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A38771	The universall medicine, or, The virtues of the magneticall, or antimoniall cup confirmed to be a health-procuring, health-preserving, and health-restoring effectuall medicine by extant monuments of antiquity, by testimonies of Honourable personages, by 100 admirable and rare experiments, by 200 persons of quality that have experienced the same / collected by John Evans ...	Evans, John, Minister and preacher of God's word.	1651 (1651)	Wing E3452; ESTC R7392	45,036	66

operation it is somewhat difficult and doubtfull to foreknow and presage for it operateth according as it is most convenint for the present estate and constitution of the body Sometimes and in some constitutions it operateth by Vomit alone in some others by siedge alone in others by Urine and Sweat but most commonly it worketh all these wayes and ever without any violence or danger To prescribe a time for the use of this Medicine is needlesse it may be safely taken any time of the year even in the time of the extreamest heat of Summer or coldest of Winter neverthelesse the Spring and fall are most convenient for all Physicall operations To prevent sicknesse or when any convenient occasion is offered it should be taken three times leaving a day or two between and every time take more than the former but for confirmed Diseases it should be taken three times in the week if occasions permit as long as it will work for when it hath cleansed and purified the body from all impurities and corrupt humors it worketh no more and then you may be sure the Patient is perfect well and this is a noble quality of this Medicine I have known it administred twenty nine times to a Gentlewoman that had the Falling-sicknesse of nine years continuance leaving intermedian dayes 1 2 or 3. betwixt as occasion required and the thirtieth time it wrought not at all although administred in a greater quantity and then it was apparent that her whole body was cleansed and she perfectly cured and delivered from the violence of that miserable Disease For it is most certain that so long as there is any preternaturall humors or offensive malignant matter remaining within the body it will work I have known it in some constitutions and also against some foul and dangerous Diseases upon thrice taking to have wrought three or four dayes after by Siedge yea sometimes with purging and sweating to the 12 13 or 15. day after the taking thereof and alwaies proved to be without any harm violence or danger And some being timerous have requested to have it staid but I ever advised the contrary and desired them to permit nature to have her course and to perfect her intended work for this Medicine is not to be feared and will eject nothing but that which well may and ought to be spared whatsoever malicious adversaries to experienced truth say to the contrary Against the pains of the Gout or any other pain ache tumor or swelling make the Infusion strong with White wine and bathe the grieved places half an hour long as hot as the Patient may endure it the night before you take it inwardly And by alone bathing the Temples of the Head the Legs and the Feet it taketh away all manner of inveterated pains of the Head and purgeth the Body also although you take it not inwardly at all and this is an approved truth For swellings wounds fistulaes and ulcerous sores wash them well with the hot infusion made with White wine and Syrindge in the Liquor into the bottome and cleanse the sores well apply wet clothes three or four fould hot to the sore orifices take care you doe not Tent neither binde too hard And by using this means you may perfectly cure any Disease or Infirmity that may be cured by any other Means Skill or Art Beware of Counterfeit Pernitious Dangerous and Violent Cups Howsoever use them not according to my directions and if you doe and receive harm or miscarry blame your own willfullnesse and let your blood bee required at their hands that have abused you this my Premonition shall plead my Innocency before the Lord The names of such Ancient Philosophers and Learned Physitians that have written of the Medicinall Virtues of this Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup 1. Theophrastus Paracelsus 2. Martinus Rulandus 3. Josephus Quercitanus 4. Duncanus Bornettus 5. Lybavius tract. Alch. 6. Oswaldus Crollius 7. Thalingus Poppius 8. Johannes Dan. Millius 9. Angelus Sala 10. Johannes Rhenanus 11. Basilius Valentinus 12. Matthias Vntzerus 13. Guilielmus Avisonus 14. Philippus Mullerus 15. Suchtenius 16. Baptista Porta 17. Poterus his Pharmacopea 18. Johannes Beguinus 19. Leonardus Phirovanti 20. Guilielmus Olivarius 21. Severinus Scotobrittan Sir Theodore Mayern Kt. and Dr. of Physick and Physitian in Ordinary to the Kings most excellent Majesty hath approved and experienced the same often times with happy and good successe These Learned men of our own Nation and Countrey by their own Experiments and Observations have confirmed the same as by their severall Certificates may appear Daniell Featly D. of D. Moegan Wynne D. of D. Richard Naper D. of D. Nicholas Page D. of D. M. Henry Walker B. of D. M. Hugh Maurice B. of D. M. John Vicars B. of D. M. Aynscombe B. of D. Robert Fludd Esq D. of Physick Barthol Van der lasse D. of Phys. Philip Molthery Dr. of Physick Guilielmus Olivarus D. of Phys. John Rudston Dr. of Physick William Freeman D of Physick John Higgans Dr. of Physick Richard Freeman Dr. of Physick Michael Wainman D. of Physick Symon Ryder Dr. of Physick Richard Collet D. of Physick William Bayly Dr. of Physick William Hodgets D. of Physick These Right Honourable Personages have Experienced this my Magneticall Medicine with happy and good successe The R. Hon. the E. of Mulgrave The R. Hon. the E. of Norwich The R. Hon. the E. of Bridgwat The R. Hon. the E. of Malboro The R. Hon. the E. of Nithisdale The R. Ho. L. Viscount Cambden The R. Hon. John Lord Harries The R. Ho. the Countesse of Darby The R. Ho. the Count of Westmerl The R. Hon. the Countesse of Devonshire The R. Ho. the Count of Excester The R. Ho. the Count of Leicester The R. Hon. the Count of Malb The Hon. Lady Theophila Cook The Hon. the Lady Wilbraham The Hon. the Lady Delaware The Hon. the Lady Jackson The Hon. the Lady Apsley The Hon. the Lady Willoughby The Hon. the Lady Shelley The Hon. the Lady Thorowgood The Hon. the Lady Browne The Hon. the Lady Farell The Hon. the Lady Shurley The Hon. the Lady Jepson These Right Worshipfull Knights and Gentlemen of Reputation and Credit have Experienced the same and approved it to be without Violence or Danger Sir Edward Powell Knight one of the Masters of his Majesties Honourable Court of Requests Sir Francis Kinnaston Knight Esquire to his Majesties Body Sir Thomas Middleton Knight Sir Robert Naper Knight Bar. Sir Guilbert Cornwall Knight Baron of Burford Sir Thomas Payton Kn. and Bar. Sir John Shelley Knight and Bar. Sir Peter Mutton Knight Sir Philip Landen Knight Sir Thomas Burton Knight Sir Richard Jifford Knight Sir Thomas Styles Knight Sir Anthony Thomas Knight Sir Fulbert Varnat Knight Sir Richard Waltingstall Knight Sir Christopher Nevell Knight Sir William Ford Knight Sir William Fonte Knight Sir Richard Naper Knight Sir Richard Hutton Knight Sir Edward Scot Knight Sir John Compton Knight Sir William Weston Knight Sir William Savage Knight Esquires Francis Godolphin Esquire Edward Scot Esquire Lyster Blunt Esquire Thomas Godfrey Esquire John Grymsdych Esquire William Molins Esquire Thomas Houldford Esquire Roger Ellys Esquire Richard Norris Esquire Thomas Edmonds Esquire William Edmunds Esquire Thomas Longe Esquire John Savage Esquire Thomas Challoner Esquire Humfrey Gunter Esquire William Cheriton Esquire Francis Tompson Esquire Richard Aston Esquire Robert Tompson Esquire John Poole Esquire William Audrey Esquire Thomas Weekes Esquire William Vince Esquire Thomas Litton Esquire Edward Savage Esquire William Cowse Esquire Phylip Child Esquire George Mynne Esquire Henry Collet Esquire Fancis Munday Esquire Henry Knight Esquire William Nottle Esquire William Staneley Esquire Henry Poole Esquire Arthor Wallys Esquire Richard Hasellburie Esquire John Lathum Esquire Francis Lathum Esquire Robbert Wallys Esquire Henry Nicholls Esquire Thomas Ockrave Esquire John Anderson Esquire Richard Folly Esquire Roger Fowke Esquire Alexander Dixson Esquire Thomas Savage Esquire John Shelden Esquire John Hunt Esquire Edward Powell Esquire Nicholas Macham Esquire Henry Prat Esquire John Woodhouse Esquire Henry Bromely Esquire Innocent Rashe Esquire John Blunden Esquire Thomas Blundell Esquire William Overton Esquire William Craddock Esquire John Clackston Esquire Richard Warner Esquire Thomas Morton Esquire Thomas Carroll Esquire William Edmunds Esquire Thomas Wood Esquire Henry Hill Esquire Thomas Stoakes Esquire William Shephard Esquire Henry Lovelace Esquire Thomas Prat Esquire John Leigh Esquire Samuel Ward Esquire George Eves Esquire James Lathum Esquire John Thorpe Esquire Henry Berkeley Esquire Henry Pickering Esquire John Smith Esquire William Shephard Esquire Arthur Hill Esquire Michael Jues Esquire William Poole Esquire Henry Hunniman Esquire Alexander Emmerson Esquire John Warcoape Esquire Charles Robinso● Esquire John Thornburie Esquire Thomas Kercher Esquire William Talcoate Esquire William Wakeman Esquire Edmund Harrison Esquire James Beard Esquire William Wakeman Esquire Henry Turner Esquire William Brewer Esquire John Applebee Esquire Thomas Mason Esquire Thomas Brinfield Esquire John Price Esquire William Weston Esquire Thomas Brereton Esquire John Malborn Esquire Edward Powell Esquire Merchants and Citizens of London Mr. Ludowick Roberts Mr. Richard Morris Mr. Foster by the Exchange Mr. Tichborne Mr. Babington Mr. Campion Mr. Robert Fowles Mr. Richardson Mr. Thomas Mr. Corderoy Mr. Waite Mr. Wright Mr. Turnor Mr. Gregorie Mr. ●ightman Mr. Hayes Mr. Master Mr. Reginalds Mr. Godwyn Mr. Clarke Mr. Pocock Mr. Davies Mr. Vaughan Mr. Peter Maurice With many others tha no● I doe willingly omit In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established Math. 18. 16. Soli Deo gloria FINIS

goe without a staffe and that to his great pain and was by as many as daily saw him thought to be in a deep Consumption and not to be recovered by Physick intreated me to send him Wine prepared in this Cup which I did and he took it twice according to your direction and within two or three dayes after the taking of it recovered his health used no more his staffe but grew to such jollity of strength as that he was able to cary and mannage his Musket and doth now serve in his armes and doe his duty as ably as any Souldier in that Castle Many other helpes this Cup hath done to divers that have made use of it I pray God to blesse you in the well composing of many more such Cups and to continue his blessings upon those you doe compose to the health of such his servants as shall make use of them thus tendering unto you my hartiest love thanks and well wishes I rest your assured loving friend FRANCIS GODOLPHIN The eight testimony that shall be produced is a true and certain Relation of the experienced knowledge and Experimentall Practice of a right Worshipfull Gentleman Captaine Gunter living neer Newbury in Bark shire his words are these COncerning the Virtues of the Antimoniall Cup made sold to me by Mr. John Evans Minister of the word of God I doe testifie that I doe Experimentally know that a certaine man about 30 years of age who had been grievously troubled with that disease which is commonly called the Kings evill for seven or eight years and was consumed and brought very weak and feeble by reason of the corrupt humors nourishing and feeding continually that disease that was perfectly Cured of that sicknes and disease by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup thrice and bathing the sore places with the Infusion and being administred to him the fourth time though in a greater quantity than before it wrought not at all with him by reason that he was throughly purged before and by the externall bathing of the sore places where they were grown up and inclosed before they opened and there came forth much corrupt matter like rotten sinews or putrified corrupt Worms and afterwards perfectly healed up without any other helpe This Cure was perfectly accomplished from the beginning to the end in ten dayes And this man continueth perfectly healed of this sore disease it was administred to this patient in Ale I have know this Medicine administred to more than foure hundred severall persons of different Constitutions ages and sexes troubled with severall griefes and infirmities that have been brought alwaies to perfect health by the Virtues benefits of this Medicine and the Operation was alwaies Gentle and Safe with good successe And I finde it also Effectuall for the griefes and diseases of common Animals for my own Gelding being exceedingly troubled with the Scratches I washed the sores with this Liquor and there came out foule matter and rotten dead flesh and he was perfectly Cured with this Liquor hot In Testimony of the certain truth of what is by me related I have subscribed my name HUMFREY GUNTER The ninth Testimony shall be the approved Relation of a certain worthy Gentleman of Reputation and Credit that writeth upon his own particular knowledge and practice experienced upon himself His own words written with his own hand are these SIR my Infirmitie was a violent wringing in my Breast somewhat above the Pit of my Stomack thence dispearsing about to my Back with such anguish as if it would have pulled Back and Breast to meet together by continuance it threw me deep into the yellow Jaundise made me loath all meats and almost in despair of Cure for I had been in a chargeable course of Physick which neverthelesse gave me no longer ease than whilest it was in the working Then I was advertised of your Antimoniall Cup which my Brother Captain Lathum bought of you and I was advised to make tryall of it which I did with so good successe that in twice taking I was eased of my pain and restored to a kindly appetite with equall digestion sithence that especially towards Spring and Fall I feel some touches of my infirmity grudging and returning then presently I use the Cup as before At this time I finde my self in a good setled estate of Health for which I render most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for his mercifull goodnesse and doe heartily wish to you his mediat Instrument of this Favour a plentifull blessing upon your learned and usefull Invention resting though unknown your assured friend and well wisher JOHN LATHUM The tenth Testimony shall be the faithfull Relation of Mr. Tho Godfrey of Kent Esquire and of Mr. Edmund Harrison his Majesties Embroyderer MAster Evans whereas you have requested our Testimony concerning the Medicinall Virtues of the Antimoniall Cups we have received from your hands We give you to understand that we have used our Cups against all manner of common and usuall Diseases with happy and good successe We have given the Liquor thereof to more than two hundreth severall persons of both Sexes from two years to fourscore It cureth perfectly all sorts of Agues and pestilentiall Fevers It hath done very much good to all that have taken it and never any hurt at all to young nor old It hath Cured our man of the infection of the Plague and suppurated cleansed and healed the Plague Sore upon him and prevented the infectious contagion of that sicknesse from many others And to conclude All that received it have received much good and benefit by the use and Virtues of it whatsoever their Diseases or Infirmities were and none of them received any manner of harm at all by the use of it In testimony whereof we have subscribed our names THO. GODFREY EDMUND HARRISON The eleventh Testimony is an experienced Relation of the Effects M. Nicholas Benet of the white Crosse in Fetter lane found to be in the Magneticall Cup he bought of me SIR you have desired me to give Testimony under my hand of the Medicinall Virtues I have upon experience found to be in your Antimoniall Cup which I doe most willingly in regard of the great good I and mine have found by the benefit of it and because I desire the generall good of others also it being great pitty that so precious a Medicine should be kept secret that may doe so much good with so little Cost I have made great use of it upon my self my wife children and servants I have given of the Wine or Liquor prepared to many of my friends and at their intreaty to divers other strangers And I did never know by my own observation or experience or hear from any other that did take it but that they using it and themselves after the taking of it as was and is prescribed found very much good by it let their Disease or Grief be what it would so that I doe verily

Majesties body Nicholas Page D. of Divinity and Philosophie William Molyns Esquire Roger Ellis Esquire The second testimony is the experimentall relation of the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Middelton Knight whom I acknowledge to have been my noble Mecaenas in these studies and the only Fosterer and favorer of this famous Medicine at its first growth into any perfection into this Noble Island of great Britain MAster Evans that you may see that I am not unmindfull of my Promise made unto you touching my knowledge of the Virtues of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup I have sent these few lines unto you not taking upon me to set forth the full and true worth and excellent Virtues of the same lest by seeking to set them forth to the life I should by my unskillfull handling of an unaccustomed pencill deface the same neither can I neither am I willing to certifie the parties names that I have cured therewith both because they are so many and also because I will not wrong those grave and learned Doctors that had them in hand before they came to me and failed to cure them only I will impart unto you my opinion of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup and what Cures I have done with it The liquor of the Cup I call that the wine in which it hath been infused if it be duely prepared observing convenient times will work incredible cures working either upwards or downwards according to the constitution time it is made given which is a secret but of great use to them that will practice that kinde of Physick It expels all noysome and superabounding humors it strengthneth Nature and whether it work or work not it never hurts which is contrary to all other Physick for if that other materiall substantiall feculent Physick remain and lye within the body it will indanger it It is the most precious thing that any man can have whether hee be rich or poor for by it a man shall preserve Health procure Health and prevent Sicknesse both to himself and Family both old and young and cost him but a little the fourtieth part of a Doctors fee the value of 6d and if there were no other Virtues in it than hath been spoken this were sufficient to commend it The cures that I have done with it are truly more than I can recall to memory for I have not refused any whatsoever Disease he or they were troubled or infected with except Ulcers and running Soars which require also the Chyrurgeons help as well as the Physitian and often times both are necessary to make a perfect Cure Some of those Soars have passed my hands not many I have cured all manner of Head-aches Frensies and Madness the Pestilentiall and the Spotted Fever the Quotidian Tertian and Intermittent Agues the Falling-sicknesse the foul or French Disease the Convulsions which were thought to be witcheries the Mother the yellow and the black Jaundice the Consumption that is not too far gone given ease and prevented the Stone given ease and prevented the Gout I have cured divers of Impostumes I bless God for his goodnesse and great mercy vouchsafed to me I have given it to more than a thousand since I began to practice with it and I never heard of any that miscarried nor of ten in all that number that I failed to cure I have given it to men and women of fourscore years old to sucking Children to women with Child and never any miscarried but all have received benefit by it blessed be God that gives such varieties of virtues to so slender a means I am verily perswaded that there is no Disease that this will not cure being rightly prepared given and followed I must confesse I cannot sufficiently praise it nor give it any fit value or estimable rate it exceeding the Gold of Ophire as much as Health doth Sickness with this I will conclude It purgeth and purifieth the Body from all superfluous and praeternaturall Blood Phlegme Choler and Melancholy and maketh the body vigorous strong and lusty What I have written is not by relation from others but from my own experience and to give satisfaction to your desires that have taken so much pains both in the making of the Magneticall Cup and in setting forth the Virtues thereof most truly yet short in truth of what it hath So I conclude and rest your well wishing friend THO. MIDDELTON The third testimony shall be the experimentall and judicious approbation of that most Reverend learned and holy Divine now resting with the Lord in fullness of Joy Mr. Richard Naper alias Sandy Doctor of Divinity Philosophie and Physick and in his life time Rector of Linford magna in the County of Buckingham his words are these MUch indeared Mr. Evans whereas you desire to have my approbation of your Magneticall Cup I have most willingly embraced the rule of the blessed Apostle Omnia explorate quod bonum fuerit retinete Although I needed not by reason of my long practice and much experience seek out the experiments of new Medicines neverthelesse I have often times made good use of that Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup I had from you and have found the effects and vertues thereof to be both wonderfull and many and worthy of great estimation and to agree very well with all constitutions and is found to be in the use very gentle and without any violence or danger being administred in a convenient proportion and it purgeth the body well both by vomit and siedge the infusion may be made with Wine Ale Beer or with any other convenient liquor neverthelesse an appropriate vehicle cannot otherwise than profitably further the effect I prevaileth very well against Obstructions against the Falling-sicknesse Melancholy Madnesse Apoplexy and against many other dangerous and desperate Diseases and Maladies which would be too long to set down particularly and as learned writers affirm that it is an universall Medicine so may it also be of perpetuall continuance which I the rather conceive doe believe for that I have often times made use of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup I had from you and its Physicall operations and virtues are found neither to waste fail nor diminish And therefore I would wish you to proceed not only in your carefull preparation and due composition of this excellent Medicine but in the further discovery of other profitable good things which the Lord shall please to impart unto you and you shall finde me ever your very loving and assured friend RIC. NAPER The fourth testimony that shall be produced shall be the judgement and experimentall approbation of a profound Philosopher and an excellent Physitian famous throughout all Europe for his great learning profound judgement elegant expression confirmed skill and universall knowledg both in sacred Theologicall Mysteries as also in Philosophicall Hermeticall and Chymicall Speculations his words are these WHereas I was requested by Mr. John Evans Preacher of the Word of God to expresse my minde and