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 corrosives, helpefully given for the health of man in most diseases ... / [Francis Anthony].

  • Francis Anthony
Date:
1616
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 corrosives, helpefully given for the health of man in most diseases ... / [Francis Anthony]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/148 page 5
    not all: not through defeft of efficacie in the Me¬ dicine it felfe, butrcfpe&iuely for the inhabilitie of the fubieft. Thisalfo maybeproued byreafon deriued from 1 thofe Medicines of Kationall Phyfitians, which for rea themultiplicitieof their operatiue extent to many fon‘ intentions, and curing of many difeafes, are called Poly chre (fa,that is, of many vfes. For if there be a* mong them fuch as be helpful not to one only lingu¬ lar affection,but to many different difeafes,why is it not like wife confequent and reafonable,that by help of Art, a Medicine may be made much more com- prehenfiue of efficacie vpon difeafes i And as it may bee made to exceede in one degree, fb in 1.3.4. loo.andfrom Polychrefton,ofmany vfes.beCatho- iicon, vniuerfall, of all vfes. The reafbnis all 09c to reafonable men. IfobieCtionbemade, that fuch Polychreft is arti¬ ficially made by compofition of many things, wher- in are diuerfitie of natures. And this vniuerfall of one onely,which implieth an impoffibilitie of different and contrary operatiue faculties : to this I anfwere, that Polychrefts are made out of Simples without commixtion: AsfromRheubarbe, Vineger, Lead, Niter, Vitriall, Opium, Cam ph ire, and many other, wherof fome doe both loofe and knitj fome do heate and coole, fome haue other contrary effe&s,which appeare in their operations, and are teftified by Writers. Thefe things being thus in impure mix¬ tures and vnperfed bodies, what doubt can there be made ofthe high prerogatiue and fupreme excellen- cie of Gold, which all the learned and experienced antiquity5and the continued deriuation from thence vnto this day haue acknowledged and magnified for A 3 the ..a
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3