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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

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 inteÌ„t 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

preserued MAster Foxton in Red Crosse streete had his wife Dead birth in the like case and in greater danger by reason of the childe in her body being dead THe like Foetus mortuus or dead birth the wife of Dead birth Master Castle of Hatfield Peuerell in Essex had carried in her body three daies neither could she be deliuered by any helpe vntill shee tooke the Aurum Potabile THe wife of Master Harde dwelling vpon Saint Peters Hill in London was deliuered of a dead Dead birth childe yet neuerthelesse she was still full of intollerable paines Whereupon the wife of M. Fitzgarret Esquire neere dwelling gaue vnto her of my Aurum Potabile the next day after her deliuery of that childe at 9. of the clocke in the morning And the same day at 2. of the clocke in the after noone shee was deliuered of an other dead childe and then presently recouered THe wife of Mast Iohn Bingle of the Exchequer was Perill of Childbirth in her trauell in great peril of death vnto whom a graue gentlewoman there present at her labour gaue of my Aurum Potabile with which helpe both shee and the childe were saued THe Lady and wife of Sir Iohn Pretiman knight Burning feuer in Childbirth being in childe-bed fell into a burning feuer also she could take no rest nor sleepe And other very violent passions she endured She was not willing to take any manner of Medicine Only Aurum Potabile shee tooke and was quickly restored to health THe wife of Mast Edmund Kingstone of Glocester Burning feuer and bloody flux in Child-bed shire being in childe-bed had a burning feuer and with it a bloody flux She was throughly cured by the same meanes which the Lady Pretiman vsed AN other gentlewoman of the same Countie Feuer and scouring in Childbed the wife of Christopher Blackewell was by the same meanes cured of a feuer with an excessiue scouring lying in childbed THe wife of Master Iohn Sherington of London Preseruation of Aborte Marchant being with childe had many passions and euident causes to make her feare abortion or miscarrying Beeing therefore aduised thereunto she tooke of my Aurum Potabile daily a proportionable quantitie and went out her full time receiued Gods blessing in the safe deliuery of a faire childe Whereby it appeareth that this Medicine hath diuers vertues and faculties As in case both to promote the birth where it is stayed be the birth aliue or dead as also to stay and preuent abortion of miscarrying vnto the full time and periode of the naturall birth which in the power of the Medicine is but one That is the onely comforting strenghtning and enabling of nature to promote and performe her owne actions which way soeuer is most fit for the safety health of the body as in other cases before hath beene obserued And not only profitable to each mother in all those former causes but to the infant also as shall appeare by one Relation which here followeth THe wife of Master Richard Browne Esquire Perill in Childbirth dwelling in the Blacke fryers was long in labour of childbirth and in great danger notwithstanding she had two midwiues with her A certaine gentlewoman and neighbour being then present perswaded to send for some of my Aurum Potabile and to giue it her One Midwife said she had better meanes to giue her But when all meanes fayled and small hope of life remained then was my Aurum Potabile sent for And after it was twice administred vnto her she was safe deliuered of a liuing and well liking childe God be praised The next day following The new borne Infant in danger the same gentlewoman and neighbour came to visite the mother and childe finding the childe in the Midwiues lap not well but languishing and ill The Midwife desired of this gentlewoman some of the Aurum Potabile for to giue the childe It was then asked whether she who had denied it vnto the mother the former day would now giue it vnto so yong an infant The Midwife answered that hauing seene the admirable effect thereof the day before she doubted not of successe in the childe She gaue it therefore vnto the childe mixed with breastmilke and the childe presently amended If therefore such yong infants which skantly haue seene the light of the Sun and haue brought from the mothers wombe their infirmities and not taken them by misdiet or misorder doe finde releefe by this Medicine as also women in their conception and in time of their deliuerie and afterwards lying in childbed as is euidently set downe in particularitie Euen in this only case it meriteth that account that no Lady or gentlewoman of accompt should at any time bee vnfurnished thereof for the benefit of themselues and their infants in case of necessitie seeing that no Medicine is more powerfull more secure more pleasing to take SIr Lewis Lewknar knight in the yeare of our Lord 1611 fell dangerously sicke with a coÌ„tinuall burniÌ„g The Plague or Pestilence feuer vehement passions He sent for two famous Physitions of the Citie of London which followed and plyed him sixe daies with al the conducible remedies they could deuise but without any successe For they neither eased his passions nor abated the burning heate and furie of the feuer So that the patieÌ„t euery day waxed worse worse at the last an Aposteme appeared in his groyne a true token in such a disease of a pestilent and contagious infection which at that time though not since was very hot in London Thereupon these Doctors excused themselues in that they were tied to the attendance of diuerse noble persons whom they were loth to infect And therefore were compelled to bid him farewell And accordingly left this worthy gentleman to wrestle with this disease for the cure of which they were waged and by conscience thereunto tyed and his trust in them was reposed They hauing thus taken their leaues I was sent for not knowing the disease which could not long hide it selfe hauing such manifest tokens Yet I thought it against both charity and honestie now being with him to forsake him And therefore resolued by the grace of God with some powerfull and strong Antidote to expell the poyson from his heart and afterwards to proceede for his further recouery as occasion should be ministred To which purpose I first gaue him sixe graines of my Essence of gold mixed appropriatly After which in a small time he began to sweate which continued all that night and a great part of the next day The next night and so euery day for 4. daies more I gaue againe the same Medicine in the same quantity which caused abundant sweating whereby both the malignitie of the feuer and the vnnaturall heate was exceedingly abated the Aposteme which was risen very great did daily decrease and at last quite vanished only with a certaine sticticke plaster outwardly applied Thus he was cured

in Bow lane for the space of many Moneths languished of a quartaine feuer In which time by prescript of learned Physitions he had taken so many Medicines that he vtterly abhorred all vsuall Physicke When he was informed by some of his well wishing friends that my Aurum Potabile was very Cordiall effectuall in operation and not loathsome or vnpleasing to take he was resolued to make vse thereof although he had resolued neuer to vse any more Physicke But being disswaded by some of his Physitions my professed aduersaries he refrained the space of some weekes vntill meere necessitie by reason of his still continuing quartane and his strength daily abating enforced him to send for me I ministred vnto him at returne of his next fit a small quantitie of my Aurum Potabile with 2. graines of the Essence of golde which gaue him such contentment during the time of his fit that his feuer was much more tollerable then formerly it had beene and himselfe in farre better vigor after his fit TheÌ„ did he much admire what reason his Physitions could alleadge for the disabling of that Medicine To conclude in very few fittes this Medicine cleared him of his feuer it brought him to quiet rest restored him to appetite and brought him to good habilitie and strength of body And vntill this time it is and hath beene a continuall releefe vnto him whensoeuer hee findeth himselfe inclining to any manner of debilitie or sicknesse AS in this case so haue they dealt with diuers of the Nobility of this land honourable personages who in extremity of their sickenesse hauing first vsed and that fruitlesly all the course of Physicke which their Physitions in Art could aduise them haue desired the helpe of my Aurum Potabile But haue beene diuerted by malicious cauillations of those who rather desire their owne lucre and gaine then the life of their patients Neuerthelesse some of the right Honourable not beeing daunted by their terrifyings more fit for children and babes then for men and women of vnderstanding haue made happie vse thereof both in Court and Citie although for causes conuenient it is not publikely diuulged and yet peraduenture not vtterly silenced But time in his due time will bring the truth to light MAster Mathew Dale Iustice of Peace Iudge in Gilde Hall 76. yeares of age hath sundry times beene troubled with an infirmitie incident to age that is want of Retention of his vrine Whereby sometimes in the night season he hath bin inforced more then twenty times to make water whereby his naturall rest which should haue sustained nature was taken from him and consequently his stomacke failed his strength abated Vpon the vse of Aurum Potabile these extremities were abated and he continued vntill the end of his daies in good state of body answerable vnto his yeeres THe wife of Master Mathew Dale 70. yeares of Consumption of the Lungs age hauing an infirmitie of the Lungs altogether vncurable was neuerthelesse preserued in good state of body many yeares with helpe of this Aurum Potabile SIr William Hericke Knight had by his Lady two Falling â—â—â—â—nesse daughters the one after the other Each of them being 20. weekes of age was taken with the Epilepsie or falling sicknes and died of that disease After them he had by his said wife a third daughter then did they change their Nurse suspecting that some defect might be in the Nurses milke When this daughter came to the age of 16. weeks the Epileptical fits began to possesse this infant and daily the fits increased vntill the disease came to the height Then was the Nurse child sent for hither to London hauiÌ„g heard that I had cured some in the like infirmity The father vsed my help in this case It pleased God that with the helpe of my Aurum potabile and Essence of gold with some helpes giuen to the nurse I perfectly cured that Child of this dangerous infirmitie This was done in the spring time Then I aduised the Lady that the like should be done at next fall of the leafe But that being neglected the child vpon the feast day of All-Saints next following fell into the same disease againe which I likewise cured the second time Since this time being now foure yeeres past this child neuer had fit praised be God IN like manner and of the same infirmitie a Sonne Falling sicknesse of Sir George Wright Knight being a yeare old was cured by me and many others whereof some shall be mentioned in this treatise hereafter IOhn Vnet belonging to the right honourable Sir Speech and sense lost Henry Hubbard Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas 40. yeeres of age or thereabout after long sicknesse was at the last brought to that debilitie and weaknesse that he lay depriued of speech and sense The bell tolled for him The seruants of the house had taken their leaue of him no hope of life remained Being in this manner at point of death some of my Aurum potabile was put into his mouth by which he was brought againe to speech to sense and lastly restored to perfect health being formerly by iudgment of all ordained for death Of this case Raymund Lully in his booke of the Quintessence writeth in this manner We terme them dead men not those which absolutely are dead but those of whom by the opinion of Physitions there is vtter despaire so that they are forsaken by all Physitions and the actions of life haue relinquished them and be depriued of sense If such like men saith he reputed thus dead men shall recouer life and health by a Quintessence then may they iustly be said to be reuiued from death IN like manner was there an other whose name is Speech and sence lost Robert Brodbottome a Citizen 60. yeares of age neighbour vnto Sir Lewis Lewknar then dwelling in Aldersgate streete being likewise at deaths doore the bell hauing tolled for him the space of three houres The said Knight when he vnderstood that it tolled for his neighbour whom he well loued sent him of my Aurum potabile willing the wife of the said patient by any possible meanes to put the same into his mouth Which being done he shortly after fell into a sleepe sweating in his sleepe after his awaking his sense and speech returned and himselfe recouered health and yet is liuing THe daughter and heire of Sir Walter Coape knight now Lady and wife of Sir Henry Rich knight being then dangerously sicke of the small Pocks whereof Small poxe many worthy Knights Ladies and gentlewomen haue miscaried of late was presently releeued by vse of my Aurum potabile and the small Pocks expulsed plentifully IN the small Pocks also and likewise in the measels diuers haue beene recouered whose only names I record and none haue miscaried to my knowledge which in due time haue embraced the benefite of this medicine The Lady and wife of Sir Richard Ogle knight A

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

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