Daffy's original and famous Elixir salutis: the choice drink of health: or, health-bringing drink ... / [Anthony Daffy].

  • Daffy, Anthony
Date:
1719
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Credit: Daffy's original and famous Elixir salutis: the choice drink of health: or, health-bringing drink ... / [Anthony Daffy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the Hurt, by removing thofe noxious ahc|fharp humours that ocGafion tft# farne. It affo take* away the £au(e of, and cure* the extream 3umingt in the bottom* of the Feet, and Palms of the Hands, which forety afflift the Heart. Finally, it highly exalts the Generative Virtue, and reftore* Radical Moifture, cleanfing and ftrengthening the feminal Veffels in both Scxe*, fit¬ ting, and preparing them for Conception• It retains its full virtue [even years: This I can prove, which is fome years he- fore either Hind, Witherden, or any of the Counterfits knew their Liquors, or what they <*ere good for. „ ; ,v * • It is good for the relief andcure of thofe afflicted with the aforementioned ah /tempers which haveoccafion to take long Voyages, for it operates as well by Sea as Land, and as well beyond or under the Line, as on this fide} This! have had Experience of,by thofe that have taken it in the Eafl and Weft Indies, Barba* does, Hew England, and Guiney. And after the Waters, if you take a Bottle ac¬ cording to your directions, it will cleanfethe Body, and leave it in a very fettled condition. It is alfo excellent to cleanfe the Body,afcer the mia/els or fmallpo6, for it carrieth of thereliquesof (uchdift empers,which being not carried cm,y»Tovedan- gsrousto thePatient. And for thofe that ufcd to drink Scurvy-graft ah in the fpring and fall, by Experience this my Elixir hath been found much more effectual. 11 hath been found of Admirable virtue again if y/orms of all forts; many that have taken itagainft the pains of the Stoma c behave by taken2or jE>ofes,voided thou- (and* offmallwhiteworms ,znd rheyhave been freed fromtfieir pain in two days time. Alio for longworms/\n$ime$ caking my Elixir,Tome hive voided 19 worm* fome of them ; quarters of a yard long, and fome have vpided worms as^krca or dime,to admiration. And without any danger,it may betaken byWomen with cbi Id they are 2 Months gon, as Rfcty as ifthey were not with child,?©t it car¬ rieth of? the dilfempers of the Mother, fo that the Child thrived* the better* In 4U'flr^,Amongft all the difeafes and diftempers Incident to human Bodies, wbichlhavehheardor readof inthefe parts of foeWo?\dyW\\exhexo{Mep,Women, Children or Bakes, do in the prefence of God, upon my long Experience of the virtues of tti\tCordialDrin fa there is noc one difeafe ^ble towithftand, but js thro' God's Bleiling Subject, unto my Drink's innocent powerful and miracuiom Operation, (Gods appointed time for the Patients Diffolution being not come.) ]might without oftentatation or any vain glory, (if brevity were not de- ftgned) bring inftances of Perfons that have (by Gods bitflag upon the feeming improbable means ol my Drink) been cured of the Pefti ente, ome of Agues j and others. »' _ „ Arid 1 do in the prefence of tht Almighty Searcher ofHearts affirm,# taith- fully prornife,that this my pleafant inojfenfive DrinkM^rth much care fill we s integrity duly prepared bymcjfo.that ipy wife hath (thro the Lords g00 ne s fuccefsfttliy taken the fame her fe\(( lying in) and Babes) in the.Ahnth o - fied,a$ inmyDireCttomfor faking the fame tsparticularlvexpre(i.)An oa u-.e you,that there is nothing of aMineral orChymical extraction in it,as ome .av fuggtfied, on purpoie to weaken its efteem arnong the People® *
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