Cotta contra Antonium: or An Ant-Antony: or An Ant-apology manifesting Doctor Antony his apologie for aurum potabile, in true and equall ballance of right reason, to be false and counterfait. By Iohn Cotta Doctor in Physicke.

The first domesticall testimony is this.

Worthy and learned friend, I write vnto you later then I intended, because I thought it not fit to deliuer my opinion before manifold experience made in a matter of such worth and consequence. Experimentum fallax, as our Master Hipo∣crates teacheth. But now I will briefly shew you the vertue and excellency of your medicine.

The second triall that I made thereof, was vpon a very worshipfull Gentleman S^r William Samwell knight. He had a burning feaver with great violence of continuall heat, so that he vtterly lost all sleep. He had withall a weaknesse in his kidneyes, and could not make water. Sundry Glisters were administred vnto him, Purgations, vomits, and hee was also let bloud, all which, in my obseruation, were so farre from gi∣ving

him any ease, that the disease did still growe stronger, and all the Symptomes, or accidents euery day worse and worse and more grieuous. I perswaded the giuing of your medicine. But at the first I could not obtaine that he should take a new and vnknowne thing. At last by the importunity of his friends, and the necessity of his disease still increasing, he yeelded and tooke it. In an instant almost hee felt a gentle remission of his heat and a milde cooling, his spirit comfor∣ted, his kidneyes strengthned, so that he made water in a rea∣sonable good quantity. Since which time he neuer ceased to extoll this medicine, though introth, hauing beene long affli∣cted with a most violent disease, hee hath not as yet fully re∣covered his strength.

Your louing friend Iohn Markes.

Gayton the 10^th of Septemb. 1611.