The universall medicine, or, The virtues of the magneticall, or antimoniall cup confirmed to be a health-procuring, health-preserving, and health-restoring effectuall medicine by extant monuments of antiquity, by testimonies of Honourable personages, by 100 admirable and rare experiments, by 200 persons of quality that have experienced the same / collected by John Evans ... Evans, John, Minister and preacher of God's word. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A38771 of text R7392 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3452). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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Confirmed to be a health-procuring, health-preserving, and Evans, John, Minister and preacher of God's word 1651 26424 28 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-10 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2004-10 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE UNIVERSALL MEDICINE : OR , THE VIRTUES OF THE Magneticall , or Antimoniall Cup . Confirmed To a be Health-procuring , Health-preserving , and Health-restoring Effectuall Medicine . By extant Monuments of Antiquity . By testimonies of Honourable Personages . By 100. admirable and rare experiments . By 200. Persons of quality that have experienced the same . Collected By JOHN EVANS Minister and Preacher of Gods Word . In hoc unico Antimonio videndam exhibebimus Vniversalem Medicinam , Medicinarum Medicinam , & admirandorum aut miraculorum ipsum miraculum seu mirabile mirabilium . Jos. Quer. c. 31. p. 386. LONDON , Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne ( in Thame-street , neer Addlehill , where you may receive information how to come by the fore-mentioned Cups . ) 1642. 1651. TO THE Honorable and Illustrious Assembly the Knights , Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of PARLIAMENT . THE admirable and incomparable Virtues of this Magneticall Medicine ( having passed , as the pure and well refined Gold , many perfect Examinations ) now presenteth it Self to your Noble Hands , humbly craving your Honorable protection of this usefull Medicine : It is amply accommodated with warrantble Testimonies to be the alone Phoenix and Miracle of all Physicall Miracles the Elixer of Life , the Balsame of Nature ; It containeth Mystically and Essentially the quintessence of all Mineralls and Vegitables , and Magnetically Sympathizeth with all Animals , It is in Materiall composition , as being compounded in due proportioned Number , Weight and Measure , an Abstract or Compendium of this Elementary World : It is Extracted from the choysest and purest Mineralls , and Mettals ; It is Animated by Coelestiall Influences , It is sanctified and Metaphysically indowed with Excellent Virtues by the alone worker of all miriacles , from whom every good and perfect gift proceedeth : This my Magneticall medicine is distinct in Nature , Compositions and Qualities , and transcendent in Effects and Virtues from the common Regulus of Antimony , whereof violent and pernitious Antimoniall Cups are commonly made and vulgarly vended , The medicinall Virtues , by me declared to be herein Essentially permanent , are Experimentally approved and found to be most certain and true ; This is a healthfull medicine without having or leaving any evill qualities or malignant Effects after the taking thereof , as I shall answer before God & Man . Wherefore in full assurance and confidence of the Excellency & safety of this magneticall medicine , I humbly present and subject this pretious Jewell to your Honorable Just Censure and Judegment , earnestly praying that it may obtain with you such credit , esteem and acceptation , as the true worth of it shall really merit . And thus humbly and devoutly imploring from the alone giver of all permanent Graces , upon you and yours a plentifull multiplication of all terrene beatitudes , heavenly Indowments , and Coelestiall Glories , with his promised reward for constant Faihfulnesse , which is a Crown of Life ; So earnestly prayeth . your Honours most humbly Devoted . JOHN EVANS . To the Reader . WHAT the Lord hath sanctified , and communicated for the health and profit of many , ought not to be concealed for the envy and displeasure of a few : Gods Candle must not be put under a bushell , neither must his Talent be wrapped up and buryed in the ground his endowments are communicative , and every reall Christian may vendicate his part and portion therein . To you therefore belongeth this Medicinall Jem , whosoever that desire to prevent contagious and Infectious Maladies , to preserve your Bodies in health , strength , and vigor of Nature , or to restore such as are already infirmed with desperate and dangerous Diseases . Accept then this excellent Jewell as the singular gift of God ; and the Medicinall Virtues thereof herein mentioned , for the approved experiments of Right Honourable , and Right Worshipfull Personages , many of them for their Eminency and height of Honour , wherewith they are rightfully ennobled , not here to be mentioned : And the rest of such worth and Dignity , that for their Piety and Learning , they are not inferior to many in the Kingdom . And although this might give sufficient satisfaction to all reasonable minds ; Neverthelesse , for that an undoubted Truth feareth not to be exposed to all examinations , whosoever pleaseth shall have a moneths tryall of them before they buy them ; to the end that by the certainty of their own knowledge , practice , and experience , they may be fully confirmed , that the one half of the medicinall Virtues of this Antimoniall Cup , is not herin reported unto them . A Compendious declaration of the most admirable Virtues of the Magneticall Cup . 1. IT purgeth the body from all Repletion , and fullness of evill humors . 2. It will permit no corrupt matter to remaine within the body . 3. It helpeth against all evill affects of the stomack . 4. It cureth all intermittent agues , and burning Fevers . 5. It helpeth against the swiming in the head , against madnes & frensy . 6. It cureth the Green-sicknesse , and helpeth against all Obstructions . 7. It preventeth & helpeth against the Gout , the Stone & the Sciatica 8. It helpeth against al tumors swellings , impostumes , & all other aches 9. It cureth perfectly Morbus Gallicus , and Lues Venerea . 10. It cureth perfectly the Kings Evill , and all scrophulous Diseases . 11. It is a good Preservative against the Plague , and all Contagions . 12. It is a soveraign remedy against Poysons , and Venemous corruptions . 13. It cureth perfectly the Falling-sicknesse and all Convulsions . 14. It cureth Congelations , Lamenesse , the Cramp , and Night-mare . 15. It cureth the small-Pox , the spotted Fever , and the Purples . 16. It cureth the Apoplexie , Lethargie , Palsie , and Plurisie . 17. It destroyeth Worms , purifieth the Blood , cleareth the Complexion . 18. It emptieth the Stomack of all evil humors , the Liver of choller , the Spleen of melancholy , the Pectoral parts from all hurtfull humors , the Head and Throat of flegme , and rhume , and all Distillations . 19. It restoreth Appetite lost , It causeth rest to the Sences , and sleep . 20. It cureth Wounds , cleanseth and healeth Sores , and stancheth blood . 21. It consumes , dissipates , & purges away Wens , & other excrescences 22. It cleanseth and perfectly healeth Vlcerous Sores and Fistulaes . 23. It consumeth away rotten and putrified dead flesh ▪ & restoreth new . 24. It purifieth and cleareth the sight , and consumeth the Web or Pearl . 25. It is excellent against many sorts of Diseases used in Clysters . 26. It restoreth from Consumptions , and preserveth Naturall vigor . 27. It cureth the Dropsie , and asswageth pains of the bones and arteries . 28. It cureth the Morphew , Ring-worms Cankers , and spreading Sores . 29. It purgeth , healeth , and stayeth the Bloody F●●x , and the Whites . 30. It dissolveth and purgeth congealed , cluttered , bruised blood . 31. It is safe and without violence or danger , & never loseth his virtues A Confirmation of the Medicinall Virtues of the Antimoniall Cup : Collected out of the most Famous , Learned , and best Approved Philosophers and Physitians , that have written of that Subject . OF all the Mineralls contained within the bowels of the Earth , Antimonium deserveth the greatest praise , for the most excellent Medicinall Virtues it conteineth for the health and benefit of mankinde . It is a Minerall of dark colour , interveined with glistering streaks , consisting according to Paracelsus , of Mercury , Sulphur , and Salt . Antimonium corpus suum ex Mercurio assumit , estque natura Mercurij crassissima , postquam expurgatur , vires & virtutes Mircurij omnes retinit nihilq●e est aliud , quam coagulatus Mercurius per spiritum Salis & Sulphur . And therefore it is generally , by all the Spagiricks , called the Balsame , Restorer , and Preserver of Nature . It was first discovered by Geber King of Arabia , and by him called Magnesia ; for as Magnes draweth Iron unto it with the one point , and expelleth it with the other : So this magnetically extracteth to● , and expelleth from the Stomack , whatsoever within the whole body of man is found to be offensive to Nature , or contrary to the health and good constitution of the body . It is also called Lupus , for that it devoureth and destroyeth all Metals except the Lyon , which is Gold ; and that it refineth and purifieth above all other things ; so doth it also destroy all the corrupt humors that are within the body of man , leaving no impurity to remain in the same . Basilius Valentinus Monachus , compareth it to a Ring , without beginning , without ending , for that his Medicinall and naturall Virtues are inscrutable and past finding out . Many are the Medicines that are prepared of this Minerall , both against inward and outward Infirmities ; but I freely and willingly disclaim them all ( especially for inward causes ) saving only the Regulus , and what may be conveniently prepared by help of the same , saying with learned and conscionable Duncanus , Caeterasciens omitto , tanquam pernitiosa medicamenta , Jatroch . Born . pag. 91. contenting my self with that , which by authority and testimony of the learned , and the experiments of my worthy friends , and by common practice and experience shall be ( by Gods grace ) invincibly confirmed . The first corner-stone of my building , shall be that of Duncanus , confirmed also by laborious and learned Milius : Hic Regulus est summum auri examen , ac vera omnium florum , & tincturarum medicinalium , in Antimonio existentium materia , that is , This Regulus is the chiefest examination of gold , and the true subject and matter of all medicinall Virtues , contained within the Body of Antimony . To this agreeth the testimony of Basilius Valentinus Monachus , calling it Regulus , sive Dominus medicinae . Divine Authority , Nature , and Experience confirmeth this truth ; for as life is hid in man , so in all things , whether Animal , Vegitable , or Minerall , it is invisibly incentred , and so punctually indiscernaable , that according to the learned Philosopher Mich. Sengivodius Polonus , the living spark is only the 8200. part of any subject : admire then the effectuall power of that spark of life mentioned in the resembled Mustard-seed ; and this to the understanding Reader , may give some touch , both for the universality , penetration , and perpetuation of this divine Medicine . And now having discovered my Materia prima , I will produce such workmen for the erection of this little Fabrick , so well experienced in their profound knowledge , that though by malice and ignorance , they have been often blamed , they could never be shamed , nor justly reproved , and the first shall be that Orientall Star of Naturall , Spagiticall , and Magneticall light and knowledge Theophrastus Paracelsus . He in the sixth book . Tit. De vita Longa pag. 167. saith as followeth . Quemadmodum Antimonium purgat Aurum , ita purgat etiam corpus , continet enim essentiam eam quae nihil impuri relinquit in puro , nec ullus est usque adeò , in scriptis Archidoxeos peritus , aut tam insignis Spagyrus , qui vires & facultates Antimonii , plenè indagare queat . In prima enim Yle , Antimonium adeo exaltatum & inter Mineras Elementi aquae praedestinatum est , ut facultas , & virtus ejus nullo diluvio , instar caeterorum aquaearum crescentium imminuta aut absorpta sit , adeóque his omnibus Antimonium longè praestat . In praedestinatione illud ita se habet , ut se influentiae accommodet , nulla facultate , aut dote ejus diminuta , aut infirmata , itaque ex omnibus mineralibus summi Arcani laudem optinet , hoc seipsum purgat , & unà secum etiam alia , quod si nihil boni in subjecto reperitur , impurum corpus transmutat in purum , sicut de Lepra notum est , &c. Paracels . lib. 6. De vita longa , pag. 167. Like as Antimony purifieth Gold , so doth it also cleanse or purifie the body of man , it conteineth that essence which will permit no uncleannesse to remain in that which is pure : neither is there any one found so skillfull in the chiefe secrets of Nature , or so excellent a Spagyrick , that can finde out fully the virtues and medicinall properties of Antimony : it is so much exalted in his first Being , and appointed from the beginning to excell all other Minerals that are of the Element of water , that his virtues should be , and remain , without waste , or diminution for ever : and that it should sympathize and apply to the celestiall influence , so to be perpetually susteined in full efficacy , virtue , and effect . Therefore of all Mineralls it obteineth the praise of the greatest secret , It purgeth it self , and together with him all other bodies , and although it findeth but little which is clean or pure : it purifieth cleanseth , and changeth that unclean body to be most pure and clean , as it is well known by practice and experience made upon leprous persons . And again in the sixth book , pag. 22. Quinta essentia Antimonii venenum adimit , pulmonem enim & cor & membra laeprae subjecta mundat autem & corpus totum purificat & renovat mirum in modum : The essence of Antimony expelleth poyson , comforteth the heart , and wonderfully restoreth & purifieth the Lights and other parts of the body apt to be infected with Leprosie . Moreover the 7. book p. 73. Tanta vis & virtus est in Antimonio , ut restaurat enim & renovat universas in corpore vires , ac facultates mirificè : Such , and so great , is the virtue of Antimony that it wonderfully restoreth and reneweth all the strength and vigour of the whole body . And in the eight book he declareth at large the severall virtues and medicinall operations of many other excellent Vegitables and Minerals , and in the end concludeth , Haec junctim uno in Antimonio latent ; These that we have severally spoken of are all inclusively contained in Antimony alone . In the sixth book , pag. 22. He teacheth how , by their excellency in virtue and operation , to distinguish of the preheminence , and degrees of dignities of Simples , the one above the other ; saying , That those that perform the more difficult and desperate cures , ought to bear away the glory of their excelling virtues ; concluding thus : Hoc videmus accidere Antimonio , curat Leprosos , Morpheam , Alopeciam & similia , Scabies omnes , & Cicatrices , Leoninam , Elephantiam , Tiriam , &c. Et iterum , Antimonium lepram expellit , magis quam de ipso credibile sit , non secus etiam de aliis intelligendum . This we see to happen in Antimony , it cureth Leprosie , cleareth the Complexion , stayeth the falling of the Hair , cureth Ring-worms ▪ Tetters , and scurviness of the Skin , all Scabs and spreading Sores , and all contagious and infectious Diseases . And again afterwards , Antimony expelleth the Leprosie more effectually than would be believed , the like operation it hath against other desperate Diseases . And in the third book , pag. 343. Antimonium nihil sinit putrescere : Antimony suffereth nothing to corrupt or putrifie within the body of man . And in the fourth book , pag. 265. Antimonium per transmutationes rerum preparatum est , eoque reductum ut in dulcedinem abjerit , haec ab infantibus lincta , Caeducum sanavit , in Antimonio vis ac tam potens Arcanum latet , ut paroxysmum etiam vehementissimum tollit : Antimony is so to be prepared , and brought to that sweetness that it may be taken of Infants , and have been thereby cured of the falling sicknesse ; there is so great virtue and power in Antimony , that it taketh away , and preventeth the most extremest fits of the Falling-sickness , Paracels . lib. 4. pag. 265. Furthermore , he in the sixth book , pag. 146. saith , Sic ut Antimonium finit Aurum , sic eadem ratione ac forma finit corpus : In illo enim est essentia , quae nihil impuri cum puro confundi sinit , atquo adeò virtus permanserit , ita ut sese ex influentia semper dirigat , neque aliquid de vi ; ac virtute nativa unquam decesserit . Merito igitur omnia , quae mineralium sunt , quorum summum ac potissimum Arcanum in se claudit Antimonium , huic uni tribuimus , mundat seipsum una eum reliquis quae immunda sunt , porro si nihil omninò sani adest , immundum corpus in mundum transformat : Lib. 6. De vita longa , pag. 146. Like as Antimony refineth Gold , so also by the same reason and manner it purifieth the body of man : In it there is that essence that suffereth no impurity nor uncleanesse to remaine confusedly intermingled amongst the pure and good , and his virtues so constantly remaineth , directing himselfe alwayes according to the heavenly influence , that of his naturall virtue and power , he shall at no time suffer losse or diminution thereof . Worthily therefore doe we attribute to this alone , the power and virtue of all Minerals , whose chiefe and most powerfull secret effects , Antimony comprehendeth in it selfe alone , he refineth himself , and purifieth , together with it selfe , what he findeth unclean : moreover , though he finde nothing sound he altereth and changeth that impure body to a clean and sound constitution : Lib. 6. And to conclude , Essentia Antimonii est purgatio vera , quae purgat hominem excellentissimè super alia quaevis Arcana , radicitus evellit auferendū , ac omne quod immundum est : humanum corpus in supremum usque sanationis gradum purum efficit , ac ab omnibus aegritudinibus mundat , etiam illis ex quibus oriuntur ulcera ; quicquid penes hominem fuerint impuri delet . The essence of Antimony is a true and naturall purge , which purgeth a man most excellently above all other secrets , it utterly taketh away by the root whatsoever is foule , unwholsome , and ought to be removed , and reduceth the body of man to the highest degree of perfect health , and cleanseth from all manner infirmities and diseases , even from those that are the originall and fountain of ulcerous and dangerous diseases , it fully and freely removeth all corrupt and impure humours , that might lye lurking within any part of the body of man . Thus farre Paracelsus in his lesser Chyrurgery , pag. 323. My second testimony shall be Martinus Rulandus , a man of sound judgement , great practice and experience , he called the infusion of this Cup his Aqua benedicta , in the 5. Cent. and the 95. Cure he saith thus . Communi opinione Hermeticorum receptum est , Magnesiam Saturni quam aiuut esse Antimonium , existere Ens , & radicem omnium metallorum , ex Regulo hujus Antimonii vasculum formetur ad usum medicinale satis aptum , mirabile & idoneum semper , permanens citra ponderis sui viriumque amissionem . It is received by the consent and common opinion of all Hermeticall Philosophers , that the Magnesia of Saturne , which they call Antimony , is the originall and beginning of all metalls . Of the Regulus of this Antimony there is made a little vessell or cup very admirable , fit and effectuall for his medicinall virtues , alwayes remaining in force without losse of weight and virtue : the Infusion of this cup he calleth his Aqua benedicta , which he alwayes , ( cum maxima aegrotorū salute in omnibus morbis vulgo etiam incurabi ibus , ) used with good successe , and the restitution of the health of his patients , yea also in such diseases as were commonly reputed to be incureable . And in another place he saith ; Mirifica● possidet virtutes in tota bene medendi ratione , &c. It containeth admirable virtues fit to be used in all sound and perfect medicinall cures , 1. It cleanseth the stomack , 2. Purgeth the head , 3. Preventeth the Lethargy , Swimming , and Vertigo , 4. Cureth frensie and madnesse , 5. Preventeth , and many times cureth the falling sicknesse , 6. It cureth an inveterated cough and hoarsnesse , although it be of long continuance . 7. Cleareth the wind-pipe and passage from the lungs and so helpeth such as are short-winded . 8. It cureth the Squinancy or stoping in the throat . 9. It openeth , purgeth , and healeth all Impostumes in the lungs . 10. Restoreth the stomack , and expelleth all evill affects of the same . 11. Preventeth and cureth the Plurisie . 12. Cureth deep melancholy and madnesse , Cheers up the heart and vitall spirits . 13. Cureth the Hypochondriaca or windy melancholy . 14. And is of excelling virtue against all manner of Fevers and Agues . 15. It prevents the infection of the Plague , or other contagious diseases : 16. It preserveth from the Gout , and every kinde and species thereof . 17. It purifieth the blood , cleanseth the whole body . 18. Dissipateth and bringeth away congealed or clotted blood or any other currupt matter . 19. Destroyeth and expelleth all manner of worms . 20. Cureth Morbus Gallicus , & Lues venerea . 21. It prevaileth against the yellow Jaundise , and all overflowings of the gaul . 22. It openeth and cleanseth all manner of obstructions it is saith Rulandus , Medicina Medicinarum , the Medicine of Medicines , good , healthfull , and profitable to be used against all manner of Diseases and Infirmities whatsoever : Thus much and more Mar. Rulandus affirmeth upon his experience and knowledge , whereof read more , Ruland . Cent. 5. Cur. 95. and Cent. 9. cap. 51. Quercitan confirmeth every particular hereof , and reciteth many other experiments of his own practice . See Phrm , restituta Quercitani , pag. 345. And again pag. 238. Martinus Rulandus affirmavit se sua aqua benedicta . i. Infusione Reguli Antimonij , centies faelicissimo successis , luem venerean curasse : That is , Rulandus affirmeth , That he ( with his blessed water which is the infused liquor in the Antimoniall Cup ) hath perfectly cured the French Pox , and running of the Reins an hundred times , with happy and good successe . This reciteth Quercitan out of Martinus Rulandus . In the third place I will produce Quercitan himself , Aqua benedicta Antimonij , Insignes enim , & mirandas edit effectus , blandè provocat vomitum & quatuor vel quinque sedes , evacuando per superiora & inferiora simul , quod vix praestabit aliud remedium , usurpatur etiam faelicissime , ad omnis generis febres , etiam pestiferas pleuritides item aliosque deploratissimos affectus qui ob radices profundius validinque infixas , vix subigi & edomari possunt : Vid. Quer. Pharm ▪ rest . 238. The blessed water or infusion of the Magneticall Cup , perfometh most excellent and wonderfull effects , it gently procureth vomit , and four or five stools purging both upward and downwards together , which hardly any other Medicine will doe : it is administred very successefully against all kind of Fevers , although they be pestilent and infectious ; also against the Plurisie , and against all other deplored and desperate Diseases , which are so strongly confirmed , and deeply rooted , that they cannot be over-mastered another way , or by any other Medicines . Thus far Quercitan in his Pharmacop . rest pag. 238. Fourthly , This truth shall be further confirmed by the testimonies of that excellent and learned Doctor of Physick and Philosophy , that wrote out of his own experience and manuall practise , Basilica Antimonij in the 22. and 23. page he saith . Antimonium est laudabile , & singulare Pestis preservativum , in Hydrope , Lue pestifera , & gallica , in Obstructionibus hepatis , & Lyenis , Ictero , Lepra ejusque speciebus omnibus , medicamen est speciale , & admirabile , ad articulorū gravitatem à Podagra vel Lue venerea relictā commendatur , in vitiosa sanguificatione , in Chachexia , & Lepra laudatur , Catarrhos , cor , & pulmones serientes , cum summo successu exhaurit , & ex hoc celeberrima aqua opthalmica paratur , ad unbeculas & suffusiones cōmendatur , & ad purgantia Enemeta , cum bono & felici successu recipitur , curat omnes obstructiones viserum , à quartana & tertiana liberat , in Anasarca comm●ndabilis existit , sanguinis est depurativum , Leprae , Epilepsiae , & Podagrae unicum preservativum . That is , Antimony is a laudable and singular preservative against the Plague , it is a speciall and an admirable Medicine against the Dropsie , the running of the Reins , and the French Pox , against all obstructions of the Liver or the Spleen , against the intollerable pain of the Arteries and the Joynts , proceeding from the infection of the Pox ; it is much commended and praised to purifie and cleanse the blood against the Leprosie and the evill estate of the body : It drieth up all Rhumes and Distillations that offend the Heart or corrupt the Lungs . And of this infusion is made a most excellent medicine for the eyes . It is also administred with good and happy successe for purging Glisters : It cureth all obstructions of the inward parts : It delivereth from the tertian and quartan Fevers : It is commended against the Dropsie Anasarca : It is the best purifier of the Blood ; And is the chiefest , and only preservative against the Leprosie , the Epilepsie , and the Gout . pag. 22 , 23. usque ad 30. And again , the same Author in his Basilica Antimonij , pag. 39 , 40. &c. saith thus ; Antimonium , Naturam confortando sudores movendo , sanguinemque depurando , tantum inimicissimis humanae vitae hostibus bellum in dixit , ut neque Hydrops , neque Podagra , Arthritis , Gallica Lues . Lepra & hisce affines morbi , contra talem medicinam quicquid moliri ausint : Antimony by conforting Nature , by procuring Sweat , and by purifying of the Blood , wageth such war against the most cruell enemies of mans life , that neither the Dropsie , nor the Gout , nor the Morbus , nor the Leprosie , can any thing at all withstand the effectual virtues of this Medicine , p. 39. And again , Antimoniū diphoreticū est utilissimum , quod vires conservando sudores movet , in peste & febribus sursum & deorsum movendo purgat , in Hydrope maxime Arcanum : Antimony is a most profitable sweat-procuring Medicine , which by preserving the naturall strength procureth Sweat , and purgeth away the infection of the Plague , and pestilentiall Fever by purging the body both upwards and downwards . Ad capitis affectus singulare remedium : It is a singular remedy against all evill affects of the head . Moreover in the 43. pag. he saith , Antimonium per vomitum venenum recentur assumptum , citissime ejicitur , in febribus & capitis doloribus utiliter exhibitur , omnem Epilepsiae fomitem excernit , & horribilem istum affectum , & hostem vitaequae humanae tortorem omninò expellit , & eradicat , omnem vitiosam colluviem per vomitum , & alvum expellit : pag. 43. Antimony by vomit expelleth poyson speedily , if lately taken , it is given very profitably against all Fevers and infirmities of the head , it sifteth out the unwholsome matter of the Falling-sicknesse , and utterly expelleth this cruell torture , and adverse enemy to the life and health of mankinde , also it driveth out by vomit and siedge all filthy corruption and impurity out of the body of man . Furthermore in the 46. pag. he saith , Antimonium febres curat , à putredine praeservat , ciborum appetentiam excitat , ventriculum constringendi confortat , omnemque calorem praeter Naturam , in corpore humano ortum extinguit , epilepsiam curat , calculum francit , lumbricos enecat , mensis & urinam movet , & dolores etiam padagricos extrinsecus adhibitum mulcet , & multa alia in medicina praestat , dentium dolorem sistit , Balsamum vitae instaurat , sanguinem purificat , obstructiones reserat ; nunquam anhelosos & asthmaticos deserit , summum sanguinis mundificativū , Calculū renum & vesicae frangit & expellit , urinam & sudores movet , ulcera , fistulas , & vulnera à putridine conservat & sanat Antimony cureth Fevers , preserveth from Putrefaction , procureth Appetite , comforteth the Stomack , allayeth all immoderate , and unnaturall heat , cureth the Falling-sicknesse , breaketh the Stone , killeth Worms , procureth Urine , and the monethly Flowers , asswageth the pain of the Gout by bathing with the infusion and externall application ; and hath many other medicinall virtues , stayeth the pain of the Teeth , restoreth the Balsame and strength of nature , purifieth the blood , openeth obstructions , forsaketh not to comfort and help the Asthmaticall , and such as are short-winded , is the chief cleanser and purifier of the Blood , it breaketh and expelleth the Stone , whether it be of the Reins or of the Bladder , it procureth Urine and Sweat , cureth perfectly Ulcers , Fistula's and Wounds , and preserveth them from corruption and putrefaction . Basilica Antimonij , pag. 47 , 48. 49. I may not omit the testimony of that excellent Physitian Oswaldus Crollius Physitian to the Prince of Anhalt , who in his Basilica Chimica , pag. 214. saith thus : Antimonium operatur mirabilia in peste , in febribus , acutis , in Mania , in dilirio , in dementiis , facinationibus , morbis omnibus in universum opitulatur , epilepsiis & aliis quamplurimis morbis adjuvat , per alvum , per superiora , per por●s , per insensibilem transpirationem noxia copiose expurgat . Antimony doth wonderfull things in the preservation from the Plague , in sharp Fevers , against Madnesse , Forgetfullnesse , distractions , Witchcrafts ; it helpeth in generall against all diseases , comforteth against the falling evill , and many other desperate diseases . And again , in the 216. page , he saith ; Mirabilia operatur in Peste , quartana , hydrope ▪ longis obfirmatis morbis , diuturnis putridis febribus , cachexia , melancholia , insania , delirio venenorum haustorum symptomatibus ; It worketh wonderfull effects against the Plague , the Quartan Ague , the Dropsie , and against inveterate and confirmed diseases , and against continuall , rotten , and corrupt Fevers , against the Leprosie , and foul spots of the skin , against melancholy , madnesse , dotage , forgetfullnesse , and all evill qualities of poysons and venemous things : And concludeth in the 219. page , Non datur melius catharticum : A better purging Medicine cannot be given . I will conclude this discourse with the authority and testimony of Mylius , and Duncanus Bornetus Jatrochimia , Dun. p. 93. Antimonium est praestantissimum , & nunquam satis laudatum medicamentum , ad restaurationem & renovationem corporis humani , tinctura enim illa expurgat atrum sanguinem , & vitiosos quosque humores , idque cum evacuatione manifesta , & pravorum humorum correctione , hepatis obstructionibus opitulatur , hydropem discutit , icteritiam curat , laeticiam generat , leprosis sanitatem restituit , & est praestantissimus adpulmones Balsamus : estque efficax ad Luem veneream curandam , medicamentum . Maximum enim pro lepra Arcanum est , quo nihil fere in hoc morbo praestantius inveniri potest : Lienem rectificat , matricis dolorem sedat , menses movet , ejusque vigorem conservat , Morphaeam curat , Scorbuto medetur , bilem utramque expellit ex toto corpore , Calculos frangit , caput & cerebrum expurgat , epilepsiae & convulsionibus omnibus medetur : & ut brevibus dicam in deploratissimis morbis ferè omnibus summum est remdium : That is , Antimony is a most excellent , and never-sufficiently praised medicine : for the restauration and renovation of the body of man , the infusion or tincture thereof purgeth black blood and choller , and every corrupt humour , and that both by manifest evacuation and correction of evill humours : It helpeth against all obstructions of the Liver , and of the Spleen ; disperseth the Dropsie ; cureth the Jaundise ; procureth cheerfulnesse and gladnesse of the heart ; restoreth the Leprous to perfect health , and is the best preservative of the lungs : It is a perfect and effectuall cure for Morbus Gallicus ; and the chiefest secret against Leprosie , for that nothing is found to be more excellent against that foule disease : It rectifieth the Spleen ; asswageth the griefes of the Mother ; procureth the monthly tearms ; preserveth and increaseth Nature in strength ; cureth the Morphew ; healeth the Scurvy ; expelleth both black and yellow choller out of the body ; breaketh and expelleth the stone : purgeth the head and brain ; helpeth against the falling sicknesse , and al convulsions : and , to conclude ; It is a chief and an excellent Medicine against all desperate and dangerous diseases . Thus far Duncanus . To the end that it may apparently , and without contradiction , be manifest to all , that these collections and testimonies grounded upon knowledge , practice and experience , and all the aforementioned Medicinall virtues , are truly and really appropriate to the use and virtue of the Antimoniall Cup , being rightly prepared and made of the pure Essence , and Regulus of Antimony , I will conclude with the testimony of Milius and Duncanus in these words : Regulus Antimonii , est summum Auri examen ac vera omnium florum , & tincturarū medicinalium , in Antimonio existentium materia . Jatrochim . Dunc . pag. 91. The Regulus of Antimony is the best and chiefest examination of gold , it is the true matter and subject of all medicinall virtues , properties , and qualities contained within the body of Antimony . The second part . HAving plentifully Recited the Authorities and testimonies of the most famous Hermeticall Phylosophers and Physitians that in Foraign parts have mistically written of the wonderfull and admirable Virtues of this Philosophicall composition , and have communicated the same for the generall good of the Christian World : Now that our own Nation and Countrimen may stand acquitted from the imputation of malice or ignorance , or both , as either wanting experience and knowledge of the Medicinall Virtues thereof ; or else wanting affection to communicate the same . ( Although this truth and my self have suffered violence by the inhumanity of malitious potent adversaries : ) Neverthelesse the only Author of these admirable Virtues , the true discerner of the hearts , who selecteth whom he pleaseth to be the fittest instruments of his Praise and Glory , hath called certain choyce and principall Gentlemen of learning , experience and great worth of our own Nation and Countrey , to bear Record and testimony upon their own particular experiments of his Sacred secret and effectuall work in the rare Virtues of this wonderfull and admirable Medicine : Whose testimonies I will set down in order with my humble acknowledgements and perpetuall engagements for their noble favours in defence of this truth , for my self in particular , and in the behalf of all others in generall that have already received ( or hereafter shall receive ) benefit and profit by their experimentall incouragements . The first I will set down is the Testimony of that honourable and learned Gentleman , Sir Francis Kinnaston Knight , Esq to his Majesties Sacred Person , in these words . WHereas declaration hath been made of the Medicinall Virtues of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup by John Evans Minister and Preacher of the word of God ; sithence which time many good experiments have been made thereof , as partly by our own experience , and partly by the commendable relation of our good friends and acquaintance we are sufficiently informed , and for that it is alwaies found to be a most safe , healthfull , and an excellent Medicine ; and that much good hath been done by the uses , benefits , and virtues thereof , unto very many that were infirmed with desperate and dangerous Diseases : To the end that a Jewell of such manifold virtues , and so necessary and profitable for the generall good , especially of those that inhabit in remote places from learned Physitians ; and also for the benefit of the poorer sort of People , may be the more communicative , and generally known ; We affirm and testifie that the prepared liquor of this Magneticall Cup , duly prepared , and discreetly administred according to the direction by the said Mr. Evans prescribed , hath upon much experience and tryall been found to be both a safe and Healthfull Medicine , and also of gentle operation , and of such admirable effects and Virtues , that it justly meriteth to be both approved and commended for the generall good of all men . Francis Kinnaston Knight , Esq ; to his Majesties body . Nicholas Page D. of Divinity and Philosophie . William Molyns Esquire . Roger Ellis Esquire . The second testimony is the experimentall relation of the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Middelton Knight whom I acknowledge to have been my noble Mecaenas in these studies , and the only Fosterer and favorer of this famous Medicine at its first growth into any perfection into this Noble Island of great Britain . MAster Evans , that you may see that I am not unmindfull of my Promise made unto you , touching my knowledge of the Virtues of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup , I have sent these few lines unto you , not taking upon me to set forth the full and true worth and excellent Virtues of the same , lest by seeking to set them forth to the life , I should by my unskillfull handling of an unaccustomed pencill , deface the same , neither can I , neither am I willing to certifie the parties names that I have cured therewith , both because they are so many , and also because I will not wrong those grave and learned Doctors that had them in hand before they came to me and failed to cure them , only I will impart unto you my opinion of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup , and what Cures I have done with it . The liquor of the Cup I call that , the wine in which it hath been infused , if it be duely prepared observing convenient times will work incredible cures , working either upwards or downwards according to the constitution & time it is made , & given , which is a secret ▪ but of great use to them that will practice that kinde of Physick ; It expels all noysome and superabounding humors , it strengthneth Nature , and whether it work or work not , it never hurts ( which is contrary to all other Physick ) for if that other materiall substantiall feculent Physick remain and lye within the body , it will indanger it . It is the most precious thing that any man can have , whether hee be rich or poor , for by it a man shall preserve Health , procure Health , and prevent Sicknesse , both to himself and Family , both old and young , and cost him but a little , the fourtieth part of a Doctors fee , the value of 6d . and if there were no other Virtues in it than hath been spoken , this were sufficient to commend it : The cures that I have done with it , are truly more than I can recall to memory ; for I have not refused any ( whatsoever Disease he or they were troubled or infected with ) except Ulcers and running Soars , which require also the Chyrurgeons help as well as the Physitian , and often times both are necessary to make a perfect Cure . Some of those Soars have passed my hands , not many : I have cured all manner of Head-aches , Frensies , and Madness , the Pestilentiall and the Spotted Fever , the Quotidian Tertian , and Intermittent Agues , the Falling-sicknesse , the foul ( or French ) Disease , the Convulsions , which were thought to be witcheries , the Mother , the yellow and the black Jaundice , the Consumption that is not too far gone , given ease and prevented the Stone , given ease and prevented the Gout : I have cured divers of Impostumes , I bless God for his goodnesse and great mercy vouchsafed to me ; I have given it to more than a thousand ( since I began to practice with it ) and I never heard of any that miscarried , nor of ten in all that number that I failed to cure ; I have given it to men and women of fourscore years old , to sucking Children , to women with Child , and never any miscarried , but all have received benefit by it , blessed be God that gives such varieties of virtues to so slender a means ; I am verily perswaded that there is no Disease that this will not cure , being rightly prepared , given , and followed , I must confesse I cannot sufficiently praise it , nor give it any fit value or estimable rate , it exceeding the Gold of Ophire as much as Health doth Sickness ; with this I will conclude : It purgeth and purifieth the Body from all superfluous and praeternaturall Blood , Phlegme , Choler , and Melancholy , and maketh the body vigorous , strong , and lusty . What I have written is not by relation from others , but from my own experience , and to give satisfaction to your desires , that have taken so much pains , both in the making of the Magneticall Cup , and in setting forth the Virtues thereof most truly , yet short , in truth , of what it hath ; So I conclude , and rest your well wishing friend , THO. MIDDELTON . The third testimony shall be the experimentall and judicious approbation of that most Reverend , learned , and holy Divine , now resting with the Lord in fullness of Joy , Mr. Richard Naper , alias Sandy , Doctor of Divinity , Philosophie , and Physick : and in his life time Rector of Linford magna in the County of Buckingham ; his words are these . MUch indeared Mr. Evans , whereas you desire to have my approbation of your Magneticall Cup , I have most willingly embraced the rule of the blessed Apostle , Omnia explorate quod bonum fuerit retinete ; Although I needed not by reason of my long practice and much experience , seek out the experiments of new Medicines ; neverthelesse I have often times made good use of that Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup I had from you , and have found the effects and vertues thereof to be both wonderfull and many , and worthy of great estimation , and to agree very well with all constitutions , and is found to be in the use very gentle , and without any violence or danger , being administred in a convenient proportion , and it purgeth the body well both by vomit and siedge ; the infusion may be made with Wine , Ale , Beer , or with any other convenient liquor , neverthelesse an appropriate vehicle cannot otherwise than profitably further the effect ; I prevaileth very well against Obstructions , against the Falling-sicknesse , Melancholy , Madnesse , Apoplexy , and against many other dangerous and desperate Diseases , and Maladies , which would be too long to set down particularly , and as learned writers affirm , that it is an universall Medicine ; so may it also be of perpetuall continuance , which I the rather conceive & doe believe , for that I have often times made use of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup I had from you , and its Physicall operations and virtues are found neither to waste fail nor diminish : And therefore I would wish you to proceed not only in your carefull preparation and due composition of this excellent Medicine , but in the further discovery of other profitable good things which the Lord shall please to impart unto you , and you shall finde me ever , your very loving and assured friend , RIC. NAPER . The fourth testimony that shall be produced , shall be the judgement and experimentall approbation of a profound Philosopher , and an excellent Physitian , famous throughout all Europe for his great learning , profound judgement , elegant expression , confirmed skill , and universall knowledg , both in sacred Theologicall Mysteries , as also in Philosophicall , Hermeticall , and Chymicall Speculations , his words are these . WHereas I was requested by Mr. John Evans , Preacher of the Word of God , to expresse my minde and knowledge concerning the natures and Virtues of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup ; These are to testifie , That the liquor that hath resided in them by moderate and kindly heat of fire , doth draw unto it , and indueth the Virtues and properties thereof , insomuch that if it be drunk down fasting it purgeth as well by vomit as downward , all such offensive and preternaturall humors , as are inclined to cause and ingender many perilous Diseases , as tough Phlegmatick humors , which cause Falling-sickness , Cachexies , and stupid Diseases , also against Fevers as well continuall as intermittent , and to discharge the stomack at any time , over-burthened with superfluous humors , proceeding of Surfeits or otherwise . My conclusion therefore is , That such a Cup will prove very beneficiall for such as dwell in the Country , and either are far from a Physitian , or else being neer , have not the purse to use either Physitian or Apothecary ; and especially for that it is a perpetuall Medicine whose Virtues fail not . And to testifie thus much I doe set to my hand , ROBERT . FLUD , Esq ; and Dr. of Physick . In the fifth place , I will set down the Testimony of two learned Gentlemen , Dr. Vanderlasse , and Dr. Rudston , in these words . FOr as much as it is apparent by the testimonies and sentences of all Writers and Authors Phylosophicall and Physicall ; and that it is obvious to every sensible man , that things Coct , digested , and separated from their impurities are of more virtue and efficacy in all Physicall use , than things Crude and Feculent , as also that of Animals , Vegitables , and Minerals ; the Minerals beare Soveraignty in Physick , and knowing that by the opinion of the best Authors and their practic , that amongst Minerals , Antimony Phylosophycally prepared , is generally preferred by all , for an excellent universall Medicine against all dangerous and pernitious diseases : It is without all question that being digested and purged from all his Impurities and Feculencies as M. John Evans Minister and Preacher of the word of God hath done , and made it into a Cup for conveniency of infusion , preparation and fit proportion of doze , by digestion of which in convenient liquor of Wine , Beer , or Cider by the moderate heat of fire , it attracteth the Virtues into any fit liquor , which being taking fasting purgeth the body from all offensive and preternaturall humours ▪ which are the originall causes of all diseases , and the operation is both safe and gentle , and worketh by Vomit and Siedge , Sweat and Urine , any one of these wayes , or all these waies , as nature , and the offensive humors , best requireth ; and is found alwaies to be safe and without any violence to nature , or danger to the patient ; and therefore most writers of authority doe affirme it to be an universall and perpetuall Medicine , whose Virtues never faileth as experience hath sufficiently confirmed , and to testifie thus much we have subscribed our names . BARTHOL : VANDERLASSE Medic. & Chyr . Operator . Jo : RUDSTON , Phylo : & Phy : Dr. The sixth testimony shall be the experimentall approbation and judgement of a learned Gentleman , a high-German born : but now a perfect Englishman , in these words . FOr to helpe quickly , and to cure safe and pleasantly , all manner of diseases in mens bodyes , cannot be found a more excellent medicine than the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup , whose virtues by long and often triall and experience by severall men and nations , have been found infinite and never to decay by often and much usage or succession of time : Therefore this Chymicall or Magneticall Cup is found very available and to cure all manner of Head-achings : against the Megrim , Vertigo , Madnes , Frensie , Melancholy , Falling sicknes , Cramps , Convulsions , against sorenesse of eyes proceeding from evill vapours ascending from the Stomack , evill digestion of the Stomack , Surfeits , Plurisies , against the stuffing of the lungs , and shortnes of winde , against all Fluxes , Jaunders , Green sicknesse , Dropsies , Obstructions , Gout , French pox , Scurvey , Morphew , Scabs , Calenture , hot burning Fevers , and against all manner of Agues , and against the infection of the Plague , Poysons or other infectious diseases being administred in the beginning ; Also this everlasting Chymicall or Magneticall Cup may right well be stiled an Vniversall Medicine or Panacea , whose Virtues never decayeth ; and therefore most necessary and usefull for any Gentleman dwelling in the Countrey , living remote from expert Physitians , and these Magneticall or Antimoniall Cups are made and prepared with such Diligence , Care and Art by Mr. John Evans Minister of Gods word , that they are safe to be used ; In testimony hereunto I have written this with mine own hand and subscribed my name . Phillippus Mullerus Medicinae & Philoso . Dr. The seventh testimony I will produce for the confirmation of the Excellency of this Magneticall Medicine shall be the experienced relation of an honourable Gentleman Francis Godolphin Esquire . KInde Mr. Evans , had I been at home , at Farnbies last departure hence towards London , I should have shewed my selfe willing to have re-saluted you by my letter , having formerly received yours : be pleased now to accept the acknowledgement of my hearty thanks for your imparting unto me , the happy Cures done by your Magneticall Cup , and the more perfect use of it confirmed by daily experience : And now giving God the Glory , and you many thanks for the Cures wrought by my Cup ( the Childe of your happy Invention , I thought good to acquaint you that there came to my house a poor begger woman of the parish of S. Paul about the age of 44. years , and at my doore fell into a pittifull fit of the falling sicknes and continued long in that fit : but after the fit was past , and she began to recollect her sences ; by questioning with her , I found that her disease had continued on her three or four years , and that she much desired to take any thing that would ease her , and that her fits sometimes took her twice in one day , here upon I gave her the next morning white Wine ordered according to your direction , and it wrought effectually with her , and neither that day nor the day following wherein shee took not the Cup had she any fit or the least symptome of it , the third day I gave it her again , but then it wrought not with her neither upwards nor downwards , but onely by sweat , but sithence the first time of the taking of it , she hath not had any one fit , which is now a quarter of a year past , and now she goes to her daily labour , as she was wont to doe ; once of late I caused her to take it againe to prevent a relapsing into the former griefe , but I am confident that she is perfectly cured . Another young man aged 28 or 30 years , of mine own parish being much troubled with that griefe hath by the use of your Cup ( God blessing the means ) perfectly recovered his wonted health : And now lately one John Heckes a Souldier at Pendinas Castle neer Penrynne , who for three or foure , or more years was taken so ill , as he had a continuall hysking and stopping of his breath , & was not able to goe without a staffe and that to his great pain , and was by as many as daily saw him thought to be in a deep Consumption and not to be recovered by Physick , intreated me to send him Wine prepared in this Cup , which I did , and he took it twice according to your direction , and within two or three dayes after the taking of it , recovered his health , used no more his staffe , but grew to such jollity of strength as that he was able to cary and mannage his Musket , and doth now serve in his armes , and doe his duty as ably as any Souldier in that Castle : Many other helpes this Cup hath done to divers that have made use of it , I pray God to blesse you in the well composing of many more such Cups , and to continue his blessings upon those you doe compose , to the health of such his servants as shall make use of them ; thus tendering unto you my hartiest love , thanks and well wishes , I rest your assured loving friend . FRANCIS GODOLPHIN . The eight testimony that shall be produced is a true and certain Relation of the experienced knowledge and Experimentall Practice of a right Worshipfull Gentleman Captaine Gunter living neer Newbury in Bark shire , his words are these . COncerning the Virtues of the Antimoniall Cup made & sold to me by Mr. John Evans Minister of the word of God , I doe testifie that I doe Experimentally know that a certaine man about 30 years of age ▪ ( who had been grievously troubled with that disease which is commonly called the Kings evill for seven or eight years , and was consumed and brought very weak and feeble by reason of the corrupt humors nourishing and feeding continually that disease ) that was perfectly Cured of that sicknes and disease by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup thrice , and bathing the sore places with the Infusion , and being administred to him the fourth time ( though in a greater quantity than before , it wrought not at all with him , by reason that he was throughly purged before , and by the externall bathing of the sore places where they were grown up and inclosed before , they opened and there came forth much corrupt matter like rotten sinews or putrified corrupt Worms , and afterwards perfectly healed up without any other helpe : This Cure was perfectly accomplished from the beginning to the end in ten dayes . And this man continueth perfectly healed of this sore disease ; it was administred to this patient in Ale , I have know this Medicine administred to more than foure hundred severall persons of different Constitutions , ages and sexes , troubled with severall griefes and infirmities that have been brought alwaies to perfect health , by the Virtues & benefits of this Medicine , and the Operation was alwaies Gentle and Safe with good successe : And I finde it also Effectuall for the griefes and diseases of common Animals ; for my own Gelding being exceedingly troubled with the Scratches , I washed the sores with this Liquor , and there came out foule matter , and rotten dead flesh , and he was perfectly Cured with this Liquor hot . In Testimony of the certain truth of what is by me related , I have subscribed my name . HUMFREY GUNTER . The ninth Testimony shall be the approved Relation of a certain worthy Gentleman of Reputation and Credit , that writeth upon his own particular knowledge and practice , experienced upon himself : His own words , written with his own hand , are these . SIR , my Infirmitie was a violent wringing in my Breast , somewhat above the Pit of my Stomack , thence dispearsing about to my Back with such anguish , as if it would have pulled Back and Breast to meet together : by continuance it threw me deep into the yellow Jaundise , made me loath all meats , and almost in despair of Cure ; for I had been in a chargeable course of Physick , which neverthelesse gave me no longer ease than whilest it was in the working ; Then I was advertised of your Antimoniall Cup , which my Brother Captain Lathum bought of you : and I was advised to make tryall of it , which I did with so good successe , that in twice taking I was eased of my pain , and restored to a kindly appetite with equall digestion ; sithence that , especially towards Spring and Fall , I feel some touches of my infirmity grudging and returning , then presently I use the Cup as before : At this time I finde my self in a good setled estate of Health , for which I render most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God for his mercifull goodnesse , and doe heartily wish to you , his mediat Instrument of this Favour , a plentifull blessing upon your learned and usefull Invention , resting , though unknown , your assured friend and well wisher . JOHN LATHUM . The tenth Testimony shall be the faithfull Relation of Mr. Tho : Godfrey of Kent , Esquire , and of Mr. Edmund Harrison his Majesties Embroyderer . MAster Evans , whereas you have requested our Testimony concerning the Medicinall Virtues of the Antimoniall Cups we have received from your hands : We give you to understand that we have used our Cups against all manner of common and usuall Diseases with happy and good successe : We have given the Liquor thereof to more than two hundreth severall persons of both Sexes , from two years to fourscore : It cureth perfectly all sorts of Agues and pestilentiall Fevers : It hath done very much good to all that have taken it , and never any hurt at all to young nor old : It hath Cured our man of the infection of the Plague ; and suppurated , cleansed , and healed the Plague Sore upon him , and prevented the infectious contagion of that sicknesse from many others ; And to conclude ; All that received it , have received much good and benefit by the use and Virtues of it , whatsoever their Diseases or Infirmities were , and none of them received any manner of harm at all by the use of it ; In testimony whereof , we have subscribed our names . THO. GODFREY . EDMUND HARRISON . The eleventh Testimony is an experienced Relation of the Effects ( M. Nicholas Benet of the white Crosse in Fetter lane ) found to be in the Magneticall Cup he bought of me . SIR , you have desired me to give Testimony under my hand of the Medicinall Virtues I have , upon experience , found to be in your Antimoniall Cup , which I doe most willingly , in regard of the great good I , and mine , have found by the benefit of it , and because I desire the generall good of others also ; it being great pitty that so precious a Medicine should be kept secret , that may doe so much good , with so little Cost : I have made great use of it upon my self , my wife , children and servants , I have given of the Wine or Liquor prepared to many of my friends , and at their intreaty to divers other strangers ; And I did never know by my own observation or experience , or hear from any other that did take it , but that they using it ( and themselves , after the taking of it ) as was and is prescribed ; found very much good by it , let their Disease or Grief be what it would : so that I doe verily believe that it doth truly deserve that title , The Vniversall Medicine , or a Medicine for all Diseases , neither can I in Words give it the due commendation it deserveth . A Merchant in London , a friend of mine came to me and told me he had a daughter of twelve years of age , which was very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy , insomuch that some of her teeth were fallen out , her leggs and other parts of her body were exceedingly swelled , neither did they after much Physick find any amendment in her , unto whom the prepared Liquor of this Cup was given twice , resting one day between ; it wrought well with her , and a wonderfull effect immediately followed thereupon ; for within four dayes she was perfectly Cured : her loose teeth were all fastened ; her legs and other parts of her body were restored to their naturall proportion again ; and she was absolutely freed from her Scurvy Disease . Another friend that had been for a long time troubled with an Ague and the Green sicknesse together , which was grown so faint with it , that she was not able to goe ; it helped perfectly at once taking . Some speciall properties I have observed in it , which makes me to esteem of it very much , namely the safety and gentlenesse of the Medicine in its operation ; for it may be given to young Children without danger , as I have my self often times proved upon my own Children of three and four yeers of age ; from whose Stomacks it hath brought such foul corrupt matter , that I could not have believed them to have been troubled withall , had I not seen it ; It never straineth the body with that extream violence that other vomits doe : for this worketh his effects with great facility , gentleness , and safety , and also with incredibl expedition , commonly upon the first or second taking : I have seen wonderfull good effects done by it , and Diseases that have been of long continuance speedily and perfectly Cured therewith . Your loving Friend , NICHOLAS BENET . The twelfth and last Testimony that shall be at this time produced shall be a Testification of the Experienced knowledge and experimentall practice of a right worshipfull Gentleman of great Credit and reputation , and one of singular humanity , and liberall disposition to further the Common good , Mr. John Grymesdich Esquire , written also with his own hand verbatim as followeth . A True Testimony of the Operations and effects of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup which I bought of Mr. Evans dwelling in Gunpowder Alley , 1634. And by my wife used and practised ever since at my house in Knottingley in the Countie of Yorke . AT my first bringing down of this Cup , having a friend of mine about 15. years of age , who had for four or five years before been fore troubled with the Falling-sicknesse , and could not by any means of Physick or otherwise be Cured : My wife made tryall of this Cup , and gave to this young man the infusion thereof in white Wine ; and he was perfectly Cured without ever having any one fit sithence : which I conceive to be a Cure beyond all the ordinary practice of Physick , for although we used the opinion and help of divers Doctors and others professing skill in that cure , yet the Child was never the better untill he had this cup . Secondly , my wife finds by continuall experience , that it is a present cure for the Head-ache , the temples of the Head being bathed with the Liquor of this Cup warm . Thirdly , there was a violent Disease in the Countrey and Town where I dwell , which to many proved mortall ( a pestilent Fever or the like ) but my wife hath given the infusion of this Cup in white Wine to many of her neighbours that have been sick of the same Disease , and none of them that had taken it ever perished but recovered perfectly . Fourthly , at my comming home , after Ester Tearm , I finde my wife dressing a poor Servants Foot in the Town , one of his Toes having a foul Fistula in it almost for a whole yeer before ; and it was so corrupted , that all her Salves and Powders could doe no good at all ; in so much that she said , She was now out of hope to cure it , and therefore would now give him over : but I advised her first to try the Liquor of the Cup , which she had not before tryed in Chyrurgerie , and upon my advise and intreaty , she did so ; doing nothing at all to it , but wash it with the Infusion made with white Wine , and squirt the ten● holese with a Syrindge , and lay a wet cloth upon it , dipt in the same infusion , and she laid green Ivy leaves upon the cloth to keep it from drying : this practice shee continued without using any other means at all ; and within one moneth that toe which had five tents put into it at the first , and one of them quite through , was perfectly cured . Fifthly , after this , she cured a Gyrl of two Fistulaes in her Elbows , which had continued for four or five years before , and had much weakned and wasted her arms : this Maid was perfectly cured only with washing and cleansing the sores , and Syringing in the Liquor of this Cup warm , without applying any thing else to the Sores , having used all other common means before , but could get no help . Sixthly , another poor man came to my house with a sore hand mightily swelled , and infinitely painfull to him , so that he could doe no manner of labor , and his wife and children were ready to starve , or to goe abroad on begging , living before only upon the poore mans labor : my wife taking pitty and compassion upon the poore man , bathed his hand with hot liquor of white-Wine prepared in this Cup , a good while together about half an hour , and a wet cloath being laid upon it , the next morning it broke , and within one fortnight was perfectly cured . Seventhly , again another poore woman being strucken with a Cows horn as she was in milking , and her cheek sore wounded , was with the water of this Cup perfectly cured within one moneth at the most . Eightly , I have heard my Lady Jackson affirme that she having one of these Cups bought of Mr. Evans , used it to a poore woman that was brought to her , so drawn up with Convulsions , that she had the use neither of her Legs nor Armes , neverthelesse within short time she was perfectly cured by taking the Liquor of the Cup inwardly , and bathing with it outwardly : these I doe affirm as remarkable cures of my own observation , but I verily believe that a quire of Paper will not containe the cures and helps that my Wife hath performed unto , and upon poore people , and to other in the Country since she had it , with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup . I may truly affirm that there hath not been a day or night this twelve moneths sithence the Virtues of this Cup was known in the Country , but it hath been still neere unto the fire with Liquor in it both night and day , and the Strength and Virtues of it still continues without any abatement at all : Thus much I have written in my thankfulnesse to God for the help this young man hath received by your happy Invention , and for your better incouragement to proceed in the well compounding and making of these Antimoniall Cups , verily believing that the true use of it is more available for the health of mens bodies than all the Drugs in London , so I conclude and rest your assured friend . JOHN GRYMESDICH . A Table of the Cures done by the Antimoniall Cup , as they succeed in order . OBstructions of the spleen , and fits of the Mother , &c. nu 1 , 52. Consumption . 2 , 17 , 34 , 40 , 42 , 69 , 84. Convulsion fits . 3 , 13 , 41 , 57. Hydropicall humors : 4. Miserere , or Iliaca passio , the excrements issuing at the mouth . 5 , 56. Frenzie and Madnesse . 6 , 18 , 71. Falling-Sicknesse . 7 , 96 , 97. Head-Ache . 8. Pestilent Fever . 9. A Fistula . 10 , 11. Sore hand . 12. A wound with a cowe horn . 14 Kings Evill . 15 , 16. A wound by a Bore . 19. Biles , Botches , &c. 20 , 43. Swellings and Kernels . 21. Lamenesse in the Body : 22. The Scurvy , &c. 23. Deafnesse , &c. 24. Swounding fits . 25. The Gout . 26. Inflamations of the Lungs . 27. The quartan Ague , & fever Hectick . 28. The Fever Hectick , or consuming Marasmos . 29. The Stone in the Kidnies , with Impostumations of the Lungs , &c. 30. Obstructions of the Spleen , and Inflamations of the Liver . 31. The Apoplexie , or Paraplegia . 32. The Consumption , and whiskings of the Lungs , &c. 33. The Green-Sicknesse . 35. The Dropsie and Gout . 36 , 37. The Plurifie . 38. Morbus Gallicus . 39 , 54 , 55 , 99. The Dead Palsie . 44 , 78 , 91. The Mother , and Convulsion fits . 46. The Cough of the Lungs , &c. 47. Suddain Lamenesse . 48. Oppressions of the Stomack . 49. Abundant bleeding . 50. A Fistulated Leg , &c. 51. Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen , with the Consumption . 53. The Small Pox in an Infant three moneths old . 58. The Strangury , &c. 59. The P●ifick , &c. 60. The Whites , &c. 61. The Fever Hectick , with the yellow Jaundice . 62. Black Jaundice & Consumption . 63. 64. Dropsie and Consumption . 65 , 68 , 77 , 85. A Surfeit and Dead Palsie , with Lamenesse , &c. 66. A Fistula and Dropsie . 67. An Ulcerated Breast , &c. 70. The Ague Fever and Consumption . 72. The Cachexia , Green-Sicknesse , &c 73. The Bloody Flix . 74. The Scorbuto , &c. 75. The Vertigo , &c. 76. The Fever Hectick . 79. The Quartan Fever . 80. Blindenesse 81. Dimnesse and weaknesse of Sight . 82. The Cough of the Lungs with a Consumption . 83. The Plague . 86 , 87. Benummed Limbs . 88. Blood issuing at the Breasts . 89. An Impostumation in the Lungs 90. A Bruise . 92. Excrescencie . 93. The Quartan Ague , with a deep Consumption . 94. A man aged fou score and four years scabbed all over . 25 ▪ Stoppings grown to a Consumption . 95 ▪ The Blood purified . 10. Over-charging the Stomack . 10. A true Relation of one hundred Admirable Experiments and Rare Cures , performed upon severall Persons , of severall Constitutions , Infirmed with divers and severall Infirmities and diseases , and restored to perfect health , by the alone Vse and Medicinall Virtues thereof ; faithfully collected for the confirmation of this Truth . A Noble Lady descended of ( and married into ) an honorable family , that for a long time had been dangerously afflicted with the obstructions of the Spleen , terrible fits and suffocations of the Mother , and withall deeply plunged with Melancholy : and by the judgements of many Doctors of Physick , not to be recovered by Physicall helps , was afterwards within a short time recovered to perfect health by drinking the alone prepared infusion of this Cup , and is yet praise be to God , living in good health , and will affirme this for an approved and certain truth . 2. In the Cittie of London a certain Gentleman of good quality , that was far spent with a languishing and health-destroying Consumption , and after much Physick taken , forsaken and left remedilesse by the Physitians , was within a few daies restored to his health , and strength , and naturall vigour , by drinking the infusion of this Cup , prepared and administred in Ale . 3. A certain young Gentlewoman living in the Citty of Chester , being strangly taken with violent Convulsion fits , that she could hardly by the strength of four Assistants , at the time of her extremity be kept in her bed , so that many ( mistakingly ) apprehended her miserable distemperature to have been occasioned through witchcraft , and to be remedilesse by Physick , was notwithstanding , by the speciall blessing of God upon this Medicine , restored to temperate constitution and good health , by drinking the infusion of this Cup . 4. A Countrey woman mightily swelled with Hydropicall humors , and her legs of such incredible bignesse ; that by reason of the extraordinary repletion and fulnesse of humors continually running in such great aboundance , that being brought into a fair Parlour , the moisture that ran from her legs wet the boarded floore , as if water had been there spilled in good quantity , neverthelesse taking the infusion of this Cup : within four daies she was perfectly cured and restored to her former health . 5. A poore man living within twelve miles of Chyrke Castle in Denbigh-shire , that for six moneths , together had not after the common manner performed the duties of Nature , being sore troubled with a grieveous Infirmity called Miserere or Iliaca passio : whereby the excrementitious impurities of the body were loathsomly ejected at the mouth , contrary to the naturall order , was perfectly cured by drinking three or four times the prepared infusion of this Cup without any other help . 6. A Certain Gentlewoman , that for many years had continued Remedilesse and comfortlesse , extreamly afflicted with violent distractions , frenzie , and madnes , through the goodnesse of God ▪ and the medicinall virtues of this Cup , by drinking the Infusion thereof , was speedily restored to health , perfect sences , memory and understanding : these six receited Experiments and rare Cures with many hundreds more , were performed by my much honored worthy friend the Right worshipfull Sir Thomas Mydelton Knight . 7. A young Gentleman about 15 years of age that had for four or five years before , been sore troubled with the Falling sicknesse , and could not by any meanes of common Phisick or otherwise be Cured , was perfectly Cured , and freed from the violence of that cruell disease by drinking the Infusion of this Cup : without any other help . 8. It is found by continuall Experience ; that it is a present cure for the Head-ache , the temples of the head being bathed with the liquor of the Cup warme . 9. At Knottingley in the County of York in the year 1636. there was a generall raging and cruell sicknesse , a pestilentiall Fever , or the like , whereof very many died : the infusion of this Cup rightly prepared and adminstred to many severall deseased persons , not any one that ever took it perished or miscarried , but recovered perfectly . 10. In the same Town of Knottingley , avirtuous godly Gentlewoman , cured a poore servants foot , having in one of his toes a foule fistula , of a whole years continuance wherein there was 5 holes , five tents put therein continually , and one of the holes quite through : which Fistulated sore foot could not be cured by the best skill , Salves and Powders of the common Chyrurgeons , was within one moneth perfectly cured with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup . 11. The same right worshipfull Gentlewoman , cured a young maiden of two Fistulaes , one in either of her elbows , which had continued four or five yeers before , which had much weakned and wasted her arms ; she was perfectly and speedily cured , by using the alone infusion of this Cup ; having used all means before , and could get no help . 12. In the same Town a poor man came to this Gentlewoman with a sore hand mightily swelled , and infinitely painfull to him , so that he could doe no manner of labor : His hand being bathed with the infusion of this Cup , the next morning it broke and run abundantly , and within one fortnight , by the use of this infusion alone , his hand was perfectly cured . 13. A certain poor woman was brought to the right honoured Ladie , the Ladie Jackson , so drawn up and her sinews contracted with Convulsions , that she had not the use either of Legs , Arms , Feet , or Hands , notwithstanding she was by the said Lady perfectly cured and restored to strength , health , and able use of her former benummed limbs , by the alone infusion of this Cup . 14. Another poor woman being struck with a Cows horn as she was in milking , and her cheek sore wounded ; was , by only washing the sores with the Liquor of the Cup , perfectly and speedily cured . These eight last recited experiments are certified to be approved truth , by the right worshipfull M. John Grymsdych of Knottingley , Esquire . 15. A certain man about 30 years of age , troubled for 9 years before with the Disease called the Kings evill , and much consumed and weakned therewith , was perfectly cured of that Disease , by the use of the infusion of this Cup . M. Humfrey Guntur , Esquire , living neer Newberry , performed this with many other very rare cures . 16. In Wallingford , Mr. Smiths Daughter of the George , was perfectly cured of the Kings-Evill with the infusion thereof , although it was broken out into very many dangerous and Ulcerous sores about her neck and face . Mr. William Mollins , Esq ; who lent them his Cup wherewith they cured this patient , of that sore disease , testifieth this . 17. In Mortelake neer Richmond a Gentleman of good worth and reputation now liveth , spent very far with a long continued languishing Consumption : and at length left remedilesse , and forsaken by many Doctors and Physitians , was afterwards perfectly recovered to good health , appetite , digestion , and healthfull constitution of body , by drinking the infusion of this Cup three times , being prepared in Ale : witnesse hereunto M. Humfrey Benet , Esquire . 18. In Barnet ten miles from London , a certain poor man distracted with extream Frensie and Madness , to whom Mrs. Baker dwelling in the Town , administred in good and sufficient quantity of the Liquor of this Cup , a pinte ( of Ale ) at a time , for three times : It caused him to vomit , and to purge plentifully , and fell a bleeding at the nostrills and bled well , stayed of it self ; the patient slept , and perfectly recovered , and remaineth well , praise to God . 19. In the same Town upon a Market day , a poor Country man was strucken very deep into the leg by a raging Boar , and withdrawing his crooked tushes , rented , tore , and bruised the flesh very sore ; neverthelesse being dressed with the infusion of this Cup , was perfectly and speedily healed up without any other help . 20. Also in the same Town , a certain young maiden being all over the body full of loathsome Biles , Botches , and scabbed Blains from the Crown to the foot , by taking the infusion of this Cup she was speedily cured , and her body perfectly purged and cleansed and she avoided at her mouth divers worms , whereof one was of an increedible bignesse , proportion , and form : and now she is in good health and fair of complexion . 21. Another Gentlewoman in the same Town , having many swelling or rising kernels of sanguine blew and other variable colours , as big as Nutmegs arising upon her cheek and neck : With the application and drinking of this infusion they speedily consumed and vanished away , and the Gentlewoman remaineth perfectly cured . 22. Another woman living not far from the same Town being lame of her hands , knees , and feet , and not able to stand or goe , and brought into Mrs. Kings house in a chair by the strength of men , using the infusion of this Cup , within four dayes she was perfectly recovered so that she was able to goe home to her own house on foot , being two or three miles distant off . These five last experiments were don with many more , by Mrs. King , alias Barker living in Barnet . 23. A Merchants Daughter in London very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy , whereby some of her teeth were fallen out , her legs and body exceedingly swelled , and she in great extremity of pain ; and finding no amendment by all the former means they had used ; by taking the infusion of this Cup three times she was perfectly cured . 24. An ancient Gentlewoman living neer Fetter-lane , having for many ▪ yeers complained of an intollerable pain of the head , fell suddainly dangerous sick and deaf , and all her face and nose mightily swelled . By externall bathing the temples and other parts of her head and face grieved , an Impostume broke in her head and purged through her nostrils in such great abundance , that it was much to be admired , that so much corrupt yellow thick matter could be contained in such a continent , her body also throughly purged by the externall bathing , and she is now perfectly recoverd , and liveth in good health , able to justifie this to be true . 25. At Wildertop , in the County of Salop , in the house of Mr. Francis Smalman , Esquire , a young Gentlewoman being much troubled with oppilations and obstructions and suffocations of the Matrix , whereby she fell into many dangerous & desperate swounding fits , and at length grew to that weaknesse , that she had many signes of apparent and imminent death ; upon whom the infusion of this Cup was inforced in small quantity , which wrought well and gave some hopes : and after administred twice more ; recovered the said Gentlewoman to such perfect health , that within eight dayes she travelled safely to London . 26. An ancient Gentlewoman , that for many years was extreamly handled with such intollerable painfullnesse of the Gout in the joynts of the Back-bone , in the Huckle-bone , and in the Knees , and Feet , that she could neither stand nor stir her self any way ; nor scarcely suffer to be removed from her Bed to her Chair . By externall bathing the grieved parts with ( and drinking ) the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was perfectly cured ; and able within fourteen dayes to go up & down the stairs and the house , and to doe any necessary businesse with as much agility and nimblenesse as any in the same Town of her years ; and hath so continued perfectly well for eight years past . 27. In the same Town a certain young woman much troubled with inflamations of the Lungs , and with foul Impostumations full of rotten corrupt putrifactions ; with drinking the prepared liquor of this Cup thrice , was perfectly recovered and restored to soundnesse of health . 28. Another young woman that for a long time had been troubled with a Quartan Ague , and a species of the Fever Hectick , and remaining , after much and long use of many Medicines , without help or hope ; was perfectly cured by drinking three or four times the prepared Liquor of this Cup . These eight last recited experiments were done by Mrs. King , allas Barker , living in Barnet ready to confirm this to be true . 29. A certain young woman living in Leicester , very far spent with a Fever Hectick , or rather a consuming Marasmos ; her body so foul , and full of rotten and corrupt putrifractions , that her breath and spittle was so noysome and offensive , that none would willingly indure to be in the same room with her : Was neverthelesse perfectly and speedily cured , by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , without any other help . 30. An ancient Gentleman living in or neer Leicester , for many yeers was extreamly tormented with the Stone in the Kidnies , with excoriations and exulcerations of the bladder , sharp distillations of Urine , and impostumations of the Lungs , after much Physick taken without help , ease , or comfort ; was perfectly and speedily cured by the alone drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup : and such great store of foul corrupt matter diuretically expelled that would not be credited , should the very truth be delivered . 31. Another young maiden living within two miles of Leceister , much troubled with oppilations and obstructions of the Spleen , and inflamations of her Liver , her complexion utterly impaired with foul Morphew and yellownesse ; was perfectly and speedily restored to fair complexion and healthfull constitution , by drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup . 32. A certain Gentlewoman , that for many years together was taken often times with the Apoplexy , or Paraplegia , which is a suddain retention and losse of motion and speech for many hours together , whereby her health was much impaired , her Stomack , appetite and digestion lost , her naturall constitution heat and vigor of body impaired , having many years followed the chargable prescriptions of professed Doctors , without helpe , hope , or comfort ; neverthelesse praised be to God was firmly and perfectly recovered by the alone use of the prepared liquor of this Cup . 33. The Minister of great Peately in Leicester shire , being farr spent with a deep health-destroying Consumption , and so much stopped with Astmaticall Oppillations , Stuffings and Whiskings of the Lungs that he could not officiate his Cure , and so certainly determined for a dead man , that another procured a presentation to the same Church ; having also used all the common and usuall course of Physick , without help or benefit , was speedily and perfectly recovered to perfect health , and sufficient ability to discharge his Ministeriall function , by the alone use of the prepared Liquor of this Cup . 34. In the same Citty and County of Leicester another man that for many years had been mnch oppressed with repletions , of corrupt humors , tough flegme , languishing putrifactions , which wasted and consumed away his body and estate by long use of Physick , was perfectly restored to health and avoided more than 40. worms of most strange , almost incredible , bignesse by the alone prepared liquor of this Cup . 35. A certain young maiden that was wholly affected to feed upon unhealthfull trash , as Earth , Clay of the wall , Chalk and the like , and therewith had destroyed the good estate and Constitution of her body , and could not be withdrawn from her unhealthfull and unnaturall longings , was neverthelesse speedily weined from her desires , and perfectly restored to naturall and kindly appetite , to due digestion , and to a healthfull Constitution and fair complection by drinking the Liquor of this Cup . 36. A certain grosse fat woman , whose body was much swelled with Hydropicall humors , and full of impure and corrupt malignant repletions and her bones , sinews and arteries continually tormented with restles and intollerable painfulnesse , and having used the chargefull but unprofitable prescriptions of professed Phisitians , without either help or any mittigation of her intollerable painfulnesse : was speedily recovered to perfect health , and freed from all grossnesse and painfullnesse , by the use of this Cup . 37. A certain Gentleman in the County of Leicester afflicted in every particular as the precedent Patient ; was speedily & perfectly restored , by 3 or 4 times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup . 38. A certain Gentleman , living also in , or neer , the City of Leicester , having been a great company keeper with Gentlemen of quality ; and therefore brought to much grossnesse of body , inflamations and plentitude of foul hot and corrupt blood , fell suddainly into a dangerous Plurisie : and taking the Liquor of this Cup , it wrought immediately and sensibly upon that side principally affected ; purified and allayed the heat , and dispersed the blood ; he avoided much blood by the Nostrils ; and expelled by siedge much clotted and corrupt blood , and other foul excrementitious impurities of the whole body ; and was speedily and perfectly restored to his health with this help alone . 39. Another Gentleman of the same County , that had been for certain years grievously infected with Morbus Gallicus , being a most foul and dangerous Disease , having many Ulcerous sores running upon severall parts of his body , and many hard scirrhus Bubones , and swelling kernels in the severall emunctories of his body ; and his Bones , Arteries , and inward parts full of continuall aches , dolors , and intollerable painfullnesse , and utterly forsaken as remedilesse by the common Physitians : Neverthelesse by bathing the hard places and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was speedily and perfectly restored to health and sound constitution of Body . 40. A certain woman also living neer the City of Leicester that had received hurt through the neglect or unskillfullness of the Midwife , at the time of her Childing , and therewith brought to much weakness and Consumption of her whole body , and notwithstanding the common course of Physick , she remained a long time cureless , drinking the prepared Liquor of the Cup , she was perfectly cured . 41. Another woman that was house-keeper to a Gentleman of good estimation in the City of Leicester mightily afflicted with violent and strong Convulsions , that she was drawn or plucked together in two fold , and sometimes extorted or plucked awry towards the one side , and her face set nigh back , by the strength and extremity of this strange Convulsion ; it was commonly taken for the work of Witchcraft , and after much practice of Physians she was left remedilesse : by externall bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly Cured . 42. A certain young Gentlewoman , receiving upon her breast a most violent stroak by the elbow of a passionate displeased Father , by the suddain bursting or wrongfull contusion of certain veines , the naturall course of the blood became stopped , and flowed in great abundance both at the Mouth , at the Nostrils , and at the Eares , and so continued bleeding more or lesse ( and at the Monthly times in greater abundance ) for a whole year or more , and neither the Chyrurgeons blood-letting , nor the best experiments of the Physitians , could any thing at all prevaile or profit , to stop or remedy this continuall and daily flux of blood ; it much weakned the Gentlewoman , her strength and naturall vigor failed , her Stomack , appetite and digestion became lost , the fair Constitution and Complexion of the body was changed to a deadly paleness , the whol body to a manifest desperate hastening Consumption : when all other chargefull and costly means failed , the Lord made it his own proper work to restore this Gentlewoman to perfect health , and her whol body to naturall order and good constitution , by alone drinking , ( and externall application ) the prepared Liquor of this Cup : these 14 last recited wonderfull and admirable Cures were all accordingly effectually performed in Christian piety and friendly neighborhood by my much esteemed dear friend Mr. William Palmer dwelling within two miles of the Citty of Leicester . 43. A certain maiden through want of her naturall monethly purgations , became extreamly swelled all the body over , and had also in the right breast , neck and arm-pit , certain kernels and hard tumors , and all her left arme was altogether benummed and congelated in such sort that she had not any use or strength thereof , and had also followed the prescriptions of many Physitians , with the applications of many seare-cloths emplaisters and unguents ; but all without any benefit . By the externall bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , her monethly terms came orderly and her whole body in every particular was perfectly and speedily Cured . Witnesse Mrs. King of Barnet . 44. In the Citty of London neer Algate , a certain young woman extreamly taken with the dead Palsie , in all the parts of her body , that she could neither stand , nor stirr , nor move any one finger towards helping of her self , and so had continued for 18. monthes . And although no means was neglected that the practice and Experience of the Doctors and Apothecaries could prescribe , yet she was still helpless : But by bathing and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was perfectly restored to her limbs , that within 14. daies she came to the Church on foot without help or supportment of any , to the great admiration and wonder of all the neighbours , that knew well how she had been taken , and how recovered . 46. A certain Gentlewoman that for eight or ten years had been continually tormented with most violent and intollerable fits of the Mother , and retention of the menstruous , accompanied also with most cruell Convulsions , and extortments of the severall parts of the body , in such miserable and intollerable manner that all that saw her ( as well Physitians , whose costly prescriptions she fully and punctually experienced without any help , ease , or comfort , as also many others ) conceived that her intollerable excruciaments and extream violent fits were beyond the common effects of naturall causes , and that they were done by Witch-craft and by the malice of the Devill ▪ and some were wrongfully suspected to have practised witch-craft and inchantment upon the same Gentlewoman : neverthelesse by drinking and bathing with the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was perfectly recovered , and her body brought to naturall purgations , and healthfull Constitution in every commendable respect , and so remaineth perfectly well praise be to God . 47. Within 2 ▪ miles of Wallingford , an ancient man that had been for seven or eight years grievously troubled with a foul inveterated Cough of the Lungs , and much spitting of noysome corrupt matter , and so much infeebled therewith that he was scarce able to walk about with the help of a staffe , having also upon him many ulcerous sores and foul Scabs , the remains of a confirmed Morbus Gallicus , which wasted and consumed his body : By bathing and cleansing the foul sores to the bottome , and by drinking the Liquor of this Cup prepared , he was perfectly Cured . 48. In Barke shire neer Sherefield Court , a certain woman being taken with Congelation or sudden lameness of her whole body , and constrained thereby to keep her bed continually for two years or more without any help or remedy , although she experimented the skill of many , as well Physitians as others : by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , and bathing all the grieved parts therewith : She speedily and perfectly recovered her health , strength and agility of her congealed limbs , that within fourteen dayes she came on foot seven miles , to render thanks , and to acknowledge the benefit she had received . 49. Another ancient Gentleman that for ten years found himself continually clogged with some heavy and cold oppression about the Stomack ; but being of strong constitution , and withall full of Law-Suits , did forbear all Physicall helps , till he was suddainly so ill taken , that he was constrained to take and keep his bed : And then drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , it brought up abundance of clottered bruised blood , and other foul stuff , which having stood but a little space became all a hard jelly , much like to a bruised Liver , and as thick ; and the Gentleman immediately recovered perfect health . 50. A certain man bleeding abundantly at the nostrills both night and day without any or very little intermission , for four or five dayes together , and could not be stanched by any means that could be used , that it was generally thought of all about him , that he would bleed to death : To whom there was administred of the prepared Liquor of this Cup , a good draught ; the blood immediately stayed , and although it wrought by vomits and other waies 7. or 8. times , the blood remained stanched , and the man perfectly recovered : and this is a wonderfull property and operation that it should thus stanch blood , whereas in cause of Lunacy , Madness , Frensie , and the Plurisie , it is confirmed by much experience , that it openeth the Veins , and causeth to bleed abundantly , both by the Nostrils , at the mouth and ears , and downwards naturally , both by the menstruall and hemerodiall Veins . These seven last recited admirable and wonderfull Cures , are confirmed to be most certain and true by the right worshipfull Willam Mollins , Esquire . 51. A certain young Gentlewoman having a Fistulated sore leg , with eight holes of great deepness therein , and much proud flesh spongy and evill coloured , mounting and swelling up in an exceeding hie and deformed disproportion about the sores ; out of all which eight holes came continually great store of foul thin undigested matter , as also many splints of corrupt and putrified bones came forth : This sore leg was under the hands of very many Chyrurgeons for three years continually , without hope of cure , and at length resolved upon to be cut off : Notwithstanding , by bathing , cleansing , syrindging and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup ; the malignant humors were purged , the body was cleansed , the bones were scarified and purified , the dead flesh consumed , and the Gentlewomans Leg perfectly healed sound , without any blemish or impediment , and as perfect and as strong as the other : This was done fourteen years past ; and the Gentlewoman hath continued perfect well ever since , and is in London ready to affirm this truth . 52. A certain Merchants daughter in London , troubled with obstructions of the Spleen , and retentions of the Menstrues , taking too much and over-violent Physick , brought a continuall Flux of menstrous and diureticall infirmities upon her , which continued three years , and cast the young Gentlewoman into a deep Consumption . Shee was perfectly cured by drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup , having been before two or three years in the course of Physick , without any help or comfort . 53. A certain Gentleman troubled with Astmaticall Consumptions and Obstructions of the Liver , and of the Spleen , and being full of tough flegme and other crude corrupt humors , utterly lost the use of his speech , and following the prescriptions of severall Doctors , neverthelesse remained dumb and speechless for three , if not four years together , without help or hope of recovery ; by alone drinking the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup , he recovered his speech and perfect health within fourteen dayes . 54. In the same Coutrey a certain young married Gentlewoman , without any deservings of her own , had Morbus Gallicus , and a cruell sore canker in her mouth that had eaten away the uvula and corroded away a great hole in the palate or roof of the mouth , so that whensoever she drank , it came flowing forth at both her Nostrills , and her speech was so impaired , that it was well nigh lost : Neverthelesse by bathing her head , gargasing and cleansing her mouth with this Liquor , and drinking the same inwardly , the Disease was overcome , the malignant humor was purged , the blood and Liver purified and cleansed , the canker in the mouth was healed ; and which I doe admire ; new flesh grew and covered all over the palate , her speech became perfect , and she was throughly cured . 55. The same course was willingly taken by the Gentleman her husband , and in few daies he was throughly purged and cleansed from that foul Disease ; and they have both continued perfect well more than fourteen years past , and the Gentlewoman hath brought forth six Children sithence , of as fair complexion and perfect constitution as any be in that Countrey ; a manifest assurance of their own perfect recovery and freedome from that foul Disease . 56. A certain Gentlewoman that was most miserably troubled with that uncomfortable and loathsome infirmity , called Illiaca passio , or Miserere mei , so that she could not for many months expell & purge downward the excrementitious impurities of the body after the naturall order , but came up at her mouth ; to whom the liquor of this Cup was administred twice without any observable benefit ; but at the third time there was given to her a full pinte of prepared Ale ; and then the Gentlewoman sensibly perceived her bowels as it were to unrowl and unbinde within her , as though , before , they had been either twisted about , or cast upon some knot ; whereupon she purged plentifully ; and with once more drinking of this prepared Liquor , she perfectly recoverd her former health , and naturall order and constitution of her body , and hath so remained ever since . 57. A certain young man extreamly tormented with most strange and violent Convulsion fits , that the Physitians not knowing how to remedy the same , gave him over for a bewitched creature , whose cruell tormenting fits they ascribed to the malice of the Devill , and to witches , his wicked Agents ; was neverthelesse perfectly cured of his strong and violent fits , by alone drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup . These five last recited wonderfull and rare Cures were performed in Christian and Godly charity , by Mr. Chancy a Reverend and Learned Divine , a Godly Religious painfull Preacher . 58. The Right Honorable , the Countesse of Leicester , administred the prepared Liquor of this Cup with safety and good successe to an Infant of three moneths old ( the like hath been done to many sucking Infants and tender children ) against the small Pox , the Purples , and spotted Fever ; and never any one miscarried , but recovered perfectly of every one of these Diseases . 59. A certain Gentlewoman being somewhat troubled with the Strangury , and painfull sharp Distillations ( and often times long retention of Urine ) took Physick from an ignorant and wicked Imposturer , that gave her poysonfull pills of ill prepared Mercury sublimate , whereby her body was much swelled , her teeth fell to be loose and some fell out , all her bowells and internall parts were cruelly tormented with excrutiations and burning Inflamations ; To whom the Liquor of this Cup was speedily administred ; it wrought upon her gently fourteen dayes ; expelled the poyson , purged the malignities and evill symptomes occasioned by the poyson received , and perfectly recovered the Gentlewoman , who is very well , and ready to affirm this truth . 60. A certain ancient Gentleman prisoner in the Kings Bench . that for many years together had been grievously troubled with an inveterate cough , astmaticall stoppings of the Lungs , and a continuall P●isick , tough Flegme , and other foul putrifactive humours ; was speedily and perfectly cured and freed from all the recited evill affects , by three times drinking the prepared Liquor of this my Magneticall Cup , without any other help . These two last recited experiments were performed by Mr. Francis Taylor , who then was Prisoner in the Kings Bench . 61. An ancient Gentlewoman that for three years together was continually troubled with a great Flux of the Menstrues , and also of the whites in great abundance ; was by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup ( and another secret manner of application ) speedily and perfectly cured . 62. Another ancient Gentlewoman that had for a long time languished with the Fever Hectick and yellow Jaundice , and other infirmities , which might ( indeed ) be esteemed incurable in one of her years , and was forsaken of the Doctors of Physick , and esteemed of her neighbours , and of her own husband , to be irrecoverable ; who therefore made then preparation for her Funerall : Neverthelesse taking but thrice only the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was perfectly recovered to health , this was eight years past , and the Gentlewoman liveth not far from Bow-lane in London , ready to confirm this approved truth . 63. Another woman aged 66. or thereabouts , being far gone with the black Jaudice and deep Consumption , and also at the same time taken with a most violent spotted Fever , and in the judgment of all her neighbours esteemed to be past all hope of life , and also forsaken of the Physitians , neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was recovered , and is yet living in perfect health , this was also six years past . 64 In the same house a young Gentlewoman that was much troubled with the yellow Jaundise , Obstructions both of the Spleen , and also of the Lungs ; was perfectly cured by three times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup . These foure last Experiments , were Experimentally approved by Mrs. Goffe dwelling neer the Church in Trinity-lane in London . 65. A certain Gentlewoman , having for many years continued languishing in a deep Consumption , was mightily swelled with Hydropicall humors and notwithstanding the best helps of the Physitians esteemed incurable ( as all in such an estate are falsly deemed to be ) and so left remedies , was neverthelesse speedily restored to perfect health , all the Hydropicall corrupt humors quite purged away , and her liver rectified , good appetite , and a kindly digestion regained , and the naturall vigor and strength of the whole body effectually restored , by drinking 3. or 4. times the prepared Liquor of this Cup , without any other help . 66. Moreover in the Citty of Worcester a certain corpulent Gentleman much given to the company of great drinkers was suddainly caught with a dangerous surfeit , and dead Palsie , lameness of all the left side ; and this Gentleman for many years before had been much tormented with the painfulness of the Gout , this surfeit brought also upon him a fierce and a violent burning Fever : this Gentleman used the best helps of the Physitians , but all in vain : notwithstanding by drinking the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup : and by bathing the head , back , sides and all the parts troubled with lameness and painfulness of the Gout , he was recovered to perfect health and Strength of the whole body . These two last recited experiments with many hundreths more for Agues , Green sickness , Obstructions , and the like , were performed by my worthy friend Mr. Walter Childe , Esquire . 67. A certain woman that for 7. or 8. years together had continuall suppression of the Menstrues and a very sore Fistula or dangerous ulcer upon her leg , having many sore orifices where from continually came forth much corrupt matter , and her body was also much swelled with Hydropicall humours , with drinking inwardly the prepared Liquor of this Cup , and cleansing the ulcerous sores therewith , the monthly courses brake down kindly upon her , and purged well , all the swelling was abated , the Ulcerous or Fistulated leg was perfectly healed : witnesse Mrs. Alliston . 68. A certain poor man a Brick-layer , living about Bedford , being exceedingly swelled with corrupt and hydropicall humors , and brought to exceeding weaknesse by a long languishing Consumption , who after much practice made by common Physitians , was left remedilesse and incurable ; notwithstanding by the blessings of God , drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was perfectly restored to health . Mr. Thomas Litton , Esquire , performed this admirable Cure with many others . 69. A certain Gentleman of good worth and esteem living in the Strand neer Charing Crosse , that for certain yeers continued most grievously tormented with the windy and flatuous Melancholy in the sides , and with extream pain about the Stomack , his appetite to meat lost , and thereby cast into a deep Consumption , and by many judged to be incurable : Neverthelesse by the blessings of God , and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , within a few dayes he was restored to perfect health ; and so hath continued still for five years past . This is testified by Mr. John Lathum , Esquire to be an approved truth . 70. A certain woman having her naturall purgations stayed upon her for many years , and through the suppression of them and the malignities of sharp and corrupt humors , had a most grievous Ulcerated sore breast , mightily swelled and intollerably painfull , having therein eight holes , wherein eight tents of great length were put in at times of dressing , and much foul corrupt matter issued therefrom continually ; in began to mortifie , and to look black and dangerous ; and the common Chyrurgeons advised the woman to have that Breast cut off , for other cure thereof they knew none : Neverthelesse by syrindging and cleansing the Ulcerous sores to the bottome without Tents , and by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , and applying externally hot wet clothes to the sore Breast , the swelling abated , the corrupt matter expurged , and the woman was speedily and perfectly healed . 71. A certain Gentleman of great credit and imployment , for 2. or 3. years was most miserably distracted , and deeply plunged with desperate Melancholy , and had been under the hands of many professed Doctors of Physick without help or remedy , was perfectly restored to his memory , understanding , and perfect health , by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup : And hath continued for many years since comfortable in minde , healthfull in body , and every way able sufficiently with reputation and credit to discharge an office of great employment and trust 72. A certain poor Ship carpenter having for a long time been grievously handled with a quartan Ague , and after with a most violent burning Fever , and cast at last into a deep Consumption , having spent all his whole estate upon Physitians , and by them left remediless , and helpless ; was by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , perfectly and speedily restored to perfect health , and strength to labor in his calling . 73. A certain young Gentlewoman being for many years very much troubled with Cachexia , being an evill disposition of the whole body and stomack , Green-sickness , Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver , and with continuall vomitings , that commonly whatsoever she did eate or drink came up again immediatly ; she was also troubled with many foule and noisome worms , and had taken very much Physick without any benefit or help : neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , she was perfectly cured , her stomack was throughly cleansed , her complexion became faire , her blood fresh and fluent , many noisome foule worms of an incredible bigness were expelled , her naturall purgations were restored , and naturall strength and vigour flourished to full perfection . 74. A certain poore man that went very feebly and weakly , wandring about the streets to beg his sustenance , that for many years was grievously afflicted with the bloody flix , without finding any help or remedie , was perfectly cured by 3 times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , without any other help . 75. A certain Sea Captain at his return was very sore troubled with the Scorbuto and swelling of the body , but most specially of the legs and feet , and also with great swelling and painfulnesse in one of his shoulders , his stomack to meat was gone , and his sleep departed from him : but taking the Liquor of this Cup inwardly and bathing the parts afflicted outwardly , he was speedily restored to perfect health . 76. A certain Gentlewoman that for many years together was troubled with Vertigo , gidinesse and swimming of the head , dizinesse and darknesse of her sight , and with swounding fits , all which proceeded from noysome vapours arising from her Stomack ; and had taken much and costly Physick , without benefit or help : By drinking this prepared Liquor , she was speedily and perfectly cured . These seven last recited rare and wonderfull experiments were performed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ray , wife to Captain John Ray , Esquire . 77. A certain right Honorable Lord , that for many years had been very much troubled with swellings and hydropicall humors , and was faln very deep into a languishing Consumption , and having followed for divers years the prescription of the Physitians , without any help or hope ; Was perfectly and speedily restored to health , by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup . 78. In Wolverhampton , in the County of Stafford , a certain Gentleman was most extreamly taken , and troubled with the dead Palsie , which had taken away the strength and motion of the one side of his body wholy , and also of both the hands and feet , so that he was not able to stir out of his bed , or being there , to move or stir either hand or foot : was speedily restored to perfect health , strength , and abilitie of body , to walk and write , by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup , and bathing therewith . 79. In the same Town of Wolverhampton , a certain Gentleman having been for a long time much troubled with the Fever Hectick , and much stopped and stuffed with tough flegme , his Stomack to meat and digestion quite lost , and having taken much Physick without any benefit or help , and forsaken and left curelesse : By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was speedily restored to perfect health . 80. Another man living in the same Town of Wolverhampton , that had been above twenty years very much troubled with a deadly quartan Fever , and could never get any prevalent help to free him from the violence thereof : By drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly cured . This was eight years past and he remaineth ever since in perfect health . 81. A poor Mayden living in the same Town , the Daughter of a poor Widow , having lost the benefit of her sight , occasioned by over-much coldnesse of the brain , and much buffeting and beating about the head , but principally caused by long retention of the Menstruous ( howsoever caused ) she was esteemed to be sightless & remedilesse : Neverthelesse , by drinking the prepared Liquor of the Cup , and droping some into the eyes , and bathing the temples , her naturall tearms brake down kindly , her head and brain received warmnesse , and in lesse than fourteen dayes she recovered both her health and perfect sight . 82. Another Gentleman that from his Childhood had much complained of dimnesse and weaknesse of his sight , especially at any remote distance , and hardly able to endure the light of a candle , and continually had such a shuting and pricking in his eyes , as though sticks had been rowled in them : By drinking three or four times the prepared Liquor of this Cup , and dropping in his eyes some , allayed with fountain water ; it hath so cleared and strengthned the sight that this Gentleman being fifty two years of age , can now read and write by candlelight , without any glasses for six or twelve hours together , without any trouble or wrong to his sight , which he could not doe at any time before . 83. In Tressul a Parish in Statfordshire , a certain man having throughly heated himself with hay-making , and lying down upon the ground , caught a most dangerous cold and cough of the lungs , which continued upon him even to a deep Astmaticall Consumption , so that as well Physitians as others , esteemed him to be incureable : Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was speedily and perfectly cured . 84. In Walsall in the same County one William Day was so far spent with a languishing Consumption , and had taken very much Physick without help or any benefit , and esteemed to be utterly incurable ; By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was speedily and perfectly cured . These eight last recited experiments , and , as it is affirmed , 800. more of severall Diseases , were performed by one Benedict Laurence , dwelling in Wolverhampton . 85. In the same County , and neer unto Wolverhampton , another Gentleman was in a desperate Consumption , and extreamly swelled with hydropicall humors , that no apparell could be had big enough for him , and his miserable swellings and painfullnesse so great , and such , that himself and his friends heartily wished his life to be at an end : Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , he was perfectly and speedily cured . 86. Mr. Thomas Godfrey of Seeling in the County of Kent , Esq finding his man comming from London in the time of Plague , to have faln sick very suddainly , suspected that he might be infected with the Pestilence , and therefore speedily prepared the Cup , and caused his man and himself , and every one of his Family with all possible expedition , to drink good quantities of the prepared Liquor ; and it wrought effectually upon every one of them , and not any one of his Houshold miscarried . His man had a great tumor in his Groin , which by bathing was brought to suppuration , and broke , and was cleansed with the prepared Liquor , and thereby was perfectly healed . Thus by his carefull and heedfull prevention , the said Mr. Godfrey preserved himself and all his Family from the contagious Infections of the Plague : This Gentleman hath cured also very many Kentish Agues ; and above 100. severall persons infirmed with severall infirmities and Diseases , with the alone Liquor of the Cup . 87. The Lady Middleton of Burshby Hill in Hartfordshire , having the same accident as the last recited , befaln to her Coachman , comming from London in the time of greatest infection , with all expedition gave to him to drink the prepared Liquor of the Cup , and also to her self and to every particular person of her Family ; it wrought well upon every one , by vomits and otherwise , cured the Coachman of the Plague sore , and prevented the infection from the rest . These I doe publish to excite all to glorifie God for his mercifull goodness , and to stir them to the like Christian and Godly care and usefull practice , for the better prevention of all such dangerous Diseases . 88. A certain Country man being a Warrener , having in charge to walk about his ground betwixt one and two in the morning , finding himself addicted to sleep , having spent the former part of the night in unmeasurable drinking , laid himself down upon the ground and slept , afterwards rowsing himself up , found his limbs mightily stiffned and benummed ; neverthelesse got home to his house being neer , and threw himself on his back in all his clothes upon his Bed , where he continued five weeks in that very same posture , not being able to suffer himself any way to be holpen , for the ease of naturall necessity ; at which time I was come into the Country and earnestly requested to visit him : he was the most miserable spectacle , and the most foulsome to come neer unto , that ever I saw in all my life : Neverthelesse , with bathing his benummed arms , thighs , legs , and feet , with ( and by drinking ) the prepared Liquor of this Cup , recovered his feet , and after , his perfect health . Mr. Thomas Brooks , Esquire , and Mr. John Dickons , with many others doe know this to be a certain truth . 89. A certain young woman of a fair and healthfull constitution , undertaking the nourishing of two strong children , the monethly purgations became stopped , and stayed for six moneths ; and in the seventh moneth clear blood ran forth abundantly at both her breasts , to the great amazement and astonishment of the woman her self , and of many others . There was speedily applyed to both her breasts , soft folded clothes , well soaked in the hot prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup ▪ And likewise the prepared , Liquor with two or three spoonfulls of the Sirup of Mugwort , was given to this woman to drink two or three times ; and the Menstrues came in order , and purged naturally ; and in eight dayes the woman became to be perfect well , and her breast milk became fair and healthfull ; and neither she nor her Nursing children had any manner of harm at all . 90. A certain woman that for many years had been extreamly troubled with Obstructions and Oppilations of the Spleen , and such Astmaticall stuffings , that she could hardly draw her breath , and had also a foul Impostumation in the Lungs ; she had spent all her state upon Physitians and Physick , without any help or comfort : Neverthelesse she was perfectly cured by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup . These two last recited admirable experiments were done , with many more , by the Right Worshipfull Mrs. Abigaile Smalman of Wildertop , in the County of Salop. 91. In Warwick an ancient Gentleman liveth , that hath been for many years much troubled with the dead Palsie , both in his hands , knees , and feet , so that at certain times he had no use of either ; and for five years ▪ for his help and remedy , he resorted to the Bathe , to his great charges and painfull travell : and although he recovered some help at the present times , and for sometimes after ; Neverthelesse his former Palsie returned again at the accustomed times , and so he remained without any constant help : Neverthelesse by bathing and drinking of the prepared Liquor of this Cup . This Gentleman is absolutely and perfectly cured . Mrs. Roe of Warwick knoweth this to be true . 92. A certain Gentlewoman falling upon her back and shoulders upon a pair of stairs , her left shoulder and arm swelled very much , and grew to be exceeding painfull ; they feared much the dislocation of the shoulder bone ; but being resolved otherwise , the shoulder and all the arm was bathed with the hot prepared Liquor of the Cup ; the swelling brake in the small of the arm , and much contused blood and quitture came forth ; and by this only help , it was perfectly healed . 93. A certain Gentlewoman having a little Wart under the left Eye , on the bottome of the nether lid , being accidentally rubbed off , grew to a sore ; for the cure whereof she made use of severall Chyrurgeons , but in vain ; for the sore grew to be worse and worse ; yea , to such excrescens of proud flesh , as exceeded an inch in thicknesse , and her face swelled very much , and continued very hard , and the sight of her eye was quite lost for the time ; and in this exteamity she was left , and judged to be incurable , and thought it would be the cause of her speedy death : Neverthelesse , by bathing with , and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup , the swelling became abated , the proud flesh became mortified and fell off , in such sort , that being rooted where the sore was foulest , it left a hole under her eye , an inch deep ; the sound flesh became soft , her face well coloured , and her sight was perfectly regained ; and with washing the sore and applying wet clothes unto the orifice of the sore , without any tenting , it filled up with good and sound flesh , and she is hereby perfectly cured . Mr. Lemuell Allen , a Minister , performed this rare cure . 94. A certain Gentleman extreamly taken with a Quartan Ague , which continued upon him 18. Moneths , and although he spared no cost upon Physick and Physitians , yet remained he still curelesse and helplesse ; the long continuance and violence of this Fever cast him into a deep Consumption , his Stomack and Appetite to meat was quite lost ; his strength and naturall vigor failed , so that for many weeks together he could take no manner of sustenance , but only a little weak Cullice given him by a spoonfull or two at a time : He was in this extreamity admonished to take some of the Liquor of my Cup , aromatised with comfortable things to please his palate ; which he did once , and it wrought gently by vomit ; he tooke the common and plaine prepared liquor of the Cup twise more , and perfectly recovered his health . Mr. Hunnyman one of his Majesties servants knoweth and justifieth this to be true . 95. A certaine ancient man , 84 yeeres of age , became all the body over to be full of dry crusty scabbs , which would commonly scale and rub off for a certaine season , but would come again : at length they came all his body over dry and hard like the bark of a tree : In this perplexity , his age and noysomenesse considered , his wife and friends were put to many experiments , but none profited him any thing at all , untill they bathed all his body over with the hot liquor of this Cup , and administred the same inwardly ; and by this practise within a few dayes this old man , being throughly purged and bathed with this hot liquor prepared , his hard crusty scabbedness scaled off , and his flesh and skin was restored and renewed both white and cleare like a young mans : This I saw done , and doe publish for an experimented truth . 95. A certain woman that lived by her painfull labour , by some accidentall distemperature fell to be most grievevously afflicted with often and terrible fits of the Falling-sickness , whereby her health was impaired , and that cruell sickness continuing upon her many years , brought her to extream poverty , to whom the Liquor of this Cup prepared , was 3 times administred , and she was perfectly cured . 97. A certain young man also tormented with the same cruell disease to whome the prepared Liquor of my Cup being in good quantities , three times administred , he was thereby perfectly cured : There hath been cured of the Falling-sickness by the alone drinking of the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup in severall parts of the Kingdome , whereof I have been informed , more than 200. persons 98. A certain Gentleman in Cornwall , having been for many years much troubled with the tough flegme and stoppings , and Astmaticall oppilations and obstructions of the Lungs , and thereby brought to a languishing Consumption , that he could hardly walk with a staffe , to whom the prepared Liquor of my Cup was administred three times , and thereby was speedily restored to perfect health ; this Gentleman I have seen since healthfull and well in this Citty of London : These three last recited experiments were performed by my truly honoured worthy friend , the right worshipfull Mr. Francis Godolphin , Esquire . 99. A certain Gentleman having unlawfully and unfortunately accompanied with an unhealthfull and corrupt creature , had his secret parts mightily swelled and exulcerated , so that his Urine came from him with intollerable scorching and burning , and also issued forth at six severall places , not one of them being the proper and naturall passage ; for that was quite stopped up : the Gentleman being in this perplexed and well deserved misery ; was neverthelesse perfectly cured and healed of all these foul scorchings , swellings , and ulcerated holes , and all the painfullnesse mittigated and asswaged by washing , cleansing , syrindging with ( and drinking ) the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup ; and by this practice , he was fully purged from the contagious infection of that foul Disease , and was restored unto perfect health , and the naturall passage was cleansed and opened , and became serviceable and officious to nature as before . This rare and admirable cure , although of a foul Disease , I publish and testifie for an approved and an experimented truth . 100. A certain Gentleman , an especiall good friend of mine , being of a strong corpulent constitution , having many Suits of great importance depending in Law , for many years continuance , although the state of his body required some help for naturall purifying of the blood and evacuation of foul corrupt humors , yet could not this Gentleman take any fit oportunity for that purpose ; at length he was suddainly cast down , and constrained to take knowledge of natures complaint , & thereupon took a good draught of the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup ; it wrought all that day and all the night following , without any offence or violence , and gave him many vomits , and eight or ten siedges ; the second time it was taken in a greater proportion , and it wrought three or four dayes together , and expurged away abundance of foul and corrupt matter : and the vomits standing three or four hours after the operation , grew all to be of one entire consistence of Jelly , like a great firm Liver with various streaks of rotten blood , and other corrupt matter , that had for more then ten years before oppressed this Gentlemans body ; and certainly unlesse by this , or some other good help , this had been removed , the Gentleman could not have lived but a short time Mr. William Mollins , Esquire will affirm this to be an aproved truth . 101. A certain loving friend of mine finding his stomack to be over charged with foule grosse and corrupt humors , and his stomack and appetite unto meat quite gone , his digestion weak , his whole body growing more faint , and his spirits more dull and lesse cheerfull than accustomed , having one of my Magneticall Cups , prepared therewith a pint of Hy-Countrey White-wine according to the directions by me prescribed , and drank the quantity by me presribed , it wrought well and gave 6. or 8. vomits , and so many siedges : this Gentleman being willing to make a further Experiment than was prescribed , and finding this former operation to be most gentle and easie , takes of the best sweet hie-Country White-wine 3. pintes or 2. quarts boiles all to a pint or thereabouts , and drank it up all at one potion , it wrought with him continually night and day with easie vomits and gentle siedges for 14. daies together , sometimes 30. or 40. siedges with some gentle vomits betwixt , in the space of 24. hours : This Gentleman sent unto me to have it staied : I advised him that he would patiently permit nature to have her full course , for I observed that neither the vomits , neither the siedges did any way violently constrain the body , neither brought any thing away but digested corruptions , that the body was surcharged withall , and could better bee spared and expurged than healthfully kept , and that withall , his appetite to meat and stomack amended upon it , during the physicall operations , and that I knew upon former Experience , that it would cease when the obnoxious humors were expurged . And afterwards when the Operations ceased , this Gentleman grew to be exceedingly hungry , and to have a good stomack with good digestion , and recovered perfect health . And within a few dayes after my friend took it againe , but it wrought not at all with him , for when it had purged the body & found no corrupt humors to work upon , it passed through the body in Urine without any other apparent operation ; I would not advise any to follow this adventurous practice ( although I have known many that have done the like with good successe ) forasmuch as all constitutions are not alike , and that the safest way is to practice according to the most common approved and Experimentally prescribed Orders and Rules . The Manner and Order how to make Vse of my Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup . TAke a well glased earthen pot or Pipkin with a fit cover , then put this Cup therein , and powre within and round about it as much White-wine , Claret wine , Muskadine , or Malmesie if it may be gotten for it is best of all , or else Ale or Beer , a sufficient quantity to fill and plentifully to cover , and to be above the Cup , an Inch or two or more , that it may stand in full infusion ; then set the Pipkin upon or by a gentle fire , and let it boile gently for two houres , and afterwards remain in the same order covered in a temperate digesting heat , such as you might endure your finger in , the residue and remainder of 12 hours from the time you began ; yet admonishing you to spare the curiosity of some that sit up to attend the same all night ; place it neer the hot hearth , where fire hath been kept all day , & it is sufficient , for a small heat will serve to keep it in good digestion ; being thus used before & standing covered , then one hour or two before you doe take it , or administer it to another , remove it from the fire , and set it to coole if need be , not taking off the cover whereby the spirits might evaporate away ; Afterwards a Cupfull or more taken fasting cold , purgeth the body from whatsoever is offensive to Nature , the operation is safe and gentle , and without any violence or danger , as hath been oftentimes proved : Let them about four , or five hours after sleep , if their Constitution require it , and then use or take any convenient diet , or what they are commonly accustomed unto , and govern themselves as after other Physick . By the quantity and proportion of Wine or Ale , allowing a pint of Wine , or a quart of Ale to be prepared for two , you may prepare for as many as you please at one time ; and here note , that the greater the quantity of Liquor , and the weaker it is , the more heat of fire and the longer time of digestion and preparation it requireth : You my also keep of this prepared Liquor in close glasses or earthen bottles a fortnight or a moneth , and send it , or carry it where , and to what distant place you will , for it loseth not his Virtue : one Cupfull is an ordinary and common Dose for Children , Women , and for other weak and delicate persons : Neverthelesse , it worketh best in strong constitutions , when two or three Cupfulls are taken and drunk out of a black pot or glasse , and not so effectuall out of silver : You may begin with one Cupfull , and so increase the Dose and quantity of Potion as you finde cause ; for herein discretion and experience must be your guide . For the manner of the operation , it is somewhat difficult and doubtfull to foreknow and presage ; for it operateth according as it is most convenint for the present estate and constitution of the body : Sometimes , and in some constitutions , it operateth by Vomit alone ; in some others , by siedge alone ; in others by Urine and Sweat ; but most commonly it worketh all these wayes , and ever without any violence or danger . To prescribe a time for the use of this Medicine , is needlesse ; it may be safely taken any time of the year , even in the time of the extreamest heat of Summer , or coldest of Winter ; neverthelesse , the Spring and fall are most convenient for all Physicall operations . To prevent sicknesse or when any convenient occasion is offered , it should be taken three times , leaving a day or two between , and every time take more than the former : but for confirmed Diseases it should be taken three times in the week , if occasions permit , as long as it will work ; for when it hath cleansed and purified the body from all impurities and corrupt humors , it worketh no more ; and then you may be sure the Patient is perfect well ; and this is a noble quality of this Medicine . I have known it administred twenty nine times to a Gentlewoman that had the Falling-sicknesse of nine years continuance , leaving intermedian dayes 1 , 2 , or 3. betwixt , as occasion required , and the thirtieth time it wrought not at all , although administred in a greater quantity ; and then it was apparent that her whole body was cleansed , and she perfectly cured , and delivered from the violence of that miserable Disease : For it is most certain , that so long as there is any preternaturall humors , or offensive malignant matter , remaining within the body , it will work . I have known it in some constitutions , and also against some foul and dangerous Diseases , upon thrice taking , to have wrought three or four dayes after by Siedge , yea sometimes with purging and sweating to the 12 , 13 , or 15. day after the taking thereof , and alwaies proved to be without any harm , violence , or danger . And some being timerous , have requested to have it staid ; but I ever advised the contrary , and desired them to permit nature to have her course , and to perfect her intended work , for this Medicine is not to be feared , and will eject nothing but that which well may , and ought to be spared ( whatsoever malicious adversaries to experienced truth say to the contrary . ) Against the pains of the Gout , or any other pain , ache , tumor , or swelling , make the Infusion strong with White wine , and bathe the grieved places half an hour long , as hot as the Patient may endure it , the night before you take it inwardly : And by alone bathing the Temples of the Head , the Legs , and the Feet , it taketh away all manner of inveterated pains of the Head , and purgeth the Body also , although you take it not inwardly at all : and this is an approved truth . For swellings , wounds , fistulaes , and ulcerous sores , wash them well with the hot infusion made with White wine , and Syrindge in the Liquor into the bottome , and cleanse the sores well , apply wet clothes three or four fould hot , to the sore orifices : take care you doe not Tent , neither binde too hard . And by using this means , you may perfectly cure any Disease or Infirmity that may be cured by any other Means , Skill , or Art . Beware of Counterfeit , Pernitious , Dangerous , and Violent Cups : Howsoever use them not according to my directions ; and if you doe , and receive harm or miscarry , blame your own willfullnesse and let your blood bee required at their hands that have abused you : this my Premonition shall plead my Innocency before the Lord . The names of such Ancient Philosophers , and Learned Physitians that have written of the Medicinall Virtues of this Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup . 1. Theophrastus Paracelsus . 2. Martinus Rulandus . 3. Josephus Quercitanus . 4. Duncanus Bornettus . 5. Lybavius tract. Alch. 6. Oswaldus Crollius . 7. Thalingus Poppius . 8. Johannes Dan. Millius . 9. Angelus Sala . 10. Johannes Rhenanus . 11. Basilius Valentinus . 12. Matthias Vntzerus . 13. Guilielmus Avisonus . 14. Philippus Mullerus . 15. Suchtenius . 16. Baptista Porta . 17. Poterus . his Pharmacopea . 18. Johannes Beguinus . 19. Leonardus Phirovanti . 20. Guilielmus Olivarius . 21. Severinus Scotobrittan . Sir Theodore Mayern , Kt. and Dr. of Physick , and Physitian in Ordinary to the Kings most excellent Majesty , hath approved and experienced the same often times with happy and good successe . These Learned men of our own Nation and Countrey , by their own Experiments and Observations , have confirmed the same , as by their severall Certificates may appear . Daniell Featly , D. of D. Moegan Wynne , D. of D. Richard Naper , D. of D. Nicholas Page , D. of D. M. Henry Walker , B. of D. M. Hugh Maurice , B. of D. M. John Vicars , B. of D. M. Aynscombe , B. of D. Robert Fludd , Esq ; D. of Physick . Barthol . Van der lasse , D. of Phys. Philip Molthery , Dr. of Physick . Guilielmus Olivarus , D. of Phys. John Rudston , Dr. of Physick . William Freeman , D ▪ of Physick . John Higgans , Dr. of Physick . Richard Freeman , Dr. of Physick . Michael Wainman , D. of Physick . Symon Ryder , Dr. of Physick . Richard Collet , D. of Physick . William Bayly , Dr. of Physick . William Hodgets , D. of Physick . These Right Honourable Personages have Experienced this my Magneticall Medicine with happy and good successe . The R. Hon. the E. of Mulgrave . The R. Hon. the E. of Norwich . The R. Hon. the E. of Bridgwat . The R. Hon. the E. of Malboro . The R. Hon. the E. of Nithisdale . The R. Ho. L. Viscount Cambden . The R. Hon. John Lord Harries . The R. Ho. the Countesse of Darby The R. Ho. the Count . of Westmerl . The R. Hon. the Countesse of Devonshire . The R. Ho. the Count . of Excester The R. Ho. the Count . of Leicester The R. Hon. the Count . of Malb . The Hon. Lady Theophila Cook . The Hon. the Lady Wilbraham . The Hon. the Lady Delaware . The Hon. the Lady Jackson . The Hon. the Lady Apsley . The Hon. the Lady Willoughby . The Hon. the Lady Shelley . The Hon. the Lady Thorowgood . The Hon. the Lady Browne . The Hon. the Lady Farell . The Hon. the Lady Shurley . The Hon. the Lady Jepson . These Right Worshipfull Knights , and Gentlemen of Reputation and Credit , have Experienced the same ; and approved it to be without Violence or Danger . Sir Edward Powell , Knight , one of the Masters of his Majesties Honourable Court of Requests . Sir Francis Kinnaston , Knight , Esquire to his Majesties Body . Sir Thomas Middleton , Knight . Sir Robert Naper , Knight & Bar. Sir Guilbert Cornwall , Knight Baron of Burford . Sir Thomas Payton , Kn. and Bar. Sir John Shelley , Knight and Bar. Sir Peter Mutton , Knight . Sir Philip Landen , Knight . Sir Thomas Burton , Knight . Sir Richard Jifford , Knight . Sir Thomas Styles , Knight . Sir Anthony Thomas , Knight . Sir Fulbert Varnat , Knight . Sir Richard Waltingstall , Knight . Sir Christopher Nevell , Knight . Sir William Ford , Knight . Sir William Fonte , Knight . Sir Richard Naper , Knight . Sir Richard Hutton , Knight . Sir Edward Scot , Knight . Sir John Compton , Knight . Sir William Weston , Knight . Sir William Savage , Knight . Esquires . Francis Godolphin , Esquire . Edward Scot , Esquire . Lyster Blunt , Esquire . Thomas Godfrey , Esquire . John Grymsdych , Esquire . William Molins , Esquire . Thomas Houldford , Esquire . Roger Ellys , Esquire . Richard Norris , Esquire . Thomas Edmonds , Esquire . William Edmunds , Esquire . Thomas Longe , Esquire . John Savage , Esquire . Thomas Challoner , Esquire . Humfrey Gunter , Esquire . William Cheriton , Esquire . Francis Tompson , Esquire . Richard Aston , Esquire . Robert Tompson , Esquire . John Poole , Esquire . William Audrey , Esquire . Thomas Weekes , Esquire . William Vince , Esquire . Thomas Litton , Esquire . Edward Savage , Esquire . William Cowse , Esquire . Phylip Child , Esquire . George Mynne , Esquire . Henry Collet , Esquire . Fancis Munday , Esquire . Henry Knight Esquire . , William Nottle , Esquire . William Staneley , Esquire . Henry Poole , Esquire . Arthor Wallys , Esquire . Richard Hasellburie , Esquire . John Lathum , Esquire . Francis Lathum , Esquire . Robbert Wallys . Esquire . Henry Nicholls , Esquire . Thomas Ockrave Esquire . John Anderson , Esquire . Richard Folly , Esquire . Roger Fowke , Esquire . Alexander Dixson , Esquire . Thomas Savage , Esquire . John Shelden , Esquire . John Hunt , Esquire . Edward Powell , Esquire . Nicholas Macham Esquire . Henry Prat , Esquire . John Woodhouse , Esquire . Henry Bromely , Esquire . Innocent Rashe , Esquire . John Blunden , Esquire . Thomas Blundell , Esquire . William Overton , Esquire . William Craddock , Esquire . John Clackston , Esquire . Richard Warner , Esquire . Thomas Morton , Esquire . Thomas Carroll , Esquire . William Edmunds , Esquire . Thomas Wood , Esquire . Henry Hill , Esquire . Thomas Stoakes , Esquire . William Shephard , Esquire . Henry Lovelace , Esquire . Thomas Prat , Esquire . John Leigh , Esquire . Samuel Ward , Esquire . George Eves , Esquire . James Lathum , Esquire . John Thorpe , Esquire . Henry Berkeley , Esquire . Henry Pickering , Esquire . John Smith , Esquire . William Shephard , Esquire . Arthur Hill , Esquire . Michael Jues , Esquire . William Poole , Esquire . Henry Hunniman Esquire . Alexander Emmerson , Esquire . John Warcoape , Esquire . Charles Robinso● , Esquire . John Thornburie , Esquire . Thomas Kercher , Esquire . William Talcoate , Esquire . William Wakeman , Esquire . Edmund Harrison , Esquire . James Beard , Esquire . William Wakeman , Esquire . Henry Turner , Esquire . William Brewer , Esquire . John Applebee , Esquire . Thomas Mason , Esquire . Thomas Brinfield , Esquire . John Price , Esquire . William Weston , Esquire . Thomas Brereton , Esquire . John Malborn , Esquire . Edward Powell , Esquire . Merchants and Citizens of London . Mr. Ludowick Roberts . Mr. Richard Morris . Mr. Foster by the Exchange . Mr. Tichborne . Mr. Babington . Mr. Campion . Mr. Robert Fowles . Mr. Richardson . Mr. Thomas . Mr. Corderoy . Mr. Waite . Mr. Wright . Mr. Turnor . Mr. Gregorie . Mr. ●ightman . Mr. Hayes . Mr. Master . Mr. Reginalds . Mr. Godwyn . Mr. Clarke . Mr. Pocock . Mr. Davies . Mr. Vaughan . Mr. Peter Maurice . With many others tha no● I doe willingly omit . In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established . Math. 18. 16. Soli Deo gloria . FINIS .