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A20238	The apologie, or defence of a verity heretofore published concerning a medicine called aurum potabile that is, the pure substance of gold, prepared, and made potable and medicinable without corrosiues, helpfully giuen for the health of man in most diseases, but especially auaileable for the strenghning [sic] and comforting of the heart and vitall spirits the perfomers of health: as an vniversall medicine. Together with the plaine, and true reasons ... confirming the vniversalitie thereof. And lastly, the manner and order of administration or vse of this medicine in sundrie infirmities. By Francis Anthonie of London, doctor in physicke.	Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623.	1616 (1616)	STC 666; ESTC S100187	65,635	136

strength vnto nature Who being strengthned performeth whatsoeuer is expedient And by this meanes they neuer did ouerthrow any man Therefore neuer cease to worke with Cordialls in administration of Physicke This is the counsell of Arnald Moreouer many diseases proceed from obstructions The fift reason of some viscous slymie and mucilaginous matter not separated in the vessels of concoction by their imbecillity either naturall or accidentall Therfore if this obstruent matter be subtiliated the obstruction shall thereby be taken away consequently both the disease and accidents of the disease cured Of such kinds of Obstructions besides other diseases many kinds of fevers doe arise burning rotten hectick pestilent c. Also many and dangerous sicknesses both hot and cold Against which though Medicine made of vegetables doe often very much preuaile yet because for the most part they be too weak and leaue no solide and lasting impression or contrariwise worke so violently and seldome without some offence scarce euer with such temper gentlenes and sincerity as is requisite Therefore that Medicine which being most temperate and equally graduated to the Elementall harmonie of mans body ought iustly to be preferred both before them and all of that kind For such one cannot by his coldnesse offend the complexioned parts nor by his heate the hot but by opening and so promotiuely taking away the Obstruction be equally certainly profitable to all Galen teacheth that the cause is to be takē away by finding out and applying the true contrary of euery alterable nature As to cure any disease coming of and depending on Obstruction is the dissoluing of matter obstruent opening the Obstruction This counsell we ought to follow in al such cases in opening that which is forcibly shut And then gentle and quiet restitution commeth of temperament to all distempered parts For whether the excesse were in heate or cold the spirits which were shut vp in prison now set at liberty are refreshed recouer their former vigor and health to the whole body If the blood saith Hippocrat be stopped in his course and the spirit with it it causeth chylnesse numnesse giddines losse or hinderance of speach heauines paine of the head convulsions after which follow many kinds of the falling sicknes which be accounted cold diseases In briefe it is most euident that only Obstructions be the cause of many and sundry diseases not only different but directly contrary each to other Therfore as one cause brought them in so may one Medicine expell them But pause a while It may be demanded how humors Obiection so exorbitāt abounding as they do in the bodies of many men shal be emptied from thence by the force of any medicine whose faculty is not to expel or purge by the common passage and whose intent is to be only strengthning and comforting the heart To which I answer It is true that in many diseases Solution the abundance of humors are such causes that except they be purged away in due and conuenient time and order it is scarse possible to hope for a sound recouerie in vvhich case if some gentle Purgation together vvith the administration of this vniuersall Medicine be vsed both the strength shall be better maintained sooner recouered and the disease ouercome Yet though no purgation be giuen but onely this vniuersall Medicine at times administred such is the vertue thereof that Nature it selfe being strengthned and comforted aboue the malice of the offending humors and the disease will expell the burden of those humors by the most conuenient passages which that case may require whether it be by siege vomit vrine sweate or other exitures For the Physition attending is not directer and Master but minister and seruant in fit administration vnto nature which being comforted and strengthned will helpe her selfe beyond all hope and conceit of man as hath bin often found to the admiration of the greatest Doctors which hitherto haue written and happeneth daily in our owne experience In all diseases the Physitions part is to promote the indeauour of nature to expel the offending humors by those passages which herselfe sheweth and directeth with discretion betweene criticall and symptomaticall euacuations and of the conueniencie of a few circumstances following the particularities of the disease Of this I could easily and plentifully bring many irrefragable and demonstratiue reasons but they may partly bee vnderstood by that which is already said and partly are written by diuers others graue and learned Authors Therfore I wil follow breuitie only set down a few lines out of that profound and singular Philosopher Raymund Lully who in the 32. Chapter of the Theorie of his Testament writeth thus Blessed be our glorious and omnipotent God who hath giuen mankinde knowledge and vnderstanding to ioyne and integrate the confused particularitie of all Medicines with one reall vniuersalitie by which all things be and continue rectified Therefore Sonne I warne thee if thou desirest to be a perfect Physition set not thy Practise on the particularities of Medicine or the particular intentions of Physicke because they be confused and at this day not sound nor perfect For nature cannot endure them by reason of their too much confusion but is best pleased or satisfied with and in one only Medicine Because there is but one Medicine truly curing all Infirmities and comforting the spirituall vertues and powers of life c. And a litttle after in the same He that knoweth how to reduce most particularities or vertues for the intention of Curing diseases vnto one vniuersalitie of subiect shall bee the most excellent amongst Physitions In particular Medicines vertues bee confused but in an vniuersall they bee reall vnited and actiue as the whole course of nature sheweth And this is Medicina Medicinarum superlatiuely by excellencie and prerogatiue the Medicine of Medicines And hee that hath such a Medicine hath a pretious gift of God For it is an incomparable treasure Thus far Raymund who though he there speake of that great and high Philosophicall secret yet he plainly witnesseth that there is in nature a vniuersall Medicine which whether it be made of gold or gold made of it It mattereth not much for either way it sufficiently proueth the excellent properties of gold most agreeable to mans nature which hauing thus farre prooued I will here end this first part of this Treatise Hauing thus vnto moderate and well tempered Iudgements for my intent and purpose in this treatise prooued that there hath bin and therefore may be a Panchresticall Medicine for which very many learned are either searchers themselues or witnesses of other mens happines in attaining the same yet because the peruicacie of some is such that against experiment and sense it selfe they will peraduenture consciously pretend the Impossibilitie maintaine the negatiue some againe though yeelding a possibilitie maintaining the affirmatiue wil fight in the shadow of one instance contending that thogh they granted it may

vnwillingly and almost compulsiuely brought thither by the neerest of blood to the sick gentleman with no lesse intreaty then others But these Physitians were so far from conferring with me cōcerning the further health of this patient whom they then found in very good case that they both ioyned and would not bee quiet before they had rid me thence contrary to the will of the patient and of those that were present In what case and state I both found and left this gentleman you haue hard After my departure what cooling or astringent or otherwise 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 relapsed into the same cruell and desperate accidents in which I formerly had found him and from which I had restored him peraduenture he fell into this relaps for want of that my medicine so powrefull in strengthning the heart and expelling poyson from it For doubtlesse the exitures being stopped and the poyson returning from the outward parts of the body whither nature had expelled it to the heart the same accidents must needes returne Such relapses are most dangerous because both the infection is stronger and the body weaker And so it appeared in this noble gentleman by this his vntimely death Then did these Physitions vnder whose hands he died bethinke themselues of some stratageme to avoid the imputation imminent One of them therefore hastneth to the Court where he publisheth excuse of himselfe and accusation of me And further causeth me to bee cited to the Colledge of London Physitions and with the eloquence of Tertullus very stoutly accuseth me as culpable of the death of this gentleman Where I acquited my selfe and maintained my innocency by foure lawfull witnesses seruants and attendants of their late Master the deceased knight Who with one consent and contestation dilated That I came to their said Master lying in his last and extreame pangs rauing after the exitures of the small pocks were striken in That after I had with carefull and diligent attendance all that night administred my potable Gold vnto him as aforesaid the extremities of his passions and grieuousnesse of accidents were much eased and abated he more quiet and in better sense and that the Pustules of his diseafe did againe plentifully breake out by which meanes he was respectiuely in good temper And that the next day when the said Physitions had excluded me and giuen him their mixtures all things turned to their old course he to his former extremities and so died His Maiestie also had commanded 4. honourable persons to be present at the Colledge in the hearing and debating of these actions now in question that is the right honourable the Lord Kneuet Sir Henry and Sir Philip Cary knights brethren of Sir Adolph deceased and Sir William Godolphin 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 case for that disease how they left him dead truly reported the whole matter to the Kings Maiestie as indeede it was What his Maiesties censure then was herein and on whom he would lay this imputation of his death may easily be coniectured out of the manifestations of the cause Also those two worthy brethren meere strangers to me at that time liuing in honourable account and place so generously and vertuously that none dare entertaine any sinister thought against their sinceritie nor opinion that they will for any respect whatsoeuer be induced to report any vntruth for me nor any other are alwaies ready to giue further satisfaction if any as yet be not sufficiently perswaded of these proceedings Reason it selfe in one maine ground of Physicall indications doth teach vs that à iuvantibus et nocentibus from such things as helpe and such things as hurt a most inuincible argument is drawne and concluded Is it not a generall rule with all Physitions to continue the vse of those things which haue manifestly releeued and profited the patient if there be no necessarie exception and to fly and for beare the vse of those which haue hurt or done no good Nature teacheth brute beasts to seeke shadowed and coole places in the heat of sommer because their sense findes ease and refreshing by the shaddow and hurt and annoyance by the parching sunne Apparant it is that my Potable gold did euen miraculously refresh helpe profite and comfort this diseased gentleman of whom this question first grew For his vnderstanding was thereby recouered quietnesse rest and sleepe procured naturall and healthfull sweating caused and the poyson of his disease driuen from the center and heart whereby the pustules and exitures did againe appeare and come forth All arguments and signes of good estate and temper in that disease did appeare as portending a perfect recouerie On the other side whatsoeuer the Medicines administred by these two other Doctors were before or after my comming I know not But most certaine it is that whatsoeuer they gaue or howsoeuer they handled the matter much hurt succeeded euen the greatest mischiefe that may happen to a languishing patient For all the concourse of his former grieuous direfull and mortall symptomaticall accidents returnes with double strength when his heart and vital spirits were not able to resist The striking in againe of the exitures rauing wrestling and which only remained to conclude the tragedie Death it selfe the last of all lines that man can draw and a true line to draw and direct vnderstanding men to the true cause of his death These circumstances compulsarily wrung from me be sufficient for the euidence of this verity to all men that will not maliciously spurne against apparant truth But my traducers doe still spiderlike sucke poyson in stead of hony and force themselues to an vnnaturall vomit of these humors against this medicine truly of gold and truly potable In which bitternesse if they did not still persist against their owne science conscience regard of vertue and veritie wounding many honest hearts with false suggestions against my good name and the innocuous worthinesse of this Medicine and defrauding many poore languishing soules of the vse and benefite thereof I would and surely gladly would for their sakes haue forborne the narration and report of this true storie Which I am by them compelled to publish for my Apologie MIstres Cicely Boulstred a worthie gentlewoman Extreme vomiting and virgine attending in neere seruice our gracious Queene in good fauour and account fell sicke and had greiuous passions Vnto whome diuers of the most famous Physitions of the Colledge were called Who with great care and their vtmost skill sparing no cost as was fitting in such a place administred all kinds of conducing Medicines both Cordials and other respectiuely to the cause of her disease and passions both such as be ready in the shoppes as others by some singularitie of

gold But to ouercome vtterly to suppresse the great aboundance of those humors or matter which caused these fits so often to returne without being perfectly cured I aduised her to take sometimes of my Essence of gold Which when shee had taken shee cast vp a great quantitie of Melancholicke blacke stuffe Since which time she hath neuer beene troubled with any of those passions MAster Iohn Sherington of London Marchant had a sonne about three yeares old long time Obstructions in a childe deiected and weake and had receiued many Medicines against the wormes and other causes which were suspected but to no purpose for he daily grew worse and worse At last therefore hauing taken my Potable golde a few daies he cast vp a great quantity of tough thicke and viscous humors After which the matter of Obstructions being taken away he presently recouered perfect health ALso a yong daughter then borne to this Master A new borne Infant Sherington being sixe moneths old fell dangerously sicke and with the same Medicine was restored THe wife of Mast Coles dwelling in Colmanstreete Plague after the death of her said husband who died of the Plague shee beeing then with childe was also infected And fearing in that case all strong Medicines vsed only my Potable golde and the Essence with vse whereof by Gods grace she recouered her childe saued of which shee was after safely deliuered The husband which tooke other Medicines not this died The wife which refused all other Medicines and tooke only this recouered Notwithstanding the increase of danger by her childbearing Let the due consideration of this one case stop the mouth of malice it selfe and informe the enuious to glorifie God for his great and good gifts bestowed vpon men EDmund Nusum dwelling neere Charing-Crosse fell into a dangerous sicknesse and long time continued therein In this his distresse he sent for a learned Physition of London well knowne who vsed his best skill and endeauours for recouery of this patient But failing in his expectation he tolde the patients wife that she must shortly be a widdow A worthy gentleman their neighbour pitying this case sent his man to me in this sicke mans behalfe I came and found the Apothecarie at the patients dore newly come from him which saluted me with these or the like words You come tooo late there is no good to be done To whome I answered 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 signes nor hopes of life I vndertooke nothing concerning his recouery neither promised so much as hope Yet for a triall I gaue him some of my potable golde and continued that administration all that night once in three houres It pleased God that hee recouered to the great admiration of all men NOt long after the only sonne of the aforesaid Apothecarie whose name was Nathan Darbey 17. yeares of age was likewise taken with a violent burning feuer He had the aduice and counsell not onely of the said Physition before specified but also of many other of the Colledge But the patient grew worse and worse and at length became speechlesse and was as it were vpon the threshold to take death by the hand The father then though in despaire of his sonne yet hauing seene the former effect came hastily vnto me in the Sermon time being then the Sabbath day imploring my aide for his sonnes recouerie if yet it were possible His complaints preuailed I gaue his sonne of these materials iterated by degrees as the case required God blessed the meanes and he recouered MAster William Parkinton gentleman likewise dwelling neere vnto Charing-Crosse and sufficiently well knowne lay dangerously sicke vsing the aduice and helpe of the said before mentioned Physition He neglected no meanes of ordinary course prescribed by Physicke Neuerthelesse the patient found small releefe For the Physition himselfe accounted him a dead man So likewise did his wife and other his friends In this forlorne estate I was called vnto him I only gaue him of the Essence of gold and the Aurum Potabile And that God who doth wound and heale who bringeth vs to the brinke of the graue and raiseth vs vp againe by this meanes as his reuealed ordinance restored him againe vnto perfect health BY these three last instances all dwelling neere vnto one place and almost at one time one Physition being called vnto them all and they all forsaken by him as deplored yet neuerthelesse they all beeing recouered by the only helpe of this Aurum Potabile we must of force acknowledge the same to bee an extraordinary blessing sent from God for releefe of those who haue enioyed the benefit thereof And let no man depraue this Medicine in that it is administred so diuersly It ought rather to be had in greater price The neerer vnto simplicitie the neerer to veritie Also in vaine are many things vsed when one thing preuaileth As in all the course of our life this is true so likewise in administring of Physicke Therfore Damascen saith It were a wicked fact to vse a compound Medicine where a simple profiteth CONCLVSION OF THE SECOND PART BY these euidences and manifold experience sincerely deliuered partly taken and faithfully translated out of Latine letters sent from seuerall parts beyond the seas partly in English verbally set downe as they came to me any reasonable man not seduced by vaine oppositions nor willfully preiudicate nor peruersly malicious may easily iudge that this medicine my Potable gold is the most wholesome safe operatiue medicine which at this day is knowne to be had in vse both for the cure of desperate and hopelesse sicknesses when all helpe of man is accounted vaine And for the wonderfull restoring of the decaied strength and languishing powers of the body with a singular comforting of the heart As also for a Prophylacticke and preseruer of health Which so being the greater is their sinne which contrary to Gods commandement Christian charitie the loue of truth their dutie towards their neighbour and peraduenture their inward testimony of their owne conscience haue so virulently and despitefully inueighed against the true and vncontrollable virtues and effects thereof And in their wast papers of impression haue attempted to shew the power of malicious Rhetoricke thereby to wrong that good which they themselues cannot attaine vnto Whereby so farre as their habilitie and credibilitie could stretch they haue notoriously iniured not me only but all sorts ranks and degrees of people subiect to the vnrespectiue tyranny of sicknesse which maketh no difference betweene the Cottage and Pallace the King and the Peasant The wrong to me is that for my loue and truth workes of charitie good intentions towards all and good deserts of as many as haue made or hereafter shall make vse of the fruites of these my labours they haue rewarded me with that which is vnder my backbiters tongues railing for reuerence