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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

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

Therefore I say thus Whosoeuer can so dissolue the body of gold that it shall not by any Art be reduced againe into fixed solide gold but so persist doubtles hath made potable gold medicinable and profitable for the health of man But by Gods blessings in my endeauours I haue often times done this and stil can doe it therefore doubtlesse I haue often times made and still can make potable gold medicinable and profitable for mans health The dependence and connexion of this proposition standeth in this That gold in his primitiue naturall hard compact body cannot communicate his internall vertues in mans body and therefore is not medicinable For then the formalitie of gold is not loosened from the bridle or freed from the bodily prison and bonds of coagulation and therefore not easily worke vpon the subiect whereunto it is applied But contrariwise being vltimatly and irreducibly solute it is then apt for action So that if the substance of gold be exalted in his exuberate colour it is a true token that it is made subtile attenuate and therefore Medicinable and that the aery and fiery parts or Elementalitie thereof are predominant ouer the earthy and watery And in this manner preseruing the naturall vnitie of the whole compound doe draw them not altering the composition but subtiliating the substance in the exalted symbolisme of the same Elements The Assumption hath the same proofe and confirmation which the other before that is my very often and almost daily experience whereof if need be I can produce many eye-witnesses of eminent rancke and amongst them some learned Physitions against whom no one dare mutter an exception But as Auicen in his booke de Animá maketh three kinds of proofe 1. Sophisticall 2. Logicall and 3. Sensible by sight of which it is to be vnderstood that by Sophisticall there he meaneth not false or counterfeit cauillings But leauing that apart I will content my selfe with the other twaine The Logicall part of which we haue hitherto discoursed by inference of reason And now will we proceeede to the third being of sensible and eye-witnessed experiments EXPERIMENTS AND OCVLARE TESTIMONIES A FEVV DRAVVEN OVT OF A GREAT NVMBER BY WHICH the Wonderfull vertues of this my Potable gold in the Curing of Diseases are fully shewed perhibited and auouched by oculare and sensible testimonies free from all future challenge and question A PROTESTATION OF THE Author to the writers of these Epistles or Letters following HOnorable Worshipfull and Worthy persons I intreate your curtesies and considerate humanities not to take in ill part or make sinister constructiō that I haue without your speciall allowances warrants published these your letters written vnto me concerning the effects and successes in the administration of my Potable gold Protesting hereby that I entertaine not the least thought of wronging any of you but beeing compulsarily enforced to the necessarie defence of my Integritie and good name intentiously scandalised in the oppugning of this Medicine which is the subiect of this Discourse I pray you all willingly to consent to this auerrment of your owne consciences and testifying both the Innocencie of mee and vsefull necessity of a Medicine prooued by your selues in so many cases of dangers left and forsaken after all other knowne Remedies rankly attempted and prognostically reputed desperate Which your consents I doubt not shall record an honorable memorie of you in the maintenance of so necessarie and healing truth I shall neuer faile by any my habilities to be ready in any kinde of seruices of good offices towards you TRANSMARINE TESTIMONIES THE VSE OF THE POTABLE GOLD BROVGHT OVT OF ENGLAND AND PRESENTED TO HIS SACRED IMPERIALL Maiestie I doe approoue by the happie successe in two cases of mine experience FIrst I gaue one ounce waight thereof to a yong man naturally strong but then farre spent with a malignant feuer being febris inclusa with Idlenesse of his Braine After taking thereof he slept and in his sleepe auoided through his mouth foure long and round wormes liuing and quicke So was he quit and free both from the feuer congelation and distemper of the Braine Notwithstanding many Remedies had beene before prooued vpon him and he had lyen in this case foure weekes extremely sicke in great danger of death AN other also recouered by this potable gold Who beeing possessed of a Quartane feuer which tooke him in the Autumne or fall of the leafe and held him all winter and was thereby so weakened that his strength seemed vtterly decayed and ready to fall into a Dropsie This man after many Purgations tooke of me an ounce of this Potable gold in the distilled water of Carduus Benedictus whereby hee fell into so strange and vnaccustomed sweat as I cannot remēber euer to haue read or heard of the like For beside that it was naturall with out other impulsion and so abundant that two persons had their hands full in drying him yet it so continued 3. daies and 3. nights But the most wonderfull thing of all was that in this extraordinary sweat and abstinence from meate the time of three daies and nights he was so farre from fainting for so much as any person could obserue that with this naturall and spontaneall euacuation he did euery houre waxe stronger lustier and more cheerefull And at the end of these daies he was throughly recouered and in perfect health I doe witnesse this IOHN ATHMESTETT IN Pubemheimb and Weyer Dr. in Physicke and Physition to the Sacred Imperiall Maiestie Right worshipfull Sir HAuing read your true Assertion of that high Medicine the Aurum Potabile and heard relation made of the strange and wonderfull effects of the same by my Lord Rosse his Maiesties Ambassadour Sir N. Drury and Mr. Stafford with diuers others noble and gentlemen of England that were at this Election Coronation in Frankforth I could would not omit to visit you with these few lines humly intreating you that for my pay I might be partaker of this so great a gift of God And hauing vnderstood by the letters of Sir Henery Cary that 4. ounces of this high medicine are sould for twenty shillings I haue intreated this gentleman to lay out foure pounds sterling that I might haue 16. ounces of it The which if I may attaine at your hands as also the dose the manner and time of exhibiting it for vnwilling would I erre contrary to your experience I shall euer hold my selfe bound and behoulding vnto you Thus humbly beseeching you that for common studies sake you would not let me faile of my Intreatie I rest Your though vnknowne yet euer louing friend IAMES MOSAN Physition to his Highnesse CASSELL IN HESSEN THIS 11. Iuli. 1612. RIght Worshipful Sir I thank you most highly for your Aurum Potabile which you sent me which indeede I do neuer vse but in necessitie when other Medicines wil shew no help at al. I haue tried the vertue thereof in extreame vomitings In the passion of the

shewed in the end of my first booke Whereupon the aduersaries both to my selfe and the truth haue greatly accused I was about to say slandered him as may appeare by an other letter of his sent vnto me beginning thus Good Doctor Anthony I haue beene bitterly taxed for giuing testimony of the good successe of your Aurum potabile which doth nothing at all daunt me For I assure my selfe that Aurum potabile being rightly made which few haue attained vnto is a singular medicine howsoeuer I thinke yours as I haue experienced to be good And therefore I pray you send me two ounces by this my kinsman and write vnto me what effect it worketh in womens monethly courses And after it foloweth I doe assuredly promise you that as I shall find the effect thereof good all the Societie of the Colledge shall not auert me So likewise shall not any priuate regard of friendship flattery or gaine induce me at any time to giue approbation to any dangerous or vncertaine medicine c. Your louing friend George Lewknar I Doubt not my good Cosen but you much desire to heare what effects your Aurū Potabile hath performed in these parts A certaine neere neighbour of mine the wife of Ro. Downing lay euen at point of death after a long languishing sicknesse for shee was prayed for in the Church Whereupon my Sonne Barners I went in the after noone to see her Shortly after our comming she tooke a potion of a Physition there present which sodainly she cast vp at which I mused Then did her husband affirme that for the space of a moneth before she had not taken downe a spoonfull of any thing but she did likewise cast it vp My Son did thē importune me to giue her a spoonful of your Aurum potabile which I was very loath to doe seeing she seemed but a dead woman and it might be some discredit to the medicine to me Yet at the last I did yeeld she being desirous thereof I gaue her therfore a spoonfull which staied with her contrary to all our expectations And within a short time whereas before she was so cold that they were forced to lay more cloathes on her she came to a kind naturall heat Thē we gaue her some mace-ale with Aurum potabile which she digested and afterwards mace-ale alone which also staied with her The 3. day after we sent to visit her who sent vs word that the same day she had eatē the best part of a Chickē did hope to come to vs shortly c. You shall also know that Mr. Boswell a Minister Preacher of Saffron Walden did greatly importune me for one ounce of Aurum potabile for his wife being accounted past Cure in a languishing disease And she by that onely ounce receiued so much comfort that he sent vp to Lond. to you for more c COVVLING 21. die Maij. 1611 Your assured louing Cosen Tho. Wolridge Iustice of peace in Essex A Letter sent to Master Edward Smith of the Temple Counsellor at the common lawes from Master George Wethery Secretary to the right honourable the Lord Sheffield Lord President of his Maiesties Councell established for the North parts Good Master Smith my Lord would haue you send presently to Doctor Anthony and desire him to send his Lordship with all possible speed the like quantity of his Aurum Potabile as he sent the last time for that my Lord hath made many trials of it and will report much good thereof which will turne greatly to Master Doctors aduantage and the credit of his Medicine Yorke this 30. of Septemb. 1613. Alwaies yours George Wethery A True Relation made by me Elias Holmes of the manifold vertues of Master Doctor Anthonies Aurum Potabile tryed by the command of the right honourable Edmund Lord Sheffield Lord President of Yorke THe wife of Iohn Goulsbrough seruant to my Lord lay very sicke sundry daies before my Lord had knowledge thereof Then was I sent vnto her whom I found languishing and in great extremitie Shee was greatly sweld in her bodie and had also a loosenesse so that it past from her almost vnknowing to her And further she was greatly distempered in heat She had taken no manner sustenance for 4. or 5. daies before whereby shee was growne so weake that shee could not mooue her body but as she was helpt by others Also her eyes were greatly swelled her speech could not be heard the length of the bed shee desired nothing but drinke taking no rest neither night nor day The first spoonfull that I gaue her did shew small effect whilst I was with her which was some houre but they which attended her said that some two houres after it made her rist and to voide a little water of her Stomacke At euening I gaue her one other spoonfull and before I could seale vp the glasse she was in a little slumber but it continued not long Neuerthelesse shee felt so much ease at her Stomack that she said What is this that my good Lord hath sent me for I giue God thankes I feele much ease towards that I did with that she prayed hartily for my Lord And both her speech and countenance seemed better then before Then about one of the clock at midnyght she fell asleepe and slept two houres The next morning I gaue her the third spoonfull and after that she cast a little and in her casting she tooke cold which caused her to cough and made her so ill and weake that I thought my laboure was all lost Her loosenes also held her still But it pleased God to giue such a blessing vnto this Medicine that after the taking of 4. or 5. spoonfull more her flux was staide her strength also recouered in such sort that she was able to sit vpright in her bed and to receiue sustenance Also after three spoonful more shee could endure to haue her clothes put on and with a little helpe to walke vp and downe the Chamber Shee tooke in all 13. spoonfuls Then did she acknowledge that shee was perfectly well giuing God thankes therefore And to me shee said Now Master Holmes I pray you spare your further labour c. THomas Taylor one of my Lords houshold seruants about the same time in the former yeere had an extraordinary Maligne feuer of long A quotidian maligne feuer continuance He was a very able and strong man Neuerthelesse it had so weakned him that he was seantly able to goe vpright He could endure to take no sustenance for a long time Often times also as a mad man he would arise out of his bed in the night season and lye downe on the floore and there lie vntill some body came by chance to helpe him This yeare he likewise fell into the same Infirmity by all signes and tokens His first fit continued sixe houres with such violent paine at his heart that he was enforced to cry out My Lord was not willing that

I should giue him any thing this first fit The next day after when the former passions began to assault him my Lord sent me vnto him and I gaue him one spoonfull of this Medicine After which he did sundry times cast vp by vomit a very filthy and euill substance When he had done casting I gaue him another spoonfull and so he rested quietly hauing an easie fit which continued the space of three houres His third fit came also vnto him then I gaue him one other spoonfull and within a quarter of an houre he had a vomit I gaue him one other spoonfull and he had one other vomit I gaue him then an other that is three times one after an other and three times he vomited and then he was prouoked to the stoole Whilst he was there he had againe a very great vomit being of diuers colors and a mucilage or slymie substance After this vomit I gaue him one other spoonfull and then he slept quietly and had no more fits afterward HEnry Kickinson one of my Lords seruants it A continuall maligne feuer pleased God to visite with an extraordinary Quotidian feuer hauing a sensible paine in his bones which made him so sore that he could not abide one to touch him and with the extremitie thereof became euen mad and senselesse not knowing any man Also so weake that euery one of his friends expected death He continued in this extreamitie a fortnight before I was sent to him In which time he had taken little sustenance His body also was extreamely hot and he tooke no rest After the first spoonfull that I gaue him within halfe an houre he fell asleepe and slept the space of one houre and when he awoke did cast a little At night I gaue him one other spoonfull after which he slept two houres and then spake these words Will not Master Holmes come againe vnto me and other such like speaches manifestly approouing that he had found comfort by that which I had giuen him Then did he giue thankes vnto God All that I gaue him was eleuen spoonfuls So by little and little he amended and became perfectly recouered MAny others I could here set downe which haue receiued in these parts present releefe by this Medicine Among the rest my Lords Children both sonnes and Daughters who sundry times and in sundry cases being affected haue alwaies bene cured with this onely Remedy Also my Lord himselfe by vse thereof doth preuent many sits of the Stone which heretofore he hath beene subiect vnto and preserueth his health thereby So likewise doth my Lady LAstly for my selfe being subiect vnto an extreame migrim in my head as Physitions call it but my disease is in this manner Many times in the yeare being in perfect health I shall haue my sight sodenly taken away so shall I continue halfe an houre then shall I haue a most violent aking in my head also a sleepinesse then a kind of stupor first in my lips and tongue and so it goeth downe to my hands I stretch them out like vnto the Palsey and A dead Palsey thus it holds me a good while Then it will go downe into my legs All this while I shall haue a great desire to cast but cannot vntill I haue beene in this fit some 6. houres and then with much adoe I shall cast and after once or twice casting I shall haue some better ease As long as I am in that former extremitie I shall somtime sarcely be able to fetch my breath neither to speake nor vnderstand nor heare what is spoken But at the last I fall asleepe then I begin to be wel yet not very wel nor in perfect good health for the space of one whole weeke after Now it pleased God that being at Lond. in Decem. last 1613. being in presence of my Lord suddenly I felt that my sight failed me my head aked and that my fit approached neere Whereupon I craued pardon of my Lord being not able to goe forward with his businesse that I had then in hand My Lord therefore commanded mee presently to take some Aurum Potabile for it was then in my custodie But I made the mixture somewhat more effectuall of the gold then I was accustomed to doe at other times And within one quarter of an houre after taking thereof my spirits and senses were comforted the cold which at the first possessed me became temperate Also I brake winde both vpward and downward Likewise I had a desire to vomit and an inclination to sleepe But my Lord would not permit me causing me to bee kept walking vp and downe Whereby after the space of one houre I felt my selfe very well only my head did ake a little But praised be God I did not fall into my vsuall fits Furthermore by taking that Aurum Potabile I became loose bodied whereas vsually I am accustomed to be bound All these things if neede require I will bee ready vpon mine oath to auouch Thus I doe end EVER SINCE I TOOKE THIS Medicine I haue continued in good health praised be God Feb. 4. 1614. Your louing friend Elias Holmes attending my foresaid Lord in his Chamber I May not forget here to remember the right Reuerend father in God whose learning pietie and vertue be sufficiently knowne the Lord Bishop of Winchester my Honourable good Patron against whose testimonie there can be no exception His Lordship is a most autenticke witnesse of this my Potable gold and testifieth the vertues thereof to all persons and can if neede require maintaine the same to the greatest persons of this Realme how not onely himselfe in the recouerie and maintenance of his owne bodily health much weakened with continuall studies and the late great paines in conference of many copies for the true translation of the holy Scriptures out of Hebrew into English but also very many others receiuing Aurum Potabile from his pious charitie haue beene from many and diuers diseases recouered and restored to their former health by vse thereof But because the vocall and liuely attestation of his Lordship can more satisfie any that require satisfaction then any deliuery by his letters sent me I will be sparing in that point and trouble the Reader onely with a few of many shewing how and to whome his Lordship in greatest necessities and dangerous diseases did liberally bestow this Potable gold and commanded the effects thereof to be briefely set downe as followeth SIr being appointed by my Lord Mr. to confer with diuers of this coūtry who haue bin cured of sundry diseases with Aurum potabile giuen vnto them by his Lordship I haue accordingly takē the report of those few that were neere this place and with whom I might conueniently speake Many more there are that receiued good by it which dwell remote from this place with whom I shall speake as occasion shall be offered and leisure permit to do it So hoping to be better furnished with these things

life A spoonfull of Aurum Potabile was giuen him by those about him hee not knowing what they gaue him And after one houre an other spoonfull and a while after the third spoonfull By this meanes he continued long in a sweat and within two daies after was restored to health THese also whose names are vnder written haue all in their extremitie of sicknesse receiued Aurum Potabile from my Lord Bishop and are well recouered But hetherto I haue had no conference with them Howbeit it is most certaine that by meanes thereof they were recouered from sundry dangerous Infirmities Robert Moore Master of Arts of this new feuer Reuben Hamme gent. the like The wife of Mr. Armwood in the forest of the like The wife of Mr. Cotton of Roche Court. The wife of Iohn Hawkesworth cured of a strange disease whereof shee had long before languished Richard Peckham Tho. Beale about one hundred yeares of age and recouered of this new ague and is yet liuing Edward Searle of Northampton gent. hauing long languished of this new ague Nicholas Prior. Anthony Langford I Doubt not but that these Testimonies so warranted being but a few exemplarie proofes of very many will satisfie any vnderstanding and honest reader I intend not with a whole Calender or endlesse Catalogue and with tedious reading of the same thing often done to weary the reader Else I could easily inlarge this Roule It being certaine that there is scarce any one Shire or Lordship in England from whence I haue not bin sent vnto for my potable gold with which Noblemen gentlemen and persons of other rankes haue bin diuersly cured and releeued in their necessities of their healths Apparent it is that it neuer hurt any profited all though all haue not recouered We must herein euer acknowledge the vnreuealed ordinance of God not to bee controlled by any Art or Industrie of humane Remedies I desire therefore the patient Indifferencie of all Readers to consider and fauourably to Interpret these my proceedings For I acknowledge and confesse that in ordinary Cures performed no Rationall Physition ought to print the Calender of his successes except in some cure and peculiar case which seldome happening may be a light and Instruction to others though many haue sought fame thereby which was farre from my intent and purpose But the necessitie of vindicating my integritie and the well knowne truth of the effects of my potable gold haue made that necessarily voluntarie which before I neuer entertained in priuate consultation For good wine needs no Bush or Signe And these be the motiues why I offer this small assay I hope not wearisome to be read and obserued beeing a short mention of some persons and Diseases which haue receiued present helpe by the vse of this so maligned Medicine my potable gold I say a short mention not of all nor the greater part nor in any neere proportion of number to the totall For some will not consent to bee named and some specialties may not be diuulged And in some respect I am not very forward of mine owne nature to enlarge the malice of my traducers by publishing some Cures which cannot please them to heare of Thus farre forth concerning other mens testimonies I will proceede to mine owne practise AS the brighter the Sunne is the more apparent be the shadowes caused by solid thicke duskish bodies so the more excellent famous the glorie is that is atchieued by things wel faithfully performed the more it is spurgald with the kicking heeles of Enuie As this is true in all actions and commercements of this life so it hath notoriously and lauishly bin practised against me in my proceedings At the very first this corroding spite sparing no man this malicious detraction enemie of truth set vp their whole rest in such fashion as they could to demolish my faire building But truth that precious daughter of time hath now vndertaken the quarrell that will say nill they shee must and will preuaile against their furie and maintaine her quiet nauigation notwithstanding any gustes or stormes from their dry and waterlesse Clowdes And to the intent that euery vnpartiall vnpreiudiced and Intelligent reader may the better vnderstand the cause of these Impressions and the state and first force of this controuersie which hath now enforced the publike attestation of the vertues of this Medicine I will as briefely and sparingly as may be by one or two Instances declare the first originall cause SIr Adolfe Cary a worthy knight nobly descended being not well sent for a Physition of great name fame who gaue him such Medicines as he thought fit one being a Purgation which did not only clense the first veines but wrought somewhat forceably Within short time after the disease was discouered to be the small Pocks But by the vnseasonable revulsion and indraught of that so strong Purgation as I thinke and peraduenture by some other neglect nature failed in the sufficient expulsion of the pustules Also those exitures which appeared shortly after sunke againe or as we commonly say went in Hereupon the Patient fell into that extremitie that the eminent perill of his life could not be hid so that all they that were about him despaired vtterly of his recouery Wherefore they sent to his brother to call hastily for the Doctors best accquainted with the state of his body which were two Who missing them both neither knowing where to seeke either of them and being very sensible and heauy for his brothers desperate case by chance met with me in the way intreats me to accompany him to his brother then lying dangerously sicke But I hearing the names of those Doctors was vnwilling to goe being loth to giue offence also that gentleman was at that time vtterly vnknowne vnto me whereby the rather I excused my selfe He replied that I was sufficiently knowne to him by a friend of his whom I had cured and therefore instantly persisted that in so honest and necessary and iust a cause I would not refuse him I consented went with him and being then euening I visited the sicke gentleman his brother and found him in a most deplorable state without sleepe or any other rest raging and rauing He tooke a spoonfull of my Aurum potabile with which he presently became quiet of a more cheerefull countenance and fell into a gentle sleepe After one houre I gaue him an other spoonfull after which he spake aduisedly said he was much comforted so sleept again sweat naturally al his body ouer And which was the best signe the Pocks or Pustuls did againe come out plentifully I attended him all that night at fit seasonable times gaue him my medicine sometime pure of it selfe sometimes mixed with broth or other cōuenient liquor The next morning one of his first Doctors comming finding me there with his patient tooke that for his occasion to raile on me in vnseeming termes To whom it was answered that I was