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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London :: Printed by Iohn Legatt,
1616.
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Gold -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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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 May 6, 2024.

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MAster Doctor Sauage, Doctor of the Ciuill Lawes, 56. yeares of age, lying sicke in Essex of the like feuer, sent for me to come downe vnto him. Beeing

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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 tor∣tures, 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.

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