Iohn Fanne Citizen dwelling Obstruct in Aldersgate streete being fiue yeeres old by reason of obstructions in her liuer splene and brest which had long continued and was thereby much hindred in her breathing tooke one ounce only of my potable gold after which she cast vp much slimy stuffe tough like molten glasse that one could scarcely cut with a knife and presently she amended and shortly after became perfectly well MAster William Snelling Fishmonger dwelling in Falling sicknesse Thamestreete had a young infant of a yeere old who was grieuously perplexed with the falling sicknes His fits were frequent and oft sometimes 20. in one day So that the parents besought God to take him to his mercy out of that so great misery When diuers medicines had beene tried in vaine he was at the last recouered by my Essence of gold and neuer since was troubled with any fit being more then 3. yeeres past A Maid seruant of the Lady and wife of Sir Thomas Convulsions Smith knight being 22. yeeres old was afflicted with most violent convulsions and fits like vnto the falling sicknesse incessantly day and night for a long season not finding any ease by glisters and many other medicines giuen her by other Physitions At last she was by me cured of that fearefull disease by this my Medicine and neuer felt it since three yeeres being past AN Infant of a yeere and halfe old daughter vnto Inward torments and gripings of an infant Sir Edward Barret knight was long grieued with some inward torments and gripings in her belly The Lady Paget Baronesse her grandmother gaue her of my Potable Gold with which she presently cast vp some rawe fleagmaticke matter or humor and was well for the space of 2. houres after which time she complained as before and peraduenture worse The Lady her grandmother gaue her an other spoonfull after which she cast againe much viscous matter diuersly coloured and then slept a whole houre But waking sodenly she seemed as one ready to diepresently hauing many dangerous signes as sowundings and falling of her iawes c. So that the good Lady holding this Infant all that while in her lap was faine forcibly to open her mouth and poured in an other spoonfull mixed with beere or ale After which she cast againe a blackish and ill sauoured slimy thicke stuffe Then she was well and recouered MAster Thomas Allin Esquire more then 60. Extreame debility yeeres of age being lodged in Broad streete hauing then languished a long time at last being neere spent he sent for me and with my Potable Gold especially some other dietary meanes being also prescribed he was perfectly restored in few daies MAster Small gentleman an Attourney at the A quartane ague law and student of Furniualls Inne 32. yeeres old had lien sicke of a quartane feuer many moneths and had also the iaundise He finding no helpe in other medicines was in short time perfectly cured by my Aurum potabile MAster Thomas Tutteshame gentleman aged 20. A quartane ague yeeres sonne of Master Anthony Tutteshame both of Staple Inne was likewise cured of a quartane ague by my potable gold A Yong son of Sir Io. Talesburrough knight about Essex ague 4. yeeres old lay dangerously sicke in Essex of the popular and vniuersarie disease ordinarie in those marish countries and could not endure to take any medicines He tooke my Essence of gold with the aurum potabile at seuerall times and was thereby perfectly cured THe daughter of Sir Anthony Capell knight about A Consumption 14. yeares old after a long sicknesse fell into a Consumption with extreme weaknesse Her father sent vnto me for some of my potable golde whereiwth shee was in reasonable time perfectly recouered and restored to her former health FRancis Wonnam of Darkin in the Countie of Surrey Palsey of all the body Yeoman was taken with a dead Palsey in all parts of his body To whom Master William Radcliffe Esquire of the same Towne gaue some of my potable golde which hee had in store for his owne vse beeing oft times troubled with the Stone by which meanes the said Wonnam recouered and had perfect vse both of legs and hands A Yong gentlemā Io. Studolph 17. yeares old being Speech lost and vomiting then with his mother a widdow dwelling neere the foresaid Darkin was taken with a Palsey in his tongue his speech was taken from him and whatsoeuer he did either eate or drinke he cast it vp I was sent for and staied there some three dayes In which time by intermissiue administring of my Aurum potabile and Essence of gold his vomiting was staied his speech recouered and he perfectly cured But I heard afterwards by some of his friends that about a yeare after he fell againe into the same Disease and died thereof before he could conueniently send for any helpe MAster Iohn Coles called Captaine Coles about 44. yeares old had long time beene troubled Consumption of the Lungs with a dangerous Disease of the Lungs shortnesse of breath coughing and with it spitting of rotten matter and seemed to bee in full Consumption He was perfectly cured with the continued vse of my Potable golde HEnry Smith seruant to Sir Edward Barret Palsey Knight lost his speech by a Palsey and so some time Afterwards he perfectly recouered his speech againe by helpe of my Aurum Potabile A Seruant of Sir Thomas Smith Knight hauing beene long troubled with a quartane Ague Quartane finding no helpe by other Medicines which had beene giuen vnto him was cured with my Potable gold A Daughter of Master Fitzgarret Esquire dwelling vpon Saint Peters Hill was infected with Plague the Plague or Pestilence and cured by the only vse of my Essence of golde dissolued in my Aurum Potabile with Carduus Water ELizabeth Elward being allied vnto Edward Rugham retainer to the Lord Kneuet was likewise infected with the Plague and because the same Plague Edward Rugham was continually attendant in White Hall vnder the Lord Kneuet the said Lord therefore perswaded him to vse my Aurum Potabile for his kinswoman being then in Edward Rughams house which he did and by it recouered his kinswoman DIuers other were also cured of the Plague at the same time A maide seruant belonging to Master Iohn Morris marchant dwelling neere vnto Leaden Hall A seruant of Sir Edward Conway Knight Mast Carre Counsellor at the Law dwelling in Great Saint Bartholmewes A man seruant and a maide seruant in the house of Mistris Randall widdow dwelling on Saint Peters Hill Three seruants in the house of Sir William Hericke Knight Master Arthur Luson Citizen in Paternoster Row THe wife of Master Seabright of London Esquire Convulsions with losse of sense being about 60. yeares old was often taken with diuers and sundry passions as Convulsions and paralyticall stupefactions of her sense of feeling And had beene sundry times releeued by my Potable
in Bow lane for the space of many Moneths languished of a quartaine feuer In which time by prescript of learned Physitions he had taken so many Medicines that he vtterly abhorred all vsuall Physicke When he was informed by some of his well wishing friends that my Aurum Potabile was very Cordiall effectuall in operation and not loathsome or vnpleasing to take he was resolued to make vse thereof although he had resolued neuer to vse any more Physicke But being disswaded by some of his Physitions my professed aduersaries he refrained the space of some weekes vntill meere necessitie by reason of his still continuing quartane and his strength daily abating enforced him to send for me I ministred vnto him at returne of his next fit a small quantitie of my Aurum Potabile with 2. graines of the Essence of golde which gaue him such contentment during the time of his fit that his feuer was much more tollerable then formerly it had beene and himselfe in farre better vigor after his fit TheÌ„ did he much admire what reason his Physitions could alleadge for the disabling of that Medicine To conclude in very few fittes this Medicine cleared him of his feuer it brought him to quiet rest restored him to appetite and brought him to good habilitie and strength of body And vntill this time it is and hath beene a continuall releefe vnto him whensoeuer hee findeth himselfe inclining to any manner of debilitie or sicknesse AS in this case so haue they dealt with diuers of the Nobility of this land honourable personages who in extremity of their sickenesse hauing first vsed and that fruitlesly all the course of Physicke which their Physitions in Art could aduise them haue desired the helpe of my Aurum Potabile But haue beene diuerted by malicious cauillations of those who rather desire their owne lucre and gaine then the life of their patients Neuerthelesse some of the right Honourable not beeing daunted by their terrifyings more fit for children and babes then for men and women of vnderstanding haue made happie vse thereof both in Court and Citie although for causes conuenient it is not publikely diuulged and yet peraduenture not vtterly silenced But time in his due time will bring the truth to light MAster Mathew Dale Iustice of Peace Iudge in Gilde Hall 76. yeares of age hath sundry times beene troubled with an infirmitie incident to age that is want of Retention of his vrine Whereby sometimes in the night season he hath bin inforced more then twenty times to make water whereby his naturall rest which should haue sustained nature was taken from him and consequently his stomacke failed his strength abated Vpon the vse of Aurum Potabile these extremities were abated and he continued vntill the end of his daies in good state of body answerable vnto his yeeres THe wife of Master Mathew Dale 70. yeares of Consumption of the Lungs age hauing an infirmitie of the Lungs altogether vncurable was neuerthelesse preserued in good state of body many yeares with helpe of this Aurum Potabile SIr William Hericke Knight had by his Lady two Falling â—â—â—â—nesse daughters the one after the other Each of them being 20. weekes of age was taken with the Epilepsie or falling sicknes and died of that disease After them he had by his said wife a third daughter then did they change their Nurse suspecting that some defect might be in the Nurses milke When this daughter came to the age of 16. weeks the Epileptical fits began to possesse this infant and daily the fits increased vntill the disease came to the height Then was the Nurse child sent for hither to London hauiÌ„g heard that I had cured some in the like infirmity The father vsed my help in this case It pleased God that with the helpe of my Aurum potabile and Essence of gold with some helpes giuen to the nurse I perfectly cured that Child of this dangerous infirmitie This was done in the spring time Then I aduised the Lady that the like should be done at next fall of the leafe But that being neglected the child vpon the feast day of All-Saints next following fell into the same disease againe which I likewise cured the second time Since this time being now foure yeeres past this child neuer had fit praised be God IN like manner and of the same infirmitie a Sonne Falling sicknesse of Sir George Wright Knight being a yeare old was cured by me and many others whereof some shall be mentioned in this treatise hereafter IOhn Vnet belonging to the right honourable Sir Speech and sense lost Henry Hubbard Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas 40. yeeres of age or thereabout after long sicknesse was at the last brought to that debilitie and weaknesse that he lay depriued of speech and sense The bell tolled for him The seruants of the house had taken their leaue of him no hope of life remained Being in this manner at point of death some of my Aurum potabile was put into his mouth by which he was brought againe to speech to sense and lastly restored to perfect health being formerly by iudgment of all ordained for death Of this case Raymund Lully in his booke of the Quintessence writeth in this manner We terme them dead men not those which absolutely are dead but those of whom by the opinion of Physitions there is vtter despaire so that they are forsaken by all Physitions and the actions of life haue relinquished them and be depriued of sense If such like men saith he reputed thus dead men shall recouer life and health by a Quintessence then may they iustly be said to be reuiued from death IN like manner was there an other whose name is Speech and sence lost Robert Brodbottome a Citizen 60. yeares of age neighbour vnto Sir Lewis Lewknar then dwelling in Aldersgate streete being likewise at deaths doore the bell hauing tolled for him the space of three houres The said Knight when he vnderstood that it tolled for his neighbour whom he well loued sent him of my Aurum potabile willing the wife of the said patient by any possible meanes to put the same into his mouth Which being done he shortly after fell into a sleepe sweating in his sleepe after his awaking his sense and speech returned and himselfe recouered health and yet is liuing THe daughter and heire of Sir Walter Coape knight now Lady and wife of Sir Henry Rich knight being then dangerously sicke of the small Pocks whereof Small poxe many worthy Knights Ladies and gentlewomen haue miscaried of late was presently releeued by vse of my Aurum potabile and the small Pocks expulsed plentifully IN the small Pocks also and likewise in the measels diuers haue beene recouered whose only names I record and none haue miscaried to my knowledge which in due time haue embraced the benefite of this medicine The Lady and wife of Sir Richard Ogle knight A
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
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
of this mortall and contagious disease before it was knowne abroad of what he was sicke which I would not now haue published but that the Knight himselfe hath not beene sparing amongst his friends to report both what his sicknesse was and the story of his Physitions and recouery THe yeare before I had likewise cured of the same The Plague or Pestilence disease with an Aposteme also appearing the Lady and wife of the same worthy knight THe Lady Edmonds widdow about the age of 78. Dropsie and Iaundise in extreame old age yeares a Lady well knowne in Court so likewise are those that formerly are named about three yeeres past was fallen into a dropsie with all the symptomes thereunto belonging Her belly face legs hands greatly swelled blood wasted and spent not free from the Iaundise nor far from a Consumption How dangerous her case was is sufficiently knowne She was perfectly restored praised be God in short time nothing being ministred vnto her but only the Aurum potabile and Essence of Gold This Lady spared not either for cost or due obseruation to preserue life and health after that she had once found comfort thereby for during the space of 12. daies at the first shee tooke euery morning 3. graines of the Essence dissolued in a spoonfull of Aurum potabile and the like proportion was taken at night when she went to rest Also before dinner and supper at each time one spoonfull of the Aurum potabile alone After 12. daies were spent and that her stomacke was amended naturall rest returned her strength increased the disease abated and all the state of her body bettered then the Lady tooke of the Essence but once a day And so by degrees all things in lesser proportion Needfull it was that this Lady should take these helpes in greater proportion then vsuall partly in regard of the Infirmitie being a capitall disease partly also in regard of her yeeres in which nature was not so powerfull to ouercome the malady as in youth SIr Thomas Parrey knight Chancelor of the Duchy and of his Maiesties priuy Councell being Extreme cough in age and want of sleepe of the age of 77. yeares this last winter was much deiected in habilitie and strength of body euery waies His appetite abated his sleepe diminished tormented with an extreame cough day and night not able in many weekes together to goe forth of his house for execution of his place He had vsed good helpes of learned Physitions from time to time all the winter long In February last I was brought vnto this honourable person and finding that the best Medicines ordinarily in vse had nothing auailed I perswaded him to take of my Aurum Potabile whereunto he willingly condescended I gaue him thereof in the morning in bed fasting as also one houre before Dinner and Supper at each time a spoonfull Also whereas vsually his sleepe was but two houres euery night which was after he was first laid in bed and then afterwards being once awaked he slept no more all that night but continually did lie coughing vntill he arose in the morning my counsell was that after his first sleepe his Honor should take two graines of the Essence of golde dissolued in one spoonfull of the Aurum Potabile which doing he alwaies within halfe an houre was at good and quiet rest his Cough ceased and he slept quietly vntill sixe of the clocke in the morning This course it pleased him to continue vntill the 12. of Aprill in which time he daily gathered strength and habilitie of body to vndergoe any seruice of his Maiestie And thus he continueth still to the praise of God A Certaine yong gentleman onely Sonne and Debilitie of retention of sperme heire vnto his Father being of great possessions complained vnto me that his sperme passed from him vnsensibly both day and night whereby his body was much enfeebled his complexion altered and a Consumption imminent A marriage was tendered vnto this yong gentleman being an heire also Conditions agreed vpon by Parents on both sides both for Dowre and Ioynter The father of this gentleman being in feare of his sonnes life was loath to make any perfect Contract vntill he had found Remedie for his sonne Hee vsed the best helpe that the Country could afforde wherein he liued But finding none he brought vp his sonne to London vsed my counsell and with the helpe of Aurum Potabile the Essence of Golde and a Solution of Pearle which in such case I doe vse he hath recouered perfect state of body is married and hath Issue This Gentleman about twelue Moneths since being in London came to visite me whome when I beheld I knew not vntill he had manifested himselfe vnto me so greatly was his body altered euen into a full vigor and perfect constitution THe wife of Master Robert Dixon Secretary vnto Sir Henry Montague Knight Recorder of the Speech and sence lost in Childbed Citie of London being deliuered in childbed was possessed with a most violent burning feuer Shee had three Physitions of great woorth who ministred vnto her such helpes as Art could affoard in that case Not preuailing they left her being senselesse Then did the Lady Tanfield send vnto me for some of my Aurū Potabile which her Ladish caused to be giuen vnto this gentlewoman In short time after sheefell into a sweate not long after shee slept and when shee did awake shee had recouered both sence and speech her burning feuer was asswaged and in few daies after by Iudgement of al her friends shee seemed past all perill and danger of life But shortly after rising vp out of her bed and sitting vp ouer long shee tooke cold so that all the parts of her body became colde were vtterly benummed and without sense her speech failed her strength spirits much abated The former worthy Lady being informed therof did send againe of my Aurum Potabile vnto her which instantly put her into a sweat after she was in bed and by degrees restored her vnto perfect health The same gentlewoman being lately deliuered of two daughters fell into the like passions both of heate and colde and in each of these extremities was releeued with the Essence of Gold as formerly she had beene with Aurum Potabile MAster William Rowden the Kings Maiesties seruant Speech and sence lost and Marshall of his Hall 70. yeares of age or thereabout with a continuall Ardent feuer which held him long he was at the last brought to that debilitie and weakenesse that he altogether kept his bed tooke no rest day nor night but for the most part lay senselesse not knowing what was said or done vnto him In this extremitie I was brought and it pleased God that by these former helpes he was recouered and remaineth still in perfect health MAster William Gore now Alderman Sheriffe Aquartane Ague of the citie of London threescore yeares of age or thereabout dwelling
gentle woman belonging to the Lady and wife of Sir Edward Barret knight Sir Henry Caries Page Sir Henry Caries daughter of the measels The Sonne and heire of Sir Henry Cary of the small pox A young daughter of Sir Richard Norton knight of the Measels which were striken in and recoiled by cold taking whereby the child was in great danger A Kinswoman of Mistris Browne of Essex widdow A Seruant of Master Marsh Esquire then dwelling in Colman-streete A Maid seruant belonging to Ro. Dixon before mentioned An other maid seruant of Master Iohn Morris Marchant dwelling neere vnto leaden hall An Infant of Mr. Price the Kings seruant DAily experiēce also hath taught vs of late that very many both young and old haue miscaried of the Small Pox euen vnder the hands of the best practised Physitions although the cure of them be accounted no difficult matter vnto whom if this approued Medicine so secure from danger so powerfull in corroborating the Heart and expelling the venemous malignitie of that Disease had beene at hand and had beene administred in due time and forme no doubt but the vertue expulsiue being fortified in the patient and the materiall venenositie subtiliated if not all yet some of them might by this only Medicine haue beene recouered As the vse hereof hath preuented death in many so likewise very many wanting the benefit thereof in the flowre of their age perished which haue vsed purgatiue Medicines whose propertie is to draw malignant humors from the externall parts vnto the center of the body and to the very Heart it selfe I leaue this matter to bee considered of by those whom in like case it may concerne hereafter THe Honorable Lady and widdow Doretie Skot Vomiting of sustenance in old age sometime the wife of Sir Thomas Skot Knight of the age of 78. yeares for the space of many daies could retaine no manner of sustenance but instantly cast vp by vomit whatsoeuer shee receiued Neither could this be stayed by any Medicine ministred vnto her All meanes failing my Aurum Potabile staied this extremitie And after taking thereof shee likewise tooke any manner of other sustenance and retained the same Hereby it may appeare that this one and the same Medicine doth sometime procure vomit when nature would be vnburdened and at other times it suppresseth vomit when nature is so infeebled that it would faine retaine nutriment for sustentation but cannot MAster Napper Esquire dwelling in Oxford 60. yeares of age was long time perplexed with a Vomiting and scooring very strange infirmity He was diuers times taken with an extreme vomiting with a scooring likewise which both continued the space of 2. or 3. daies commonly euery houre without intermission vntill his body was vtterly exhausted Thē he became so feeble and weake that he was inforced to keepe his bed many daies vntill by degrees he recouered some strength againe But when his body began to be repleate then did he fall into his former passions In this manner he continued one whole yeare more He vsed for Remedie the counsell and aduise of Physitions both at Oxford and London When all their meanes auailed not then did he send vnto me for my Aurum Potabile which by the helpe of God preuailed in this case to the great admiration of many THe wife of Master William Wiseman Counsellor at the Law after her safe deliuery in Childbirth was possessed both with a feuer as also with an extraordinary and a dangerous flux tam per Menstrua quà m per sedes Her sleepe also was thereby vtterly taken from her By meanes whereof shee was brought vnto great Imbecillitie and despaire of life In this dangerous case after the fruitlesse helpe of other Physitions she was recouered and perfectly restored with the Essence of my golde in few daies SIr Edward Barret Knight hauing his abode Essex Ague sometime in Essex neere vnto the Marishes a Country much subiect to Agues was two seuerall times possessed with that kinde of feuer And each time he was freed from that feuer by the onely helpe of my Aurum Potabile Many also of his seruants more then ten at one seuerall time haue beene taken with that Country feuer One especially amongst the rest a woman hauing chiefe gouernment ouer the family was so grieuously afflicted therewith that her senses were taken from her and other such like accidents so oppressed her that there remained small hope of life Yet it pleased God that both shee and the rest in short time were recouered although the Agues of those parts doe commonly continue long as also in one part of Kent where many haue beene releeued by my Aurum Potabile after that all other meanes haue failed MAster Doctor Sauage Doctor of the Ciuill Lawes Essex Ague 56. yeares of age lying sicke in Essex of the like feuer sent for me to come downe vnto him Beeing now with him and before I administred any thing vnto him hee was strangely taken with convulsions and Crampes in his hands feete legges face and in all the exterior parts of his body with extreme tortures lamentable to beholde I appeased all these symptomes within the space of one halfe houre with the Essence of my gold which in short time brought him into a Sweat and his Convulsions and Crampes ceased 〈◊〉 feuer also was cured in very short time THe same Doctor Sauage now lately within these two moneths was taken with a malignant feuer a Disease now common in sundry places He was perfectly cured thereof only with the Essence of golde I gaue him thereof three graines before the beginning of his fit dissolued in fiue spoonfuls of Endiue water with a little sugar and the like quantitie in the middest of his hot fit This I did reiterate euery fit vntill the fourth fit In which time he was free from his ague But afterwards he fell into the like feuer againe as also into those former Convulsions which could not by any helpe of Medicine be asswaged vntill he was inforced to send vnto me 17. miles for the Essence of golde which being taken gaue him present releefe admirable vnto them who were eye witnesses of the effect thereof MAster Thomas Drywood of Northokenden in Long languishing sicknesse vpon obstructions the County of Essex 30. yeeres of age by reason of obstructions and other inward causes languished a long time became very leane and so into a consumption Being therewith almost spent my Aurum potabile was present remedy to him and he liueth now in good health THe wife of the said Thomas Drywood by the same Weaknesse after childbirth medicine recouered from a great weaknesse and decaied estate caused by hard labour in childbirth and sicknesse afterwards A Daughter of theirs being about 4. yeeres old Obstruct hauing pined and decaied long time of an vnknowne disease vpon the taking of my Potable Gold vomited vp a great quantity of viscous tough matter and then recouered presently A Young daughter of
gold But to ouercome vtterly to suppresse the great aboundance of those humors or matter which caused these fits so often to returne without being perfectly cured I aduised her to take sometimes of my Essence of gold Which when shee had taken shee cast vp a great quantitie of Melancholicke blacke stuffe Since which time she hath neuer beene troubled with any of those passions MAster Iohn Sherington of London Marchant had a sonne about three yeares old long time Obstructions in a childe deiected and weake and had receiued many Medicines against the wormes and other causes which were suspected but to no purpose for he daily grew worse and worse At last therefore hauing taken my Potable golde a few daies he cast vp a great quantity of tough thicke and viscous humors After which the matter of Obstructions being taken away he presently recouered perfect health ALso a yong daughter then borne to this Master A new borne Infant Sherington being sixe moneths old fell dangerously sicke and with the same Medicine was restored THe wife of Mast Coles dwelling in Colmanstreete Plague after the death of her said husband who died of the Plague shee beeing then with childe was also infected And fearing in that case all strong Medicines vsed only my Potable golde and the Essence with vse whereof by Gods grace she recouered her childe saued of which shee was after safely deliuered The husband which tooke other Medicines not this died The wife which refused all other Medicines and tooke only this recouered Notwithstanding the increase of danger by her childbearing Let the due consideration of this one case stop the mouth of malice it selfe and informe the enuious to glorifie God for his great and good gifts bestowed vpon men EDmund Nusum dwelling neere Charing-Crosse fell into a dangerous sicknesse and long time continued therein In this his distresse he sent for a learned Physition of London well knowne who vsed his best skill and endeauours for recouery of this patient But failing in his expectation he tolde the patients wife that she must shortly be a widdow A worthy gentleman their neighbour pitying this case sent his man to me in this sicke mans behalfe I came and found the Apothecarie at the patients dore newly come from him which saluted me with these or the like words You come tooo late there is no good to be done To whome I answered that though I could doe no good yet I would do no hurt So when I came to the patient and could not finde any likely signes nor hopes of life I vndertooke nothing concerning his recouery neither promised so much as hope Yet for a triall I gaue him some of my potable golde and continued that administration all that night once in three houres It pleased God that hee recouered to the great admiration of all men NOt long after the only sonne of the aforesaid Apothecarie whose name was Nathan Darbey 17. yeares of age was likewise taken with a violent burning feuer He had the aduice and counsell not onely of the said Physition before specified but also of many other of the Colledge But the patient grew worse and worse and at length became speechlesse and was as it were vpon the threshold to take death by the hand The father then though in despaire of his sonne yet hauing seene the former effect came hastily vnto me in the Sermon time being then the Sabbath day imploring my aide for his sonnes recouerie if yet it were possible His complaints preuailed I gaue his sonne of these materials iterated by degrees as the case required God blessed the meanes and he recouered MAster William Parkinton gentleman likewise dwelling neere vnto Charing-Crosse and sufficiently well knowne lay dangerously sicke vsing the aduice and helpe of the said before mentioned Physition He neglected no meanes of ordinary course prescribed by Physicke Neuerthelesse the patient found small releefe For the Physition himselfe accounted him a dead man So likewise did his wife and other his friends In this forlorne estate I was called vnto him I only gaue him of the Essence of gold and the Aurum Potabile And that God who doth wound and heale who bringeth vs to the brinke of the graue and raiseth vs vp againe by this meanes as his reuealed ordinance restored him againe vnto perfect health BY these three last instances all dwelling neere vnto one place and almost at one time one Physition being called vnto them all and they all forsaken by him as deplored yet neuerthelesse they all beeing recouered by the only helpe of this Aurum Potabile we must of force acknowledge the same to bee an extraordinary blessing sent from God for releefe of those who haue enioyed the benefit thereof And let no man depraue this Medicine in that it is administred so diuersly It ought rather to be had in greater price The neerer vnto simplicitie the neerer to veritie Also in vaine are many things vsed when one thing preuaileth As in all the course of our life this is true so likewise in administring of Physicke Therfore Damascen saith It were a wicked fact to vse a compound Medicine where a simple profiteth CONCLVSION OF THE SECOND PART BY these euidences and manifold experience sincerely deliuered partly taken and faithfully translated out of Latine letters sent from seuerall parts beyond the seas partly in English verbally set downe as they came to me any reasonable man not seduced by vaine oppositions nor willfully preiudicate nor peruersly malicious may easily iudge that this medicine my Potable gold is the most wholesome safe operatiue medicine which at this day is knowne to be had in vse both for the cure of desperate and hopelesse sicknesses when all helpe of man is accounted vaine And for the wonderfull restoring of the decaied strength and languishing powers of the body with a singular comforting of the heart As also for a Prophylacticke and preseruer of health Which so being the greater is their sinne which contrary to Gods commandement Christian charitie the loue of truth their dutie towards their neighbour and peraduenture their inward testimony of their owne conscience haue so virulently and despitefully inueighed against the true and vncontrollable virtues and effects thereof And in their wast papers of impression haue attempted to shew the power of malicious Rhetoricke thereby to wrong that good which they themselues cannot attaine vnto Whereby so farre as their habilitie and credibilitie could stretch they haue notoriously iniured not me only but all sorts ranks and degrees of people subiect to the vnrespectiue tyranny of sicknesse which maketh no difference betweene the Cottage and Pallace the King and the Peasant The wrong to me is that for my loue and truth workes of charitie good intentions towards all and good deserts of as many as haue made or hereafter shall make vse of the fruites of these my labours they haue rewarded me with that which is vnder my backbiters tongues railing for reuerence