IN like manner was there an other, whose name is* 1.1 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 in∣to a sleepe, sweating in his sleepe, & after his awaking, his sense and speech returned, and himselfe recouered health, and yet is liuing.
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.
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- 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.
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- Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20238.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Speech and sence lost