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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

hart In malicious and contagious Dysenteries or bloody fluxes In the rising or suffocation of the mother and the falling sicknesse by reason thereof In the Colike In all which diseases after all other helps inward and outward haue failed one dose of this Medicine did effect so much that all these patients after they had taken it as it were in few houres recouered their health I haue also tried it in that disease which is called Melancholia hypocondriaca in English some call it the Melancholie of the gutts but haue not found that effect as in the former Yet it hath comforted the party maruellously From Sleusingen 24. of Febr. 1612. Your euer good friend IAMES MOSAN VVOrshipfull Dr. Anthony you may thinke me either forgetfull or vnthankfull for your manifold curtesies towards me But the truth is I can finde no conuenient meanes as I would how to shew my thankfulnesse and therefore constrained to die your debter Your Aurum Potabile is an admirable Medicine in most Diseases I haue giuen it in the beginning of a Podagricall fit Whereupon the patient fell into a sweat and therewithall his paine ceased and the patient walked againe in short space Also in the bloudy flux I haue vsed it In the falling sicknesse In the superfluous Menstruall flux of women In the wormes of yong children In the Measels and small Pocks Almost in all the Diseases of the Matrice it is a most excellent Remedie Let all them that haue written against it talke idely nothing to the purpose This grant them that they haue read much and write learnedly but nothing to disprooue your Medicine That little experience that I haue made of it and others haue found is sufficient to shew their vanitie So I desire to be commended to you c. From Cassell this 16. of August 1614. Your most louing friend Iames Mosanus BVt that I may the better aduertise declare and satisfie this relation by letters sent vnto me from this said worthy truly learned and vertuously adorned gentleman Iames Mosan Doctor of Physicke and primate Physition in ordinary to the Landsgraue of Hess I thinke it not amisse here to insert that which came from an English gentleman named Alexander Oldfield then beeing in Germany who in the yeare 1613. the 22. of Iuly in certaine letters sent to Sir Richard Norton Knight and by him shewed vnto me amongst other matters writeth thus One thing I had almost forgotten which I intreate your Worship to certifie to my Lord s the Lord Biship of Winchester that being at Hall the 28. of May I met with the Landsgraue of Hessen his Doctor of Physicke which speakes English very well for he proceeded his degrees in Oxford And talking with him about Physicke hee asked whether I knew Doctor Anthony I told him that I had heard of him He told me that his Aurum Potabile was excellent Physicke and the first experience that he had made of it was on a maide of 21. yeares of age which was fore troubled with the falling sicknesse and since that time she was neuer troubled with it being now aboue a yeare past He gaue her one ounce therof at a time and that selfe same day she fell into the passions of that Disease eleuen times as I said before she neuer fel since into them Hee gaue it also to a childe not aboue foure monethes old which was grieuously troubled with that disease and it helpt the childe presently Also he gaue it to one that was troubled with the bloudy flux and was brought so low with it that no man thought he could haue recouered he gaue him one ounce at a time and that but once only and instantly he recouerd and is very well He gaue it also to a woman which was in childe-bed and was exceeding weake with the scouring and nothing could stay it but that Aurum Potabile For as soone as shee tooke that shee recouered This himselfe reporteth and wisheth that he dwelt neere vnto D. Anthony that he might haue I nough thereof as neede required ALEX. OLDFIELD SIr I am perswaded that you admire my long silence which proceedes from no other then sundrie great businesses c. I had occasion to recommend some of your Aurum Potabile which I had for my proper vse to a principall gentleman here in the Emperours Court. By whose meanes I haue bin of late much sent vnto by sundrie principall persons some dangerously sick to impart it vnto them namely the Baron of Cressy who had two sonnes sicke of the small Poxe the Eldest of about 19. and the other of 17. yeares of age The Eldest died without taking any of the Aurum Potabile because they about him thought it was in vaine and that they were both too farre spent The other beeing as dangerously sicke tooke it and is thereupon recouered The father himselfe not being well hath likewise vsed it and doth finde himselfe much comforted and wel againe by it Many more in like manner I haue beene so liberall of my store that it is almost spent Many doe wish I had such quantitie by me that they might haue a good part of it for their money Wherefore send me I pray you a good quantitie of the three sorts with the price therof Send it either by some of our Marchants that are to come to this next Mart at Frankfurth or else by some frind of trust in the company of the Count Palatine or the Lady Elizabeth c. VIENNA THIS THIRD OF Feb. 1612. Stile Brit. Your very assured and louing friend Sr. Steph. Leseiur Knight Embassadour to the Emperour VVOrthy and learned friend I write to you later then I intended because I thought it not fit to deliuer my opinion before manifold experience made in a matter of such worth and consequence Experimentū fallax as our great master Hippocrates teacheth But now I will breefely shew you the vertue and excellency of your medicine The first triall that I made of it was on mine owne daughter about 16. yeeres old which for two continuall dayes was much troubled with vomitings keeping nothing that she eat or dranke Also by reason of intollerable inward torments she could not sleepe one winke for the space of two daies and nights In which her extremities hauing vsed all other conuenient and commended medicines to no purpose but altogether without any ease or mitigation of her paines I betooke my selfe lastly to your medicine as to a holy Anchor and last hope She tooke the same and kept it and then slept a litle But after 2. houres she cast againe in great abundance and since she hath continued perfectly well The second triall I made thereof was vpon a very worshipfull gentleman Sir William Samuell Knight He had a burning feauer with great violence of continuall heat so that he vtterly lost all sleepe he had withall a weakenesse in his kidneis and could not make water Sundry glisters were administred vnto him Purgations vomits and he was also

which time he hath wrote an English booke vncharitably defaming me and cauilling against that famous Medicine which by the prouidence of God restored vnto me both life and health Now concerning the chiefe intention of these my letters I pray you send me 12. graines of your potable gold in such forme as my brother Mr. Henry Skipwith lately receiued from you This bearer my friend shall giue you satisfaction for the same c. The Author of health is God who perpetually preserue you vnto whome he hath vouchsafed such fauour as to attaine vnto so great a restorer of health and prolonger of life as this Aurum Potabile appeareth to be Farewell Reu. Dr. Vpton 15. Feb. 1612. Your most louing friend William Samuell VVOrthy Sir I am aduised by that Reuerend Doctor Master Doctor Hunton in these parts highly accounted to require in behalfe of our worthy friend a knight your helpe and aduice in a deplored estate wherein hee now standeth We desire also some quantity of your Aurum Potabile with direction for the due administration thereof This gentleman diseased is neere 80 yeares of age of Cholericke constitution The first originall of his Infirmitie as we coniecture was by company of his wife being yong Not long after in a Iourney which he tooke when he was yet scarse sixe myles from his house he was constrained oft times for to alight from his horse Then did he make water and in his water either blood or some substance like vnto blood peraduenture spermaticall which hath continued now many daies Also euen to this time he is vnable to retaine his vrine by the Imbecillitie of his bladder as wee suppose A Gonorrhe likewise he was subiect vnto He is not as yet free from any of these Infirmities We expect some helpe from you For your charges and counsell this gentleman will giue you full content My selfe also will be with you this next Terme and will not be vnthankfull Trent the 11. of Sept. 1611. Your most louing friend N. W. Physition MAster Doctor Anthony you may call to minde This letter came from the Knight himselfe if you please that about September last past you wrote certaine letters vnto me At which time I also receiued from you fiue ounces of your Aurum Potabile to the praise of God your commendation and my great good My Diseases were mentioned in the former letters Besides which I had also a great swelling from my hucchlebone vnto the soles of my feete But it is without paine peraduenture it came of cold or with lying long time vpon my right side I vnderstand by Master Doctor Hunton that besides this Aurum Potabile which you sent me you haue also the substance of gold in forme like hony I pray you send me thereof and the manner how to vse the same I doe feele I praise God a mitigation of all my paines and Infirmities throughout all my body the swelling which I mentioned doth daily decrease My vrine also I am able to retaine This booke of yours Master Doctor Hunton requested of me Send me an other I pray you your studies and endeauours God alwaies blesse farewell BLYBROVVGH Octob. 10. 1611. Your friend H. A. THis gentleman of whom I shall now next write and whose letters sent vnto me are extant being Secretarie to the right honouable the Earle of Southampton in his owne words had beene long sicke of a Quartane feuer for Cure whereof he entertained a most learned Physition who ministred vnto him a long time such Medicines as were appropriate Neither yet had he ouermastered the feuer nor restored any strength vnto the patient Then did this Physition perswade this gentleman his patient to vse my Aurum Potabile which he did and with good successe Whereupon he wrote afterwards vnto me for more thereof as followeth Sir I haue found so much good vse of your Aurum potabile as makes me desire more For I must truely say I haue gotten much strength since I tooke it and recouered my spirits exceedingly decaied by extremitie of sicknesse my store is not so spent but that I haue some left in the Country but my slay hath bin longer here then I expected and therfore may be supplied from you with more ease then from thence Which I desire may be sent by this bearer of the best So shall I rest Your very louing friend Thomas Kisley SOVTHAMPTON HOVSE THIS 26. of Nouemb. 1611. MAster Doctor Anthony I pray you make me so much beholding vnto you as to bestow me this twentie shillings in that soueraigne quintessence which I had of you at my being with you For as I told you I was to haue but one of those glasses my selfe which one of my especiall friends hath had of me so that now I haue scarcely one graine left Sir Brian Caue Knight was taken with a violent burning feuer but after taking of this Medicine he had only one fit and then was perfectly well recouered Also a seruant of mine had in like manner so dangerous a Feuer that at my comming home I found him at point of death The onely taking of this Medicine hath so purged him by an extraordinary Sweat that thankes be to God he is at this time in a Iourney abroad with me and finds his bodie in so good temper as it was not of a Twelue moneth before c. Your assured friend to vse Henry Skipwith SIr Some few houres after your departure Master Doct. Lewknar came hither to my Lord Bishop of Winchester And at supper after my Lord had made some relation of the proceedings and benefite he found of your Aurum Potabile Doctor Lewknar replied in the comendation therof saying That on Saturday last past he being at Cowdry came to a gentlewoman who was dead to the world being both speechlesse and knowing no body he gaue her one spoonfull of your Aurum Potabile in that case as shee then was And at the first taking thereof she fell into strange convulsions wherein she continued two houres and after he gaue her as much more and then she fell into a great sweat and 2 houres after he gaue her a spoonfull more she fell into a fine sleepe and waking she said Giue me more of that which was done and she tooke good rest after And the next day he went to see how she did and found her eating of a Chicken This he told before my Lord Bishop his brother Doctor Steward of the Arches Sir Thomas Bilson my Lords sonne and my selfe WALTHAM THIS 15. of August 1611. Your louing friend Tho. Webbes THis Doctor Lewknar of whom mention is made in these former letters did afterwards write vnto me desiring to haue more of my Potable gold For this learned Gentleman had before found and seene the effects thereof in the Cure of his daughter in law by marriage with his Sonne being strongly taken with the falling sicknesse The case whereof set downe in a part of his letter to me which I haue