, and &s;o he re&s;ted quietly, ha|uing an ea&s;ie fit which continued the &s;pace of three
<PB N="50" REF="29"> houres. His third fit came al&s;o vnto him, then I gaue him one other &s;poonfull, and within a quarter of an houre, he had a vomit. I gaue him one other &s;poon|full, and he had one other vomit. I gaue him then an other, that is, three times one after an other, and three times he vomited: and then he was prouoked to the &s;toole. Whil&s;t he was there, he had againe a very great vomit, being of diuers colors, and a mucilage or &s;ly|mie &s;ub&s;tance. After this vomit, I gaue him one other &s;poonfull, and then he &s;lept quietly, and had no more fits afterward.</P>
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<P><HI>HEnry Kickin&s;on</HI> one of my Lords &s;eruants, it<NOTE PLACE="marg">A continuall maligne feuer.</NOTE> plea&s;ed God to vi&s;ite with an extraordinary Quotidian feuer, hauing a &s;en&s;ible paine in his bones, which made him &s;o &s;ore that he could not abide one to touch him: and with the extremitie thereof, became euen mad and &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e, not know|ing any man. Al&s;o &s;o weake, that euery one of his friends expected death. He continued in this extrea|mitie a fortnight, before I was &s;ent to him: In which time, he had taken little &s;u&s;tenance. His body al&s;o was extreamely hot, and he tooke no re&s;t.</P>
<P>After the fir&s;t &s;poonfull that I gaue him, within halfe an houre he fell a&s;leepe, and &s;lept the &s;pace of one houre, and when he awoke did ca&s;t a little. At night I gaue him one other &s;poonfull after which he &s;lept two houres, and then &s;pake the&s;e words. Will not <HI>Ma&s;ter Holmes</HI> come againe vnto me? and other &s;uch like &s;peaches manife&s;tly approouing that he had found comfort by that which I had giuen him. Then did he giue thankes vnto God. All that I gaue him was eleuen &s;poonfuls. So by little and little he amen|ded, and became perfectly recouered.</P>
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<PB N="51" REF="29">
<P><HI>MAny others I could here &s;et downe, which haue receiued in the&s;e parts pre&s;ent re|leefe by this Medicine. Among the re&s;t, my Lords Children both &s;onnes and Daughters, who &s;undry times and in &s;undry ca&s;es being affe|cted, haue alwaies bene cured with this onely Re|medy. Al&s;o my Lord him&s;elfe by v&s;e thereof, doth preuent many &s;its of the Stone which heretofore he hath beene &s;ubiect vnto, and pre&s;erueth his health thereby; So likewi&s;e doth my Lady.</HI></P>
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<P>LA&s;tly for my &s;elfe, being &s;ubiect vnto an ex|treame migrim in my head, as Phy&s;itions call it, but my di&s;ea&s;e is in this manner. Many times in the yeare, being in perfect health, I &s;hall haue my &s;ight &s;odenly taken away; &s;o &s;hall I continue halfe an houre: then &s;hall I haue a mo&s;t violent aking in my head, al&s;o a &s;leepine&s;&s;e; then a kind of &s;tupor fir&s;t in my lips and tongue, and &s;o it goeth downe to my hands; I &s;tretch them out like vnto the <HI>Pal&s;ey,</HI> and<NOTE PLACE="marg">A dead Pal&s;ey</NOTE> thus it holds me a good while: Then it will go downe into my legs. All this while I &s;hall haue a great de&s;ire to ca&s;t, but cannot, vntill I haue beene in this fit &s;ome 6. houres: and then with much adoe I &s;hall ca&s;t, and af|ter once or twice ca&s;ting I &s;hall haue &s;ome better ea&s;e. As long as I am in that former extremitie, I &s;hall &s;om|time &s;arcely be able to fetch my breath, neither to &s;peake, nor vnder&s;tand, nor heare what is &s;poken. But
<PB N="52" REF="30"> at the la&s;t I fall a&s;leepe, &amp; then I begin to be wel, &amp; yet not very wel, nor in perfect good health for the &s;pace of one whole weeke after. Now it plea&s;ed God, that being at Lond. in Decem. la&s;t, 1613. being in pre&s;ence of my Lord, &s;uddenly I felt that my &s;ight failed me, my head aked, and that my fit approached neere. Whereupon I craued pardon of my Lord, being not able to goe forward with his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e that I had then in hand. My Lord therefore commanded mee pre|&s;ently to take &s;ome <HI>Aurum Potabile;</HI> for it was then in my cu&s;todie. But I made the mixture &s;omewhat more effectuall of the gold, then I was accu&s;tomed to doe at other times. And within one quarter of an houre after taking thereof, my &s;pirits and &s;en&s;es were comforted: the cold, which at the fir&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed me, became temperate. Al&s;o I brake winde both vpward and downward. Likewi&s;e I had a de&s;ire to vomit, and an inclination to &s;leepe: But my Lord would not permit me, cau&s;ing me to bee kept walking vp and downe. Whereby after the &s;pace of one houre I felt my &s;elfe very well: only my head did ake a little. But (prai&s;ed be God) I did not fall into my v&s;uall fits. Fur|thermore, by taking that <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> I became loo&s;e bodied, whereas v&s;ually I am accu&s;tomed to be bound. All the&s;e things (if neede require) I will bee ready vpon mine oath to auouch. Thus I doe end.</P>
<P>EVER SINCE I TOOKE THIS Medicine I haue continued in good health, prai&s;ed be God.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Feb. 4. 1614.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your louing friend Elias Holmes, atten|ding my fore&s;aid Lord in his Chamber.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="53" REF="30">
<P><HI>I May not forget here to remember the right Reuerend father in God, who&s;e learning, pietie and vertue be &s;ufficiently knowne, the Lord Bi|&s;hop of Winche&s;ter, my Honourable good Patron: again&s;t who&s;e te&s;timonie there can be no excepti|on. His Lord&s;hip is a mo&s;t autenticke witne&s;&s;e of this my Potable gold, and te&s;tifieth the vertues thereof to all per&s;ons: and can (if neede require) maintaine the &s;ame to the greate&s;t per&s;ons of this Realme: how not onely him&s;elfe in the recouerie and maintenance of his owne bodily health, much weakened with continuall &s;tudies, and the late great paines in conference of many copies, for the true tran&s;lation of the holy Scriptures out of He|brew into Engli&s;h: but al&s;o very many others, re|ceiuing Aurum Potabile from his pious charitie, haue beene from many and diuers di&s;ea&s;es recoue|red, and re&s;tored to their former health by v&s;e thereof. But becau&s;e the vocall and liuely atte|&s;tation of his Lord&s;hip, can more &s;atisfie any that require &s;atisfaction, then any deliuery by his let|ters &s;ent me, I will be &s;paring in that point: and trouble the Reader onely with a few of many, &s;hew|ing how, and to whome, his Lord&s;hip in greate&s;t nece&s;&s;ities, and dangerous di&s;ea&s;es, did liberally be&s;tow this Potable gold, and commanded the ef|fects thereof to be briefely &s;et downe, as followeth.</HI></P>
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<PB N="54" REF="31">
<P>SIr, being appointed by my Lord &amp; Mr. to confer with diuers of this cou~try, who haue bin cured of &s;undry di&s;ea&s;es with <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> giuen vnto them by his Lord&s;hip: I haue accordingly take~ the report of tho&s;e few that were neere this place, and with whom I might conueniently &s;peake. Many more there are, that receiued good by it, which dwell remote from this place, with whom I &s;hall &s;peake as occa&s;ion &s;hall be offered, and lei&s;ure permit to do it. So hoping to be better furni&s;hed with the&s;e things again&s;t your com|ming into Hamp&s;hire, which is &s;hortly expected, I take leaue, re&s;ting,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured friend to my power, Antho. Langford Secretary to my Lord Bi&s;hop of Winche&s;ter.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>BISHOPS WATHAM <DATE>THE la&s;t of Nouember, 1612.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>GOod Sir, although it be vnu&s;uall with me to of|fer exchange of words to &s;trangers, yet &s;ince the heauenly prouidence hath de&s;igned a part of noble skill, wherein I vnder&s;tand you are &s;in|gular, to be &s;ome meanes of healthfull v&s;e vnto me, I &s;hould hold it a iu&s;t forfeit of my recouered e&s;tate, if I &s;hould &s;ile~ce any thing that appertaineth to the effe|cting it. I therefore cannot choo&s;e but tell you how
<PB N="55" REF="31"> much I am bound to my Honourable good Lord of Winche&s;ter, who fir&s;t of his good fauour vouch&s;afed me of your <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> &s;o well agreeing with my di&s;ea&s;ed body, as that I &s;hall become a Cu&s;tomer vn|to you for more of it. I find it very milde aboue all o|ther Phy&s;icke in operation, cau&s;ing a temperate &s;weat, and much allaying the violence of the offending hu|mors. How highly I doe prize it, this my letter &s;hall be ho&s;tage: de&s;iring him from who&s;e vn&s;earchable power the vertue comes, to ble&s;&s;e you for it, to who&s;e further grace I leaue you; and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your a&s;&s;ured friend Lucy Ieruice, wife vnto Sir Tho. Ieruice knight.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>I Was &s;icke of an ague &s;ome &s;euen night or there a|bouts,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A malignant burning feuer.</NOTE> &amp; the~ I had two &s;uch fits, as I &amp; all that did &s;ee me, thought I could not haue e&s;caped death. Then I dranke a &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> in the middle of mine extreame burning, and within a quar|ter of one houre after, the extreame paine in my &s;to|macke cea&s;ed, and I felt my &s;elfe very well. Only the heat remained with me about one houre, which paine of the &s;tomacke was wont to hold me 3. or 4. houres in the former fits. The next day that my Ague &s;hould come, it came not all the day, vntill &s;upper time. And &s;itting at &s;upper, it came very terribly vpon me, &s;o that I was driuen to go to bed. I was extremely &s;ick. Then I called for a &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> and it wrought with me as it did before. I did al&s;o &s;weat &s;ome three houres, and &s;o I thanke God, he tooke his farewell.</P>
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<PB N="56" REF="32">
<P>SIr, the Di&s;ea&s;e of my Sonne was in this manner:<NOTE PLACE="marg">A long con|tinuing quo|tidian with a vomiting.</NOTE> It tooke him once in 24. houres, with a colde &s;hiuering in the likene&s;&s;e of an Ague. Which colde helde him but a &s;hort time. Afterward, he fell into an extreame heate, with a vomiting which con|tinued about 3. or 4. houres. In this manner he was daily perplexed the &s;pace of a Moneth or fiue weekes, before he tooke the <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI> Which at the fir&s;t taking, being at the beginning of his cold, &s;tay|ed his vomiting, and his fit was not &s;o extreme as it had beene before. And in this manner he tooke it 3. or 4. fits immediately one after another, about the quantitie of a &s;poonful or &s;omewhat le&s;&s;e: and &s;till his fits did le&s;&s;on and decay, and la&s;tly left him altoge|ther.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Durlay <DATE>Ianuary 10. 1612.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Francis Forte&s;cue.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="57" REF="32">
<HEAD>A BRIEFE COL|LECTION AND <HI>RELATION OF</HI> THOSE FEW AMONGST MANY, <HI>THAT HAVE TAKEN AVRVM</HI> POTABILE, IN THIS COVNTY of SOVTHAMPTON, truly related concerning the effect thereof, deliuered <HI>from their owne mouthes vnto me</HI> Anthony Langford.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>_THomas Wheeler</HI> of Waltham hus|bandman, aged 67. yeares, con|tinued &s;icke the &s;pace of one moneth of a new di&s;ea&s;e very common at that time, whereof many died. This man likewi&s;e was in &s;o great perill of death<NOTE PLACE="marg">An aged man at point of death.</NOTE> that the bell tolled for him, and he was prayed for in the Church. In this his de&s;perate ca&s;e, a &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> was giuen vnto him, by which he felt &s;ome pre&s;ent releefe, and fell in|to a gentle Sweat for an houre or twaine: Then ta|king one other &s;poonfull, he &s;lept quietly the &s;pace of an houre: After that a third &s;poonfull, by which he had a vomit of a great quantity of &s;lymie humors. And by &s;en&s;ible degrees he recouered health, prai&s;ed be God, and is yet lyuing being of great yeares.</P>
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<PB N="58" REF="33">
<P>EDmund Laurence of Bi&s;hops Waltham gentle|man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A continuall burning feuer</NOTE> aged 36. yeares, was perplexed with a bur|ning feuer continuing two daies, and two nights without intermi&s;&s;ion; he onely tooke one &s;poonful or rather le&s;&s;e in quantity of the <HI>Aurum Po|tabile,</HI> and by degrees he &s;oone returned into his for+mer temper and health againe.</P>
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<P>GIles Ethericke Yeoman of the &s;ame place, 40.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A continuall and &s;harp bur|ning feuer.</NOTE> yeares of age, had a continuall and &s;harpe bur|ning feuer eight daies and nights. In all which time he could take no re&s;t: he tooke two &s;poonfuls of <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> and &s;lept quietly the &s;pace of two houres the &s;ame night. The next day towards euening, taking the like quantitie, he &s;lept the whole night quietly, and recouered perfect health.</P>
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<P>VVIlliam Hilles of Waltham afore&s;aid, Yeo|man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A quotidian.</NOTE> aged 55. yeares, hauing had fiue fits of a quotidian, and beeing entred into the &s;ixt, he tooke a &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> which put him out of his colde fit, and made him &s;weat; and then taking as much more, it gaue him a good vomit and 2. or 3. &s;tooles: and thereupon &s;hortly after hee &s;lept quietly and recouered his &s;tomacke, which both had failed him the former 5. daies, and &s;ince he hath beene well.</P>
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<PB N="59" REF="33">
<P>IOhn Walter of the &s;ame, 40. yeares of age, hauing<NOTE PLACE="marg">A tertian fe|uer.</NOTE> had 4. fits of a Tertian, and the fift fit being vpon him, he tooke a good &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI> Whereupon within one houre after, his fit left him, and neuer troubled him &s;ince.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Iohn Walter,</HI> hauing 2. &s;poonfuls of <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> left, after he him&s;elfe was cured, he gaue the &s;ame vnto a maide in Hambleton of 14. yeares, who<NOTE PLACE="marg">A tertian.</NOTE> had langui&s;hed of a tertian feuer a quarter of a yeare before, and thereby was cured and had no more fits.</P>
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<P>HEnry Hindle of Waltham, 47. yeares aged, for<NOTE PLACE="marg">A continuall feuer with vo|miting.</NOTE> the &s;pace of fiue daies continually had a feuer without intermi&s;&s;ion. He could not retaine any thing in all that time, that he did either eate or drinke. After the fift day, he tooke a &s;poonfull of the <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> which he did not ca&s;t vp as his other nutriments: but dige&s;ted it, and it put him into a &s;weat that continued about 4. houres: Then againe he tooke as much more, and did &s;weat 3. houres more: After that he aro&s;e, and being vp, he did vomit a pint of thicke vi&s;cous flegme. Then after the &s;pace of two houres, he did eate of a peece of veale, which he retained and dige&s;ted. And the next day went a|broad, and in &s;hort time recouered his former health which he inioyeth now.</P>
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<P>IOhn Cole of Waltham Mercer, 43. yeares aged,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Pa&s;&s;ion of the heart.</NOTE> was grieued with an extreame paine at his heart, &s;o that for the &s;pace of three daies he could neither take foode nor re&s;t, and was growne &s;o weake, that e|uery man doubted his life. A &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum Po|tabile</HI> was giuen him by tho&s;e about him, hee not knowing what they gaue him. And after one houre, an other &s;poonfull; and a while after the third &s;poon|full. By this meanes, he continued long in a &s;weat, and within two daies after was re&s;tored to health.</P>
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<P>THe&s;e al&s;o who&s;e names are vnder written, haue all in their extremitie of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, receiued <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> from my Lord Bi&s;hop, and are well recouered: But hetherto I haue had no conference with them. Howbeit it is mo&s;t cer|taine, that by meanes thereof, they were recouered from &s;undry dangerous Infirmities.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Robert Moore Ma&s;ter of Arts, of this new feuer.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Reuben Hamme gent. the like.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The wife of Mr. Armwood in the fore&s;t, of the like.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The wife of Mr. Cotton of Roche Court.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The wife of Iohn Hawke&s;worth, cured of a &s;trange di&s;ea&s;e, whereof &s;hee had long before langui&s;hed.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Peckham.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Beale, about one hundred yeares of age, and recouered of this new ague, and is yet liuing.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Searle of Northampton gent. hauing long langui&s;hed of this new ague.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Prior.</HI></ITEM>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Anthony Langford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>I Doubt not but that the&s;e Te&s;timonies &s;o war|ranted, being but a few exemplarie proofes of very many, will &s;atisfie any vnder&s;tanding and hone&s;t reader. I intend not with a whole Calender or endle&s;&s;e Catalogue, and with tedious reading of the &s;ame thing often done, to weary the reader. El&s;e I could ea&s;ily inlarge this Roule: It being certaine, that there is &s;carce any one Shire or Lord&s;hip in England, from whence I haue not bin &s;ent vnto, for my potable gold, with which, Noble|men, gentlemen, and per&s;ons of other rankes haue bin diuer&s;ly cured and releeued, in their nece&s;&s;i|ties of their healths: Apparent it is, that it neuer hurt any, profited all, though all haue not recoue|red. We mu&s;t herein euer acknowledge the vnre|uealed ordinance of God, not to bee controlled by any Art or Indu&s;trie of humane Remedies. I de&s;ire therefore the patient Indifferencie of all Readers, to con&s;ider and fauourably to Interpret the&s;e my proceedings. For I acknowledge and con|fe&s;&s;e, that in ordinary Cures performed, no Ratio|nall Phy&s;ition ought to print the Calender of his &s;ucce&s;&s;es, except in &s;ome cure and peculiar ca&s;e, which &s;eldome happening, may be a light and In|&s;truction to others (though many haue &s;ought fame thereby) which was farre from my intent and pur|po&s;e. But the nece&s;&s;itie of vindicating my integri|tie, and the well knowne truth of the effects of my potable gold, haue made that nece&s;&s;arily volunta|rie, which before I neuer entertained in priuate con&s;ultation. For good wine needs no Bu&s;h or
<PB N="62" REF="35"> Signe. And the&s;e be the motiues why I offer this &s;mall a&s;&s;ay (I hope not weari&s;ome to be read and ob&s;erued) beeing a &s;hort mention of &s;ome per&s;ons and Di&s;ea&s;es, which haue receiued pre&s;ent helpe by the v&s;e of this &s;o maligned Medicine: (my po|table gold) I &s;ay, a &s;hort mention, not of all, nor the greater part, nor in any neere proportion of num|ber to the totall. For &s;ome will not con&s;ent to bee named: and &s;ome &s;pecialties may not be diuulged. And in &s;ome re&s;pect I am not very forward of mine owne nature to enlarge the malice of my tra|ducers, by publi&s;hing &s;ome Cures which cannot plea&s;e them to heare of. Thus farre forth concer|ning other mens te&s;timonies: I will proceede to mine owne practi&s;e.</HI></P>
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<P>AS the brighter the Sunne is, the more apparent be the &s;hadowes cau&s;ed by &s;olid &amp; thicke duski&s;h bodies: &s;o, the more excellent &amp; famous the glorie is, that is atchieued by things wel &amp; faithfully per|formed; the more it is &s;purgald with the kicking heeles of Enuie. As this is true in all actions and commercements of this life, &s;o it hath notoriou&s;ly and laui&s;hly bin practi&s;ed again&s;t me in my proceedings. At the very fir&s;t, this corroding &s;pite, &s;paring no man, this malicious detraction, enemie of truth, &s;et vp their whole re&s;t in &s;uch fa&s;hi|on as they could, to demoli&s;h my faire buil|ding. But truth, that precious daughter of time, hath now vndertaken the quarrell,
<PB N="63" REF="35"> that will &s;ay, nill they, &s;hee mu&s;t and will preuaile again&s;t their furie, and maintaine her quiet nauigation, notwith&s;tanding any gu&s;tes or &s;tormes, from their dry, and water|le&s;&s;e Clowdes. And to the intent that eue|ry vnpartiall, vnpreiudiced, and Intelli|gent reader, may the better vnder&s;tand the cau&s;e of the&s;e Impre&s;&s;ions, and the &s;tate and fir&s;t force of this controuer&s;ie, which hath now enforced the publike atte&s;tation of the vertues of this Medicine: I will as briefely and &s;paringly as may be, by one or two In&s;tances, declare the fir&s;t originall cau&s;e.</P>
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<P>SIr <HI>Adolfe Cary</HI> a worthy knight, nobly de&s;cen|ded, being not well, &s;ent for a Phy&s;ition of great name &amp; fame: who gaue him &s;uch Medicines as he thought fit, one being a Purgation, which did not only clen&s;e the fir&s;t veines, but wrought &s;omewhat forceably. Within &s;hort time after, the di&s;ea&s;e was di&s;|couered to be the &s;mall Pocks. But by the vn&s;ea&s;ona|ble revul&s;ion and indraught of that &s;o &s;trong Purga|tion (as I thinke) and peraduenture by &s;ome other neglect, nature failed in the &s;ufficient expul&s;ion of the pu&s;tules. Al&s;o tho&s;e exitures which appeared, &s;hortly after &s;unke againe, or, as we commonly &s;ay, went in. Hereupon, the Patient fell into that extremitie, that the eminent perill of his life could not be hid, &s;o that all they that were about him de&s;paired vtterly of his recouery. Wherefore they &s;ent to his brother, to call ha&s;tily for the Doctors be&s;t accquainted with the
<PB N="56" REF="36"> &s;tate of his body, which were two: Who mi&s;&s;ing them both, neither knowing where to &s;eeke either of them, and being very &s;en&s;ible and heauy for his brothers de&s;perate ca&s;e, by chance met with me in the way, in|treats me to accompany him to his brother, then ly|ing dangerou&s;ly &s;icke. But I hearing the names of tho&s;e Doctors, was vnwilling to goe, being loth to giue offence: al&s;o that gentleman was at that time vt|terly vnknowne vnto me, whereby the rather I excu|&s;ed my &s;elfe. He replied, that I was &s;ufficiently knowne to him by a friend of his whom I had cured, and therefore in&s;tantly per&s;i&s;ted, that in &s;o hone&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary and iu&s;t a cau&s;e I would not refu&s;e him. I con&s;ented, went with him; and being then euening I vi&s;ited the &s;icke gentleman his brother, and found him in a mo&s;t deplorable &s;tate, without &s;leepe or any other re&s;t, raging and rauing. He tooke a &s;poonfull of my <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> with which he pre&s;ently became quiet, of a more cheerefull countenance, and fell into a gentle &s;leepe. After one houre I gaue him an other &s;poonfull, after which he &s;pake adui&s;edly, &amp; &s;aid he was much comforted, &amp; &s;o &s;leept again, &amp; &s;weat natu|rally al his body ouer. And (which was the be&s;t &s;igne) the Pocks or Pu&s;tuls did againe come out plentifully. I attended him all that night, &amp; at fit &amp; &s;ea&s;onable times gaue him my medicine, &s;ometime pure of it &s;elfe, &s;ometimes mixed with broth or other co~uenient liquor. The next morning, one of his fir&s;t Doctors comming &amp; finding me there with his patient, tooke that for his occa&s;ion to raile on me in vn&s;eeming termes. To whom it was an&s;wered, that I was vnwil|lingly and almo&s;t compul&s;iuely brought thither, by the neere&s;t of blood to the &s;ick gentleman, &amp; with no le&s;&s;e intreaty then others. But the&s;e Phy&s;itians were
<PB N="65" REF="36"> &s;o far from conferring with me co~cerning the further health of this patient, whom they then found in very good ca&s;e, that they both ioyned, and would not bee quiet, before they had rid me thence; contrary to the will of the patient, and of tho&s;e that were pre&s;ent. In what ca&s;e and &s;tate I both found and left this gentle|man, you haue hard. After my departure, what coo|ling, or a&s;tringent, or otherwi&s;e qualified Syrupes, or Electuaries, or other forme of medicine they gaue him all that day I know not. But this I know, that the next night he relap&s;ed into the &s;ame cruell and de&s;pe|rate accidents, in which I formerly had found him, and from which I had re&s;tored him: peraduenture, he fell into this relaps for want of that my medicine, &s;o powrefull in &s;trengthning the heart, and expelling poy&s;on from it. For doubtle&s;&s;e, the exitures being &s;topped, and the poy&s;on returning from the outward parts of the body, whither nature had expelled it, to the heart, the &s;ame accidents mu&s;t needes returne. Such relap&s;es are mo&s;t dangerous, becau&s;e both the infection is &s;tronger, and the body weaker. And &s;o it appeared in this noble gentleman, by this his vntime|ly death. Then did the&s;e Phy&s;itions vnder who&s;e hands he died, bethinke them&s;elues of &s;ome &s;trata|geme, to avoid the imputation imminent. One of them therefore ha&s;tneth to the Court, where he pub|li&s;heth excu&s;e of him&s;elfe, and accu&s;ation of me. And further cau&s;eth me to bee cited to the Colledge of London Phy&s;itions, and with the eloquence of <HI>Ter|tullus</HI> very &s;toutly accu&s;eth me, as culpable of the death of this gentleman. Where I acquited my &s;elfe, and maintained my innocency by foure lawfull witne&s;&s;es, &s;eruants and attendants of their late Ma&s;ter the de|cea&s;ed knight: Who with one con&s;ent and conte&s;ta|tion
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<PB N="66" REF="38"> dilated: That I came to their &s;aid Ma&s;ter lying in his la&s;t and extreame pangs, rauing after the exi|tures of the &s;mall pocks were &s;triken in: That after I had with carefull and diligent attendance all that night admini&s;tred my potable Gold vnto him, as a|fore&s;aid, the extremities of his pa&s;&s;ions, and grieuou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of accidents were much ea&s;ed and abated, he more quiet and in better &s;en&s;e, and that the Pu&s;tules of his di&s;eafe did againe plentifully breake out, by which meanes he was re&s;pectiuely in good temper: And that the next day when the &s;aid Phy&s;itions had excluded me, and giuen him their mixtures, all things turned to their old cour&s;e, he to his former extremi|ties, and &s;o died. His Maie&s;tie al&s;o had commanded 4. honourable per&s;ons to be pre&s;ent at the Colledge in the hearing and debating of the&s;e actions now in que&s;tion: that is, the right honourable the Lord <HI>Kne|uet, Sir Henry</HI> and <HI>Sir Philip Cary</HI> knights, brethren of <HI>Sir Adolph</HI> decea&s;ed, and <HI>Sir William Godolphin</HI> knight; who finding it fully proued, how I found him (in the agony of death) how I left him (in good temper) how the other Doctors receiued him (in very good ca&s;e for that di&s;ea&s;e) how they left him (dead,) truly reported the whole matter to the Kings Maie&s;tie as indeede it was. What his Maie&s;ties cen&s;ure then was herein, and on whom he would lay this imputation of his death, may ea&s;ily be coniectured out of the manife&s;tations of the cau&s;e. Al&s;o tho&s;e two worthy brethren, meere &s;trangers to me at that time, liuing in honourable ac|count and place, &s;o generou&s;ly and vertuou&s;ly, that none dare entertaine any &s;ini&s;ter thought again&s;t their &s;inceritie; nor opinion that they will for any re|&s;pect what&s;oeuer be induced to report any vntruth for me nor any other: are alwaies ready to giue fur|ther
<PB N="67" REF="38"> &s;atisfaction, if any as yet be not &s;ufficiently per|&s;waded of the&s;e proceedings. Rea&s;on it &s;elfe, in one maine ground of Phy&s;icall indications doth teach vs, that, <HI>&agrave; iuvantibus et nocentibus,</HI> from &s;uch things as helpe, and &s;uch things as hurt, a mo&s;t inuincible argu|ment is drawne, and concluded. Is it not a generall rule with all Phy&s;itions, to continue the v&s;e of tho&s;e things which haue manife&s;tly releeued and profited the patient (if there be no nece&s;&s;arie exception) and to fly and for beare the v&s;e of tho&s;e which haue hurt, or done no good? Nature teacheth brute bea&s;ts, to &s;eeke &s;hadowed and coole places, in the heat of &s;ommer, be|cau&s;e their &s;en&s;e findes ea&s;e and refre&s;hing by the &s;haddow, and hurt and annoyance by the parching &s;unne. Apparant it is, that my Potable gold did euen miraculou&s;ly refre&s;h, helpe, profite and comfort this di&s;ea&s;ed gentleman, of whom this que&s;tion fir&s;t grew. For his vnder&s;tanding was thereby recouered: quiet|ne&s;&s;e, re&s;t, and &s;leepe procured: naturall and health|full &s;weating cau&s;ed: and the poy&s;on of his di&s;ea&s;e driuen from the center and heart, whereby the pu|&s;tules and exitures did againe appeare and come forth. All arguments and &s;ignes of good e&s;tate and temper in that di&s;ea&s;e did appeare as portending a perfect recouerie. On the other &s;ide, what&s;oeuer the Medicines admini&s;tred by the&s;e two other Doctors were, before or after my comming, I know not. But, mo&s;t certaine it is, that what&s;oeuer they gaue, or how&s;oeuer they handled the matter, much hurt &s;uc|ceeded, euen the greate&s;t mi&s;chiefe that may hap|pen to a langui&s;hing patient. For all the concour&s;e of his former grieuous, direfull, and mortall &s;ympto|maticall accidents returnes with double &s;trength, when his heart and vital &s;pirits were not able to re&s;i&s;t.
<PB N="68" REF="39"> The &s;triking in againe of the exitures, rauing, wre&s;t|ling, and (which only remained to conclude the tra|gedie) Death it &s;elfe, the la&s;t of all lines that man can draw: and a true line to draw and direct vnder&s;tan|ding men to the true cau&s;e of his death. The&s;e cir|cum&s;tances compul&s;arily wrung from me, be &s;uffici|ent for the euidence of this verity to all men, that will not maliciou&s;ly &s;purne again&s;t apparant truth. But my traducers doe &s;till &s;piderlike &s;ucke poy&s;on in &s;tead of hony, and force them&s;elues to an vnnaturall vomit of the&s;e humors again&s;t this medicine, truly of gold, and truly potable. In which bitterne&s;&s;e if they did not &s;till per&s;i&s;t, again&s;t their owne &s;cience, con|&s;cience, regard of vertue and veritie, wounding ma|ny hone&s;t hearts, with fal&s;e &s;ugge&s;tions again&s;t my good name, and the innocuous worthine&s;&s;e of this Medicine, and defrauding many poore langui&s;hing &s;oules of the v&s;e and benefite thereof, I would, and &s;urely gladly would, for their &s;akes, haue forborne the narration and report of this true &s;torie: Which I am by them compelled to publi&s;h for my Apo|logie.</P>
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<P>MI&s;tres Cicely Boul&s;tred, a worthie gentlewo|man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Extreme vo|miting.</NOTE> and virgine, attending in neere &s;eruice our gracious Queene, in good fauour and ac|count, fell &s;icke, and had greiuous pa&s;&s;ions. Vnto whome diuers of the mo&s;t famous Phy&s;itions of the Colledge were called. Who with great care, and their vtmo&s;t skill, &s;paring no co&s;t (as was fitting in &s;uch a place) admini&s;tred all kinds of conducing Medicines, both Cordials, and other re&s;pectiuely to the cau&s;e of her di&s;ea&s;e, and pa&s;&s;ions: both &s;uch as be ready in the
<PB N="69" REF="39"> &s;hoppes, as others by &s;ome &s;ingularitie of Art prepa|red. Her pa&s;&s;ions &s;till continued, if not encrea&s;ed. Continuall vomiting, and reiection of what&s;oeuer &s;he tooke, meate, drink, medicines: with &s;woundings, torture, torments of euery part of her body. A mi&s;e|rable and pitifull &s;pectacle, much lamented of many very honourable per&s;ons. Shee could not re&s;t nor &s;leepe night nor day. So that &s;inking vnder the bur|den of this affliction, with the violence and continu|ance thereof, her &s;trength vtterly failed. Shee could not retaine &s;o much as one drop of any broth or o|ther nouri&s;hment. Her Stomacke by coniecture of all Phy&s;itions, was drawen together and &s;hut vp, without any power or faculty to performe the offices of nature. In this mi&s;erable e&s;tate, this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed gentlewoman langui&s;hed two whole monthes, with|out any ea&s;e or releefe by the v&s;e of any the Medi|cines giuen her by the adui&s;e of the &s;aid Phy&s;itions: all things tending to a more de&s;perate and Imme|dicable e&s;tate. Whereupon the mother of this gen|tlewoman demanded of the&s;e &s;aid Doctors, whether they had any hope to giue helpe, or at lea&s;t wi&s;e ea&s;e to her daughter; el&s;e &s;he &s;aid &s;he would &s;end for <HI>Do|ctor Anthony.</HI> Tho&s;e Doctors hereupon limited them|&s;elues to a certaine time, which they &s;pent in their vt|termo&s;t habilities to perform, to the inte~t I &s;hold not be called. To which purpo&s;e they commanded an A|pothecary to attend in the Chamber of the patient all the next day and night, and euery third houre to giue her a Cordiall. Then voluntarily they &s;aid to the mo|ther, Send for <HI>Doct. Anthony</HI> if you will, and God &s;end him good &s;ucce&s;&s;e with your daughter. Then was I &s;ent for, and finding this gentlewoman in &s;o de&s;pe|rate a ca&s;e, left and giuen ouer by all the Doctors of
<PB N="70" REF="40"> the Colledge as not to be recouered, (for be&s;ides the adui&s;e of the&s;e Six, there had beene publike con&s;ulta|tions in the Colledge, as is requi&s;ite in &s;uch like ca&s;es which &s;ildome come in v&s;e) I de&s;ired God to ble&s;&s;e my endeauours, and to continue his ble&s;&s;ings in the admini&s;tration of this my happy medicine. After a &s;mall time, vpon due and mature con&s;ideration of all things, I gaue her at the fir&s;t, not a whole &s;poonfull of my <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> as in other ca&s;es, but much le&s;&s;e, &s;carce a quarter &s;o much; which &s;he ca&s;t vp againe with a vehement force and torture of her body. A lit|tle while after I gaue her as much more, which &s;he ca&s;t vp in the &s;ame manner as &s;he did the fir&s;t. Againe I gaue it the third time, &s;ome part of which &s;hee al&s;o ca&s;t vp, but kept &s;ome, with a kind of &s;trife or conflict betweene the medicine and the maladie. Then I ad|ui&s;ed, that &s;he &s;hould not further be troubled for a &s;ea|&s;on, but to try if &s;hee could now take a little re&s;t or &s;leepe: So &s;he di&s;po&s;ed her &s;elfe thereunto, and &s;lept &s;oundly a whole houre; which diuers of great ac|count then pre&s;ent can witne&s;&s;e. For &s;he &s;nored that we all heard: Which &s;eemed &s;trange to all: con&s;ide|ring for a long time before &s;hee had taken no re&s;t. When &s;he waked, &s;he &s;aid that &s;he found her &s;elfe &s;omewhat better at ea&s;e. Then (which was the fourth time) I gaue her halfe a &s;poonful, which &s;he kept with|out any contending or trouble to her body. This gaue me, and many worthy gentlewomen there pre|&s;ent, great hope of a good recouerie. Wherein (God be prai&s;ed) we were not deceiued. For in all the other admini&s;tring of this Medicine, orderly, as &s;he was a|ble to beare, increa&s;ing the quantitie, her &s;pirits were releeued, &s;he daily recouered &s;trength, all the pa&s;&s;i|ons, &s;ymptomes and accidents of her di&s;ea&s;es cea&s;ed,
<PB N="71" REF="40"> her &s;ickne&s;&s;e fully left her, and &s;he recouered perfect health. Thus with the v&s;e of this happy Medicine, this gentlewoman was recouered, and cured of that dangerous di&s;ea&s;e, wherein tho&s;e other Doctors had wearied them&s;elues, and for&s;aken her; at which her friends wondred, mine reioyced, and other malicious aduer&s;aries fretted: for which God be prai&s;ed. If they will call the&s;e the effects of Iugling, and of a corro|&s;iue Medicine, they will hardly finde any Cordiall a|mong&s;t all their Di&s;pen&s;atories and Magi&s;trall pre|&s;criptions. The cau&s;e and effect are E&s;&s;entiall Rela|tiues.</P>
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<P>THe Lady and wife of <HI>Sir Francis Leake</HI> Knight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Continuall vomiting and de&s;tillation of Reume conti|nuing many moneths.</NOTE> being now conceiued of her fir&s;t childe, was fallen into many infirmities. Shee had a con|tinuall and abundant &s;lux at her mouth, cau&s;ed by collection of phlegmaticke and pituitous hu|mors: Al&s;o a continuall vomiting and ca&s;ting, euer after any food taken. Her flux cea&s;ed not neither day nor night. She was brought to that weaknes &amp; lean|ne&s;&s;e in her body, that al her friends thought &s;he was in a con&s;umption. During the time of this &s;icknes (which was fiue moneths) &s;he v&s;ed many medicines in hope of remedy, but found none. And therefore iu&s;tly feared eyther mi&s;carying her trauell, or the lo&s;&s;e of her owne life. Whereupon, by the per&s;wa&s;ion of &s;ome friends, which knew right well the efficacie of my Potable gold, &s;he tooke therof the third month before the time of her deliuery, and at &s;euerall times continued the v&s;e of it. By which meanes, her vomi|ting, &amp; flux of &s;pitting cea&s;ed, &s;he recouered &s;trength
<PB N="72" REF="41"> and good habit: and all the re&s;t of the time of her childe bearing, continued in very good health and di&s;po&s;ition. And in due time was deliuered of a faire and &s;trong Sonne, which is yet liuing.</P>
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<P>THe Lady and wife of <HI>Sir Edward Barret</HI> knight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Perill in childbirth.</NOTE> and &s;i&s;ter to the forenamed Lady, being in tra|uell of childbirth, in &s;uch hazard and extremi|ties of hard labour, that both her Midwiues &amp; all other there pre&s;ent de&s;paired both of &s;afety and life of mother and child; by coun&s;ell of a great Ladie then in my chamber tooke of my Potable gold, and beyond the expectation of them all, was pre&s;ently deliuered of a child in good liking But the after burden &s;tayed, which in that weakene&s;&s;e made them feare the like danger. Therefore they gaue her the &s;ame Medicine againe, by which the after burden fol|lowed, &s;he recouered, and did well.</P>
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<P><HI>THis Medicine hath likewi&s;e bin happy and &s;ucce&s;full to very many others, Weomen in like ca&s;es, euen after the childe hath beene dead in their bodies, and they giuen ouer in their la&s;t extremities. So that it is &s;car&s;e po&s;&s;ible to finde any Medicine to match this in &s;uch ca&s;es, whereof I will &s;et downe a few examples.</HI></P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Io&s;eph Pemberton</HI> Haberda&s;her of Ip&s;|wich<NOTE PLACE="marg">Childbirth.</NOTE> in the Countie of Suffolke, was deliuered by meanes of this Potable gold, being in great extre|mitie and danger, by rea&s;on of her hard labour.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Oratio Palua&s;ino,</HI> was recouered<NOTE PLACE="marg">Childbirth.</NOTE> by the &s;ame Medicine, beeing in great danger through hard labour in childe-birth.</P>
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<P>IN like manner was the wife of <HI>Thomas Blackeborne</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Childbirth.</NOTE> Citizen of London, when &s;he had beene two daies in labour, &s;afely deliuered by this helpe.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Nicholas Colman</HI> in Great Saint Bar|tholmewes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Childbirth.</NOTE> was euen at the point of Death, and vpon the taking of this <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> was pre&s;ently deliuered, and her life pre&s;erued.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter Foxton</HI> in Red Cro&s;&s;e &s;treete, had his wife<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dead birth.</NOTE> in the like ca&s;e, and in greater danger, by rea&s;on of the childe in her body being dead.</P>
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<P>THe like <HI>Foetus mortuus,</HI> or dead birth, the wife of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dead birth.</NOTE> <HI>Ma&s;ter Ca&s;tle,</HI> of Hatfield Peuerell in E&s;&s;ex, had carried in her body three daies, neither could &s;he be deliuered by any helpe, vntill &s;hee tooke the <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI></P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Harde</HI> dwelling vpon <HI>Saint Peters</HI> Hill in London, was deliuered of a dead<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dead birth.</NOTE> childe, yet neuerthele&s;&s;e &s;he was &s;till full of in|tollerable paines. Whereupon the wife of <HI>M. Fitzgarret</HI> E&s;quire neere dwelling, gaue vnto her of my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> the next day after her deliuery of that childe, at 9. of the clocke in the morning. And the &s;ame day at 2. of the clocke in the after noone, &s;hee was deliuered of an other dead childe, and then pre&s;ently recouered.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;t. Iohn Bingle</HI> of the Exchequer was<NOTE PLACE="marg">Perill of Childbirth.</NOTE> in her trauell in great peril of death, vnto whom a graue gentlewoman there pre&s;ent at her labour, gaue of my <HI>Aurum Potabile;</HI> with which helpe, both &s;hee and the childe were &s;aued.</P>
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<P>THe Lady and wife of <HI>Sir Iohn Pretiman</HI> knight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Burning feuer in Childbirth.</NOTE> being in childe-bed, fell into a burning feuer: al|&s;o &s;he could take no re&s;t nor &s;leepe: And other very violent pa&s;&s;ions &s;he endured. She was not willing to take any manner of Medicine. Only <HI>Aurum Pota|bile</HI> &s;hee tooke, and was quickly re&s;tored to health.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;t. Edmund King&s;tone,</HI> of Gloce&s;ter<NOTE PLACE="marg">Burning feuer and bloody flux in Child|bed.</NOTE> &s;hire, being in childe-bed had a burning feuer, and with it a bloody flux. She was throughly cu|red by the &s;ame meanes which the <HI>Lady Pretiman</HI> v&s;ed.</P>
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<P>AN other gentlewoman of the &s;ame Countie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Feuer and &s;couring in Childbed.</NOTE> the wife of <HI>Chri&s;topher Blackewell,</HI> was by the &s;ame meanes cured of a feuer, with an exce&s;&s;iue &s;couring, lying in childbed.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Iohn Sherington</HI> of London<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pre&s;eruation of Aborte.</NOTE> Marchant, being with childe, had many pa&s;&s;i|ons and euident cau&s;es, to make her feare abor|tion or mi&s;carrying. Beeing therefore adui&s;ed thereunto, &s;he tooke of my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> daily a proportionable quantitie, and went out her full time, receiued Gods ble&s;&s;ing in the &s;afe deliuery of a faire childe.</P>
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<P>Whereby it appeareth that this Medicine hath diuers vertues and faculties: As in ca&s;e, both to promote the birth where it is &s;tayed, be the birth aliue or dead: as al&s;o to &s;tay and preuent abortion of mi&s;carrying, vnto the full time and periode of the naturall birth, which in the power of the Me|dicine is but one: That is, the onely comforting, &s;trenghtning, and enabling of nature, to promote and performe her owne actions, which way &s;oeuer is mo&s;t fit for the &s;afety &amp; health of the body, as in other ca&s;es before hath beene ob&s;erued. And not only profitable to each mother in all tho&s;e former cau&s;es, but to the infant al&s;o, as &s;hall appeare by one Relation, which here followeth.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Richard Browne</HI> E&s;quire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Perill in Childbirth.</NOTE> dwelling in the Blacke fryers, was long in la|bour of childbirth, and in great danger, not|with&s;tanding &s;he had two midwiues with her. A cer|taine gentlewoman and neighbour being then pre|&s;ent, per&s;waded to &s;end for &s;ome of my <HI>Aurum Pota|bile,</HI> and to giue it her. One Midwife &s;aid, &s;he had bet|ter meanes to giue her. But when all meanes fayled, and &s;mall hope of life remained, then was my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> &s;ent for. And after it was twice admini&s;tred vnto her, &s;he was &s;afe deliuered of a liuing and well liking childe, God be prai&s;ed. The next day follow|ing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The new borne Infant in danger.</NOTE> the &s;ame gentlewoman and neighbour, came to vi&s;ite the mother and childe, finding the childe in the Midwiues lap, not well, but langui&s;hing and ill. The Midwife de&s;ired of this gentlewoman &s;ome of the <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> for to giue the childe. It was then asked, whether &s;he, who had denied it vnto the mo|ther the former day, would now giue it vnto &s;o yong an infant? The Midwife an&s;wered, that hauing &s;eene the admirable effect thereof the day before, &s;he doub|ted not of &s;ucce&s;&s;e in the childe. She gaue it therefore vnto the childe, mixed with brea&s;tmilke, and the childe pre&s;ently amended.</P>
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<P>If therefore &s;uch yong infants, which skantly haue &s;eene the light of the Sun, and haue brought from the mothers wombe their infirmities, and not taken them by mi&s;diet or mi&s;order, doe finde releefe by this Medicine; as al&s;o women in their concep|tion, and in time of their deliuerie, and afterwards lying in childbed, as is euidently &s;et downe in
<PB N="77" REF="43"> particularitie: Euen in this only ca&s;e, it meriteth that account, that no Lady or gentlewoman of accompt, &s;hould at any time bee vnfurni&s;hed thereof, for the benefit of them&s;elues, and their in|fants, in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;itie: &s;eeing that no Medicine is more powerfull, more &s;ecure, more plea&s;ing to take.</P>
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<P>SIr <HI>Lewis Lewknar</HI> knight, in the yeare of our Lord 1611, fell dangerou&s;ly &s;icke with a co~tinuall bur|ni~g<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Plague or Pe&s;tilence.</NOTE> feuer, &amp; vehement pa&s;&s;ions. He &s;ent for two famous Phy&s;itions of the Citie of London; which followed and plyed him &s;ixe daies with al the condu|cible remedies they could deui&s;e, but without any &s;ucce&s;&s;e. For they neither ea&s;ed his pa&s;&s;ions, nor aba|ted the burning heate and furie of the feuer: So that the patie~t euery day waxed wor&s;e &amp; wor&s;e: at the la&s;t, an Apo&s;teme appeared in his groyne, a true token in &s;uch a di&s;ea&s;e, of a pe&s;tilent and contagious infection: which at that time, though not &s;ince, was very hot in London. Thereupon the&s;e Doctors excu&s;ed them|&s;elues, in that they were tied to the attendance of di|uer&s;e noble per&s;ons, whom they were loth to infect. And therefore, were compelled to bid him farewell. And accordingly left this worthy gentleman, to wre|&s;tle with this di&s;ea&s;e, for the cure of which they were waged, and by con&s;cience thereunto tyed; and his tru&s;t in them was repo&s;ed. They hauing thus taken their leaues, I was &s;ent for, not knowing the di&s;ea&s;e, which could not long hide it &s;elfe, hauing &s;uch mani|fe&s;t tokens. Yet I thought it, again&s;t both charity and hone&s;tie, now being with him, to for&s;ake him. And therefore re&s;olued (by the grace of God) with &s;ome
<PB N="78" REF="44"> powerfull and &s;trong Antidote, to expell the poy&s;on from his heart, and afterwards to proceede for his fur|ther recouery, as occa&s;ion &s;hould be mini&s;tred. To which purpo&s;e, I fir&s;t gaue him &s;ixe graines of my E&s;|&s;ence of gold, mixed appropriatly. After which, in a &s;mall time, he began to &s;weate, which continued all that night, and a great part of the next day. The next night, and &s;o euery day for 4. daies more, I gaue againe the &s;ame Medicine, in the &s;ame quantity, which cau&s;ed abundant &s;weating, whereby both the malignitie of the feuer and the vnnaturall heate was exceedingly a|bated: the Apo&s;teme, which was ri&s;en very great, did daily decrea&s;e, and at la&s;t quite vani&s;hed, only with a certaine &s;ticticke pla&s;ter outwardly applied. Thus he was cured of this mortall and contagious di&s;ea&s;e, be|fore it was knowne abroad of what he was &s;icke: which I would not now haue publi&s;hed, but that the Knight him&s;elfe, hath not beene &s;paring among&s;t his friends to report both what his &s;ickne&s;&s;e was, and the &s;tory of his Phy&s;itions and recouery.</P>
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<P>THe yeare before, I had likewi&s;e cured of the &s;ame<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Plague or Pe&s;tilence.</NOTE> di&s;ea&s;e, with an Apo&s;teme al&s;o appearing, the Lady and wife of the &s;ame worthy knight.</P>
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<P>THe Lady <HI>Edmonds</HI> widdow, about the age of 78.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Drop&s;ie and Iaundi&s;e in extreame old age.</NOTE> yeares, a Lady well knowne in Court: (&s;o likewi&s;e are tho&s;e that formerly are named) about three yeeres pa&s;t was fallen into a drop&s;ie, with all the &s;ymptomes thereunto belonging. Her belly, face, legs, hands,
<PB N="79" REF="44"> greatly &s;welled: blood wa&s;ted and &s;pent: not free from the Iaundi&s;e, nor far from a Con&s;umption. How dan|gerous her ca&s;e was, is &s;ufficiently knowne. She was perfectly re&s;tored (prai&s;ed be God) in &s;hort time, no|thing being mini&s;tred vnto her, but only the <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> and E&s;&s;ence of Gold. This Lady, &s;pared not either for co&s;t, or due ob&s;eruation to pre&s;erue life and health, after that &s;he had once found comfort there|by; for during the &s;pace of 12. daies at the fir&s;t, &s;hee tooke euery morning 3. graines of the E&s;&s;ence, di&s;&s;ol|ued in a &s;poonfull of <HI>Aurum potabile:</HI> and the like pro|portion was taken at night when &s;he went to re&s;t. Al|&s;o before dinner and &s;upper, at each time one &s;poon|full of the <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> alone. After 12. daies were &s;pent, and that her &s;tomacke was amended, naturall re&s;t returned, her &s;trength increa&s;ed, the di&s;ea&s;e aba|ted, and all the &s;tate of her body bettered, then the Lady tooke of the E&s;&s;ence but once a day. And &s;o by degrees all things in le&s;&s;er proportion. Needfull it was, that this Lady &s;hould take the&s;e helpes in greater proportion, then v&s;uall, partly in regard of the Infir|mitie, being a capitall di&s;ea&s;e: partly al&s;o in regard of her yeeres, in which nature was not &s;o powerfull to o|uercome the malady, as in youth.</P>
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<P>SIr <HI>Thomas Parrey</HI> knight, Chancelor of the Du|chy, and of his Maie&s;ties priuy Councell, being<NOTE PLACE="marg">Extreme cough in age and want of &s;leepe.</NOTE> of the age of 77. yeares, this la&s;t winter was much deiected in habilitie and &s;trength of body eue|ry waies. His appetite abated, his &s;leepe dimini&s;hed, tormented with an extreame cough day and night, not able in many weekes together, to goe forth of his
<PB N="80" REF="45"> hou&s;e for execution of his place. He had v&s;ed good helpes of learned Phy&s;itions, from time to time all the winter long. In February la&s;t I was brought vnto this honourable per&s;on; and finding that the be&s;t Medicines ordinarily, in v&s;e had nothing auailed, I per&s;waded him to take of my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> where|unto he willingly conde&s;cended. I gaue him thereof in the morning in bed fa&s;ting, as al&s;o one houre be|fore Dinner and Supper, at each time a &s;poonfull. Al&s;o whereas v&s;ually his &s;leepe was but two houres euery night, which was after he was fir&s;t laid in bed, and then afterwards being once awaked, he &s;lept no more all that night, but continually did lie coughing, vn|till he aro&s;e in the morning: my coun&s;ell was, that af|ter his fir&s;t &s;leepe, his Honor &s;hould take two graines of the E&s;&s;ence of golde, di&s;&s;olued in one &s;poonfull of the <HI>Aurum Potabile:</HI> which doing, he alwaies within halfe an houre, was at good and quiet re&s;t, his Cough cea&s;ed, and he &s;lept quietly vntill &s;ixe of the clocke in the morning. This cour&s;e it plea&s;ed him to continue vntill the 12. of Aprill, in which time he daily gathe|red &s;trength and habilitie of body to vndergoe any &s;eruice of his Maie&s;tie. And thus he continueth &s;till to the prai&s;e of God.</P>
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<P>A Certaine yong gentleman, onely Sonne and<NOTE PLACE="marg">Debilitie of retention of &s;perme.</NOTE> heire vnto his Father being of great po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|ons, complained vnto me that his &s;perme pa&s;|&s;ed from him vn&s;en&s;ibly both day and night, where|by his body was much enfeebled, his complexion al|tered, and a Con&s;umption imminent. A marriage was tendered vnto this yong gentleman, being an heire al&s;o. Conditions agreed vpon by Parents on both
<PB N="81" REF="45"> &s;ides, both for Dowre and Ioynter. The father of this gentleman being in feare of his &s;onnes life, was loath to make any perfect Contract, vntill he had found Remedie for his &s;onne. Hee v&s;ed the be&s;t helpe that the Country could afforde, wherein he liued. But finding none, he brought vp his &s;onne to Lon|don, v&s;ed my coun&s;ell; and with the helpe of <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> the E&s;&s;ence of Golde, and a Solution of Pearle which in &s;uch ca&s;e I doe v&s;e, he hath recouered perfect &s;tate of body, is married, and hath I&s;&s;ue. This Gentleman about twelue Moneths &s;ince being in London, came to vi&s;ite me, whome when I beheld I knew not vntill he had manife&s;ted him&s;elfe vnto me; &s;o greatly was his body altered euen into a full vigor and perfect con&s;titution.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Robert Dixon,</HI> Secretary vn|to <HI>Sir Henry Montague</HI> Knight, Recorder of the<NOTE PLACE="marg">Speech and &s;ence lo&s;t in Childbed.</NOTE> Citie of London, being deliuered in childbed; was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with a mo&s;t violent burning fe|uer. Shee had three Phy&s;itions of great woorth, who mini&s;tred vnto her &s;uch helpes, as Art could af|foard in that ca&s;e. Not preuailing, they left her being &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e. Then did the <HI>Lady Tanfield</HI> &s;end vnto me for &s;ome of my <HI>Auru~ Potabile,</HI> which her <HI>Ladi&s;h.</HI> cau|&s;ed to be giuen vnto this gentlewoman. In &s;hort time after &s;heefell into a &s;weate, not long after &s;hee &s;lept; and when &s;hee did awake, &s;hee had recouered both &s;ence and &s;peech, her burning feuer was a&s;&s;waged, and in few daies after by Iudgement of al her friends, &s;hee &s;eemed pa&s;t all perill and danger of life. But &s;hortly after, ri&s;ing vp out of her bed, and &s;itting vp o|uer long, &s;hee tooke cold, &s;o that all the parts of her
<PB N="82" REF="46"> body became colde &amp; were vtterly benummed, and without &s;en&s;e, her &s;peech failed, &amp; her &s;trength &amp; &s;pi|rits much abated. The former worthy <HI>Lady</HI> being in|formed therof, did &s;end againe of my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> vnto her, which in&s;tantly put her into a &s;weat, after &s;he was in bed, and by degrees re&s;tored her vnto perfect health. The &s;ame gentlewoman being lately deliue|red of two daughters, fell into the like pa&s;&s;ions both of heate and colde, and in each of the&s;e extremities was releeued with the E&s;&s;ence of Gold, as formerly &s;he had beene, with <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI></P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>William Rowden</HI> the Kings Maie&s;ties &s;er|uant<NOTE PLACE="marg">Speech and &s;ence lo&s;t.</NOTE> and Mar&s;hall of his Hall, 70. yeares of age, or thereabout, with a continuall Ardent feuer which held him long, he was at the la&s;t brought to that debilitie and weakene&s;&s;e, that he altogether kept his bed, tooke no re&s;t day nor night, but for the mo&s;t part lay &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e, not knowing what was &s;aid or done vnto him. In this extremitie I was brought, and it plea&s;ed God that by the&s;e former helpes, he was recouered, and remaineth &s;till in perfect health.</P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>William Gore</HI> now Alderman &amp; Sheriffe<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aquartane A|gue.</NOTE> of the citie of London, three&s;core yeares of age or thereabout, dwelling in Bow lane, for the &s;pace of many Moneths langui&s;hed of a quar|taine feuer. In which time, by pre&s;cript of learned Phy&s;itions, he had taken &s;o many Medicines, that he vtterly abhorred all v&s;uall Phy&s;icke. When he was in|formed
<PB N="83" REF="46"> by &s;ome of his well wi&s;hing friends, that my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> was very Cordiall, effectuall in opera|tion, and not loath&s;ome or vnplea&s;ing to take, he was re&s;olued to make v&s;e thereof, although he had re&s;ol|ued neuer to v&s;e any more Phy&s;icke. But being di&s;|&s;waded by &s;ome of his Phy&s;itions, my profe&s;&s;ed ad|uer&s;aries, he refrained the &s;pace of &s;ome weekes, vntill meere nece&s;&s;itie (by rea&s;on of his &s;till continuing quartane, and his &s;trength daily abating) enforced him to &s;end for me. I mini&s;tred vnto him at returne of his next fit, a &s;mall quantitie of my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> with 2. graines of the E&s;&s;ence of golde; which gaue him &s;uch contentment during the time of his fit, that his feuer was much more tollerable then formerly it had beene, and him&s;elfe in farre better vigor after his fit. The~ did he much admire what rea&s;on his Phy&s;iti|ons could alleadge, for the di&s;abling of that Medi|cine. To conclude, in very few fittes, this Medicine cleared him of his feuer, it brought him to quiet re&s;t, re&s;tored him to appetite, and brought him to good habilitie and &s;trength of body. And vntill this time, it is and hath beene a continuall releefe vnto him, when&s;oeuer hee findeth him&s;elfe inclining to any manner of debilitie or &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P><HI>AS in this ca&s;e, &s;o haue they dealt with di|uers of the Nobility of this land &amp; honou|rable per&s;onages, who in extremity of their &s;ickene&s;&s;e, hauing fir&s;t v&s;ed (and that fruitle&s;ly) all the cour&s;e of Phy&s;icke which their Phy&s;itions in Art could adui&s;e them) haue de&s;ired the helpe of my Aurum Potabile. But haue beene diuerted by malicious cauillations of tho&s;e, who rather
<PB N="84" REF="47"> de&s;ire their owne lucre and gaine, then the life of their patients. Neuerthele&s;&s;e &s;ome of the right Honourable, not beeing daunted by their terrify|ings (more fit for children and babes, then for men and women of vnder&s;tanding) haue made happie v&s;e thereof both in Court and Citie; al|though for cau&s;es conuenient, it is not publikely di|uulged, and yet peraduenture not vtterly &s;ilenced. But time, in his due time, will bring the truth to light.</HI></P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Mathew Dale,</HI> Iu&s;tice of Peace &amp; Iudge in Gilde Hall, 76. yeares of age, hath &s;undry times beene troubled with an infirmitie inci|dent to age: that is, want of Retention of his vrine. Whereby &s;ometimes in the night &s;ea&s;on, he hath bin inforced more then twenty times to make water: whereby his naturall re&s;t (which &s;hould haue &s;u&s;tai|ned nature) was taken from him: and con&s;equently his &s;tomacke failed, &amp; his &s;trength abated. Vpon the v&s;e of <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> the&s;e extremities were abated, and he continued vntill the end of his daies, in good &s;tate of body, an&s;werable vnto his yeeres.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Mathew Dale,</HI> 70. yeares of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;umpti|on of the Lungs.</NOTE> age, hauing an infirmitie of the Lungs, altoge|ther vncurable, was neuerthele&s;&s;e pre&s;erued in good &s;tate of body, many yeares with helpe of this <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI></P>
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<P>SIr <HI>William Hericke</HI> Knight, had by his Lady two<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">+ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> daughters, the one after the other. Each of them being 20. weekes of age, was taken with the Epi|lep&s;ie or falling &s;icknes, and died of that di&s;ea&s;e. After them, he had by his &s;aid wife a third daughter; then did they change their Nur&s;e, &s;u&s;pecting that &s;ome de|fect might be in the Nur&s;es milke. When this daugh|ter came to the age of 16. weeks, the Epileptical fits be|gan to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e this infant, and daily the fits increa&s;ed, vntill the di&s;ea&s;e came to the height. Then was the Nur&s;e &amp; child &s;ent for hither to London; haui~g heard that I had cured &s;ome in the like infirmity. The father v&s;ed my help in this ca&s;e. It plea&s;ed God that with the helpe of my <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> and E&s;&s;ence of gold (with &s;ome helpes giuen to the nur&s;e) I perfectly cured that Child of this dangerous infirmitie. This was done in the &s;pring time. Then I adui&s;ed the Lady, that the like &s;hould be done at next fall of the leafe: But that being neglected, the child vpon the fea&s;t day of All-Saints next following, fell into the &s;ame di&s;ea&s;e againe; which I likewi&s;e cured the &s;econd time. Since this time, being now foure yeeres pa&s;t, this child neuer had fit, prai&s;ed be God.</P>
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<P>IN like manner, and of the &s;ame infirmitie, a Sonne<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> of <HI>Sir George Wright</HI> Knight, being a yeare old was cured by me, and many others, whereof &s;ome &s;hall be mentioned in this treati&s;e hereafter.</P>
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<P><HI>IOhn Vnet,</HI> belonging to the right honourable <HI>Sir</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Speech and &s;en&s;e lo&s;t</NOTE> <HI>Henry Hubbard</HI> Knight, Lord chiefe Ju&s;tice of the Common-Pleas, 40. yeeres of age or thereabout, after long &s;ickne&s;&s;e, was at the la&s;t brought to that de|bilitie and weakne&s;&s;e, that he lay depriued of &s;peech
<PB N="78" REF="48"> and &s;en&s;e. The bell tolled for him: The &s;eruants of the hou&s;e had taken their leaue of him: no hope of life remained. Being in this manner at point of death, &s;ome of my <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> was put into his mouth: by which he was brought againe to &s;peech, to &s;en&s;e, and la&s;tly re&s;tored to perfect health, being formerly by iudgment of all, ordained for death. Of this ca&s;e, <HI>Raymund Lully</HI> in his booke of the Quinte&s;&s;ence wri|teth in this manner. <HI>We terme them dead men, not tho&s;e which ab&s;olutely are dead, but tho&s;e of whom by the opinion of Phy&s;itions there is vtter de&s;paire, &s;o that they are for&s;aken by all Phy&s;itions, and the actions of life haue relinqui&s;hed them, and be depriued of &s;en&s;e. If &s;uch like men</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>reputed thus dead men, &s;hall recouer life and health by a Quinte&s;|&s;ence, then may they iu&s;tly be &s;aid to be reuiued from death.</HI></P>
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<P>IN like manner was there an other, who&s;e name is<NOTE PLACE="marg">Speech and &s;ence lo&s;t</NOTE> <HI>Robert Brodbottome,</HI> a Citizen, 60. yeares of age, neighbour vnto <HI>Sir Lewis Lewknar</HI> then dwelling in Alder&s;gate &s;treete; being likewi&s;e at deaths doore, the bell hauing tolled for him the &s;pace of three houres. The &s;aid Knight, when he vnder&s;tood that it tolled for his neighbour whom he well loued, &s;ent him of my <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> willing the wife of the &s;aid patient by any po&s;&s;ible meanes, to put the &s;ame into his mouth. Which being done, he &s;hortly after fell in|to a &s;leepe, &s;weating in his &s;leepe, &amp; after his awaking, his &s;en&s;e and &s;peech returned, and him&s;elfe recouered health, and yet is liuing.</P>
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<P>THe daughter and heire of <HI>Sir Walter Coape</HI> knight, now Lady and wife of <HI>Sir Henry Rich</HI> knight, be|ing
<PB N="87" REF="48"> then dangerou&s;ly &s;icke of the &s;mall Pocks (where|of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Small poxe</NOTE> many worthy Knights, Ladies, and gentlewomen haue mi&s;caried of late) was pre&s;ently releeued by v&s;e of my <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> and the &s;mall Pocks expul&s;ed plentifully.</P>
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<P>IN the &s;mall Pocks al&s;o, and likewi&s;e in the mea&s;els, diuers haue beene recouered, who&s;e only names I record, and none haue mi&s;caried to my knowledge which in due time haue embraced the benefite of this medicine.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>The Lady and wife of Sir Richard Ogle knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A gentle woman belonging to the Lady and wife of Sir Edward Barret knight.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir Henry Caries Page.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir Henry Caries daughter, of the mea&s;els.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Sonne and heire of Sir Henry Cary, of the &s;mall pox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A young daughter of Sir Richard Norton knight, of the Mea&s;els, which were &s;triken in and recoiled by cold taking whereby the child was in great dan|ger.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Kin&s;woman of Mi&s;tris Browne of E&s;&s;ex, wid|dow.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Seruant of Ma&s;ter Mar&s;h E&s;quire, then dwelling in Colman-&s;treete.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Maid &s;eruant, belonging to Ro. Dixon before mentioned.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>An other maid &s;eruant of Ma&s;ter Iohn Morris Marchant, dwelling neere vnto leaden hall.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>An Infant of Mr. Price the Kings &s;eruant.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><HI>DAily experie~ce al&s;o hath taught vs of late, that very many both young and old haue mi&s;caried of the Small Pox, euen vnder the hands of the be&s;t practi&s;ed Phy&s;itions, although the cure of them be accounted no difficult matter: vnto whom, if this approued Medicine, &s;o &s;ecure from danger: &s;o powerfull in corroborating the Heart, and ex|pelling the venemous malignitie of that Di&s;ea&s;e, had beene at hand, and had beene admini&s;tred in due time and forme, no doubt but (the vertue ex|pul&s;iue being fortified in the patient, and the ma|teriall veneno&s;itie &s;ubtiliated) if not all, yet &s;ome of them, might by this only Medicine haue beene recouered. As the v&s;e hereof hath preuented death in many, &s;o likewi&s;e very many wanting the benefit thereof, in the flowre of their age peri&s;hed; which haue v&s;ed purgatiue Medicines, who&s;e propertie is to draw malignant humors from the externall parts, vnto the center of the body, and to the very Heart it &s;elfe. I leaue this matter to bee con&s;idered of, by tho&s;e whom in like ca&s;e it may concerne hereafter.</HI></P>
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<P>THe Honorable <HI>Lady</HI> and widdow <HI>Doretie Skot,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vomiting of &s;u&s;tenance in old age.</NOTE> &s;ometime the wife of <HI>Sir Thomas Skot</HI> Knight of the age of 78. yeares, for the &s;pace of many daies could retaine no manner of &s;u&s;tenance, but in&s;tantly ca&s;t vp by vomit what&s;oeuer &s;hee receiued. Neither could this be &s;tayed by any Medicine mini&s;tred
<PB N="89" REF="49"> vnto her. All meanes failing, my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> &s;tai|ed this extremitie. And after taking thereof, &s;hee like|wi&s;e tooke any manner of other &s;u&s;tenance, and re|tained the &s;ame. Hereby it may appeare, that this one and the &s;ame Medicine, doth &s;ometime procure vo|mit, when nature would be vnburdened, and at other times it &s;uppre&s;&s;eth vomit, when nature is &s;o infee|bled, that it would faine retaine nutriment for &s;u&s;ten|tation, but cannot.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter Napper</HI> E&s;quire, dwelling in Oxford, 60. yeares of age, was long time perplexed with a<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vomiting and &s;cooring.</NOTE> very &s;trange infirmity. He was diuers times taken with an extreme vomiting, with a &s;cooring likewi&s;e, which both continued the &s;pace of 2. or 3. daies commonly euery houre without intermi&s;&s;ion vntill his body was vtterly exhau&s;ted. The~ he became &s;o feeble and weake, that he was inforced to keepe his bed many daies, vntill by degrees he recouered &s;ome &s;trength againe. But when his body began to be re|pleate, then did he fall into his former pa&s;&s;ions. In this manner he continued one whole yeare more. He v&s;ed for Remedie, the coun&s;ell and adui&s;e of Phy&s;i|tions both at Oxford and London. When all their meanes auailed not, then did he &s;end vnto me for my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> which by the helpe of God preuailed in this ca&s;e, to the great admiration of many.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter William Wi&s;eman</HI> Coun&s;ellor at the Law, after her &s;afe deliuery in Childbirth, was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed both with a feuer, as al&s;o with an extra|ordinary
<PB N="90" REF="50"> and a dangerous flux, <HI>tam per Men&s;trua qu&agrave;m per &s;edes.</HI> Her &s;leepe al&s;o was thereby vtterly taken from her. By meanes whereof &s;hee was brought vnto great Imbecillitie and de&s;paire of life. In this dange|rous ca&s;e, after the fruitle&s;&s;e helpe of other Phy&s;iti|ons &s;he was recouered and perfectly re&s;tored, with the E&s;&s;ence of my golde in few daies.</P>
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<P><HI>SIr Edward Barret</HI> Knight, hauing his abode<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;&s;ex Ague.</NOTE> &s;ometime in E&s;&s;ex neere vnto the Mari&s;hes (a Country much &s;ubiect to Agues) was two &s;eue|rall times po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with that kinde of feuer. And each time he was freed from that feuer, by the onely helpe of my <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI> Many al&s;o of his &s;er|uants, more then ten at one &s;euerall time, haue beene taken with that Country feuer. One e&s;pecially a|mong&s;t the re&s;t, a woman, hauing chiefe gouernment ouer the family, was &s;o grieuou&s;ly afflicted therewith, that her &s;en&s;es were taken from her, and other &s;uch like accidents &s;o oppre&s;&s;ed her, that there remained &s;mall hope of life. Yet it plea&s;ed God, that both &s;hee and the re&s;t, in &s;hort time were recouered (although the Agues of tho&s;e parts doe commonly continue long:) as al&s;o in one part of Kent, where many haue beene releeued by my <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> after that all o|ther meanes haue failed.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter Doctor Sauage, Doctor</HI> of the Ciuill Lawes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;&s;ex Ague.</NOTE> 56. yeares of age, lying &s;icke in E&s;&s;ex of the like feuer, &s;ent for me to come downe vnto him. Beeing
<PB N="91" REF="50"> now with him, and before I admini&s;tred any thing vnto him, hee was &s;trangely taken with convul&s;ions and Crampes, in his hands, feete, legges, face and in all the exterior parts of his body, with extreme tor|tures, lamentable to beholde. I appea&s;ed all the&s;e &s;ymptomes within the &s;pace of one halfe houre, with the E&s;&s;ence of my gold, which in &s;hort time brought him into a Sweat, and his Convul&s;ions and Crampes cea&s;ed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> feuer al&s;o was cured in very &s;hort time.</P>
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<P>THe &s;ame <HI>Doctor Sauage</HI> now lately within the&s;e two moneths, was taken with a malignant fe|uer, a Di&s;ea&s;e now common in &s;undry places. He was perfectly cured thereof, only with the E&s;&s;ence of golde. I gaue him thereof three graines, before the beginning of his fit, di&s;&s;olued in fiue &s;poonfuls of Endiue water with a little &s;ugar: and the like quantitie in the midde&s;t of his hot fit. This I did reiterate euery fit vntill the fourth fit. In which time he was free from his ague. But afterwards he fell into the like feuer againe, as al&s;o into tho&s;e former Con|vul&s;ions, which could not by any helpe of Medicine be a&s;&s;waged, vntill he was inforced to &s;end vnto me, 17. miles for the E&s;&s;ence of golde: which being taken gaue him pre&s;ent releefe, admirable vnto them who were eye witne&s;&s;es of the effect thereof.</P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Thomas Drywood</HI> of Northokenden in<NOTE PLACE="marg">Long langui|&s;hing &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e vpon ob&s;tructions.</NOTE> the County of E&s;&s;ex, 30. yeeres of age, by rea&s;on of ob&s;tructions and other inward cau|&s;es, langui&s;hed a long time, became very leane, and &s;o
<PB N="84" REF="51"> into a con&s;umption. Being therewith almo&s;t &s;pent, my <HI>Aurum potabile</HI> was pre&s;ent remedy to him, and he liueth now in good health.</P>
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<P>THe wife of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Drywood,</HI> by the &s;ame<NOTE PLACE="marg">Weakne&s;&s;e af|ter childbirth.</NOTE> medicine recouered from a great weakne&s;&s;e and decaied e&s;tate, cau&s;ed by hard labour in childbirth, and &s;ickne&s;&s;e afterwards.</P>
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<P>A Daughter of theirs being about 4. yeeres old,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;truct.</NOTE> hauing pined, and decaied long time of an vn|knowne di&s;ea&s;e, vpon the taking of my Pota|ble Gold, vomited vp a great quantity of vi&s;cous tough matter, and then recouered pre&s;ently.</P>
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<P>A Young daughter of <HI>Iohn Fanne</HI> Citizen, dwel|ling<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;truct.</NOTE> in Alder&s;gate &s;treete, being fiue yeeres old, by rea&s;on of ob&s;tructions in her liuer, &s;plene, and bre&s;t, which had long continued, and was thereby much hindred in her breathing, tooke one ounce only of my potable gold, after which &s;he ca&s;t vp much &s;limy &s;tuffe, tough, like molten gla&s;&s;e, that one could &s;carcely cut with a knife, and pre&s;ently &s;he amended, and &s;hortly after became perfectly well.</P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>William Snelling</HI> Fi&s;hmonger, dwelling in<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling &s;ick|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> Thame&s;treete, had a young infant of a yeere old, who was grieuou&s;ly perplexed with the falling &s;icknes. His fits were frequent and oft,
<PB N="93" REF="51"> &s;ometimes 20. in one day. So that the parents be|&s;ought God, to take him to his mercy. out of that &s;o great mi&s;ery: When diuers medicines had beene tried in vaine, he was at the la&s;t recouered by my E&s;&s;ence of gold, and neuer &s;ince was troubled with any fit, being more then 3. yeeres pa&s;t.</P>
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<P>A Maid &s;eruant of the Lady and wife of <HI>Sir Tho|mas</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Convul&s;ions.</NOTE> <HI>Smith</HI> knight, being 22. yeeres old, was af|flicted with mo&s;t violent convul&s;ions, and fits like vnto the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e ince&s;&s;antly day and night for a long &s;ea&s;on: not finding any ea&s;e by gli&s;|ters, and many other medicines giuen her by other Phy&s;itions. At la&s;t &s;he was by me cured of that feare|full di&s;ea&s;e by this my Medicine, and neuer felt it &s;ince; three yeeres being pa&s;t.</P>
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<P>AN Infant of a yeere and halfe old, daughter vn|to<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inward tor|ments and gripings of an infant.</NOTE> <HI>Sir Edward Barret</HI> knight, was long grieued with &s;ome inward torments and gripings in her belly. The Lady <HI>Paget,</HI> Barone&s;&s;e, her grandmo|ther, gaue her of my Potable Gold, with which &s;he pre&s;ently ca&s;t vp &s;ome rawe fleagmaticke matter or humor, and was well for the &s;pace of 2. houres: after which time &s;he complained as before, and peraduen|ture wor&s;e. The Lady her grandmother gaue her an other &s;poonfull, after which &s;he ca&s;t againe much vi&s;cous matter diuer&s;ly coloured, and then &s;lept a whole houre. But waking &s;odenly, &s;he &s;eemed as one ready to diepre&s;ently, hauing many dangerous &s;ignes as &s;owundings, and falling of her iawes &amp;c. So that
<PB N="94" REF="52"> the good Lady, holding this Infant all that while in her lap, was faine forcibly to open her mouth, and poured in an other &s;poonfull mixed with beere or ale. After which &s;he ca&s;t againe a blacki&s;h and ill &s;auoured &s;limy thicke &s;tuffe. Then &s;he was well and recouered.</P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Thomas Allin</HI> E&s;quire, more then 60.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Extreame de|bility.</NOTE> yeeres of age, being lodged in Broad &s;treete, ha|uing then langui&s;hed a long time: at la&s;t being neere &s;pent, he &s;ent for me: and with my Potable Gold e&s;pe|cially, &s;ome other dietary meanes being al&s;o pre&s;cri|bed, he was perfectly re&s;tored in few daies.</P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Small,</HI> gentleman, an Attourney at the<NOTE PLACE="marg">A quartane ague.</NOTE> law, and &s;tudent of Furniualls Inne, 32. yeeres old, had lien &s;icke of a quartane feuer many moneths, and had al&s;o the iaundi&s;e. He finding no helpe in o|ther medicines, was in &s;hort time perfectly cured by my <HI>Aurum potabile.</HI></P>
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<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Thomas Tutte&s;hame</HI> gentleman, aged 20.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A quartane ague.</NOTE> yeeres, &s;onne of Ma&s;ter <HI>Anthony Tutte&s;hame,</HI> both of Staple Inne, was likewi&s;e cured of a quartane ague, by my potable gold.</P>
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<P>A Yong &s;on of <HI>Sir Io. Tale&s;burrough</HI> knight, about<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;&s;ex ague.</NOTE> 4. yeeres old, lay dangerou&s;ly &s;icke in E&s;&s;ex, of the popular and vniuer&s;arie di&s;ea&s;e, ordinarie in tho&s;e mari&s;h countries, and could not endure to
<PB N="95" REF="52"> take any medicines. He tooke my E&s;&s;ence of gold, with the <HI>aurum potabile</HI> at &s;euerall times, and was thereby perfectly cured.</P>
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<P>THe daughter of <HI>Sir Anthony Capell</HI> knight, a|bout<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Con&s;ump|tion.</NOTE> 14. yeares old, after a long &s;ickne&s;&s;e fell into a Con&s;umption, with extreme weakne&s;&s;e. Her father &s;ent vnto me for &s;ome of my pota|ble golde, whereiwth &s;hee was in rea&s;onable time per|fectly recouered, and re&s;tored to her former health.</P>
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<P><HI>FRancis Wonnam</HI> of Darkin in the Countie of Sur|rey,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pal&s;ey of all the body.</NOTE> Yeoman, was taken with a dead Pal&s;ey in all parts of his body. To whom <HI>Ma&s;ter William Rad|cliffe</HI> E&s;quire of the &s;ame Towne, gaue &s;ome of my potable golde which hee had in &s;tore for his owne v&s;e, beeing oft times troubled with the Stone; by which meanes the &s;aid <HI>Wonnam</HI> recouered, and had perfect v&s;e both of legs and hands.</P>
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<P>A Yong gentlema~ <HI>Io. Studolph,</HI> 17. yeares old, be|ing<NOTE PLACE="marg">Speech lo&s;t, and vomiting,</NOTE> then with his mother (a widdow) dwelling neere the fore&s;aid Darkin, was taken with a Pal&s;ey in his tongue; his &s;peech was taken from him, and what&s;oeuer he did either eate or drinke, he ca&s;t it vp. I was &s;ent for, and &s;taied there &s;ome three dayes. In which time, by intermi&s;&s;iue admini&s;tring of my <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> and E&s;&s;ence of gold, his vomiting was &s;taied, his &s;peech recouered, and he perfectly cu|red. But I heard afterwards by &s;ome of his friends,
<PB N="99" REF="53"> that about a yeare after he fell againe into the &s;ame Di&s;ea&s;e, and died thereof before he could conueni|ently &s;end for any helpe.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter Iohn Coles,</HI> called <HI>Captaine Coles,</HI> about 44. yeares old, had long time beene troubled<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;umpti|on of the Lungs.</NOTE> with a dangerous Di&s;ea&s;e of the Lungs, &s;hort|ne&s;&s;e of breath, coughing and with it, &s;pitting of rot|ten matter, and &s;eemed to bee in full Con&s;umption. He was perfectly cured with the continued v&s;e of my Potable golde.</P>
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<P><HI>HEnry Smith</HI> &s;eruant to <HI>Sir Edward Barret</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Pal&s;ey.</NOTE> Knight, lo&s;t his &s;peech by a Pal&s;ey, and &s;o &s;ome time. Afterwards he perfectly recouered his &s;peech againe, by helpe of my <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI></P>
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<P>A Seruant of <HI>Sir Thomas Smith</HI> Knight, hauing beene long troubled with a quartane Ague,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Quartane.</NOTE> finding no helpe by other Medicines which had beene giuen vnto him, was cured with my Pota|ble gold.</P>
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<P>A Daughter of <HI>Ma&s;ter Fitzgarret</HI> E&s;quire, dwel|ling vpon <HI>Saint Peters</HI> Hill, was infected with<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plague.</NOTE> the Plague or Pe&s;tilence, and cured by the on|ly v&s;e of my E&s;&s;ence of golde, di&s;&s;olued in my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> with <HI>Carduus</HI> Water.</P>
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<P><HI>ELizabeth Elward,</HI> being allied vnto <HI>Edward Rug|ham</HI> retainer to the <HI>Lord Kneuet,</HI> was likewi&s;e infected with the Plague, and becau&s;e the &s;ame<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plague.</NOTE> <HI>Edward Rugham</HI> was continually attendant in White Hall vnder the <HI>Lord Kneuet,</HI> the &s;aid Lord therefore per&s;waded him to v&s;e my <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> for his kin&s;|woman, being then in <HI>Edward Rughams</HI> hou&s;e; which he did, and by it recouered his kin&s;woman.</P>
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<P><HI>DIuers other were al&s;o cured of the Plague at the &s;ame time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A maide &s;eruant belonging to Ma&s;ter Iohn Morris, marchant, dwelling neere vnto Lea|den Hall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A &s;eruant of Sir Edward Conway Knight.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ma&s;t. Carre Coun&s;ellor at the Law, dwelling in Great Saint Bartholmewes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A man &s;eruant and a maide &s;eruant in the hou&s;e of Mi&s;tris Randall widdow, dwelling on Saint Peters Hill.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Three &s;eruants in the hou&s;e of Sir William He|ricke Knight.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ma&s;ter Arthur Lu&s;on, Citizen in Paterno&s;ter Row.</HI></P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;ter Seabright</HI> of London, E&s;quire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Convul&s;ions with lo&s;&s;e of &s;en&s;e.</NOTE> being about 60. yeares old, was often taken with diuers and &s;undry pa&s;&s;ions, as Convul&s;ions, and para|lyticall &s;tupefactions of her &s;en&s;e of feeling; And had
<PB N="98" REF="54"> beene &s;undry times releeued by my Potable gold. But to ouercome, &amp; vtterly to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the great aboun|dance of tho&s;e humors or matter, which cau&s;ed the&s;e fits &s;o often to returne, without being perfectly cu|red, I adui&s;ed her to take &s;ometimes of my E&s;&s;ence of gold. Which when &s;hee had taken, &s;hee ca&s;t vp a great quantitie of Melancholicke blacke &s;tuffe. Since which time, &s;he hath neuer beene troubled with any of tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ions.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter Iohn Sherington</HI> of London, Marchant, had a &s;onne about three yeares old, long time<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions in a childe.</NOTE> deiected and weake, and had receiued many Medicines again&s;t the wormes and other cau&s;es which were &s;u&s;pected, but to no purpo&s;e (for he daily grew wor&s;e and wor&s;e.) At la&s;t therefore, hauing ta|ken my Potable golde a few daies, he ca&s;t vp a great quantity of tough, thicke, and vi&s;cous humors. Af|ter which (the matter of Ob&s;tructions being taken a|way) he pre&s;ently recouered perfect health.</P>
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<P>AL&s;o a yong daughter then borne to this <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A new borne Infant.</NOTE> <HI>Sherington,</HI> being &s;ixe moneths old, fell dange|rou&s;ly &s;icke, and with the &s;ame Medicine was re&s;to|red.</P>
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<P>THe wife of <HI>Ma&s;t. Coles</HI> dwelling in Colman&s;treete<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plague.</NOTE> (after the death of her &s;aid husband, who died of the Plague) &s;hee beeing then with childe, was al&s;o
<PB N="99" REF="54"> infected. And fearing in that ca&s;e all &s;trong Medi|cines, v&s;ed only my Potable golde and the E&s;&s;ence, with v&s;e whereof by Gods grace &s;he recouered, &amp; her childe &s;aued, of which &s;hee was after &s;afely deliuered. The husband which tooke other Medicines, not this, died. The wife which refu&s;ed all other Medi|cines, and tooke only this, recouered; Notwith&s;tan|ding the increa&s;e of danger by her childbearing. Let the due con&s;ideration of this one ca&s;e, &s;top the mouth of malice it &s;elfe, and informe the enuious to glorifie God, for his great and good gifts be&s;towed vpon men.</P>
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<P><HI>EDmund Nu&s;um</HI> dwelling neere Charing-Cro&s;&s;e, fell into a dangerous &s;ickne&s;&s;e and long time continued therein. In this his di&s;tre&s;&s;e he &s;ent for a learned Phy&s;ition of London, well knowne: who v&s;ed his be&s;t skill and endeauours, for recouery of this patient. But failing in his expectation, he tolde the patients wife, that &s;he mu&s;t &s;hortly be a widdow, A worthy gentleman, their neighbour, pitying this ca&s;e, &s;ent his man to me in this &s;icke mans behalfe. I came, and found the Apothecarie at the patients dore, newly come from him, which &s;aluted me with the&s;e, or the like words: You come tooo late, there is no good to be done. To whome I an&s;wered, that though I could doe no good, yet I would do no hurt. So when I came to the patient, and could not finde any likely &s;ignes, nor hopes of life, I vndertooke no|thing concerning his recouery; neither promi&s;ed &s;o much as hope. Yet for a triall, I gaue him &s;ome of my potable golde, and continued that admini&s;tration all
<PB N="100" REF="55"> that night, once in three houres. It plea&s;ed God that hee recouered, to the great admiration of all men.</P>
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<P>NOt long after, the only &s;onne of the afore&s;aid Apothecarie, (who&s;e name was <HI>Nathan Dar|bey</HI>) 17. yeares of age, was likewi&s;e taken with a violent burning feuer. He had the aduice and coun|&s;ell not onely of the &s;aid Phy&s;ition before &s;pecified, but al&s;o of many other of the Colledge. But the pati|ent grew wor&s;e and wor&s;e, and at length became &s;peechle&s;&s;e, and was as it were vpon the thre&s;hold, to take death by the hand. The father then, though in de&s;paire of his &s;onne, yet hauing &s;eene the former ef|fect, came ha&s;tily vnto me, in the Sermon time (being then the Sabbath day) imploring my aide for his &s;onnes recouerie, if yet it were po&s;&s;ible. His com|plaints preuailed. I gaue his &s;onne of the&s;e materials, iterated by degrees as the ca&s;e required. God ble&s;&s;ed the meanes, and he recouered.</P>
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<P><HI>MA&s;ter William Parkinton</HI> gentleman, likewi&s;e, dwelling neere vnto Charing-Cro&s;&s;e, and &s;uf|ficiently well knowne, lay dangerou&s;ly &s;icke, v&s;ing the aduice and helpe of the &s;aid before mentio|ned Phy&s;ition. He neglected no meanes of ordinary cour&s;e pre&s;cribed by Phy&s;icke. Neuerthele&s;&s;e the pa|tient found &s;mall releefe. For the Phy&s;ition him&s;elfe accounted him a dead man. So likewi&s;e did his wife, and other his friends, In this forlorne e&s;tate, I was cal|led vnto him. I only gaue him of the E&s;&s;ence of gold,
<PB N="101" REF="55"> and the <HI>Aurum Potabile.</HI> And that God, who doth wound and heale: who bringeth vs to the brinke of the graue, and rai&s;eth vs vp againe, by this meanes, as his reuealed ordinance, re&s;tored him againe vnto per|fect health.</P>
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<P><HI>BY the&s;e three la&s;t in&s;tances, all dwelling neere vnto one place, and almo&s;t at one time, one Phy&s;ition being called vnto them all, and they all for&s;aken by him, as deplored: yet neuerthe|le&s;&s;e, they all beeing recouered, by the only helpe of this Aurum Potabile: we mu&s;t of force acknow|ledge the &s;ame to bee an extraordinary ble&s;&s;ing &s;ent from God, for releefe of tho&s;e, who haue en|ioyed the benefit thereof. And let no man depraue this Medicine, in that it is admini&s;tred &s;o diuer&s;|ly. It ought rather to be had in greater price. The neerer vnto &s;implicitie, the neerer to veritie. Al|&s;o, in vaine are many things v&s;ed, when one thing preuaileth. As in all the cour&s;e of our life this is true, &s;o likewi&s;e in admini&s;tring of Phy&s;icke. Ther|fore Dama&s;cen &s;aith: It were a wicked fact to v&s;e a compound Medicine, where a &s;imple profiteth.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>CONCLVSION OF THE SECOND PART.</HEAD>
<P>_BY the&s;e euidences, and mani|fold experience &s;incerely deli|uered, partly taken and faith|fully tran&s;lated out of Latine letters, &s;ent from &s;euerall parts beyond the &s;eas; partly in Engli&s;h verbally &s;et downe, as they came to me; any rea|&s;onable man, not &s;educed by vaine oppo&s;itions, nor willfully preiudicate, nor peruer&s;ly malicious, may ea|&s;ily iudge, that this medicine, my Potable gold, is the mo&s;t whole&s;ome, &s;afe, &amp; operatiue medicine, which at this day is knowne to be had in v&s;e: both for the cure of de&s;perate and hopele&s;&s;e &s;ickne&s;&s;es, when all helpe of man is accounted vaine: And for the won|derfull re&s;toring of the decaied &s;trength, and langui|&s;hing powers of the body, with a &s;ingular comforting of the heart: As al&s;o, for a Prophylacticke, and pre&s;er|uer of health. Which &s;o being, the greater is their &s;inne, which contrary to Gods commandement, Chri&s;tian charitie, the loue of truth, their dutie to|wards their neighbour, and peraduenture their in|ward te&s;timony of their owne con&s;cience, haue &s;o vi|rulently and de&s;pitefully inueighed again&s;t the true and vncontrollable virtues and effects thereof: And
<PB N="103" REF="56"> in their wa&s;t papers of impre&s;&s;ion, haue attempted to &s;hew the power of malicious <HI>Rhetoricke,</HI> thereby to wrong that good, which they them&s;elues cannot at|taine vnto. Whereby &s;o farre as their habilitie and cre|dibilitie could &s;tretch, they haue notoriou&s;ly iniured, not me only, but all &s;orts, ranks, and degrees of peo|ple, &s;ubiect to the vnre&s;pectiue tyranny of &s;ickne&s;&s;e, which maketh no difference betweene the Cottage and Pallace, the King and the Pea&s;ant. The wrong to me, is, that for my loue and truth, workes of charitie, good intentions towards all, and good de&s;erts of as many as haue made, or hereafter &s;hall make v&s;e of the fruites of the&s;e my labours: they haue rewarded me, with that which is vnder my backbiters tongues, rai|ling, for reuerence, reproch, for my good deeds, and &s;lander, for a recompence. But the wrong done to o|thers, hath many branches, and &s;earcheth to the &s;eate of greate&s;t honour. For (though I dare not &s;ay that it &s;hould haue beene otherwi&s;e, by the admini&s;tring hereof (the length and number of all daies being in Gods hand) yet to &s;hew their warme charitie again&s;t all things, not in their owne Apothekes, they would not &s;uffer our late yong Prince, worthy of immortall memorie, to v&s;e this &s;o famou&s;ly and aboue all excep|tions approued medicine; notwith&s;tanding in the v&s;e of all other, they found not &s;o much as any hope. In a de&s;perate ca&s;e, and a progno&s;ticated life, all rules both of learning and charitie allow, yea and require the at|tempt of any meanes, not noted of ill &s;u&s;picion: Much more &s;o publikely and manifoldly te&s;tified, for the ad|mirable good effects which it had wrought in diuers per&s;ons. But that Rubricke (<HI>Propter dignitatem per&s;onae &amp;c.</HI>) Giue ordinary medicines to great per&s;&oacute;s, to pre|&s;erue the honour of the Phy&s;ition, that he hath done
<PB N="104" REF="57"> no hurt, <HI>&s;cilicet,</HI> though he did no good, is neither Prophylacticke nor Therapeuticke. We &s;ay in Eng|li&s;h: As good neuer a whit as neuer the better. And &s;uch is their pious affection towards all others whom it may concerne, that what&s;oeuer happen, none of them will make v&s;e of this my potable gold, (which though not properly, yet emphatically may be called a diuine Medicine: and certainly with more merit, then their <HI>Gratia Dei, Manus Chri&s;ti, Benedicta Medi|camenta, Diuinum Medicamentum</HI>) though it would &s;aue a thou&s;and liues. E&s;teeming (as it &s;eemeth) that good which is &s;o done without the Sepla&s;ia&s;ticke pre|parations, to be their di&s;honor, and delinement. Let all be &s;oberly v&s;ed, but where greate&s;t need is, the be&s;t and mo&s;t powerfull cho&s;en. But the &s;earcher and iudge of all hearts will recompence according to me|rit, to them, as to enemies of truth. And to the &s;incere louers thereof, acknowledging Gods mercies &s;hewed in the admini&s;tration of his owne guifts, their guer|don, which is the te&s;timony of a good con&s;cience. If we looke backe, vnto the actions of certaine Phy&s;iti|ons of old time euen before the age of <HI>Galen,</HI> and the admirable medicines of &s;ome of them: we &s;hall find not impertinent to our purpo&s;e, that of great <HI>Alexan|der</HI> King of Macedon. He (as <HI>Quintus Curtius</HI> in his third booke reporteth) in the extremitie of a mo&s;t dangerous and violent di&s;ea&s;e, de&s;iring either pre&s;ent helpe or death, that he might hold his appointed day of battell with <HI>Darius</HI> King of Per&s;ia; for that purpo&s;e, con&s;ulted with his friends and coun&s;ellors, what re|medy might be found in this de&s;perate ca&s;e. The King di&s;liked al ordinary medicines, as too weake for his purpo&s;e. The Phy&s;itions would allow none &s;uch as they called vnknowne. One Phy&s;ition among the
<PB N="105" REF="57"> re&s;t, named <HI>Philip,</HI> being borne in the country Acar|nania a part of Greece, offered <HI>Alexander</HI> to make him a medicine very &s;afe to be taken, which &s;hould &s;peedily re&s;tore him to health, though the other Phy|&s;itions knew not what it was. <HI>Parmenio</HI> a great Coun|&s;ellour and fauorite of <HI>Alexanders,</HI> di&s;&s;waded his King from this medicine, (for he was vnwilling the King &s;hould recouer as the &s;equell &s;hewed) and laboured to per&s;wade him, that this <HI>Philip</HI> the Phy&s;ition was hired by <HI>Darius</HI> for 1000. talents to poy&s;on him. Yet <HI>Alex|ander</HI> tooke that Phy&s;icke, and finding the effect an|&s;werable to his promi&s;e, after his health &s;o &s;uddenly and beyond expectation recouered, did afterwards a|mong other accu&s;ations, lay this for one again&s;t <HI>Par|menio,</HI> as not wi&s;hing him well; which altogether made vp that Iudgment which brought him to his end. And very honorablie, both rewarded and re|garded <HI>Philip,</HI> to whom next vnder God, be attribu|ted and acknowledged the pre&s;eruation of his life. The working of that medicine, in the &s;ame place is de&s;cribed, not vnlike to this of mine. In this manner, <HI>Vt vero Medicamentum, &amp;c. So &s;oone as the Medicine dif|fu&s;ed or &s;pred it &s;elfe into the veines, there might lei&s;urely, by little and little recouery and healthfulne&s;&s;e be perceiued in all the body. Fir&s;t the &s;pirits and heart recouered their vi|gor, and after the body al&s;o, &s;ooner then could be beleeued. For Alexander after he had beene in this ca&s;e three daies, &s;hewed him&s;elfe to his Armie: which did not more ardently or affectionatly fixe their eyes vpon Alexander, then vpon Philip who had &s;o vnexpectedly re&s;tored him to them: Euery one &s;triuing who &s;hould fir&s;t giue him their right hand, em|brace and thanke him.</HI> Thus much <HI>Curtius.</HI></P>
<P>Semblably it is &s;ufficiently prooued and famou&s;ly manife&s;t, that very many great, Noble and Honou|rable
<PB N="106" REF="58"> per&s;onages, both men and women, &s;icke either as <HI>Alexander</HI> was, or taken with other more dange|rous and violent di&s;ea&s;es, for&s;aken by all other Phy|&s;itions, as vncurable, haue beene by the v&s;e of this Medicine, through Gods grace, in very &s;hort time re|couered, and re&s;tored to their perfect health. There|fore vnto you worthy and Honourable gentlemen, who as you are the Inheritors of Nobilitie, &s;o are you of gentle and noble di&s;po&s;itions: to you I &s;ay, I turne my &s;elfe, re&s;ting a&s;&s;ured, that you e&s;teeme the&s;e ca|lumniating bablers, to haue &s;aid nothing reall, mate|riall, and veritable again&s;t me, how&s;oeuer they haue mooued their tongues and quills. They intend not in this ca&s;e, your health, but my dammage: and would rather you were offered a &s;ilent &s;acrifice in e|ternall &s;leepe, then &s;trike one &s;aile, or vnlace one bo|net blowen with the winde of their malicious breath, or lee&s;e the price of a popular Recipe, for a Benedict Medicament, although it doe no good, &s;hall doe no harme, <HI>Propter hone&s;tatem Medici,</HI> that is, for the repu|tation of the Doctor: though euery day almo&s;t doe giue mi&s;erable experience, that by want of doing good, the mi&s;chiefe increa&s;eth; and &s;o with the repu|tation of the Doctor, the poore patient is lodged in his graue&s;end, which is harme enough, and the wor&s;t of a maledict Medicine. Therefore as I de&s;ire, &s;o I iu&s;tly hope, that you will di&s;cerne betweene a blacke and a white: fal&s;hood, and truth: light and darkne&s;&s;e. That you will patroni&s;e, defend and keepe from op|pre&s;&s;ion, both me and the truth. If there be any doubt concerning the auouchment of the cures and good effects of this my potable gold, here &s;poken of, you haue the reports, the particular names and places, and many of their owne hand writings I keepe ready at
<PB N="107" REF="58"> all times, to be &s;hewed for your further content|ments. And I am verily per&s;waded, that all hone&s;t per&s;ons which haue beene recouered from their di&s;|ea&s;es and infirmities by the good v&s;e of this my pota|ble gold, will be &s;o thankfull to God for that benefit, as to acknowledge the meanes of their recouery, and not imitate tho&s;e &s;ilent 9. Phari&s;es clen&s;ed from their Lepro&s;ie by our Sauiour: which is little le&s;&s;e (if not equiualent) then again&s;t their owne knowledge and con&s;cience to deny. Of them you may know and be &s;atisfied, that it hath done good to all, hurt to none: That it is a &s;afe, powerfull and plea&s;ing Medi|cine: euen a Prince among&s;t all, analogi&s;ing with principalitie in this. That doing much good, yet of malicious and vn&s;hamefull per&s;ons it is ill &s;poken of as Princes oft times are. Let the&s;e worldling &s;lande|rers, di&s;prooue that I &s;ay, or prooue the contrary, if they can. If not, then it is time they would be intrea|ted, if not for con&s;cience &s;ake, yet at lea&s;t for &s;hame (if they feare any) to be &s;ilent hereafter: though it were more for their hone&s;t account, to recant in print. The&s;e great cures performed, realities, things of fact, often times, in &s;undrie and di&s;tant places, and &s;undry and diuers per&s;ons, in &s;undry and different di&s;ea&s;es, done and performed to the great good of many, and applau&s;ed by common atte&s;tation, in all parts of the Realme, and many parts beyond the &s;eas: This (I &s;ay) cannot be pocketted as not done, nor &s;o ea&s;ily vilified by a fine phra&s;e, a little good Latine: Sub|&s;tance or &s;ence there is none in his writing, it is meere froth, and the deceitfull in&s;ide of a rotten Egge, or worm-eaten nut: good for nothing but to befogge the cleere light of a knowne truth, and maintaine the inured practi&s;e of learned &s;colds. Surely, this is not,
<PB N="108" REF="59"> White, in any tongue, Latine or Welch, how&s;oeuer ver&s;ified. The&s;e te&s;timonies for me (which will daily increa&s;e) &s;hall lye and remaine to all po&s;terities, as ho|nourable Trophies, fixed in the hearts of vnder&s;tan|ding and hone&s;t men; when the&s;e &s;tagie chartlets of theirs, &s;hall not be vouch&s;afed an hone&s;t eye or eare: but ca&s;t by for wa&s;t paper, to &s;top mu&s;tard pots, or o|ther ba&s;e offices. They are not able, to produce one In&s;tance, of harme receiued by this Medicine. Wher|as contrary, the chiefe&s;t, mo&s;t polychre&s;ticall, and greate&s;t magnified compo&s;itions (whereof (to &s;peake truth) at this day the right Ingredients bee not knowne: and again&s;t which &s;ome learned Doctors haue learnedly written) haue their Imputatio~s, wher|in the charge mu&s;t bee either vpon the Medicine it &s;elfe, or vpon the Phy&s;itions. Who&s;e errors, if them|&s;elues will not mend, I will not excu&s;e. If obiection be made, that all haue not recouered, which haue taken this Medicine of mine, but &s;ome haue died: I confe&s;&s;e that is true. But what then? Old Age is irreuocable. Many di&s;ea&s;es al&s;o are either e&s;&s;entially incurable, or preuent all power of Medicines, either by the vehe|mencie or malignitie <HI>Morbi acuti&s;&s;imi,</HI> or by the neg|ligence of timely helpe. Many al&s;o being ea&s;ily to be cured at the fir&s;t, are made de&s;perate and vncurable, by errors, either of Medicines directly hurtfull, or at the lea&s;t not helpfull, to the intollerable weakning of the poore patient, and triumph of the di&s;ea&s;e. Al&s;o <HI>Hippocrates</HI> telleth vs, that all di&s;ea&s;es be not curable. For the fatall and prede&s;tinate houre is ineuitable. There re&s;teth an vnknowne cau&s;e, which is the vn|&s;earchable coun&s;ell of God, which wil not that all di&s;|ea&s;es &s;hall be cured in al men. Thus much concerning the &s;econd part, we will now proceede to the third.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="part">
<PB N="109" REF="59">
<HEAD>THE THIRD PART SHEWING THE VSE OF THIS POTABLE GOLD.</HEAD>
<P>_THat which <HI>Philip</HI> of Macedon, father of <HI>Alexander</HI> the great &s;aid of gold: That with it all Cities, Citadells, Ca&s;tels, Forts, For|tre&s;&s;es and Bulwarkes, how&s;oe|uer by nature, Art and munition thought impregnable, might be a&s;&s;aulted, laid open and conque|red: I may as truely, but to better v&s;e, affirme of <HI>Au|rum potabile,</HI> that is, of Gold made into medicine and reduced to the forme of a potable liquor, that it doth a&s;&s;aile and oppugne all infirmities and inward di&s;ea|&s;es of mans body (re&s;pectiuely curable, as afore&s;aid.) That it al&s;o doth re&s;tore, e&s;tabli&s;h, and confirme, the vigor and &s;trength of mans body, with the naturall and vitall faculties thereof: If it be duely and con&s;i|derately admini&s;tred, with &s;uch care, caution and iudgement as becommeth the dignitie of a rationall Phy&s;ition. For as the Captaine of an Army, hauing any peculiar exploite in hand, neglecteth no meanes, either by Military Di&s;cipline, or Engines of warre, to accompli&s;h his intended purpo&s;e; &s;o is the Phy&s;ition
<PB N="102" REF="60"> likewi&s;e bound to doe. And as the clande&s;tine ene|my which lieth in Ambu&s;h, and appeareth not in &s;ight, is much more dangerous, then he that com|meth in open face; &s;o likewi&s;e, many of our internall di&s;ea&s;es, who&s;e malignitie lurkes in the inward parts, are more difficultly cured, then tho&s;e which mani&s;e&s;t the vttermo&s;t of their malice. And as in this age, both Armour and other Artillery for the &s;eruice of warre, are farre different from tho&s;e of former times, &s;o that it were ridiculous now, either in offen&s;iue warre or defen&s;iue, to relinqui&s;h our Ordnance of all &s;orts, be|cau&s;e (in compari&s;on) they are but late inuentions, and to tru&s;t to the ancient military in&s;truments &s;er|uiceable among the Romans in tho&s;e daies: Euen &s;o, the capitall di&s;ea&s;es of this age, being for the mo&s;t part <HI>Complicati Morbi,</HI> whereas <HI>olim</HI> they were <HI>&s;implices,</HI> will hardly be extirpate, if we ouercuriou&s;ly do per&s;i&s;t in the pre&s;cript rules and method of antiquitie, and tye our &s;elues only to their Medicines: &s;eeing that daily experience doth teach vs, that they performe not the effects promi&s;ed, and therefore, are for the mo&s;t part admini&s;tred fruitle&s;ly. Seeing therefore the indeuours of this age (being inforced thereunto by defect of tho&s;e medicines) haue likewi&s;e added vnto Art, and haue inriched the &s;ame with other mate|rials medicinable, not formerly retained in common v&s;e; or the &s;ame, by more artificiall preparation, haue exalted into a higher virtue: Were it not madne&s;&s;e (the validitie of the &s;ame being &s;ufficiently experien|ced) to relinqui&s;h tho&s;e of a higher nature, and to v&s;e triuiall and fruitle&s;&s;e medicines? Let the Souldier make conuenient v&s;e of the Sword, Dagger, Helmet, Target, Pike, and &s;uch like (for they haue beene of long antiquity) but withall, let not Musket, Saker,
<PB N="110" REF="60"> Mineon, Cannon, be neglected, becau&s;e they are new inuentions, in compari&s;on of the other. And let vs likewi&s;e approue, and retaine in v&s;e, Electuaries, Sy|rups, Pills, Powders, and what&s;oeuer el&s;e by long ap|probation is pertinent to the expul&s;ing of malignant humors the cau&s;es of maladies: yet, let not the virtues acknowledged by all antiquity to be in&s;ident in gold, be lea&s;t regarded, which virtues do actually appeare in potable gold. Euery graduated Phy&s;ition is tied by &s;olemne oath, as al&s;o by integrity of con&s;cience, not to neglect any thing, tending to the recouery of his patient; But to v&s;e all manner of effectuall medi|cines, either new or old, whether of their owne inuen|tions, or of other mens labours, being approued to be &s;ecure and not nau&s;eous: not reiecting the &s;ame vpon any priuate con&s;ideration, either of preiudice or ma|lice. But leauing this digre&s;&s;ion, to the intent that e|uery body whom it &s;hall concerne, may make the be&s;t v&s;e, reape the full fruition of all benefits which they can expect by this &s;o profitable and extraordinary gift of God, (although they cannot at all times haue the a&s;&s;i&s;tance and directing aduice of a learned Phy&s;i|tion, to pre&s;cribe and order the admini&s;tration there|of, which were to be wi&s;hed) I will here in this la&s;t part of this Treati&s;e, endeuour to helpe that defect: and teach the method, manner, and rules, how, and in what di&s;ea&s;es and pa&s;&s;ions, it may mo&s;t profitable be admini&s;tred. Which though by many the letters &s;ent me, before in this di&s;cour&s;e &s;et downe as al&s;o by the hi&s;tories of many cures by my &s;elfe and others there|with performed, it be rea&s;onable plaine, yet I will draw it into a more di&s;tinct and orderly deliuery, ac|cording to the good will and meaning I haue: That by a generall helping medicine, a mo&s;t generall and
<PB N="112" REF="61"> vniuer&s;all benefite may be reaped.</P>
<P>Therefore be it knowne, that the v&s;e of this medi|cine is generally twofold, an&s;werable to the two ge|nerall ends of Practicke Phy&s;icke. One, to pre&s;erue the pre&s;ent health. The other, to recouer it, beeing broken or lo&s;t: by curing the Di&s;ea&s;es, and rooting out the cau&s;es thereof.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<HEAD>THE VSE OF POTABLE GOLD in pre&s;eruation of health.</HEAD>
<P>_ALL the Phy&s;itions and learned men, both before in my fir&s;t prin|ted booke, and here in this alled|ged, as al&s;o almo&s;t innumerable o|thers, who&s;e names I omit to auouch, for breuitie, agree in this: That <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> is the be&s;t Medicine, and mo&s;t profitable In&s;trument for the con&s;eruation of health, in all kinde of complexiona|ble temperaments; That it partly &s;uppre&s;&s;eth and &s;uffereth not luxuriou&s;ly to bud, &s;hoot out, and bring their fruit vnto ripene&s;&s;e, any &s;eedes, or latent rootes of &s;ickne&s;&s;es, lurking in mans body, whereunto any pronene&s;&s;e or aptitude hereditarie, or otherwi&s;e acci|dentall, make them obnoxious: That it reduceth to mediocritie, inordinate di&s;temperatures, either in ex|ce&s;&s;e or defect: That it refre&s;heth, vigorateth, and &s;trengthneth the heart; re&s;toreth, and increa&s;eth the vitall &s;pirits: aduanceth the force and and generation
<PB N="113" REF="61"> of good blood, multiplieth geniture &s;eede, and habi|litie of prolification in both &s;exes; bani&s;hing &s;terility, preuenting abortions, and prouiding quicke, ea&s;y, and &s;afe deliueries in childbed, &s;uppre&s;&s;eth the infirmities of age: pre&s;erueth the vigor of youth. It were vnne|ce&s;&s;ary to heape arguments in confirmation hereof, being in it &s;elfe &s;o authentically warranted by famous authors, and manife&s;tly witne&s;&s;ed by many experien|ces. Particularly, it is a pre&s;eruatiue again&s;t the Fal|ling &s;ickne&s;&s;e,, the Apoplexie, Lepro&s;ie, Plague, Drop|&s;y, Cancer, Gout, Stone, and all manner of feuers in all ages and &s;exes. And in &s;ome, it expelleth (or rather en|ableth the body to expell) by conuenient and mo&s;t naturall pa&s;&s;ages, the antecedent matter or humors, from and by which any di&s;ea&s;es depending vpon &s;uch materiall cau&s;es might &s;pring, and &s;o by pre|uention, pre&s;erueth health.</P>
<P>But it is to be knowne and ob&s;erued, that this Me|dicine<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t forme.</NOTE> of gold, though made of one body, yet is re&s;er|ued and v&s;ed in three formes and con&s;i&s;tences; which not being knowne, there may be much mi&s;taking and errour in the v&s;e and admini&s;tration thereof.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, when the gold is di&s;&s;olued in the proper men&s;truall or in&s;trumentall water, this water is di&s;til|led away from the di&s;&s;olued gold, vntill it be in the bottome in the forme or con&s;i&s;tence of a liquid gum or hony, deepely coloured (as <HI>Raymund Lully</HI> cals it) &amp; mo&s;t vnctuous. To which, the &s;pirit of wine is then put, and by &s;olution thereof, tincted very red and deepe coloured. That tincted &s;pirit of wine is gently decanted, or powred off, and &s;o re&s;erued by it &s;elfe in a gla&s;&s;e. And is called the Phy&s;icall Tincture of gold. And may &s;o, in &s;mall roome, and with no burden bee caried whither any man plea&s;e. And this we call the fir&s;t forme.</P>
<PB N="114" REF="62">
<P>Take one ounce of this tincted &s;pirit, mixe it with<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;econd forme.</NOTE> 16. ounces of generous wine (or if you plea&s;e, of any other liquor.) And this being &s;o mixed is called that Potable golde, of which &s;o often mention hath beene hitherto made. One, or two &s;poonfuls of this at one time, and &s;ometimes a whole ounce, I accu&s;tome to giue, in &s;uch ca&s;es and Di&s;ea&s;es as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>The third forme is this, and thus made. That tin|cted<NOTE PLACE="marg">The third forme.</NOTE> red &s;pirit of wine, in which the di&s;&s;olued gold is taken vp from the white feces, or re&s;idence, is put in|to a fit gla&s;&s;e body with a head. And with a gentle heate of a <HI>Balneum,</HI> the &s;pirit is drawne off, vntill the &s;ub&s;tance in the bottome of the gla&s;&s;e be dry. Then doe I put on fre&s;h &s;pirit of wine, &s;etting it in dige&s;tion certaine daies. In which time it will ca&s;t off an other re&s;idence. This proce&s;&s;e is reiterated, and at euery &s;uch &s;olution and di&s;tillation, the feculent re&s;idence mu&s;t be &s;eparated from the pure, vntill it leaue no re|&s;idence at all. Then is it called the Quinte&s;&s;ence or E&s;&s;ence of God, which I doe v&s;e to admini&s;ter in the quantity of 2. or 3. or more graines, and doe di&s;&s;olue it in &s;ome appropriate liquor or other mix|ture conducent.</P>
<P>So that any, that is de&s;irous to make v&s;e of this my Medicine, may haue either the Potable gold, or the Tincture of gold, or the E&s;&s;ence of gold, or all; and apply them in all manner of needfull v&s;es, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require.</P>
<P>They therefore that &s;hall take it for pre&s;eruation, may v&s;e it in the &s;imple&s;t &amp; lea&s;t curious order &amp; fa|&s;hion. That is, to take of the <HI>Auru~ Potabile</HI> one or two &s;poonfuls, together fa&s;ting, and in bed, if they may, el&s;e in the morning after they be vp; the oftner, the better. V&s;e giues in&s;truction, from that common In|dication afore&s;aid, <HI>A Iuuantibus et nocentibus, &amp;c,</HI> From
<PB N="115" REF="62"> things that helpe and hurt, euery one is directed. Therefore who&s;oeuer after twice or thrice taking, hath found benefit thereby, he may proportion him|&s;elfe, in moderate increa&s;ing or dimini&s;hing the do&s;e or quantitie, according to his owne hability and con|&s;titution. For, in increa&s;ing the quantitie of this, there is no danger, &s;o it be within any bounds of mediocri|tie, not exorbitantly <HI>exuberat&egrave;:</HI> which is farre other|wi&s;e in all or mo&s;t part of other &s;imples and compo&s;i|tions, whether meerely Medicaments, or Midica|mentall nutriments, as are Oximel, Saffron, Methri|date, Treacle, all Cordiales and Purges what&s;oeuer.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a conuenient time to take it (e&s;pecially in tho&s;e that haue weake &s;tomacks) will be one houre or two before dinner or &s;upper, or after &s;upper, at bed time (for it doth both helpe dige&s;tion, and pro|cure &s;leepe) according as the circum&s;tances &s;hall re|quire or &s;uffer.</P>
<P>In precaution of Lunarie Di&s;ea&s;es, &s;uch as haue their exacerbations &amp; fits according to the quarters, changings, &amp; full of the Moone, as <HI>Epilep&s;ies, Defluxi|ons,</HI> inordinate <HI>Men&s;truals</HI> and &s;uch like: The rule is, for this la&s;t, to take it neere the time of cour&s;e: In the other, 3. 4. or 5. daies before the new and full Moone.</P>
<P>If it be de&s;ired for the more particular appropria|ting of this Medicine to any particular cau&s;e, to take it not &s;o &s;imply of it &s;elfe, but mixed: Then let &s;uch, either by their owne knowledge, or the appointment of &s;ome experienced Phy&s;ition, mixe it with &s;ome &s;pecificall water, decoction, extraction, or otherwi&s;e formed Medicine, according to the nece&s;&s;itie of euery particular cau&s;e and occa&s;ion: Or with &s;ome com|pound water, approoued for that Di&s;ea&s;e, or Poly|chre&s;tall to the &s;ame, and others, in neighbourhood and linke of cau&s;es to it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="account">
<PB N="116" REF="63">
<HEAD>THE VSE OF AVRVM POTABILE IN SVNDRY INFIRMITIES.</HEAD>
<P>_THe di&s;ea&s;ed per&s;on that &s;hall v&s;e this Medicine, may take it in the &s;ame proportio~ or do&s;e, as formerly is &s;et downe, or &s;omewhat greater or le&s;&s;e, ac|cording to the condition of the partie, and &s;tate of his Di&s;|ea&s;e. Commonly one &s;poon|full of the <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> is giuen at one time: or &s;ixe<NOTE PLACE="marg">The do&s;e.</NOTE> or eight droppes of the Tincture of gold, mixed in &s;ome appropriate liquor: and of the E&s;&s;ence of Gold, two or three graines. Where nece&s;&s;itie &s;hall require, the&s;e do&s;es may be doubled, or more; as of the <HI>Aurum Potabile,</HI> two or three &s;poonfull vnto a full ounce: of the E&s;&s;ence foure graines or &s;ixe: Of the Tincture in like re&s;pect. Al&s;o in &s;ome per&s;ons greatly debilitated, and not able well to retaine, a &s;mall quantity is fir&s;t to be attempted, and then by degrees increa&s;ed, as by former examples may plainly appeare. Al&s;o this E&s;|&s;ence of gold is very fitting and conuenient for very yong infants but newly borne, in any Di&s;ea&s;e what|&s;oeuer, being ordered in this maner. Take one graine of the E&s;&s;ence, di&s;&s;olue it in one or two &s;poonfull of bre&s;tmilke or in &s;ome di&s;tilled water as &s;hal be fitting:
<PB N="117" REF="63"> giue the childe part of that mixture at the fir&s;t: after a while giue it more. This is &s;ecurely giuen, the third or fourth day after the birth; &s;o is likewi&s;e the <HI>Aurum Po|tabile</HI> in a &s;mall quantitie, and mixed with &s;ome other liquor, not with milke: neither mu&s;t the childe &s;ucke within two houres after, le&s;t the wine in the potable gold, &s;hould curdle the milke.</P>
<P>The&s;e admini&s;trations are to be giuen intermi&s;&s;iue|ly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How oft.</NOTE> &s;ometime euery &s;econd, third, or fourth houre, as the pre&s;ent ca&s;e &s;hall require: vntill of the operation appeare with good &s;ignes, the abating of the pa&s;&s;i|ons, dimini&s;hing of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and recouerie of &s;trength.</P>
<P>It may be giuen at al times, mo&s;t commonly in the<NOTE PLACE="marg">When to be giuen.</NOTE> morning fa&s;ting, or an houre before repa&s;t. Likewi&s;e after meate to preuent a &s;urfet. For it helpeth dige&s;ti|on, and preuenteth &s;ickne&s;&s;es following &s;uch repleti|ons. To procure &s;leepe it is giuen at bed-time; or if ne|ce&s;&s;itie vrge, in any other houre of the night or day: being effectually a true Anodine, of contemperation without &s;tupefaction, not narcoticke.</P>
<P>The Effects of this Medicine: corroboration of<NOTE PLACE="marg">Effects.</NOTE> the heart: re&s;tauration of the vitall &s;pirits decaied and enfeebled: which apparantly is manfe&s;t, by quiet and &s;weete &s;leepe mo&s;t commonly following; as al&s;o by mitigation of paine, and appea&s;ing of violent pa&s;&s;i|ons: &s;ometime by a milde and gentle &s;weat en&s;uing, &s;ometimes by vomit, and reiection of malignant vi&s;|cous humors: al&s;o by plentifull euacation of vrine, as al&s;o by re&s;traint thereof, where the retention is weake. And though &s;ildom, yet &s;omtimes by a loo&s;e|ne&s;&s;e of the belly: but very oft, by &s;taying inordinate fluxes. And euery of the&s;e functions, though contrary &s;ome one to other, are directed and performed by the meere motion of Nature it &s;elfe, being &s;trengthned,
<PB N="118" REF="64"> vigorated, and enabled, by the virtue of this Medi|cine.</P>
<P>Let thus much &s;uffice, for the &s;imple, or very &s;im|ply mixed v&s;e of this Medicine. But although in this forme taken and v&s;ed, it giueth great furtherance to|wards the curing of any malady, as by many particu|lar experiments hath beene related, in which &s;ildome times any addition of peculiar effect hath beene ad|mini&s;tred: yet becau&s;e of the great varietie, difference and diuer&s;itie of di&s;po&s;itions, natures, places, di&s;ea&s;es, times, and countries; and becau&s;e pre&s;cription ought not to preiudicate the skill and iudgement of all men; Therefore to &s;upply the&s;e differences, I doe leaue free to the iudgement and di&s;cretion of euery rationall experienced Phy&s;ition, to admini&s;ter this medicine, with any kind of Waters, Liquors, Syrups, Con&s;erues, Electuaries, or other medicines &s;imple or compound, &s;uch as they &s;hall vpon good grounds and experience, know or iudge mo&s;t appropriate, &s;pecificall, conueni|ent, and agreeing to the pre&s;ent circum&s;tances of the di&s;ea&s;e, nature, &amp; quality of the patient, &amp; nece&s;&s;ity of his &s;tate. We giue no pre&s;cript of Method, or limitatio~ of proceedings vnto Phy&s;itions; they being pre&s;ent, know what is needfull, what requi&s;ite, in order, time and place: what in each re&s;pect is to be done, what to be left vndone. But where a competent Phy&s;ition is not at hand, as in Country villages, or &s;uch like pla|ces, there &s;ome admonition or direction is expedient.</P>
<P>It is well knowne among learned men, what effect, efficacy, and force, is attributed to that Medicine which is called Vniuer&s;all, in that high degree where|of writers make mention, that it performeth great and admirable effect, not only vpon mans body, but al&s;o vpon Mettals, as appeareth by the&s;e words of <HI>Raymund Lully: The quinte&s;&s;ence of gold, after di&s;til|ling</HI>
<PB N="119" REF="64"> away of the in&s;trumentall water, will remaine in the bottome of the gla&s;&s;e, very pure, and &s;eparated from all impurity, thicke in the con&s;i&s;tence of hony, or of gumme, deepely coloured and very vnctuous, greatly auaileable, both for Medicine of many body, as al&s;o of Mettals. But this Medicine of ours, hath his preparation onely pertinent to the v&s;e of man. Neuer|theles &s;eeing that, both that Medicine of <HI>Raymund Lul|ly,</HI> and this of mine, haue all the virtue incident vnto them deriued from gold, and from the forme thereof, as from one fountaine and foundation; therefore it will not be impertinent, to pre&s;cribe the &s;ame v&s;e and manner of admini&s;tring of this medicine of mine, which <HI>Raymund</HI> doth vnto his. For if the agent cau&s;e be one in them both, the manner of v&s;e may al&s;o be the &s;ame. He pre&s;cribeth a &s;peciall v&s;e in the&s;e words. Mixe this E&s;&s;ence of gold in a quantity of white wine, when you will giue it to a Phlegmaticke con&s;tituti|on, e&s;pecially in the Winter &s;ea&s;on. If to a Cholericke, giue it in faire water: to a Melancholike, in broth, wherein mutton is decocted: If he be of a Sanguine complexion, in cleare white wine: And this &s;hall be a preuention again&s;t infirmities, and their bodies &s;hall be rectified again&s;t the di&s;temper of the &s;ea&s;on. If you giue this medicine to tho&s;e that are &s;icke, let the mix|ture be more effectuall of the Medicine. Neither be thou greatly troubled (&s;aith he) to know the perfect &s;tate of the di&s;ea&s;e. For nature it &s;elfe is wi&s;e and pro|uident by her owne in&s;tinct, and hath inue&s;ted to this &s;tone being di&s;&s;olued, &s;ufficient virtues, to rectifie that which is ami&s;&s;e in nature. <HI>My &s;onne, this medicine is powerfull, both again&s;t hotte di&s;ea&s;es, and cold, naturall, and accidentiall,</HI> &amp;c. The&s;e words and other here|unto tending <HI>Raymund</HI> &s;etteth downe, which we out of our experience haue found to be an&s;werable to this
<PB N="120" REF="65"> our intent. Neuerthele&s;&s;e wee acknowledge, that &s;ometimes extraordinary &s;ymptomes doe occurre, which threaten pre&s;ent danger of death, if they bee not &s;peedily preuented: As is, extreme heate, extre|mitie of cold, great thir&s;t, lacke of &s;leepe, inordinate fluxes, and &s;uch like. All which by the good plea&s;ure of God, are mitigated and a&s;&s;waged by this only Me|dicine of mine. And yet many things may be appro|priately added hereunto, &amp; pertine~t for the expul&s;ing of euery Di&s;ea&s;e. Therfore, if the patie~t haue a repleate body, that nece&s;&s;ity require &s;ome euacuation to bee made; gentle, &amp; not viole~t purges, fitting the humor offending, are to be admini&s;tred. Sometime the body hath neede by vrine or &s;weat to be releeued: which both, although this <HI>Aurum Potabile</HI> doe in &s;ort per|forme yet in &s;ome ca&s;es it is to be helped. If a fluxe be cau&s;ed in the nether ventricle, vnto which a Medicine receiued at the mouth cannot &s;peedily penetrate, then a clen&s;ing, and a&s;tringent Gli&s;ter will be expe|dient. If &s;leepe be wanting, that nece&s;&s;arily mu&s;t be regarded. And although this Medicine doth for the mo&s;t part by a &s;ecret proprietie therin procure &s;leepe, yet if neede be, let other helps be adioyned. Blood letting in conuenient time mu&s;t not be neg|lected. Other things pertinent, I referre to the di&s;cretion of them, whome it &s;hall concerne.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CONCLVSION OF THIS TREATISE.</HEAD>
<P>_HAuing thus, ingenuou&s;ly, plain|ly, and fully (as I hope) &s;atisfied all indifferent and vnpartiable Readers, of the cau&s;e of this di&s;|cour&s;e, concerning the generall and extraordinarie effects of this Medicine: and of the three kinds thereof: of my v&s;e in admini&s;tration thereof, in all Di&s;ea&s;es, &s;exes, ages and circum&s;tances: to|gether with the libertie and cautions in further ex|tent, and mixture with other Medicines: I now returne in the Conclu&s;ion, vnto &s;uch Readers, to whome I haue and euer &s;hall, deuote, con&s;ecrate and dedicate all my &s;tudies, labours and indu&s;trie, commending vnto you the right con&s;truction, and generous acceptance, without any &s;ini&s;ter detortion, of my good and vn&s;potted intendements, not retor|ted again&s;t my traducers, with any malicious viru|lence, but extorted by meere compul&s;ion, for the ne|ce&s;&s;ary challenge, and defence of my good name, op|pugned by two Doctors, though neuer expugnable by them, nor the laudatorie ver&s;ifiers, chaunting <HI>pro form&acirc; ab&s;que materi&acirc;.</HI> Let them enioy the glory of their Eloquence, or rather loquence, with ill applyed Phra&s;es. I de&s;ire none other contentment in this
<PB N="122" REF="66"> que&s;tion, then the publike te&s;timony of a con&s;tant truth. Truth will &s;urely liue, preuaile, flouri&s;h. It is like the gentle and &s;weete Marierome, manifoldly excel|lent for many vertues. Which but rubbed in the hand, yeeldeth an excellent &s;ent, comfortable to all &s;en&s;es. Of which hearb it is written, that if &s;wine be enforced, with full &s;ent of open no&s;trels to take the &s;mell, it is mortall to them, and cau&s;eth them to die. Surely this is a &s;ecret in Nature, that a thing &s;o good in it &s;elfe, and &s;o agreeably helpefull to good men, &s;hould by the malice, or bruti&s;hne&s;&s;e of a Swini&s;h na|ture be accounted poy&s;on. This is a true Embleme of my Medicine, which being helpfull to all, hurtfull to none, yet there are found &s;uch, as profe&s;&s;e hatred to the very name thereof: and &s;o turne that generall pre|&s;eruatiue, to their priuate poy&s;on of rancor. But here|in that common rule of Philo&s;ophy, is not vnfitly a|nalogi&s;ed vpon them: <HI>Nutriens conuertitur in naturam nutriti, et non contra.</HI> The nouri&s;hment is co~uerted into the nature of the body nouri&s;hed, but not contrarily. So likewi&s;e the enuious man, what&s;oeuer hee behol|deth with his malicious Eye, though extraordinary good of it &s;elfe, yet hee conuerteth it to his owne peruer&s;e di&s;po&s;ition, which is euill. As may well ap|peare in the Bee, and the Spyder, this &s;ucking poy|&s;on, and the other hony out of the &s;elfe &s;ame flower. Let all the&s;e things be con&s;idered, by the indifferent and Iudicious Reader, and with equall ballance let him pei&s;e truth with fal&s;ehood, &s;inceritie with deceit, not inclining either to hatred or adulation, but with free minde and integritie of con&s;cience, let &s;entence be pronounced. Among good men there ought to be good dealing. It may peraduenture bee that &s;ome doubts may bee mooued, or cauilling allegations
<PB N="123" REF="66"> again&s;t the tract of this Treati&s;e in &s;ome point or o|ther, but &s;urely &s;uch as will be vtterly vnprofitable to the &s;icke patient, who is to be releeued by healthfull Medicine, and not by &s;ubtilitie of Argument. Where|fore if I &s;hould endeauour to an&s;wer euery friuolous and idle obiection, I &s;hould both abu&s;e the Reader, and thinke mine owne time euill &s;pent. Some few things I de&s;ire to admoni&s;h the Reader: Fir&s;t, fauou|rablie to con&s;true and interpet the intent of the&s;e my proceedings, &amp; not ra&s;hly, vpon any mans words or writings, to condemne the verity of this matter now in que&s;tion. Al&s;o, if any thing in this Treati&s;e be con|tained, which &s;eemeth not an&s;werable vnto euery mans capacitie or iudgement, that &s;uch per&s;on would be plea&s;ed, fir&s;t, to admoni&s;h mee thereof by priuate letters, or otherwi&s;e, that I may in tho&s;e doubts yeeld him &s;atisfaction, before hee doe publikely oppugne the truth. Furthermore, if the&s;e things to &s;ome, &s;eeme of &s;mall moment, I humbly intreate them, to produce better in place for the v&s;e of the langui&s;hing patient (prouided alwaies that it bee no le&s;&s;e approued by time and experience) and in the mean time, whi|le&s;t wee liue in expectation thereof, let the Common-wealth receiue benefit by this, without their let or preiudice.</P>
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<HEAD>AN APPENDIX <HI>RESERVED FOR</HI> THE IVDICIOVS READER.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is generally well knowne, that <HI>Mathew Gwinne,</HI> in the Preface of that his Invectiue booke again&s;t me, did, in mo&s;t in&s;tant manner, &s;ollicite the Kings Maie&s;tie, for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of this Medicine my Potable gold. His Induce|ments, and motiues were in the&s;e words. <HI>Tolluntur vn&agrave; Medici, &amp;c. The Phy&s;itions of this Citie, the Chyrurgians, and the Apothecaries will all decay, and in manner be &s;ubuerted; if this one vniuer&s;all Medicine of Anthony doe preuaile.</HI> He enforceth the &s;ame as yet further: <HI>Let your Maie&s;tie e&s;tabli&s;h this, lea&s;t the Ar|chytectonicall order of the Phy&s;itions,</HI> (for I doe produce his owne words) <HI>the Polychre&s;t all order of the Chyrurgi|ans: the hone&s;t, learned, &amp; wealthy order of the London Apo|thecaries, be either confu&s;ed, or vtterly confounded, by the In|tru&s;ion of tho&s;e who prepare Medicines Chymically.</HI> How vniu&s;t this petition is, and how preiudiciall vnto ve|ritie it &s;elfe, and vnto true Art (whereof the Apothe|caries haue but a &s;haddow) who &s;eeth not? If God
<PB N="125" REF="67"> hath granted vnto this our age, an extraordinary ble&s;|&s;ing, more &s;eruiceable for the health of man, and much more auaileable then all other Medicaments hitherto retained in co~mon v&s;e, ought it to be explo|ded by the practitioners in Phy&s;icke, or to be reie|cted of the patient in his vtter di&s;tre&s;&s;e, becau&s;e the like lucre and gaine doth not to them afore&s;aid re|dound, as by other drugges ordinarily pre&s;cribed? Was that elect Ve&s;&s;el (mentioned in holy writ) iu&s;tly &s;courged and vtterly &s;ilenced, becau&s;e by his words and admonition, the handicraft&s;men, employed a|bout that idoll of <HI>Diana,</HI> were likely to lo&s;e &s;ome part of their v&s;uall lucre and gaine? (I hope it is not vnlawfull in this ca&s;e, to compare profane with &s;acred actions.) Nay rather contrariwi&s;e. If this vniuer&s;all Medicine, &s;hall approoue it &s;elfe by daily experience to be vniuer&s;ally effectuall, then being retained in v&s;e, both Phy&s;itions, Chyrurgions, and Apothecaries, will the rather be accepted of, and the more reueren|ced: Neither will that three-fold order, bee either confu&s;ed, or confounded herewith but rather confir|med, and better &s;etled in generall account. For if the&s;e three, when they &s;hall be called to the &s;icke pati|ent, would at their entrance (as the ancient Ethnick Senators v&s;ed to doe, when they entred the Senate hou&s;e for con&s;ultations of the Weale publike) &s;hake off aemulation, Enuy, and ouermuch de&s;ire of filthy lucre: then the Phy&s;ition &s;hould finde in this Me|dicine, &s;uch helpe in de&s;perate Di&s;ea&s;es, as both he and his langui&s;hing patient &s;hould reioyce at the fruites thereof. The Chyrurgians likewi&s;e, in &s;ome ca&s;e of theirs, as in Faintings, Swoundings, Convul&s;i|ons, Crampes, and where &s;leepe and re&s;t are wanting, whereby great feeblene&s;&s;e and deiection of Spirits
<PB N="126" REF="68"> doe en&s;ue &s;hould then make perfect experience and tryall, of what validitie this Medicine is. Then al&s;o the Apothecarie &s;hould lo&s;e no part of his hone&s;tie, of his learning, nor of his &s;ub&s;tance and riches, hauing by him this Medicine, as a la&s;t refuge for the releefe of his forlorne patient. The Apothecarie is carefull, to haue in euery corner of his &s;hoppe, diuers and &s;undrie contemptible drugges, loath&s;ome to mo&s;t men, now in this age of ours. My de&s;ire is not to detract any thing from them in their gaine or skill, but rather to adde thereunto, and the behalfe of the Com|mon wealth, vnto whom I doe here dedi|cate, con&s;ecrate and offer, all the&s;e my labours; and what&s;oeuer el&s;e is in my power.</P>
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