be a fitnesse and property in the waters as you here confesse then is not the mixture of Aurum potabile with theÌ„ arbitrarie as before you said but necessary If it be necessary then is not Aurum potabile sufficient by it selfe or in wine alone Thus much concerning your contradictions Now let vs view your manifest falshoods Read page 97 before meÌ„tioned namely Aurum potabile neuer did hurt This falsehood hath appeared by the counter-testimonies Read again page 103 there you doe auouch that Aurum potabile removeth the antecedent causes of diseases by conuenient naturall passages If Aurum potabile be able to remoue the antecedent causes vnto which end phlebotomy and purging doe chiefly and mainely serue then may they be omitted nor are they so absolutely necessary This is the selfe same falshood and contradiction which formerly hath beene by you auouched and by me in some part confuted Notwithstanding for the better euidence of so necessary consideration for the life health of man kinde against this harmefull errour and illusion I wil cleere and make euident the incomparable necessity and prerogatiue of the generall remedies in the manifest disburdening of antecedent causes aboue all other meanes or remedies whatsoeuer If haply you doe not knowe what the antecedent cause is in diseases Read Galen de sanitate tuenda l. 6. cap. 7. Quic quid corpus affligâ—it ex ijs qua in ipso sunt duplici id occasione oritur aut redundantia aut succi vitio that is whatsoeuer afflicteth the body or causeth it to bee diseased of such things which are within it selfe is two waies thereto occasioned namely by the abundance or by the vitiousnesse of humours Vnto the same distinction in the antecedent causes the general voice of all Phisitians doth subscribe by those tearmes of Plethora and Cacochymia Plethora Galen in divers places doth againe distinguish to be ad vasa and ad vires and in his booke de plenitudine cap. 15. hee declareth that there is Plethora ad vasa maior and minor that is a greater and a lesse Maior quae tunicas venarum etiam distendit minor quae cauitatem in venis tantum replet That is the greater is that which with the abundance stretcheth out the veines The lesser without distention doth only fill the veines Concerning Plethora ad vires commenting vpon the seauenteenth Aph of Hyppocrates lib. 2. he saith Non potest diu permanere sed processu temporis corrumpitur That is a Plethora or fullnesse simply in regard of the imparitie and inequality of the sickmans strength to indure beare it cannot continue long but it turneth into corruption or in time is corrupted From the former grounds and principles by the assistance of vulgar reason may any man collect the necessitie of Phlebotomy in a Plethora which is one antecedent cause of all materiall or humorall diseases If you desire illustration of the former necessity and explication of the reason of the necessitie read the same author in his 3 book de Meth. Med. cap. 15. in his comment vpon the 7 Aph. of Hipocrates the 2 book in his book de venae sectione contra Erisistratum As there the necessity and reason of necessity of Phlebotomie in Plethora which is a maine and chiefe occasion of diseases or the antecedent mouer fautor fuell matter or cause thereof so in other places likewise doth he giue demonstration of the necessity of purgation in the Cacochymia and vitious aboundance of humours that are without the veines Read for this purpose his tractate intituled Quos purgare c. whom when by what meanes it is fit and conuenient to purge his Comment also vpon the second Aph of Hip first booke his book de purgantium medicamentorum facultate de Meth. Med. 1. lib. de Morborum causis In all these places and many more the necessity of purgation in a Cacochymia doth euidently appeare as likewise did before the necessity of Phlebotomiâ— in Plethora the reason of both is plaine An immediate cause in act remaining the immediate effect must necessarily attend * Effectus immediatus est signum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suae causae Scal. de Subtil it The immediate cause in diseases is that which the Phisitians call causa coniuncta This cause cannot be without some matter or humour whereof it breedeth which humour therfore is called causa antecedens in regard of the necessity of a precedence thereof before that immediate cause can possibly be produced The matter or humour in the body which necessarily goeth before the disease is there congregated in more or lesse quantity and either within the veines or without From within the veines to the outward sense Phlebotomie doth immediatly manifest it selfe to euacuate From the other passages purgation is by the eye witnessed directly to draw For this cause Purgation and Phlebotomie are called generall remedies because in all diseases generally they doe manifestly euocate the humours or superfluities whereof all diseases doe euer breed Now examine your Aurum potabile Is it possibly sufficiently to remoue the antecedent causes of diseases as you report thereof without distinction If it bee hereto sufficient then it must so be either in it selfe simply or by accident Simply nothing can bee sufficient or effectuall thereto except those things which haue a purgatiue nature or quality If it include such a property or quality in the nature thereof then it is not simply and truely a Cordiall if not simply and truely a Cordiall then is it inferiour and nâ—t to be compared with many other things which are truely meerely solely Cordialls corroboratiues and comforters of nature without any mixture with another nature different and aduerse thereto as all purges are If you say that your Aurum potabile doth by accident remoue the antecedent cause of diseases then is it no way equall or to be compared with Phlebotomie or Purgation which alwaies doe certainly immediatly manifestly speedily and promptly euacuate superfluities which euer are and euer were the antecedent causes of diseases as is aboue said That which is or happeneth only by accident is casuall and vncertaine nor can there be therein any certainty trust assurance or necessary expectation And thus your leuitie your fallacy your insidiation and insinuation into credulous mindes by confused and ambiguous pronunciatiues doth detect it selfe How vainely falsely therefore you make Aurum potabile his insufficiency sufficient in the remoueall of antecedent causes is most cleare and euident The danger hereof also is as evident while men in their necessitieâ— trusting vnto the vncertaintie and casuall sufficiencie hereof may for euer in the interim omit and loâ—se the opportunity and date of life and recouery by the certaine manifest and assured remoueall of antecedent causes in the generall remedâ—es neuer failing although in their vndiscreet ignorant and vnartificiall administration errors and mischiefes may oft happen as is vsuall in all other affaires likewise aswell as in this
proueth no more vniuersalitie in Aurum potabile then is vsuall vnto other deoppilatiues or openers of obstructions But hereto hee doth promptly reply that there are no other deoppilatiues either so effectuall as this or so permanent or certaine in their effects or so little disquieting nature in their operations or after their vse leauing behind them so small euill relique or remaining inconuenience nor that are so easie or pleasant to take Our experience of your perpetuall want and insufficiencie in euery proofe or reason of your assertions confidently by you notwithstanding promised in the former part of the Treatise and as yet in nothing performed doth warrant vs to deny vnto you common credit vntill you haue or can by some merit exceeding all exception vanquish extort our discreet beleefe Your partiall proiects or reports of your owne experience we knowe not to be inuiolate decrees I haue oft seene long continuations and knotty obstructions with as much pleasure and expedition as any patient can hope or thinke enodate and dissolued They haue neuer againe returned nor the remedies in that worke imploied beene stained with the least suspition of either mixing with the cure or leauing after the cure the least doubt or questioned imputation Concerning the pleasure and facilitie in their taking there was neuer quarrell heard the sound of praise hath oft awaked envy and after driuen her with furie into an Apoplecticke amazed silence For this therefore your felonie and robbing of al men and medicines of their vndoubted rights your deserued suspension in euery sound iudgement cannot bee auoided except you can read like a Clarke farre better then hetherto it seemeth you haue done Read then the histories of all times and ages past wherein Aurum potabile being vnknowne excellent counsells haue produced admirable cures in al kindes of diseases Read any practiser of note or celebritie in any age or time and you shall therein read if you can read with iudgement your owne iniurious insolence and vnrighteous presumption But say you there is an inexplicable divinitie in the temper that giueth vnto Autum potabile the incomparable preheminence If this be true then first soundly refute the former confutation thereof and next salue the present contradiction of your selfe in your professed practise As you doe affirme in this place concerning Lullius his custome so doe you in your testimonies and elsewhere acknowledge concerning your owne that you mixe your Aurum potabile sometimes with Cichory water sometime with wine If your Aurum potabile be in it selfe sufficient both to coole heat as elsewhere you affirme what vse then is there of Cichory water to coole or of wine for warmth or comfort Either your owne action doth stab your assertion with the lye or your assertion pronounceth your action needlesse or vaine This is your true temper through euery veine and pulse of your former worke namely to pronounce contraries and yet affirme them to be all truths And thus is your last reason detected as your first to be the liuely and perfect image and picture of your most imperfect selfe of whom I may truely say as Martiall of Thais Cum bene se tutam per fraudes mille putavit Omnia cum fecit Thaida Thais olet Thais by wiles doth plot that she Though Thais yet no Thais seeme to be When musk-like most perfumed she is All fumes orefumeth still Thais Through your secure triumph in so many your cunning couers adulterate colours painted adequate complexion counterfeit guilt of golden temper notwithstanding is perfectly sented your fained worth by the proper ill sauour in it selfe It remaineth now only and alone to consider your inconsiderate proposing of an obiection against your selfe and therein blindly leauing your selfe intangled Aurum potabile say you page 11. latine Copie being a Cordiall for so now you confesse it in your lethargie of the former vniuersalitie being properly a Cordiall say you how can it alone bee sufficient vnto the necessary euacuation of the superfluous or oppressing load of humors in the body The immediat cōtinent antecedent causes of diseases remaining within say you again health is scarcely or not at all to be hoped merely to follow vpō Cordials Vpon the precedent grounds you conclude that if the nature of the sick of the vniuersal medicine be furthered helped by some gentle purge so much the rather the sooner shall the naturall strength the propulsation of the disease succeed Now let the Reader behold Anth. against Anth. In the very next words immediatly following the former in the Latine copy thus he addeth Notwithstanding saith he if this come not to passe .i. that the nature of the sick of the vniversall medicine be not helped or furthered by purging in due consideration of reason Nature wil finde a meanes way for her selfe better thē the Physitian who is not Natures master but Minister helper For the Physitian saith he in all diseases ought thither to direct all his evacuations where nature doth regularly and critically intend them How now will Anthony satisfie and answere Anthony Anthony first said that without purging or evacuation of the immediate continent and antecedent causes of diseases which is the proper ordinarie and vsuall office skill direction of the Physitian health could hardly scarcely or hopefully follow Now lastly Anthony againe saith that Nature without the Physitian will better finde helpe and meanes for her selfe The cause of this difference betweene Anthony and himselfe is the want of right distinction That therefore I may mediate betweene his meaning and himselfe I will thus helpe him to distinguish Nature is to be considered two wayes The first way is as she worketh regularly perfectly or sufficiently and there the Physitian is solely to imitate Nature and to be directed by her and her minister and no master The second way is as Nature irregularly inconveniently or inperfectly worketh and then and there must the Physitian be her directer master commander and orderer This may be manifestl◠proued out of Hippocrates Aph. 20. 21. 22. lib. 1. If beside rule and reason example instance be demanded in way of illustration we might be infinite herein but one or two are no lesse sufficient then a multitude In the scorching flame and furious fire of an exquisite peracute or perperacute pleuresie phrensie Angina Peripuenmonia Synochus and divers other like if Nature demonstrate her selfe compleatly and effectually able to vent sufficiently or competently by any prompt or convenient naturall passage the fierie smoake and fume of the boiling veines menacing her suffocation then is there no vse but an abuse in any vse of Physicke or Physitian But if Nature in her strength fundadamentally quaile by the oppression of her enemy the disease in the quantitie of the humor and be beyond the extent of her durance or toleration grieued though the cordiall may flatter or ease for a miserable time the Physitian must then either enable or
plethoricall body vrine red intense thicke troubled As these were manifest reasons causes mouing and vrging phlebotomie and purgation so that these still remained the same after their second vse besides their first knowne moderation and small quantitie it is euident by these words in the first testimonie before mentioned Neque per Clisteres Vomitum Purgationem sanguinis missionem quae omnia tentata sunt incendium mitigari potuit that is Notwithstanding purging vomiting bleeding saith M. Markes the heat the flame or burning could not be quenched It may here haply be obiected and imagined that without Aurum potabile giuing strength and refreshing the patient could not haue endured either the languishing long sicknesse as he did nor the iteration of any the former generall remedies if they had beene continued If this be granted yet doth it not excuse his fowle errour and ignorance who because Aurum potabile did giue this comfort abilitie therefore he perversly and ignorantly reiected other remedies no lesse necessary in other kinds as was this in that Neither is it to be doubted that if Aurum potabile were able to inable nature to indure the terrour and torment of the fore mentioned languishing sicknesse but that in reason other remedies of the same kinde and of the same created vse might haue done the same howsoeuer at this time and in this particular Aurum potabile alone hapned to be acceptable therefore had the oportunity solely vnto it self It may haply yet be further enquired what manifest indication there was of vomit before mentioned I need not giue thereof any other reason then that inseparable accident or symptome of a burning feauer namely the excessiue ebullition of putrified choler abounding in the stomacke and liuer which was in this patient manifest accompanied with that stoppage of the backe and kidneyes by the Parson witnessed which did indicate that revulsion and deriuation which vsually and manifestly vomit doth performe The Parson will haply as yet reply If phlebotomie and purgation were so needfull to bee againe iterated why did not the other learned and worthie succeeding Doctors insist in that course The answer is twofold First I doe by my owne proofe and experience knowe that the hope of their preualence therein against Aurum potabile and his preiudicate anticipation was impossible Secondly I knowe it manifest and out of doubt that the decidence from the sharpnesse of the disease and the setling of humours and their decumbence into the neather parts or at least their irreuocable entrance into the way of decumbence before the other two Doctors comming did deny vnto them the opportunity of the vse of those remedies their season being by delaying now passed and a new indication offering another and different counsell through Aurum potabile his preoccupation and tyrannous vsurpation of their due time and season The parson may as yet moue a doubt whether Aurum potabile be not in it selfe able to supply the vse of purgation and phlebotomy The contrar hereto is manifest first by the proofe and triall thereof made wherein by his owne testimony it is euident that after the forsaking of the former remedies of phlebotomy and purgat on and the adherence vnto Aurum potabile there immediatly followed a plentifull decumbence of humours swelling and possessing diuers parts a long languishing time Secondly that Aurum potabile cannot be able to performe or supply the vse of the former remedies is euident for that no particular medicine of what vniuersality soeuer hath euer as yet been found by experience or knowne by reason to drawe the bloud electiuely or immediatly in the proper masse substance from the seuerall fit veines For this cause therefore where the masse and substance of the blood is either corrupted or is growne an importable burden vnto nature Aurum potabile can neither certainely nor speedily as is oft requisite remoue it or euacuate it Concerning purgation also since it is manifest that the purgatiue vertue or quality is a proper certaine immediate and ordinary operation of such things as are in their true nature purgatiues Aurum potabile except proued among the kinde and nature of purgatiues which cannot agree with the nature of so perfect and absolute cordiall cannot nor doth not in it selfe purge or euacuate It may be obiected how came it then to passe that in this Gentleman it is said to purge so easily pleasantly and plentifully Hereto we answer that this purging issued not from any certaine or ordinary property in Aurum potabile though then or at some other times it may so happen thereto For while Aurum potabile haply as a Cordiall dispelled from the heart offensiue humours some of them it is likely through their abundance might fall into the common sinke or passage and so by accident be purged away but this kinde of purging is vncertaine doubtfull and not equally according to vse and necessity sufficient against the fulnesse and turgescence of humours which vnto a certaine module and measure require their certaine remoueall and euacuation That Aurum potabile hath properly his place among Cordialls both all generall descriptions and also the Apologist his owne particular confession in many places doth proue And thus obiections satisfied the fixed manifestation remaineth of M. Parsons ignorance in this testimony as also his insolence in vndertaking aboue his reach prowdly daring beyond his station without any likelyhood or liuelyhood of performance How void he is of true iudgement herein as also of any liuely sap of true learning the demonstration hath not beene obscure Now as his presumption in his supposed learning overdaring beyond the slender muscles is fowly fallen vnto the ground so let vs view his vnnecessary vnhonest vnciuill and crafty dealing which hath solely ministred the matter occasion of all the scandall Let mee put you in minde M. Parson that the Gentleman mentioned was first your patient You had purged him and once let him blood before Dr C. came vnto him and were gone from him After Dr C. was come had againe purged him vomited and once more let him blood the supposed doubt and feare of those remedies being past you then secretly came vnto him againe secretly communed and gaue vnto him Aurum potabile were you not herein a Fox Non redoles sed oles It is no borrowed smell it is your owne rancke sauour Let me yet farther tell you that after Aurum potabile was thus secretly giuen by Master Markes vnto the patient immediatly the patient together with his wife contrary vnto their former courteous and friendly vsage of Dr C. before in his many fortunate imployments amongst them many yeares together now accuse him vnto his face of erroneous iudging and practising in this one particular with constant asseueration that this assertion was auouched by some both honest and learned whom they would not name No other reputed learned or any Physitian but M. Markes his marked selfe had as yet beene with them Thus
hope of recouery It was no more then occasion did require as may appeare first in the patients aduersnesse vnto himselfe Secondly in Markes his description of the patients estate as also by the deliberation and pause which Aurum potabile did take for his imperfect recouery which was from D. C. his desertion of the cure in March vnto the date of the first domesticall testimony September 10th Whereas it is obiected that D. C. did write a booke inhumanely handling the patient with calumnies It is meere misprision The patient was neuer in any treatise by him nominated nor so much as described in any such sort as he can iustly any way appropriat vnto himselfe There was neuer any wrong really done vnto him but onely in his owne opinion What in any priuate speech hath passed that might seeme to touch him it was extorted and vnauoidable for the wronged his necessary and iust defense being prouoked by all extremity of dispite As for the book which is tearmed vaine it is able to answere for it selfe and was neuer as yet put to silence Now vnto the matter it selfe It is doubted whether the patient be beholding vnto D. C. in any part for his care and precedent paines or soly and totally vnto Aurum potabile succeeding after It doth not follow that because Aurum potabile pleased the patient his ease sense and desire therefore it doth performe the reall true benefit in right vnderstanding vnto the health It were ridiculous if any man should thus reason This way is a faire way a pleasant greene way pleaseth and refresheth me Ergo it is my way home This is a thorny ragged crooked way and much troubleth and discontenteth me Ergo it is not the way vnto my intended iourney The way vnto health is oft times as the way vnto heauen smally pleasing It is not the pleasures or refreshing in the way but the true end and expected issue thereof which indueeth the iudicious with content perseuerance and patience to walke therein In the right method of regular cure and according vnto art and reason D. C. did proceed by the confession of M. Markes his letter going before at the end of the confutation of the second testimonie The truth thereof likewise doth proue it selfe by demonstration in the same fore-mentioned confutation Common reason and the generall course and custome of all Phisitians in the like case or occasion doe vncontrouersly confirme the same How can it then be iust or reasonable that D. C. guiding his honest intention and care of the patients good by true art by likely reason and in all artificiall order course confessed should notwithstanding bee blamed and blasted with an euill breath because the present or speedy euent was not according vnto expectation equally prosperous happy or because the patient thereby found not ease What the disease was is apparent by Markes his description namely a burning feauer The remedies in that disease euer requisite necessary in ordinary regular cure were by D. C. administred according vnto art and reason as saith the same Markes The Patient complaineth in this course hee as yet found no ease †Plethore vnicum ac proâ—â—â—um remedium venae sectio Fernel de Meth. Mâ—d. b. 2. c. 4. but rather increase of paines Vpon this ground and reason Aurum potabile vndertaketh and the former proceeding confessed according vnto art and reason is repelled and interrupted What reason can be herein or wiâ—h what reason can any cunning fixe any iust blame vpon D. C. or derogate from his desert being by true reason rule iustified whatsoeuer was the present issue or successe thereof which more truely consisteth in God his holy designement then in mans indeauours though neuer so faire or likely And thus is the iniury and wrong done vnto D. C. made palpable vnto any common and vulgar indifferent view It is obiected that Aurum potabile gaue ease which the other remedies did not First herein it is requisite to consider that those likely and reasonabâ—e remedies before mentioned although their present benefit did not attend or accompany their vse as is not alwaies or euer expected yet their †Humores à natura iâ— constitutione eousque recedentes vt neque victu neque aâ—terati ne solâ— emendari neque câ—loris naturalis beneficio in bonitatem pâ—istinaÌ„ reduci possunt purgat one sunt auferendi Feâ—n de Meth. Med. 3 cap. 1. certaine and vsuall knowne profitting in ordinary course in certaine triall common experience doth yeeld infallible ground of likely reason that they did not only their vsuall comodious benefit in that ease and happines which did befall the sicke but prospered inabled the possibility of that reputed good in Aurum potabile Secondly let vs herewith compare examine what that good was which vnto Aurum potabile is so gloriously ascribed namely ease corroboration and refreshing vnto the patient Notwithstanding these reputed grand benefits the Patient continued the space of halfe an yeare as appeareth by Markes his testimonie languishing sick greeuously vexeâ— with paines swellings in many parts Auâ—uÌ„ potabile therefore gaue ease refreshing but cured not the disease being stil atteÌ„ded with the decumbence superfluity of humours This is euer a manifest argumeÌ„t of an imperfect Crisis or cure the perfect Crisis and cure neuer leauing behind any part of the old disease nor matter or occasion of new which Physitians call Empyrheuma but by manifest perfect compleat evacuatioÌ„s sufficiently remouing the superfluitie excesse of vitious humors which are the causes of disease Since then after the vse of Aurum potabile plenty of humors still remaine afflicting and oppressing divers parts therefore manifestly Aurum potabile was as insufficient and defectiue in true and perfect cure so also in due evacuation of humors necessarily conductiue vnto cure And thus doth manifest reason informe that Aurum potabile did vnseasonably intrude it selfe and abruptly discontinued more reasonable and necessary remedies This hurt and iniurie in reason Aurum potabile apertly committed the only good it did was reputed ease and refreshing vnto the Patient This is indeed a pleasure and benefit in the interim in cure but no effecting or effectuall perfecting of cure Here may a question be moued whether we may not safely trust Cordials among which Aurum potabile is one without phlebotomie or purgation for the relieuing of nature and cure of diseases considering many diseases are seene to be so cured sometimes When diseases thus happen to be cured which is very rare and seldome and euer vncertaine that it commeth by accident and is casuall no man is ignorant It is true that after Cordials Nature is found sometimes inabled or stirred vnto many spontaneous expulsions sometimes by bleeding sometimes by vomiting sometimes by sweat sometimes by purging as in the aboue-named Gentleman by his testimony of such like effects in his Aurum potabile may be haply granted But we must obserue
Seneca While some men doe thriue well in ill Most men a vertue deeme the skill It is not therefore the good successe that doth proue any thing or action good either in the nature end or vse This argument therefore for Aurum potabile his goodnes is so far from good that it is vnlearned temerarious rotten and vnsound CAP. VI. NOw hauing declared the falsitie and depraued end and vse of some of your testimonies best knowne vnto my selfe I will next according vnto promise recite other some which in true reason in Art in the generall counsels decrees and experience of all Physitians are infallibly and altogether void of credit or possibility in themselues This is evident by your proposing your curation of such diseases as are incurable See page 86. where you report your curation of a Marasme as saith your Latin Copie Your English Copie page 94. ignorantly translateth your word Marasmus an extreame debility We must needs take the Latin for the text and the originall The impossibility of curation of Marasme is evident vnto him who knoweth what Marasmus is Galen in his booke de Marcore doth teli you that it is corruptio corporis viventis propter siccitatem that is the curruption wasting or destruction of a liuing body thorough drynes or privation of the radicall and life-giuing moisture Marasme is the highest degree of a consummate consumption For this cause he saith in the same place that it is incurable Marasmus omnes corporis partes similiter absumit Attenuatos verò sanârunt qui Marasmum se sanâsse putârunt circa affectionum genera errantes that is a Marasme consumeth all parts of the bodie alike They haue only cured leane and extenuate bodies who ignorantly erring and mistaking the different kinds of diseases haue thought that they haue cured bodies consumed with the Marasmus Thus your grosse ignorance in not putting true difference betweene the kinds of consumptions doth necessarily convince the falshood of your reports and testimonies of their curation since no man can affirme truth concerning things by him not truely distinguished Thus your affirmation of your curation of Marasmus doth appeare vnto all learned men vnlearned and not true Concerning your reports of the curation of other kindes of consumptions likewise obserue the weaknes page 86 of the Latin Copie you avouch a man cured in few dayes page 87 of the Latin Copie you report another cured brevissime that is most speedily The English Copie 95 page translateth it timorously as doubting the Latin was too bold and ill advised Who knoweth not that knoweth least in Physick that all consumptions are Chronick and bringing diseases and necessarily and vnavoidably requiring length of time vnto their restauration repairing or reducing vnto former health cannot be in any reason or possibility truly said brevissimè that is very speedily or in few dayes cured Obserue yet further that Aurum potabile must needs be ignorantly and falâ—ely reported to be the proper remedie vnto consumptions except it be a restauratiue since in restauration consisteth the true cure of consumptions How farre Aurum potabile is discrepant herefrom let these words of the most subtill Scaliger determine Exercit. 272. Is verò qui auro vescitur Aurum fiet Cuius natura cùm longissimè disteâ— Ã natura nostra neutiquam nostrae licebit per illam restaurari that is he that feedeth vpon gold must needs be a golden substance or gold it selfe the nature thereof since it is so farre remote from humane nature it is impossible for our nature to be restored thereby Obserue yet once more that some doubt may be iustly made whether Aurum potabile aloâ—e may not do hurt in consumptions since it seemeth a thing inclining vnto drynesse and heat by his Masteâ—s mixture thereof with cooling things in hot diseases Things inclining though moderatly vnto drynes or heat are adverse vnto consumed and wasted bodies Ill would it fare with Antony if his flesh vnto the bone consumed were only to be restored by Aurum potabile which yeeldeth in quantity so vnlikely a pittance vnto restauration since in so few and small graines only administred and in the quality rather hard mettall then tender fl sh or ought thereinto * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Aurum argentum aut metalla à calore nostro concoqui aut dissolvi non pofsunt Aristot â— Probl. 42. Aurum est incoctile Scaliger Exercit. 272. convertible Let him try and trust it if he thinke good Let him dine suppe breakfast frolick feast therewith alone some few weekes I doubt he sooner shall turne into Midas then gold into him to nourish him and in the end with Midas may say as the Poet of him doth sing Copâ—a nulla famem relevat sitis arida guttur Vrit inviso semper torquetur ab auro Gold store nor 's thirst nor throates heat quell But gnawes his heart with hunger sell Beware then Doctor An lest if you make tryall that which of the same Poet is said of the same Mulas be verified of both Induiturque aures lentè gradientis aselli For want of fore-advised feares There steale vpon him Asses eares Thus much concerning the falsehood in reason of your curation of consumptions by Aurum potabile As loosly likewise elsewhere you either ignorantly miscall or mistake continuall feavers or els speake not truth of their curation Read this foule lapse page 50 of the Latin Copie which as the most Authentike I haue wholly followed There the Latin Copie in the margiâ— note saith continua febris that is a continuall feaver which notwithstanding afterward in your relation of the manner thereof proueth a manifest intermitting ague ending with a plaine infebricitation or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The cold say you did not hold long the burning 3 or 4 houres The English Copie page 56 translateth as ignorantly continua febrie in the margine afore-said of the Latine Copie a continuing Quotidian To leaue your barbarous improprietie of tearmes and speech let vs come vnto your assertions themselues concerning your curations by Aurum potabile of continuall feavers and burning feavers specified page 58 59 of the English Copie Galen in his 9 booke de Meth. Medendi doth demonstrate the Prime and maine necessity of Phlebotomie in all continuall or continent feavers which the Greeks distinguish by these termes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maximum praecipuum remedium saith he est missio sanguinis sine qua plerunque sequitur aut Suffocatio aut Syncope lethalis He indeed in the same place granteth that Nature being strong and the inflammation within mediocrity sometimes by some large spontaneous profusion of blood at nose or at some other part sometimes by some large or copious breaking forth of sweat or the like Nature may haply free and deliuer her selfe in some continuall feavers But where Nature is ouercome by many degrees of the feaver or of the aboundance of putrified humor s