five tents put therein continually and one of the holes quite through which Fistulated sore foot could not be cured by the best skill Salves and Powders of the common Chyrurgeons was within one moneth perfectly cured with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup 11. The same right worshipfull Gentlewoman cured a young maiden of two Fistulaes one in either of her elbows which had continued four or five yeers before which had much weakned and wasted her arms she was perfectly and speedily cured by using the alone infusion of this Cup having used all means before and could get no help 12. In the same Town a poor man came to this Gentlewoman with a sore hand mightily swelled and infinitely painfull to him so that he could doe no manner of labor His hand being bathed with the infusion of this Cup the next morning it broke and run abundantly and within one fortnight by the use of this infusion alone his hand was perfectly cured 13. A certain poor woman was brought to the right honoured Ladie the Ladie Jackson so drawn up and her sinews contracted with Convulsions that she had not the use either of Legs Arms Feet or Hands notwithstanding she was by the said Lady perfectly cured and restored to strength health and able use of her former benummed limbs by the alone infusion of this Cup 14. Another poor woman being struck with a Cows horn as she was in milking and her cheek sore wounded was by only washing the sores with the Liquor of the Cup perfectly and speedily cured These eight last recited experiments are certified to be approved truth by the right worshipfull M. John Grymsdych of Knottingley Esquire 15. A certain man about 30 years of age troubled for 9 years before with the Disease called the Kings evill and much consumed and weakned therewith was perfectly cured of that Disease by the use of the infusion of this Cup M. Humfrey Guntur Esquire living neer Newberry performed this with many other very rare cures 16. In Wallingford Mr. Smiths Daughter of the George was perfectly cured of the Kings-Evill with the infusion thereof although it was broken out into very many dangerous and Ulcerous sores about her neck and face Mr. William Mollins Esq who lent them his Cup wherewith they cured this patient of that sore disease testifieth this 17. In Mortelake neer Richmond a Gentleman of good worth and reputation now liveth spent very far with a long continued languishing Consumption and at length left remedilesse and forsaken by many Doctors and Physitians was afterwards perfectly recovered to good health appetite digestion and healthfull constitution of body by drinking the infusion of this Cup three times being prepared in Ale witnesse hereunto M. Humfrey Benet Esquire 18. In Barnet ten miles from London a certain poor man distracted with extream Frensie and Madness to whom Mrs. Baker dwelling in the Town administred in good and sufficient quantity of the Liquor of this Cup a pinte of Ale at a time for three times It caused him to vomit and to purge plentifully and fell a bleeding at the nostrills and bled well stayed of it self the patient slept and perfectly recovered and remaineth well praise to God 19. In the same Town upon a Market day a poor Country man was strucken very deep into the leg by a raging Boar and withdrawing his crooked tushes rented tore and bruised the flesh very sore neverthelesse being dressed with the infusion of this Cup was perfectly and speedily healed up without any other help 20. Also in the same Town a certain young maiden being all over the body full of loathsome Biles Botches and scabbed Blains from the Crown to the foot by taking the infusion of this Cup she was speedily cured and her body perfectly purged and cleansed and she avoided at her mouth divers worms whereof one was of an increedible bignesse proportion and form and now she is in good health and fair of complexion 21. Another Gentlewoman in the same Town having many swelling or rising kernels of sanguine blew and other variable colours as big as Nutmegs arising upon her cheek and neck With the application and drinking of this infusion they speedily consumed and vanished away and the Gentlewoman remaineth perfectly cured 22. Another woman living not far from the same Town being lame of her hands knees and feet and not able to stand or goe and brought into Mrs. Kings house in a chair by the strength of men using the infusion of this Cup within four dayes she was perfectly recovered so that she was able to goe home to her own house on foot being two or three miles distant off These five last experiments were don with many more by Mrs. King alias Barker living in Barnet 23. A Merchants Daughter in London very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy whereby some of her teeth were fallen out her legs and body exceedingly swelled and she in great extremity of pain and finding no amendment by all the former means they had used by taking the infusion of this Cup three times she was perfectly cured 24. An ancient Gentlewoman living neer Fetter-lane having for many yeers complained of an intollerable pain of the head fell suddainly dangerous sick and deaf and all her face and nose mightily swelled By externall bathing the temples and other parts of her head and face grieved an Impostume broke in her head and purged through her nostrils in such great abundance that it was much to be admired that so much corrupt yellow thick matter could be contained in such a continent her body also throughly purged by the externall bathing and she is now perfectly recoverd and liveth in good health able to justifie this to be true 25. At Wildertop in the County of Salop in the house of Mr. Francis Smalman Esquire a young Gentlewoman being much troubled with oppilations and obstructions and suffocations of the Matrix whereby she fell into many dangerous desperate swounding fits and at length grew to that weaknesse that she had many signes of apparent and imminent death upon whom the infusion of this Cup was inforced in small quantity which wrought well and gave some hopes and after administred twice more recovered the said Gentlewoman to such perfect health that within eight dayes she travelled safely to London 26. An ancient Gentlewoman that for many years was extreamly handled with such intollerable painfullnesse of the Gout in the joynts of the Back-bone in the Huckle-bone and in the Knees and Feet that she could neither stand nor stir her self any way nor scarcely suffer to be removed from her Bed to her Chair By externall bathing the grieved parts with and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly cured and able within fourteen dayes to go up down the stairs and the house and to doe any necessary businesse with as much agility and nimblenesse as any in the same Town of her years and hath so continued perfectly well for
last Experiments were Experimentally approved by Mrs. Goffe dwelling neer the Church in Trinity-lane in London 65. A certain Gentlewoman having for many years continued languishing in a deep Consumption was mightily swelled with Hydropicall humors and notwithstanding the best helps of the Physitians esteemed incurable as all in such an estate are falsly deemed to be and so left remedies was neverthelesse speedily restored to perfect health all the Hydropicall corrupt humors quite purged away and her liver rectified good appetite and a kindly digestion regained and the naturall vigor and strength of the whole body effectually restored by drinking 3. or 4. times the prepared Liquor of this Cup without any other help 66. Moreover in the Citty of Worcester a certain corpulent Gentleman much given to the company of great drinkers was suddainly caught with a dangerous surfeit and dead Palsie lameness of all the left side and this Gentleman for many years before had been much tormented with the painfulness of the Gout this surfeit brought also upon him a fierce and a violent burning Fever this Gentleman used the best helps of the Physitians but all in vain notwithstanding by drinking the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup and by bathing the head back sides and all the parts troubled with lameness and painfulness of the Gout he was recovered to perfect health and Strength of the whole body These two last recited experiments with many hundreths more for Agues Green sickness Obstructions and the like were performed by my worthy friend Mr. Walter Childe Esquire 67. A certain woman that for 7. or 8. years together had continuall suppression of the Menstrues and a very sore Fistula or dangerous ulcer upon her leg having many sore orifices where from continually came forth much corrupt matter and her body was also much swelled with Hydropicall humours with drinking inwardly the prepared Liquor of this Cup and cleansing the ulcerous sores therewith the monthly courses brake down kindly upon her and purged well all the swelling was abated the Ulcerous or Fistulated leg was perfectly healed witnesse Mrs. Alliston 68. A certain poor man a Brick-layer living about Bedford being exceedingly swelled with corrupt and hydropicall humors and brought to exceeding weaknesse by a long languishing Consumption who after much practice made by common Physitians was left remedilesse and incurable notwithstanding by the blessings of God drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly restored to health Mr. Thomas Litton Esquire performed this admirable Cure with many others 69. A certain Gentleman of good worth and esteem living in the Strand neer Charing Crosse that for certain yeers continued most grievously tormented with the windy and flatuous Melancholy in the sides and with extream pain about the Stomack his appetite to meat lost and thereby cast into a deep Consumption and by many judged to be incurable Neverthelesse by the blessings of God and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup within a few dayes he was restored to perfect health and so hath continued still for five years past This is testified by Mr. John Lathum Esquire to be an approved truth 70. A certain woman having her naturall purgations stayed upon her for many years and through the suppression of them and the malignities of sharp and corrupt humors had a most grievous Ulcerated sore breast mightily swelled and intollerably painfull having therein eight holes wherein eight tents of great length were put in at times of dressing and much foul corrupt matter issued therefrom continually in began to mortifie and to look black and dangerous and the common Chyrurgeons advised the woman to have that Breast cut off for other cure thereof they knew none Neverthelesse by syrindging and cleansing the Ulcerous sores to the bottome without Tents and by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup and applying externally hot wet clothes to the sore Breast the swelling abated the corrupt matter expurged and the woman was speedily and perfectly healed 71. A certain Gentleman of great credit and imployment for 2. or 3. years was most miserably distracted and deeply plunged with desperate Melancholy and had been under the hands of many professed Doctors of Physick without help or remedy was perfectly restored to his memory understanding and perfect health by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup And hath continued for many years since comfortable in minde healthfull in body and every way able sufficiently with reputation and credit to discharge an office of great employment and trust 72. A certain poor Ship carpenter having for a long time been grievously handled with a quartan Ague and after with a most violent burning Fever and cast at last into a deep Consumption having spent all his whole estate upon Physitians and by them left remediless and helpless was by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup perfectly and speedily restored to perfect health and strength to labor in his calling 73. A certain young Gentlewoman being for many years very much troubled with Cachexia being an evill disposition of the whole body and stomack Green-sickness Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and with continuall vomitings that commonly whatsoever she did eate or drink came up again immediatly she was also troubled with many foule and noisome worms and had taken very much Physick without any benefit or help neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly cured her stomack was throughly cleansed her complexion became faire her blood fresh and fluent many noisome foule worms of an incredible bigness were expelled her naturall purgations were restored and naturall strength and vigour flourished to full perfection 74. A certain poore man that went very feebly and weakly wandring about the streets to beg his sustenance that for many years was grievously afflicted with the bloody flix without finding any help or remedie was perfectly cured by 3 times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup without any other help 75. A certain Sea Captain at his return was very sore troubled with the Scorbuto and swelling of the body but most specially of the legs and feet and also with great swelling and painfulnesse in one of his shoulders his stomack to meat was gone and his sleep departed from him but taking the Liquor of this Cup inwardly and bathing the parts afflicted outwardly he was speedily restored to perfect health 76. A certain Gentlewoman that for many years together was troubled with Vertigo gidinesse and swimming of the head dizinesse and darknesse of her sight and with swounding fits all which proceeded from noysome vapours arising from her Stomack and had taken much and costly Physick without benefit or help By drinking this prepared Liquor she was speedily and perfectly cured These seven last recited rare and wonderfull experiments were performed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ray wife to Captain John Ray Esquire 77. A certain right Honorable Lord that for many years had been very much troubled with swellings and hydropicall humors and was faln very
believe that it doth truly deserve that title The Vniversall Medicine or a Medicine for all Diseases neither can I in Words give it the due commendation it deserveth A Merchant in London a friend of mine came to me and told me he had a daughter of twelve years of age which was very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy insomuch that some of her teeth were fallen out her leggs and other parts of her body were exceedingly swelled neither did they after much Physick find any amendment in her unto whom the prepared Liquor of this Cup was given twice resting one day between it wrought well with her and a wonderfull effect immediately followed thereupon for within four dayes she was perfectly Cured her loose teeth were all fastened her legs and other parts of her body were restored to their naturall proportion again and she was absolutely freed from her Scurvy Disease Another friend that had been for a long time troubled with an Ague and the Green sicknesse together which was grown so faint with it that she was not able to goe it helped perfectly at once taking Some speciall properties I have observed in it which makes me to esteem of it very much namely the safety and gentlenesse of the Medicine in its operation for it may be given to young Children without danger as I have my self often times proved upon my own Children of three and four yeers of age from whose Stomacks it hath brought such foul corrupt matter that I could not have believed them to have been troubled withall had I not seen it It never straineth the body with that extream violence that other vomits doe for this worketh his effects with great facility gentleness and safety and also with incredibl expedition commonly upon the first or second taking I have seen wonderfull good effects done by it and Diseases that have been of long continuance speedily and perfectly Cured therewith Your loving Friend NICHOLAS BENET The twelfth and last Testimony that shall be at this time produced shall be a Testification of the Experienced knowledge and experimentall practice of a right worshipfull Gentleman of great Credit and reputation and one of singular humanity and liberall disposition to further the Common good Mr. John Grymesdich Esquire written also with his own hand verbatim as followeth A True Testimony of the Operations and effects of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup which I bought of Mr. Evans dwelling in Gunpowder Alley 1634. And by my wife used and practised ever since at my house in Knottingley in the Countie of Yorke AT my first bringing down of this Cup having a friend of mine about 15. years of age who had for four or five years before been fore troubled with the Falling-sicknesse and could not by any means of Physick or otherwise be Cured My wife made tryall of this Cup and gave to this young man the infusion thereof in white Wine and he was perfectly Cured without ever having any one fit sithence which I conceive to be a Cure beyond all the ordinary practice of Physick for although we used the opinion and help of divers Doctors and others professing skill in that cure yet the Child was never the better untill he had this cup Secondly my wife finds by continuall experience that it is a present cure for the Head-ache the temples of the Head being bathed with the Liquor of this Cup warm Thirdly there was a violent Disease in the Countrey and Town where I dwell which to many proved mortall a pestilent Fever or the like but my wife hath given the infusion of this Cup in white Wine to many of her neighbours that have been sick of the same Disease and none of them that had taken it ever perished but recovered perfectly Fourthly at my comming home after Ester Tearm I finde my wife dressing a poor Servants Foot in the Town one of his Toes having a foul Fistula in it almost for a whole yeer before and it was so corrupted that all her Salves and Powders could doe no good at all in so much that she said She was now out of hope to cure it and therefore would now give him over but I advised her first to try the Liquor of the Cup which she had not before tryed in Chyrurgerie and upon my advise and intreaty she did so doing nothing at all to it but wash it with the Infusion made with white Wine and squirt the tenâ— holese with a Syrindge and lay a wet cloth upon it dipt in the same infusion and she laid green Ivy leaves upon the cloth to keep it from drying this practice shee continued without using any other means at all and within one moneth that toe which had five tents put into it at the first and one of them quite through was perfectly cured Fifthly after this she cured a Gyrl of two Fistulaes in her Elbows which had continued for four or five years before and had much weakned and wasted her arms this Maid was perfectly cured only with washing and cleansing the sores and Syringing in the Liquor of this Cup warm without applying any thing else to the Sores having used all other common means before but could get no help Sixthly another poor man came to my house with a sore hand mightily swelled and infinitely painfull to him so that he could doe no manner of labor and his wife and children were ready to starve or to goe abroad on begging living before only upon the poore mans labor my wife taking pitty and compassion upon the poore man bathed his hand with hot liquor of white-Wine prepared in this Cup a good while together about half an hour and a wet cloath being laid upon it the next morning it broke and within one fortnight was perfectly cured Seventhly again another poore woman being strucken with a Cows horn as she was in milking and her cheek sore wounded was with the water of this Cup perfectly cured within one moneth at the most Eightly I have heard my Lady Jackson affirme that she having one of these Cups bought of Mr. Evans used it to a poore woman that was brought to her so drawn up with Convulsions that she had the use neither of her Legs nor Armes neverthelesse within short time she was perfectly cured by taking the Liquor of the Cup inwardly and bathing with it outwardly these I doe affirm as remarkable cures of my own observation but I verily believe that a quire of Paper will not containe the cures and helps that my Wife hath performed unto and upon poore people and to other in the Country since she had it with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup I may truly affirm that there hath not been a day or night this twelve moneths sithence the Virtues of this Cup was known in the Country but it hath been still neere unto the fire with Liquor in it both night and day and the Strength and Virtues of it still continues without any abatement at all
eight years past 27. In the same Town a certain young woman much troubled with inflamations of the Lungs and with foul Impostumations full of rotten corrupt putrifactions with drinking the prepared liquor of this Cup thrice was perfectly recovered and restored to soundnesse of health 28. Another young woman that for a long time had been troubled with a Quartan Ague and a species of the Fever Hectick and remaining after much and long use of many Medicines without help or hope was perfectly cured by drinking three or four times the prepared Liquor of this Cup These eight last recited experiments were done by Mrs. King allas Barker living in Barnet ready to confirm this to be true 29. A certain young woman living in Leicester very far spent with a Fever Hectick or rather a consuming Marasmos her body so foul and full of rotten and corrupt putrifractions that her breath and spittle was so noysome and offensive that none would willingly indure to be in the same room with her Was neverthelesse perfectly and speedily cured by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup without any other help 30. An ancient Gentleman living in or neer Leicester for many yeers was extreamly tormented with the Stone in the Kidnies with excoriations and exulcerations of the bladder sharp distillations of Urine and impostumations of the Lungs after much Physick taken without help ease or comfort was perfectly and speedily cured by the alone drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup and such great store of foul corrupt matter diuretically expelled that would not be credited should the very truth be delivered 31. Another young maiden living within two miles of Leceister much troubled with oppilations and obstructions of the Spleen and inflamations of her Liver her complexion utterly impaired with foul Morphew and yellownesse was perfectly and speedily restored to fair complexion and healthfull constitution by drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup 32. A certain Gentlewoman that for many years together was taken often times with the Apoplexy or Paraplegia which is a suddain retention and losse of motion and speech for many hours together whereby her health was much impaired her Stomack appetite and digestion lost her naturall constitution heat and vigor of body impaired having many years followed the chargable prescriptions of professed Doctors without helpe hope or comfort neverthelesse praised be to God was firmly and perfectly recovered by the alone use of the prepared liquor of this Cup 33. The Minister of great Peately in Leicester shire being farr spent with a deep health-destroying Consumption and so much stopped with Astmaticall Oppillations Stuffings and Whiskings of the Lungs that he could not officiate his Cure and so certainly determined for a dead man that another procured a presentation to the same Church having also used all the common and usuall course of Physick without help or benefit was speedily and perfectly recovered to perfect health and sufficient ability to discharge his Ministeriall function by the alone use of the prepared Liquor of this Cup 34. In the same Citty and County of Leicester another man that for many years had been mnch oppressed with repletions of corrupt humors tough flegme languishing putrifactions which wasted and consumed away his body and estate by long use of Physick was perfectly restored to health and avoided more than 40. worms of most strange almost incredible bignesse by the alone prepared liquor of this Cup 35. A certain young maiden that was wholly affected to feed upon unhealthfull trash as Earth Clay of the wall Chalk and the like and therewith had destroyed the good estate and Constitution of her body and could not be withdrawn from her unhealthfull and unnaturall longings was neverthelesse speedily weined from her desires and perfectly restored to naturall and kindly appetite to due digestion and to a healthfull Constitution and fair complection by drinking the Liquor of this Cup 36. A certain grosse fat woman whose body was much swelled with Hydropicall humors and full of impure and corrupt malignant repletions and her bones sinews and arteries continually tormented with restles and intollerable painfulnesse and having used the chargefull but unprofitable prescriptions of professed Phisitians without either help or any mittigation of her intollerable painfulnesse was speedily recovered to perfect health and freed from all grossnesse and painfullnesse by the use of this Cup 37. A certain Gentleman in the County of Leicester afflicted in every particular as the precedent Patient was speedily perfectly restored by 3 or 4 times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup 38. A certain Gentleman living also in or neer the City of Leicester having been a great company keeper with Gentlemen of quality and therefore brought to much grossnesse of body inflamations and plentitude of foul hot and corrupt blood fell suddainly into a dangerous Plurisie and taking the Liquor of this Cup it wrought immediately and sensibly upon that side principally affected purified and allayed the heat and dispersed the blood he avoided much blood by the Nostrils and expelled by siedge much clotted and corrupt blood and other foul excrementitious impurities of the whole body and was speedily and perfectly restored to his health with this help alone 39. Another Gentleman of the same County that had been for certain years grievously infected with Morbus Gallicus being a most foul and dangerous Disease having many Ulcerous sores running upon severall parts of his body and many hard scirrhus Bubones and swelling kernels in the severall emunctories of his body and his Bones Arteries and inward parts full of continuall aches dolors and intollerable painfullnesse and utterly forsaken as remedilesse by the common Physitians Neverthelesse by bathing the hard places and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily and perfectly restored to health and sound constitution of Body 40. A certain woman also living neer the City of Leicester that had received hurt through the neglect or unskillfullness of the Midwife at the time of her Childing and therewith brought to much weakness and Consumption of her whole body and notwithstanding the common course of Physick she remained a long time cureless drinking the prepared Liquor of the Cup she was perfectly cured 41. Another woman that was house-keeper to a Gentleman of good estimation in the City of Leicester mightily afflicted with violent and strong Convulsions that she was drawn or plucked together in two fold and sometimes extorted or plucked awry towards the one side and her face set nigh back by the strength and extremity of this strange Convulsion it was commonly taken for the work of Witchcraft and after much practice of Physians she was left remedilesse by externall bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly Cured 42. A certain young Gentlewoman receiving upon her breast a most violent stroak by the elbow of a passionate displeased Father by the suddain bursting or wrongfull contusion of certain veines the naturall course of the
up the Gentleman being in this perplexed and well deserved misery was neverthelesse perfectly cured and healed of all these foul scorchings swellings and ulcerated holes and all the painfullnesse mittigated and asswaged by washing cleansing syrindging with and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup and by this practice he was fully purged from the contagious infection of that foul Disease and was restored unto perfect health and the naturall passage was cleansed and opened and became serviceable and officious to nature as before This rare and admirable cure although of a foul Disease I publish and testifie for an approved and an experimented truth 100. A certain Gentleman an especiall good friend of mine being of a strong corpulent constitution having many Suits of great importance depending in Law for many years continuance although the state of his body required some help for naturall purifying of the blood and evacuation of foul corrupt humors yet could not this Gentleman take any fit oportunity for that purpose at length he was suddainly cast down and constrained to take knowledge of natures complaint thereupon took a good draught of the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup it wrought all that day and all the night following without any offence or violence and gave him many vomits and eight or ten siedges the second time it was taken in a greater proportion and it wrought three or four dayes together and expurged away abundance of foul and corrupt matter and the vomits standing three or four hours after the operation grew all to be of one entire consistence of Jelly like a great firm Liver with various streaks of rotten blood and other corrupt matter that had for more then ten years before oppressed this Gentlemans body and certainly unlesse by this or some other good help this had been removed the Gentleman could not have lived but a short time Mr. William Mollins Esquire will affirm this to be an aproved truth 101. A certain loving friend of mine finding his stomack to be over charged with foule grosse and corrupt humors and his stomack and appetite unto meat quite gone his digestion weak his whole body growing more faint and his spirits more dull and lesse cheerfull than accustomed having one of my Magneticall Cups prepared therewith a pint of Hy-Countrey White-wine according to the directions by me prescribed and drank the quantity by me presribed it wrought well and gave 6. or 8. vomits and so many siedges this Gentleman being willing to make a further Experiment than was prescribed and finding this former operation to be most gentle and easie takes of the best sweet hie-Country White-wine 3. pintes or 2. quarts boiles all to a pint or thereabouts and drank it up all at one potion it wrought with him continually night and day with easie vomits and gentle siedges for 14. daies together sometimes 30. or 40. siedges with some gentle vomits betwixt in the space of 24. hours This Gentleman sent unto me to have it staied I advised him that he would patiently permit nature to have her full course for I observed that neither the vomits neither the siedges did any way violently constrain the body neither brought any thing away but digested corruptions that the body was surcharged withall and could better bee spared and expurged than healthfully kept and that withall his appetite to meat and stomack amended upon it during the physicall operations and that I knew upon former Experience that it would cease when the obnoxious humors were expurged And afterwards when the Operations ceased this Gentleman grew to be exceedingly hungry and to have a good stomack with good digestion and recovered perfect health And within a few dayes after my friend took it againe but it wrought not at all with him for when it had purged the body found no corrupt humors to work upon it passed through the body in Urine without any other apparent operation I would not advise any to follow this adventurous practice although I have known many that have done the like with good successe forasmuch as all constitutions are not alike and that the safest way is to practice according to the most common approved and Experimentally prescribed Orders and Rules The Manner and Order how to make Vse of my Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup TAke a well glased earthen pot or Pipkin with a fit cover then put this Cup therein and powre within and round about it as much White-wine Claret wine Muskadine or Malmesie if it may be gotten for it is best of all or else Ale or Beer a sufficient quantity to fill and plentifully to cover and to be above the Cup an Inch or two or more that it may stand in full infusion then set the Pipkin upon or by a gentle fire and let it boile gently for two houres and afterwards remain in the same order covered in a temperate digesting heat such as you might endure your finger in the residue and remainder of 12 hours from the time you began yet admonishing you to spare the curiosity of some that sit up to attend the same all night place it neer the hot hearth where fire hath been kept all day it is sufficient for a small heat will serve to keep it in good digestion being thus used before standing covered then one hour or two before you doe take it or administer it to another remove it from the fire and set it to coole if need be not taking off the cover whereby the spirits might evaporate away Afterwards a Cupfull or more taken fasting cold purgeth the body from whatsoever is offensive to Nature the operation is safe and gentle and without any violence or danger as hath been oftentimes proved Let them about four or five hours after sleep if their Constitution require it and then use or take any convenient diet or what they are commonly accustomed unto and govern themselves as after other Physick By the quantity and proportion of Wine or Ale allowing a pint of Wine or a quart of Ale to be prepared for two you may prepare for as many as you please at one time and here note that the greater the quantity of Liquor and the weaker it is the more heat of fire and the longer time of digestion and preparation it requireth You my also keep of this prepared Liquor in close glasses or earthen bottles a fortnight or a moneth and send it or carry it where and to what distant place you will for it loseth not his Virtue one Cupfull is an ordinary and common Dose for Children Women and for other weak and delicate persons Neverthelesse it worketh best in strong constitutions when two or three Cupfulls are taken and drunk out of a black pot or glasse and not so effectuall out of silver You may begin with one Cupfull and so increase the Dose and quantity of Potion as you finde cause for herein discretion and experience must be your guide For the manner of the
etiam de aliis intelligendum This we see to happen in Antimony it cureth Leprosie cleareth the Complexion stayeth the falling of the Hair cureth Ring-worms Tetters and scurviness of the Skin all Scabs and spreading Sores and all contagious and infectious Diseases And again afterwards Antimony expelleth the Leprosie more effectually than would be believed the like operation it hath against other desperate Diseases And in the third book pag. 343. Antimonium nihil sinit putrescere Antimony suffereth nothing to corrupt or putrifie within the body of man And in the fourth book pag. 265. Antimonium per transmutationes rerum preparatum est eoque reductum ut in dulcedinem abjerit haec ab infantibus lincta Caeducum sanavit in Antimonio vis ac tam potens Arcanum latet ut paroxysmum etiam vehementissimum tollit Antimony is so to be prepared and brought to that sweetness that it may be taken of Infants and have been thereby cured of the falling sicknesse there is so great virtue and power in Antimony that it taketh away and preventeth the most extremest fits of the Falling-sickness Paracels lib. 4. pag. 265. Furthermore he in the sixth book pag. 146. saith Sic ut Antimonium finit Aurum sic eadem ratione ac forma finit corpus In illo enim est essentia quae nihil impuri cum puro confundi sinit atquo adeò virtus permanserit ita ut sese ex influentia semper dirigat neque aliquid de vi ac virtute nativa unquam decesserit Merito igitur omnia quae mineralium sunt quorum summum ac potissimum Arcanum in se claudit Antimonium huic uni tribuimus mundat seipsum una eum reliquis quae immunda sunt porro si nihil omninò sani adest immundum corpus in mundum transformat Lib. 6. De vita longa pag. 146. Like as Antimony refineth Gold so also by the same reason and manner it purifieth the body of man In it there is that essence that suffereth no impurity nor uncleanesse to remaine confusedly intermingled amongst the pure and good and his virtues so constantly remaineth directing himselfe alwayes according to the heavenly influence that of his naturall virtue and power he shall at no time suffer losse or diminution thereof Worthily therefore doe we attribute to this alone the power and virtue of all Minerals whose chiefe and most powerfull secret effects Antimony comprehendeth in it selfe alone he refineth himself and purifieth together with it selfe what he findeth unclean moreover though he finde nothing sound he altereth and changeth that impure body to a clean and sound constitution Lib. 6. And to conclude Essentia Antimonii est purgatio vera quae purgat hominem excellentissimè super alia quaevis Arcana radicitus evellit auferendū ac omne quod immundum est humanum corpus in supremum usque sanationis gradum purum efficit ac ab omnibus aegritudinibus mundat etiam illis ex quibus oriuntur ulcera quicquid penes hominem fuerint impuri delet The essence of Antimony is a true and naturall purge which purgeth a man most excellently above all other secrets it utterly taketh away by the root whatsoever is foule unwholsome and ought to be removed and reduceth the body of man to the highest degree of perfect health and cleanseth from all manner infirmities and diseases even from those that are the originall and fountain of ulcerous and dangerous diseases it fully and freely removeth all corrupt and impure humours that might lye lurking within any part of the body of man Thus farre Paracelsus in his lesser Chyrurgery pag. 323. My second testimony shall be Martinus Rulandus a man of sound judgement great practice and experience he called the infusion of this Cup his Aqua benedicta in the 5. Cent. and the 95. Cure he saith thus Communi opinione Hermeticorum receptum est Magnesiam Saturni quam aiuut esse Antimonium existere Ens radicem omnium metallorum ex Regulo hujus Antimonii vasculum formetur ad usum medicinale satis aptum mirabile idoneum semper permanens citra ponderis sui viriumque amissionem It is received by the consent and common opinion of all Hermeticall Philosophers that the Magnesia of Saturne which they call Antimony is the originall and beginning of all metalls Of the Regulus of this Antimony there is made a little vessell or cup very admirable fit and effectuall for his medicinall virtues alwayes remaining in force without losse of weight and virtue the Infusion of this cup he calleth his Aqua benedicta which he alwayes cum maxima aegrotorū salute in omnibus morbis vulgo etiam incurabi ibus used with good successe and the restitution of the health of his patients yea also in such diseases as were commonly reputed to be incureable And in another place he saith Mirifica◠possidet virtutes in tota bene medendi ratione c. It containeth admirable virtues fit to be used in all sound and perfect medicinall cures 1. It cleanseth the stomack 2. Purgeth the head 3. Preventeth the Lethargy Swimming and Vertigo 4. Cureth frensie and madnesse 5. Preventeth and many times cureth the falling sicknesse 6. It cureth an inveterated cough and hoarsnesse although it be of long continuance 7. Cleareth the wind-pipe and passage from the lungs and so helpeth such as are short-winded 8. It cureth the Squinancy or stoping in the throat 9. It openeth purgeth and healeth all Impostumes in the lungs 10. Restoreth the stomack and expelleth all evill affects of the same 11. Preventeth and cureth the Plurisie 12. Cureth deep melancholy and madnesse Cheers up the heart and vitall spirits 13. Cureth the Hypochondriaca or windy melancholy 14. And is of excelling virtue against all manner of Fevers and Agues 15. It prevents the infection of the Plague or other contagious diseases 16. It preserveth from the Gout and every kinde and species thereof 17. It purifieth the blood cleanseth the whole body 18. Dissipateth and bringeth away congealed or clotted blood or any other currupt matter 19. Destroyeth and expelleth all manner of worms 20. Cureth Morbus Gallicus Lues venerea 21. It prevaileth against the yellow Jaundise and all overflowings of the gaul 22. It openeth and cleanseth all manner of obstructions it is saith Rulandus Medicina Medicinarum the Medicine of Medicines good healthfull and profitable to be used against all manner of Diseases and Infirmities whatsoever Thus much and more Mar. Rulandus affirmeth upon his experience and knowledge whereof read more Ruland Cent. 5. Cur. 95. and Cent. 9. cap. 51. Quercitan confirmeth every particular hereof and reciteth many other experiments of his own practice See Phrm restituta Quercitani pag. 345. And again pag. 238. Martinus Rulandus affirmavit se sua aqua benedicta i. Infusione Reguli Antimonij centies faelicissimo successis luem venerean curasse That is Rulandus affirmeth That he with his blessed water which is the
knowledge concerning the natures and Virtues of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup These are to testifie That the liquor that hath resided in them by moderate and kindly heat of fire doth draw unto it and indueth the Virtues and properties thereof insomuch that if it be drunk down fasting it purgeth as well by vomit as downward all such offensive and preternaturall humors as are inclined to cause and ingender many perilous Diseases as tough Phlegmatick humors which cause Falling-sickness Cachexies and stupid Diseases also against Fevers as well continuall as intermittent and to discharge the stomack at any time over-burthened with superfluous humors proceeding of Surfeits or otherwise My conclusion therefore is That such a Cup will prove very beneficiall for such as dwell in the Country and either are far from a Physitian or else being neer have not the purse to use either Physitian or Apothecary and especially for that it is a perpetuall Medicine whose Virtues fail not And to testifie thus much I doe set to my hand ROBERT FLUD Esq and Dr. of Physick In the fifth place I will set down the Testimony of two learned Gentlemen Dr. Vanderlasse and Dr. Rudston in these words FOr as much as it is apparent by the testimonies and sentences of all Writers and Authors Phylosophicall and Physicall and that it is obvious to every sensible man that things Coct digested and separated from their impurities are of more virtue and efficacy in all Physicall use than things Crude and Feculent as also that of Animals Vegitables and Minerals the Minerals beare Soveraignty in Physick and knowing that by the opinion of the best Authors and their practic that amongst Minerals Antimony Phylosophycally prepared is generally preferred by all for an excellent universall Medicine against all dangerous and pernitious diseases It is without all question that being digested and purged from all his Impurities and Feculencies as M. John Evans Minister and Preacher of the word of God hath done and made it into a Cup for conveniency of infusion preparation and fit proportion of doze by digestion of which in convenient liquor of Wine Beer or Cider by the moderate heat of fire it attracteth the Virtues into any fit liquor which being taking fasting purgeth the body from all offensive and preternaturall humours which are the originall causes of all diseases and the operation is both safe and gentle and worketh by Vomit and Siedge Sweat and Urine any one of these wayes or all these waies as nature and the offensive humors best requireth and is found alwaies to be safe and without any violence to nature or danger to the patient and therefore most writers of authority doe affirme it to be an universall and perpetuall Medicine whose Virtues never faileth as experience hath sufficiently confirmed and to testifie thus much we have subscribed our names BARTHOL VANDERLASSE Medic. Chyr Operator Jo RUDSTON Phylo Phy Dr. The sixth testimony shall be the experimentall approbation and judgement of a learned Gentleman a high-German born but now a perfect Englishman in these words FOr to helpe quickly and to cure safe and pleasantly all manner of diseases in mens bodyes cannot be found a more excellent medicine than the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup whose virtues by long and often triall and experience by severall men and nations have been found infinite and never to decay by often and much usage or succession of time Therefore this Chymicall or Magneticall Cup is found very available and to cure all manner of Head-achings against the Megrim Vertigo Madnes Frensie Melancholy Falling sicknes Cramps Convulsions against sorenesse of eyes proceeding from evill vapours ascending from the Stomack evill digestion of the Stomack Surfeits Plurisies against the stuffing of the lungs and shortnes of winde against all Fluxes Jaunders Green sicknesse Dropsies Obstructions Gout French pox Scurvey Morphew Scabs Calenture hot burning Fevers and against all manner of Agues and against the infection of the Plague Poysons or other infectious diseases being administred in the beginning Also this everlasting Chymicall or Magneticall Cup may right well be stiled an Vniversall Medicine or Panacea whose Virtues never decayeth and therefore most necessary and usefull for any Gentleman dwelling in the Countrey living remote from expert Physitians and these Magneticall or Antimoniall Cups are made and prepared with such Diligence Care and Art by Mr. John Evans Minister of Gods word that they are safe to be used In testimony hereunto I have written this with mine own hand and subscribed my name Phillippus Mullerus Medicinae Philoso Dr. The seventh testimony I will produce for the confirmation of the Excellency of this Magneticall Medicine shall be the experienced relation of an honourable Gentleman Francis Godolphin Esquire KInde Mr. Evans had I been at home at Farnbies last departure hence towards London I should have shewed my selfe willing to have re-saluted you by my letter having formerly received yours be pleased now to accept the acknowledgement of my hearty thanks for your imparting unto me the happy Cures done by your Magneticall Cup and the more perfect use of it confirmed by daily experience And now giving God the Glory and you many thanks for the Cures wrought by my Cup the Childe of your happy Invention I thought good to acquaint you that there came to my house a poor begger woman of the parish of S. Paul about the age of 44. years and at my doore fell into a pittifull fit of the falling sicknes and continued long in that fit but after the fit was past and she began to recollect her sences by questioning with her I found that her disease had continued on her three or four years and that she much desired to take any thing that would ease her and that her fits sometimes took her twice in one day here upon I gave her the next morning white Wine ordered according to your direction and it wrought effectually with her and neither that day nor the day following wherein shee took not the Cup had she any fit or the least symptome of it the third day I gave it her again but then it wrought not with her neither upwards nor downwards but onely by sweat but sithence the first time of the taking of it she hath not had any one fit which is now a quarter of a year past and now she goes to her daily labour as she was wont to doe once of late I caused her to take it againe to prevent a relapsing into the former griefe but I am confident that she is perfectly cured Another young man aged 28 or 30 years of mine own parish being much troubled with that griefe hath by the use of your Cup God blessing the means perfectly recovered his wonted health And now lately one John Heckes a Souldier at Pendinas Castle neer Penrynne who for three or foure or more years was taken so ill as he had a continuall hysking and stopping of his breath was not able to
blood became stopped and flowed in great abundance both at the Mouth at the Nostrils and at the Eares and so continued bleeding more or lesse and at the Monthly times in greater abundance for a whole year or more and neither the Chyrurgeons blood-letting nor the best experiments of the Physitians could any thing at all prevaile or profit to stop or remedy this continuall and daily flux of blood it much weakned the Gentlewoman her strength and naturall vigor failed her Stomack appetite and digestion became lost the fair Constitution and Complexion of the body was changed to a deadly paleness the whol body to a manifest desperate hastening Consumption when all other chargefull and costly means failed the Lord made it his own proper work to restore this Gentlewoman to perfect health and her whol body to naturall order and good constitution by alone drinking and externall application the prepared Liquor of this Cup these 14 last recited wonderfull and admirable Cures were all accordingly effectually performed in Christian piety and friendly neighborhood by my much esteemed dear friend Mr. William Palmer dwelling within two miles of the Citty of Leicester 43. A certain maiden through want of her naturall monethly purgations became extreamly swelled all the body over and had also in the right breast neck and arm-pit certain kernels and hard tumors and all her left arme was altogether benummed and congelated in such sort that she had not any use or strength thereof and had also followed the prescriptions of many Physitians with the applications of many seare-cloths emplaisters and unguents but all without any benefit By the externall bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup her monethly terms came orderly and her whole body in every particular was perfectly and speedily Cured Witnesse Mrs. King of Barnet 44. In the Citty of London neer Algate a certain young woman extreamly taken with the dead Palsie in all the parts of her body that she could neither stand nor stirr nor move any one finger towards helping of her self and so had continued for 18. monthes And although no means was neglected that the practice and Experience of the Doctors and Apothecaries could prescribe yet she was still helpless But by bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly restored to her limbs that within 14. daies she came to the Church on foot without help or supportment of any to the great admiration and wonder of all the neighbours that knew well how she had been taken and how recovered 46. A certain Gentlewoman that for eight or ten years had been continually tormented with most violent and intollerable fits of the Mother and retention of the menstruous accompanied also with most cruell Convulsions and extortments of the severall parts of the body in such miserable and intollerable manner that all that saw her as well Physitians whose costly prescriptions she fully and punctually experienced without any help ease or comfort as also many others conceived that her intollerable excruciaments and extream violent fits were beyond the common effects of naturall causes and that they were done by Witch-craft and by the malice of the Devill and some were wrongfully suspected to have practised witch-craft and inchantment upon the same Gentlewoman neverthelesse by drinking and bathing with the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly recovered and her body brought to naturall purgations and healthfull Constitution in every commendable respect and so remaineth perfectly well praise be to God 47. Within 2 miles of Wallingford an ancient man that had been for seven or eight years grievously troubled with a foul inveterated Cough of the Lungs and much spitting of noysome corrupt matter and so much infeebled therewith that he was scarce able to walk about with the help of a staffe having also upon him many ulcerous sores and foul Scabs the remains of a confirmed Morbus Gallicus which wasted and consumed his body By bathing and cleansing the foul sores to the bottome and by drinking the Liquor of this Cup prepared he was perfectly Cured 48. In Barke shire neer Sherefield Court a certain woman being taken with Congelation or sudden lameness of her whole body and constrained thereby to keep her bed continually for two years or more without any help or remedy although she experimented the skill of many as well Physitians as others by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup and bathing all the grieved parts therewith She speedily and perfectly recovered her health strength and agility of her congealed limbs that within fourteen dayes she came on foot seven miles to render thanks and to acknowledge the benefit she had received 49. Another ancient Gentleman that for ten years found himself continually clogged with some heavy and cold oppression about the Stomack but being of strong constitution and withall full of Law-Suits did forbear all Physicall helps till he was suddainly so ill taken that he was constrained to take and keep his bed And then drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup it brought up abundance of clottered bruised blood and other foul stuff which having stood but a little space became all a hard jelly much like to a bruised Liver and as thick and the Gentleman immediately recovered perfect health 50. A certain man bleeding abundantly at the nostrills both night and day without any or very little intermission for four or five dayes together and could not be stanched by any means that could be used that it was generally thought of all about him that he would bleed to death To whom there was administred of the prepared Liquor of this Cup a good draught the blood immediately stayed and although it wrought by vomits and other waies 7. or 8. times the blood remained stanched and the man perfectly recovered and this is a wonderfull property and operation that it should thus stanch blood whereas in cause of Lunacy Madness Frensie and the Plurisie it is confirmed by much experience that it openeth the Veins and causeth to bleed abundantly both by the Nostrils at the mouth and ears and downwards naturally both by the menstruall and hemerodiall Veins These seven last recited admirable and wonderfull Cures are confirmed to be most certain and true by the right worshipfull Willam Mollins Esquire 51. A certain young Gentlewoman having a Fistulated sore leg with eight holes of great deepness therein and much proud flesh spongy and evill coloured mounting and swelling up in an exceeding hie and deformed disproportion about the sores out of all which eight holes came continually great store of foul thin undigested matter as also many splints of corrupt and putrified bones came forth This sore leg was under the hands of very many Chyrurgeons for three years continually without hope of cure and at length resolved upon to be cut off Notwithstanding by bathing cleansing syrindging and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup the malignant humors were purged the body was cleansed the bones were scarified and purified