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.

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 ex∣pelling the venemous malignitie of that Disease, had beene at hand, and had beene administred in due time and forme, no doubt but (the vertue ex∣pulsiue being fortified in the patient, and the ma∣teriall 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.