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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

against your comming into Hampshire which is shortly expected I take leaue resting Your assured friend to my power Antho. Langford Secretary to my Lord Bishop of Winchester BISHOPS WATHAM THE last of Nouember 1612. GOod Sir although it be vnusuall with me to offer exchange of words to strangers yet since the heauenly prouidence hath designed a part of noble skill wherein I vnderstand you are singular to be some meanes of healthfull vse vnto me I should hold it a iust forfeit of my recouered estate if I should silēce any thing that appertaineth to the effecting it I therefore cannot choose but tell you how much I am bound to my Honourable good Lord of Winchester who first of his good fauour vouchsafed me of your Aurum potabile so well agreeing with my diseased body as that I shall become a Customer vnto you for more of it I find it very milde aboue all other Physicke in operation causing a temperate sweat and much allaying the violence of the offending humors How highly I doe prize it this my letter shall be hostage desiring him from whose vnsearchable power the vertue comes to blesse you for it to whose further grace I leaue you and rest Your assured friend Lucy Ieruice wife vnto Sir Tho. Ieruice knight I Was sicke of an ague some seuen night or there abouts A malignant burning feuer thē I had two such fits as I all that did see me thought I could not haue escaped death Then I dranke a spoonfull of Aurum potabile in the middle of mine extreame burning and within a quarter of one houre after the extreame paine in my stomacke ceased and I felt my selfe very well Only the heat remained with me about one houre which paine of the stomacke was wont to hold me 3. or 4. houres in the former fits The next day that my Ague should come it came not all the day vntill supper time And sitting at supper it came very terribly vpon me so that I was driuen to go to bed I was extremely sick Then I called for a spoonfull of Aurum potabile and it wrought with me as it did before I did also sweat some three houres and so I thanke God he tooke his farewell SIr the Disease of my Sonne was in this manner A long continuing quotidian with a vomiting It tooke him once in 24. houres with a colde shiuering in the likenesse of an Ague Which colde helde him but a short time Afterward he fell into an extreame heate with a vomiting which continued about 3. or 4. houres In this manner he was daily perplexed the space of a Moneth or fiue weekes before he tooke the Aurum Potabile Which at the first taking being at the beginning of his cold stayed his vomiting and his fit was not so extreme as it had beene before And in this manner he tooke it 3. or 4. fits immediately one after another about the quantitie of a spoonful or somewhat lesse and still his fits did lesson and decay and lastly left him altogether Durlay Ianuary 10. 1612. Francis Fortescue A BRIEFE COLLECTION AND RELATION OF THOSE FEW AMONGST MANY THAT HAVE TAKEN AVRVM POTABILE IN THIS COVNTY of SOVTHAMPTON truly related concerning the effect thereof deliuered from their owne mouthes vnto me Anthony Langford THomas Wheeler of Waltham husbandman aged 67. yeares continued sicke the space of one moneth of a new disease very common at that time whereof many died This man likewise was in so great perill of death An aged man at point of death that the bell tolled for him and he was prayed for in the Church In this his desperate case a spoonfull of Aurum Potabile was giuen vnto him by which he felt some present releefe and fell into a gentle Sweat for an houre or twaine Then taking one other spoonfull he slept quietly the space of an houre After that a third spoonfull by which he had a vomit of a great quantity of slymie humors And by sensible degrees he recouered health praised be God and is yet lyuing being of great yeares EDmund Laurence of Bishops Waltham gentleman A continuall burning feuer aged 36. yeares was perplexed with a burning feuer continuing two daies and two nights without intermission he onely tooke one spoonful or rather lesse in quantity of the Aurum Potabile and by degrees he soone returned into his former temper and health againe GIles Ethericke Yeoman of the same place 40. A continuall and sharp burning feuer yeares of age had a continuall and sharpe burning feuer eight daies and nights In all which time he could take no rest he tooke two spoonfuls of Aurum Potabile and slept quietly the space of two houres the same night The next day towards euening taking the like quantitie he slept the whole night quietly and recouered perfect health VVIlliam Hilles of Waltham aforesaid Yeoman A quotidian aged 55. yeares hauing had fiue fits of a quotidian and beeing entred into the sixt he tooke a spoonfull of Aurum Potabile which put him out of his colde fit and made him sweat and then taking as much more it gaue him a good vomit and 2. or 3. stooles and thereupon shortly after hee slept quietly and recouered his stomacke which both had failed him the former 5. daies and since he hath beene well IOhn Walter of the same 40. yeares of age hauing A tertian feuer had 4. fits of a Tertian and the fift fit being vpon him he tooke a good spoonfull of Aurum Potabile Whereupon within one houre after his fit left him and neuer troubled him since The said Iohn Walter hauing 2. spoonfuls of Aurum Potabile left after he himselfe was cured he gaue the same vnto a maide in Hambleton of 14. yeares who A tertian had languished of a tertian feuer a quarter of a yeare before and thereby was cured and had no more fits HEnry Hindle of Waltham 47. yeares aged for A continuall feuer with vomiting the space of fiue daies continually had a feuer without intermission He could not retaine any thing in all that time that he did either eate or drinke After the fift day he tooke a spoonfull of the Aurum Potabile which he did not cast vp as his other nutriments but digested it and it put him into a sweat that continued about 4. houres Then againe he tooke as much more and did sweat 3. houres more After that he arose and being vp he did vomit a pint of thicke viscous flegme Then after the space of two houres he did eate of a peece of veale which he retained and digested And the next day went abroad and in short time recouered his former health which he inioyeth now IOhn Cole of Waltham Mercer 43. yeares aged A Passion of the heart was grieued with an extreame paine at his heart so that for the space of three daies he could neither take foode nor rest and was growne so weake that euery man doubted his

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

reproch for my good deeds and slander for a recompence But the wrong done to others hath many branches and searcheth to the seate of greatest honour For though I dare not say that it should haue beene otherwise by the administring hereof the length and number of all daies being in Gods hand yet to shew their warme charitie against all things not in their owne Apothekes they would not suffer our late yong Prince worthy of immortall memorie to vse this so famously and aboue all exceptions approued medicine notwithstanding in the vse of all other they found not so much as any hope In a desperate case and a prognosticated life all rules both of learning and charitie allow yea and require the attempt of any meanes not noted of ill suspicion Much more so publikely and manifoldly testified for the admirable good effects which it had wrought in diuers persons But that Rubricke Propter dignitatem personae c. Giue ordinary medicines to great persós to preserue the honour of the Physition that he hath done no hurt scilicet though he did no good is neither Prophylacticke nor Therapeuticke We say in English As good neuer a whit as neuer the better And such is their pious affection towards all others whom it may concerne that whatsoeuer happen none of them will make vse of this my potable gold which though not properly yet emphatically may be called a diuine Medicine and certainly with more merit then their Gratia Dei Manus Christi Benedicta Medicamenta Diuinum Medicamentum though it would saue a thousand liues Esteeming as it seemeth that good which is so done without the Seplasiasticke preparations to be their dishonor and delinement Let all be soberly vsed but where greatest need is the best and most powerfull chosen But the searcher and iudge of all hearts will recompence according to merit to them as to enemies of truth And to the sincere louers thereof acknowledging Gods mercies shewed in the administration of his owne guifts their guerdon which is the testimony of a good conscience If we looke backe vnto the actions of certaine Physitions of old time euen before the age of Galen and the admirable medicines of some of them we shall find not impertinent to our purpose that of great Alexander King of Macedon He as Quintus Curtius in his third booke reporteth in the extremitie of a most dangerous and violent disease desiring either present helpe or death that he might hold his appointed day of battell with Darius King of Persia for that purpose consulted with his friends and counsellors what remedy might be found in this desperate case The King disliked al ordinary medicines as too weake for his purpose The Physitions would allow none such as they called vnknowne One Physition among the rest named Philip being borne in the country Acarnania a part of Greece offered Alexander to make him a medicine very safe to be taken which should speedily restore him to health though the other Physitions knew not what it was Parmenio a great Counsellour and fauorite of Alexanders disswaded his King from this medicine for he was vnwilling the King should recouer as the sequell shewed and laboured to perswade him that this Philip the Physition was hired by Darius for 1000. talents to poyson him Yet Alexander tooke that Physicke and finding the effect answerable to his promise after his health so suddenly and beyond expectation recouered did afterwards among other accusations lay this for one against Parmenio as not wishing him well which altogether made vp that Iudgment which brought him to his end And very honorablie both rewarded and regarded Philip to whom next vnder God be attributed and acknowledged the preseruation of his life The working of that medicine in the same place is described not vnlike to this of mine In this manner Vt vero Medicamentum c. So soone as the Medicine diffused or spred it selfe into the veines there might leisurely by little and little recouery and healthfulnesse be perceiued in all the body First the spirits and heart recouered their vigor and after the body also sooner then could be beleeued For Alexander after he had beene in this case three daies shewed himselfe to his Armie which did not more ardently or affectionatly fixe their eyes vpon Alexander then vpon Philip who had so vnexpectedly restored him to them Euery one striuing who should first giue him their right hand embrace and thanke him Thus much Curtius Semblably it is sufficiently prooued and famously manifest that very many great Noble and Honourable personages both men and women sicke either as Alexander was or taken with other more dangerous and violent diseases forsaken by all other Physitions as vncurable haue beene by the vse of this Medicine through Gods grace in very short time recouered and restored to their perfect health Therefore vnto you worthy and Honourable gentlemen who as you are the Inheritors of Nobilitie so are you of gentle and noble dispositions to you I say I turne my selfe resting assured that you esteeme these calumniating bablers to haue said nothing reall materiall and veritable against me howsoeuer they haue mooued their tongues and quills They intend not in this case your health but my dammage and would rather you were offered a silent sacrifice in eternall sleepe then strike one saile or vnlace one bonet blowen with the winde of their malicious breath or leese the price of a popular Recipe for a Benedict Medicament although it doe no good shall doe no harme Propter honestatem Medici that is for the reputation of the Doctor though euery day almost doe giue miserable experience that by want of doing good the mischiefe increaseth and so with the reputation of the Doctor the poore patient is lodged in his grauesend which is harme enough and the worst of a maledict Medicine Therefore as I desire so I iustly hope that you will discerne betweene a blacke and a white falshood and truth light and darknesse That you will patronise defend and keepe from oppression both me and the truth If there be any doubt concerning the auouchment of the cures and good effects of this my potable gold here spoken of you haue the reports the particular names and places and many of their owne hand writings I keepe ready at all times to be shewed for your further contentments And I am verily perswaded that all honest persons which haue beene recouered from their diseases and infirmities by the good vse of this my potable gold will be so thankfull to God for that benefit as to acknowledge the meanes of their recouery and not imitate those silent 9. Pharises clensed from their Leprosie by our Sauiour which is little lesse if not equiualent then against their owne knowledge and conscience to deny Of them you may know and be satisfied that it hath done good to all hurt to none That it is a safe powerfull and pleasing Medicine euen a Prince amongst all analogising with principalitie in