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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

be yet this subiect of mine this my potable gold hath not either the true or neere preparation of that so renowned and famously mentioned Medicine powerfull and auaileable in all diseases that may happen to men I will applie my selfe to their satisfaction My answer shall be breefe and of two sorts First by Reason secondly by manifest and cleere demonstration of effects of manifold experiments and witnesses beyond exception which be the maine pillers onely necessary substructions of all knowledg in matter controuertible amongst men Concerning the proofes of reason I haue sufficiently satisfied that point in my other booke in the fourth fift and sixt chapters Yet further I pray consider here with me that there bee many pathes leading to the same Towne and many waies to one and the same end Some in their endeauours and pursuite for the attaining of a vniuersall Medicine labour in Minerals and those Mettals which respectiuely bee called and are vnperfect Some in Salts some in vegetables some in the Animall kinde euery one dittying the sound of the bell answerable to his owne tune Let each of them therefore follow the Issue of his owne labors I force not against them But freely professe that in the perswasion of those reasons which haue lead mee I resolutely set downe my rest for this scrutinie in naturall gold and therein haue employed my Industry with what successe and happie Issue I appeale to the most certaine true and vncontrollable Iudge and Doctresse which is experience The centonary Fropperies of Alphabetarias of Aurum non Aurum shall nothing abate the vindicting of this constant truth that by my preparation Aurum non Aurum gold hath beene so altered in and from the compacture and soliditie of his primitiue body and in that respect it may bee called and truly is non Aurum not gold but destroyed concerning the grosse body and altered into a subtile penetrant and volatile nature and so exalted into the full actiuitie of a most precious Medicine with all the powerfull explications of healthfull and helpfull mysteries which nature hath sealed in that body and left to the industrious labour of man to vnfold For gold is the Embleme of a magnificent and most princely Pallace drawing the beholders of his naturall luster to search what excellent Iewels bee contained within that outward wall of so rich promises Which though they be many and admirable yet few attaine to the fruition thereof because by externe apparences they ayme at the latent and hidden vertues neither doe they know the right key to vnlock that rich Cabinet And although I cannot sufficiently declare nor prize all the faculties which be respectiuely innumerable of this bountifull treasury yet I may and doe confidently acknowledge and professe that I haue found in vse practise very many of great worth which as in themselues for the vse of men they be of great worth and estimation so for them man is reciprocally bound both to ackwowledg thankfully embrace as Gods large blessing who commandeth vs to knock at these gates of Nature that they may be opened vnto vs that so we may finde and enioy the treasures locked therein What man amongst thousand hath found out and perfected the like magisteriall secret Who is he among many that hath not tyred his teeth in the hard shell neuer inabled by cracking it to come to the sweet kernell in which dwelleth this mellite and gentle liquor of gold But I will leaue this digression and returne to the intended end There is no question but that a Medicine made of 1. Reason naturall gold dissolued without things corrosiue and brought into a substance in forme like hony and Medicinable potable and disperseable into any liquor is both excellent and iustly to be reputed potable gold But this Medicine of mine made and consisting in it selfe of gold is such as I haue before prooued and shall further hereafter proue therefore it is and ought to be acknowledged for true potable gold The proposition needeth none other proofe then the consent of all famous writers of and vpon potable gold The Assumption whereupon the Inference and Conclusion dependeth is prooued in my first published booke as also out of manifest demonstration not priuate to my selfe but publike in the sight of many not onely once done but sundry times iterated in which proceedings the demonstratiue tokens mentioned in Art are apparent the Instrumentall water which was in the forme of common water before it was put vpon the gold in few daies becommeth tincted with a deepe and ruddy colour also when the Instrumentall water so tincted shall be distilled away the solution of gold remaineth in forme of hony as by Philosophers is specified In the whole magisterie Art or processe I haue not kept any thing secret sauing the Instrumentall water as Raymund testifieth But some will say If this be that true Potable gold why do you make it common to others Good Sirs forsooth I answer because it is such therefore I make it common concerning the vse Which being profitable to all challengeth the right and law of nature and charitie to be communicated to al. But that other great secret of the Philosopher not communicable to others is onely profitable to the Author himself And therfore let not this be the lesse precious in it selfe because innumerable men receiue health and comfort thereby The sunne giueth visible light to the whole world Is it therefore an inferiour Planet vnto Mercury which seldome appeares in the sight of men Againe That Medicine which really performeth 2. Reason the true and proper vnquestioned effects of Aurum potabile being essentially made of the said subiect ought and needes must be accounted true potable gold But this Medicine of mine hath produced the notable effects only proper to potable gold Therfore it must needes be the same An affirmatiue argument from the effect to the cause is good and strong as likewise from the cause to the effect In the holy Scriptures a Prophet shall be iudged great by his great workes As Elias Elisa and the Apostles raised the dead as our Sauiour Christ did It being proper only to the power of God whose doctrine they as forerunners these as succeeders preached in one verity and the same diuine gift The Analogie and proportionall deduction of Inference is a like true in Arts and Sciences and in all workes both of Nature and Art whether singular or conioyned So our Potable gold brought from the potentialitie of natures lock vnto the actiuitie which artificiall opening exciteth and manifesteth is knowne by his owne proper and inseparable efficacies and effects largely affirmed in my other booke The Assumption of this Argument drawing the conclusion I will further heereafter by examples confirme The third Reason may be taken from the extraordinarie 3. Reason and wonderfull manner of working in the nature and resolution of gold whereby it is brought from fixation to volatility and so made potable

experimentally found be vnited and naturally inclosed Secondly whereas the originall of most diseases 2 The second reason springeth from that which the Physitions call Intemperies that is a distemperature being especially in the first qualities hot cold moist or drie there is no reason to the contrary but that one Medicine being without excesse or defect in equall harmonie of all qualities most temperate and also powerfull in operation may bee sufficient for the collection qualifying and rectifying of all and euery such distemper Such a like body is gold which notwithstanding it be compounded of the foure Elements yet is this in prerogatiue aboue all other naturall bodies endowed with an exact temperament and equalitie of the compounding Elements and Elementall qualities Euery one to the other three and all foure to and among themselues by exact naturall equalitie and perfect mixture are so compounded to the perfection of this body that it constantly persisteth in the fire without diminution From this proportionall mixture of Elements resulteth a temperament of supreme mediocritie whereupon that our learned and famous countryman Roger Bacon calleth Gold the meane betweene the foure first qualities Seeing therefore by Gods gift in the creation it consisteth of so true an adequation and subtile temperament this must needs appeare and shew it selfe operatiuely in consequent effects vpon those first qualities and be powerfull against all distemperatures whether hot or cold moyst or dry or any their combinations First allaying and bridling any excesse therein and so by degrees and succession ouercomming the whole discord and restoring mediocritie of temperament betweene all So that the generall Axiome or Rule of great Hippocrates is here magnified That Diseases are cured by Medicines contrarie to themselues For the meane betwixt two extremes is no lesse contrarie to both and either of them then one extreme to an other and more powerfull in reduction by how much it is more habituall and fixed in the vnspotted mediocritie and equalitie Let this be vnderstood of gold dissolued and made potable otherwise it is not operatiue vpon those distempered qualities in one kinde or other The third Reason concerneth the temper of the bodie to bee cured Death saith Galen doth alwaies 3 The third reason follow the vnmeasurable or excessiue distemperatures of the Heart So likewise doe Diseases For all parts of the bodie languish with the Heart Let vs therefore consider a little the Emperie of the Heart in mans bodie how by his owne heate and vitall spirit it raigneth ouer and in all parts of the bodie Let vs also take into consideration the distemperature of other parts making impression vpon the Heart and so are causes of languishment and death VVhich beeing on either side certaine then it must also bee true that if golde administred doe restore integritie of temperament to the Heart the other parts and members of the bodie shall also receiue comfort strength restauration and finally life to the whole bodie VVherefore the first office of euerie good Physition is to haue speciall regarde to maintaine and vphold the spirituall functions of his diseased patient which all haue their originall from the heart For if he suffer them to quaile and ouer much to bee deiected all Cordialls will then come vnseasonably That admonition is iust and necessarie First strengthen and comfort the Heart then apply for the Disease if neede be for oft times the Heart being well corroborated the Disease imminent vanisheth But some will aske how gold so hard solide and compact and therefore indigestable by any strength of mans stomacke can passe from thence to the heart and strengthen comfort rectifie and restore it conconsidering that these and such like faculties come to it by the plentie of pure cleere and subtill spirits of the blood which cannot be made of any thing not digested both in the Stomack and Lyuer and therefore not of gold In answer whereof I say that long and daily obseruation hath confirmed that many things naturally are effected by the hidden and specificall properties of some things whereof no vnderstanding of man can giue a certaine and vndisputable manifest cause or reason We see the affinitie of natures betweene Iron and the Lode-stone and the pointing of this to the North Pole Of which kinde there be infinite exemplarie instances Neither doe the most learned Physitions and best Philosophers so well agree vpon the reasons of those Purging Medicines which they call Electiue as appropriate specially to one humour and diuers others to some speciall part of the bodie yea and to some speciall diseases but that a great part of them doe flie to these hidden and specificall properties some in the same some in other termes In which ranke if wee marshall gold what Lieuetenant will chide He certainly must be some ouerweening man that will question these noble vertues of gold that hath read so many notable and famous Authors for that affirmatiue assertion part whereof I haue cited in my other booke being but one Rank of a whole Armie Here I will only trouble the Reader with a few lines out of that famous Physition and excellent Philosopher Arnald Gold altereth the euill condition of mans body clenseth and reneweth it The vertue of many things may come neere the particulars of the operation hereof but no one performe it all But potable gold alone is it which worketh these miraculous effects this is not subiect to corruption but is agreeable to the Complexion and temperament of man It doth neither heate nor coole nor moysten nor dry but is temperate in all temperature and exceedeth all things in durabilitie It helpeth a cold stomacke and giueth courage to Cowards and fearefull hearts It helpeth the passions of the Heart It is good against Melancholy It comforteth naturall heate and tempereth the same neither may any thing be compared to it or supply the stead thereof The vertue thereof is manifest in the substance of it It clenseth and clarifieth by reason of the naturall heate it hath It giueth high and supreame temperament aboue all other things by reason of the great temperament of it selfe and beeing it selfe most durable it causeth continuance and durabilitie according to naturall possibility in other things and preserueth mans body And because it is like to the Complexion of mens bodie therefore if it be prepared as it ought it will ioyne and incorporate thereunto But all the secret is in the preparation of it which the wise Philosophers haue concealed It confirmeth and keepeth sound the substance of the Heart and preserueth it and clarifieth the substance of the spirits and sendeth good blood to the skin and with a light and easie abstersion preserueth beauty as in youth Thus he writeth as also in other places of this Author you may reade many admirable effects and vertues of gold both solide and potable How gold is so powerfull a Cordiall and so generall a Medicine is held a very difficult question to finde the cause

Art prepared Her passions still continued if not encreased Continuall vomiting and reiection of whatsoeuer she tooke meate drink medicines with swoundings torture torments of euery part of her body A miserable and pitifull spectacle much lamented of many very honourable persons Shee could not rest nor sleepe night nor day So that sinking vnder the burden of this affliction with the violence and continuance thereof her strength vtterly failed Shee could not retaine so much as one drop of any broth or other nourishment Her Stomacke by coniecture of all Physitions was drawen together and shut vp without any power or faculty to performe the offices of nature In this miserable estate this distressed gentlewoman languished two whole monthes without any ease or releefe by the vse of any the Medicines giuen her by the aduise of the said Physitions all things tending to a more desperate and Immedicable estate Whereupon the mother of this gentlewoman demanded of these said Doctors whether they had any hope to giue helpe or at least wise ease to her daughter else she said she would send for Doctor Anthony Those Doctors hereupon limited themselues to a certaine time which they spent in their vttermost habilities to perform to the intēt I shold not be called To which purpose they commanded an Apothecary to attend in the Chamber of the patient all the next day and night and euery third houre to giue her a Cordiall Then voluntarily they said to the mother Send for Doct. Anthony if you will and God send him good successe with your daughter Then was I sent for and finding this gentlewoman in so desperate a case left and giuen ouer by all the Doctors of the Colledge as not to be recouered for besides the aduise of these Six there had beene publike consultations in the Colledge as is requisite in such like cases which sildome come in vse I desired God to blesse my endeauours and to continue his blessings in the administration of this my happy medicine After a small time vpon due and mature consideration of all things I gaue her at the first not a whole spoonfull of my Aurum potabile as in other cases but much lesse scarce a quarter so much which she cast vp againe with a vehement force and torture of her body A little while after I gaue her as much more which she cast vp in the same manner as she did the first Againe I gaue it the third time some part of which shee also cast vp but kept some with a kind of strife or conflict betweene the medicine and the maladie Then I aduised that she should not further be troubled for a season but to try if shee could now take a little rest or sleepe So she disposed her selfe thereunto and slept soundly a whole houre which diuers of great account then present can witnesse For she snored that we all heard Which seemed strange to all considering for a long time before shee had taken no rest When she waked she said that she found her selfe somewhat better at ease Then which was the fourth time I gaue her halfe a spoonful which she kept without any contending or trouble to her body This gaue me and many worthy gentlewomen there present great hope of a good recouerie Wherein God be praised we were not deceiued For in all the other administring of this Medicine orderly as she was able to beare increasing the quantitie her spirits were releeued she daily recouered strength all the passions symptomes and accidents of her diseases ceased her sicknesse fully left her and she recouered perfect health Thus with the vse of this happy Medicine this gentlewoman was recouered and cured of that dangerous disease wherein those other Doctors had wearied themselues and forsaken her at which her friends wondred mine reioyced and other malicious aduersaries fretted for which God be praised If they will call these the effects of Iugling and of a corrosiue Medicine they will hardly finde any Cordiall amongst all their Dispensatories and Magistrall prescriptions The cause and effect are Essentiall Relatiues THe Lady and wife of Sir Francis Leake Knight Continuall vomiting and destillation of Reume continuing many moneths being now conceiued of her first childe was fallen into many infirmities Shee had a continuall and abundant slux at her mouth caused by collection of phlegmaticke and pituitous humors Also a continuall vomiting and casting euer after any food taken Her flux ceased not neither day nor night She was brought to that weaknes leannesse in her body that al her friends thought she was in a consumption During the time of this sicknes which was fiue moneths she vsed many medicines in hope of remedy but found none And therefore iustly feared eyther miscarying her trauell or the losse of her owne life Whereupon by the perswasion of some friends which knew right well the efficacie of my Potable gold she tooke therof the third month before the time of her deliuery and at seuerall times continued the vse of it By which meanes her vomiting flux of spitting ceased she recouered strength and good habit and all the rest of the time of her childe bearing continued in very good health and disposition And in due time was deliuered of a faire and strong Sonne which is yet liuing THe Lady and wife of Sir Edward Barret knight Perill in childbirth and sister to the forenamed Lady being in trauell of childbirth in such hazard and extremities of hard labour that both her Midwiues all other there present despaired both of safety and life of mother and child by counsell of a great Ladie then in my chamber tooke of my Potable gold and beyond the expectation of them all was presently deliuered of a child in good liking But the after burden stayed which in that weakenesse made them feare the like danger Therefore they gaue her the same Medicine againe by which the after burden followed she recouered and did well THis Medicine hath likewise bin happy and succesfull to very many others Weomen in like cases euen after the childe hath beene dead in their bodies and they giuen ouer in their last extremities So that it is scarse possible to finde any Medicine to match this in such cases whereof I will set downe a few examples THe wife of Ioseph Pemberton Haberdasher of Ipswich Childbirth in the Countie of Suffolke was deliuered by meanes of this Potable gold being in great extremitie and danger by reason of her hard labour THe wife of Master Oratio Paluasino was recouered Childbirth by the same Medicine beeing in great danger through hard labour in childe-birth IN like manner was the wife of Thomas Blackeborne Childbirth Citizen of London when she had beene two daies in labour safely deliuered by this helpe THe wife of Nicholas Colman in Great Saint Bartholmewes Childbirth was euen at the point of Death and vpon the taking of this Aurum Potabile was presently deliuered and her life

gentle woman belonging to the Lady and wife of Sir Edward Barret knight Sir Henry Caries Page Sir Henry Caries daughter of the measels The Sonne and heire of Sir Henry Cary of the small pox A young daughter of Sir Richard Norton knight of the Measels which were striken in and recoiled by cold taking whereby the child was in great danger A Kinswoman of Mistris Browne of Essex widdow A Seruant of Master Marsh Esquire then dwelling in Colman-streete A Maid seruant belonging to Ro. Dixon before mentioned An other maid seruant of Master Iohn Morris Marchant dwelling neere vnto leaden hall An Infant of Mr. Price the Kings seruant DAily experiēce also hath taught vs of late that very many both young and old haue miscaried of the Small Pox euen vnder the hands of the best practised Physitions although the cure of them be accounted no difficult matter vnto whom if this approued Medicine so secure from danger so powerfull in corroborating the Heart and expelling the venemous malignitie of that Disease had beene at hand and had beene administred in due time and forme no doubt but the vertue expulsiue being fortified in the patient and the materiall venenositie subtiliated if not all yet some of them might by this only Medicine haue beene recouered As the vse hereof hath preuented death in many so likewise very many wanting the benefit thereof in the flowre of their age perished which haue vsed purgatiue Medicines whose propertie is to draw malignant humors from the externall parts vnto the center of the body and to the very Heart it selfe I leaue this matter to bee considered of by those whom in like case it may concerne hereafter THe Honorable Lady and widdow Doretie Skot Vomiting of sustenance in old age sometime the wife of Sir Thomas Skot Knight of the age of 78. yeares for the space of many daies could retaine no manner of sustenance but instantly cast vp by vomit whatsoeuer shee receiued Neither could this be stayed by any Medicine ministred vnto her All meanes failing my Aurum Potabile staied this extremitie And after taking thereof shee likewise tooke any manner of other sustenance and retained the same Hereby it may appeare that this one and the same Medicine doth sometime procure vomit when nature would be vnburdened and at other times it suppresseth vomit when nature is so infeebled that it would faine retaine nutriment for sustentation but cannot MAster Napper Esquire dwelling in Oxford 60. yeares of age was long time perplexed with a Vomiting and scooring very strange infirmity He was diuers times taken with an extreme vomiting with a scooring likewise which both continued the space of 2. or 3. daies commonly euery houre without intermission vntill his body was vtterly exhausted Thē he became so feeble and weake that he was inforced to keepe his bed many daies vntill by degrees he recouered some strength againe But when his body began to be repleate then did he fall into his former passions In this manner he continued one whole yeare more He vsed for Remedie the counsell and aduise of Physitions both at Oxford and London When all their meanes auailed not then did he send vnto me for my Aurum Potabile which by the helpe of God preuailed in this case to the great admiration of many THe wife of Master William Wiseman Counsellor at the Law after her safe deliuery in Childbirth was possessed both with a feuer as also with an extraordinary and a dangerous flux tam per Menstrua quàm per sedes Her sleepe also was thereby vtterly taken from her By meanes whereof shee was brought vnto great Imbecillitie and despaire of life In this dangerous case after the fruitlesse helpe of other Physitions she was recouered and perfectly restored with the Essence of my golde in few daies SIr Edward Barret Knight hauing his abode Essex Ague sometime in Essex neere vnto the Marishes a Country much subiect to Agues was two seuerall times possessed with that kinde of feuer And each time he was freed from that feuer by the onely helpe of my Aurum Potabile Many also of his seruants more then ten at one seuerall time haue beene taken with that Country feuer One especially amongst the rest a woman hauing chiefe gouernment ouer the family was so grieuously afflicted therewith that her senses were taken from her and other such like accidents so oppressed her that there remained small hope of life Yet it pleased God that both shee and the rest in short time were recouered although the Agues of those parts doe commonly continue long as also in one part of Kent where many haue beene releeued by my Aurum Potabile after that all other meanes haue failed MAster Doctor Sauage Doctor of the Ciuill Lawes Essex Ague 56. yeares of age lying sicke in Essex of the like feuer sent for me to come downe vnto him Beeing now with him and before I administred any thing vnto him hee was strangely taken with convulsions and Crampes in his hands feete legges face and in all the exterior parts of his body with extreme tortures lamentable to beholde I appeased all these symptomes within the space of one halfe houre with the Essence of my gold which in short time brought him into a Sweat and his Convulsions and Crampes ceased 〈◊〉 feuer also was cured in very short time THe same Doctor Sauage now lately within these two moneths was taken with a malignant feuer a Disease now common in sundry places He was perfectly cured thereof only with the Essence of golde I gaue him thereof three graines before the beginning of his fit dissolued in fiue spoonfuls of Endiue water with a little sugar and the like quantitie in the middest of his hot fit This I did reiterate euery fit vntill the fourth fit In which time he was free from his ague But afterwards he fell into the like feuer againe as also into those former Convulsions which could not by any helpe of Medicine be asswaged vntill he was inforced to send vnto me 17. miles for the Essence of golde which being taken gaue him present releefe admirable vnto them who were eye witnesses of the effect thereof MAster Thomas Drywood of Northokenden in Long languishing sicknesse vpon obstructions the County of Essex 30. yeeres of age by reason of obstructions and other inward causes languished a long time became very leane and so into a consumption Being therewith almost spent my Aurum potabile was present remedy to him and he liueth now in good health THe wife of the said Thomas Drywood by the same Weaknesse after childbirth medicine recouered from a great weaknesse and decaied estate caused by hard labour in childbirth and sicknesse afterwards A Daughter of theirs being about 4. yeeres old Obstruct hauing pined and decaied long time of an vnknowne disease vpon the taking of my Potable Gold vomited vp a great quantity of viscous tough matter and then recouered presently A Young daughter of