Elixir salutis: the choice drink of health or, health-bringing drink / [Anthony Daffy].

  • Daffy, Anthony
Date:
1675
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Credit: Elixir salutis: the choice drink of health or, health-bringing drink / [Anthony Daffy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the County of Bedford, who was cured Eleve*n years fince, and may once a Fortnight be found at the Three Broad Arrows in Golden Lane, London • who by God’s ble/Iing upon this my Drinks, voided above an Hundred Stones; whereof the 6rif, as big as the middle part of a Tobacco Pipe, and about an Inch long, and fo foft at its coming away, that one might crumble it between the lingers • moil of the other Stones, [mailer, fome of the bignefs of an Horfi-bean, fome as little as a Pea , all rendred foft and of a crumbling nature. Miflrefs Tanner ,\Wmg within the New Pofiern, over againfl Alderman- bury, London, hathiikewife found mj Drinks under,God, effectual tothec/ov of this grievous painful Diftemper, in bringing away above Jixty /tones, one whereof is as big as a Date-ftone. So Mr, Elliot at the Parrot, at the upper end of Drury Lane, and Mr. Stephen Dali][on a Shoo.maker,next Sovcrfet honfe in the Strand. Alfo the (aid Thomas Hinde at the Pi&ure-Shop, when all other Means and Phjficians (from one to another) in five years fore affli&ion , proved urafuc- celsful to him, either for help or eafe • Nine Spoonfuls,or three Dofes of this my Drinks (as 1 prepared it) did by the Lord’s bleffing, bring him to void a Stone, three-forked, like the upper end of fome Tobacco-flapper, about the bignefs of an Horfe-bean, which hath been feen by fundry perfons of Note in this City, and elfcwhere. And of his Cure by my Drink I have his Certificate ( ready to fhew, if need require. ) Many more living Teftimonies might be named of the incredible and excellent virtues of this Drink* bringing away the Stone, Sand, and Gravel, when congealed, the Sand and Gravel brought away as foft, as Meal or Flower under^rhe finder: and if the fame be congealed,it fometimes brings it away on a fuddain /hard as a Pibble , as the aforefaid Mr. Crawley hath experienced. Mr. Bobert Good fin, at the Red Crofi in St. Martins le Grand, having alfo lately been forcly racked with this torture, found this Elixir under God a fpeedy and effectual remedy in voiding with much eafe a Stone, of the bignefs of a tmill Bean, lince which he hath been very well, and fo remains to this day. 2fgain& JLanguitytng ano SipelancfeoUj’. raifeth Laflgutlliing Nature, and A 4e lane holly drooping Spirits, it fails riot cf curing the HypocondriackMelancholly, and moft powerfully oppofeth all black and mixed humours (as Natures grand Enemy) conti-rm- aily drawing them out of the Veins and Arteries into the Stomach, and from rlience fends them away ; and after their expulfion Nature rejoyceth. S>tjo.ttne$ of 23ieat!j> ColUcfe, piping in ttje ©uts. THis Drinkdoth, by the Lord’s blefling, fuddainly help bad Digeflion , or ftoppage of the Stomach and Jhortnefs of Breath, canting a good ap¬ petite,and defending the head from all vapors afeending from the Mother and Spleen. It is found a mold certain Remedy for the Collick and any Griping V » ' of