DAFFY's Original ELIXIR SALUTIS, Vindicated against all COUNTERFEIT, etc. OR, An ADVERTISEMENT by me, ANTHONY DAFFY, of London, Citizen and Student in PHYSIC,  
By way of Vindication of my Famous and generally approved Cordial Drink, (called ELIXIR SALUTIS) from the notoriously false suggestions of one Tho. Witherden of Bear-steed in the County of Kent, Gent. (as pretended;) Jane White, Robert Brooke, Apothecary, and Edward Willet; all new upstart Counterfeiters of my ELIXIR, and Apelike Imitators of my long since Printed Books and Directions, (some of them, nigh Verbatim, or word for word) and that to the jeopardy of many good, (but misinformed) People's Healths, and Lives too; as also, from the false pretensions of other more sneaking Cub-Quacks, not yet licked into form, but remaining Moon-blind brats, (still in Swadling-Clouts) I mean the Numerous Crew of Libellous Pamphleteeirs, which are (if possible) more dangerous Counterfeiters of my ELIXIR, than those before, or hereafter named; who (as yet) have not Impudence enough to own the lies in their Pamphlets, with their Names; Not (at present) to say any more concerning Hind, Baynes, or Gosmore, (three other Egregious Counterfeiters of my Cordial Elixir) whose Impostures and Deceits I have (for the good and safety of the Public) in a great measure already detected, and unmasked, as in sight of the Sun at Noon.  
IN order to the detection and unmasking of the four Juggling Impostures, (first abovenamed) I take myself obliged (in discharge of my Duty towards God and Man) to caution the Readers, or Patients, (as they tender their own ease, the Cure of their Distempers, or their own Lives) seriously to weigh, and impartialy to remark these Observations, following; wherein I do represent nothing but what I can duly and sufficiently prove, (as divers persons of known Integrity and worth, in this City, and elsewhere, know to be true,) viz.  
The said Thomas Witherden, (Pag. 1. of his Licentious Pamphlet) saith, that Providence put into his hands the Description and preparation of an Excellent Liquor, which he now calls his true and perfect Elixir Salutis, (obtained of an Eminent Person) and that he (resolving to make a narrow scrutiny into my ELIXIR) traced me, till he Centred in the same Author with me; whereunto I the said Anthony Daffy do answer, That of his Centring with me in the same Author of my ELIXIR, there is no other proof, than that of his own iste dixit, or bore say so: And what place that, (though the Word of a Gentleman, as himself also saith) will find in Impartial and Judicious Readers beliefs, (especially from a person speaking for lucre's sake, in his own case,) I leave to Judgement: And further, I do in the presence of the Almighty searcher of hearts affirm, that (many years since) I the said A. D. did by my own Experience and Reading, add a considerable number of Ingredients unto that Receipt, for making ELIXIR, (than tofore, by my worthy and honoured Friend conferred upon me) and did also much vary from the said Receipt, both in the Quantities and Qualities of those Ingredients in the said Receipt specified: And I do further affirm, that neither my said Friend, himself, (from whom, at first, I had the said Receipt) or any other man (my self only excepted) either doth, or at any time did know all the Ingredients, (much less, their quantities) which I have (for many years passed) made use of (and do still use) in the preparing and making of my ELIXIR.  
The said Mr. Witherden (pag. 2.) saith, that (to pair of my gain,) he sells his Drink, (certainly, more exactly prepared than mine, if he be not mistaken) for 4s. the Pint; whereunto I the said A. D. do answer, that I know not what Ingredients he uses, and how cheap they are, that he puts into his Drink, but do find my own, a costly preparation, and so costly, that if my ELIXIR were to be Sold at his Drinks price, the Vendors gain would upon the matter, equalise my own, and without any consideration for my Skill, and my own, and Servants great labour in preparing and making it: Besides, it is well known, that I freely give away a great part of my gains by the Rich, unto the Poor: And I do (with others, that are more acquainted with Mr. Witherden's Drink than myself) rationaly conclude, that his Patients (if any in Nature) might (with far more safety) give iiij s. for a Pint of Pump water, than pay him iiij d. for his Elixir. There was with me this day, (being Saturday 6th June, 1674) a Gent. of great Quality, for some of my Elixir, acquainting me, that he (dwelling in Kent, as I take it) and having taken some of Mr. Witherden's Drink) doth (not without great cause) repent he ever meddled with it; and having taken a small parcel thereof, comes often to me, saying he will keep close to my Elixir.  
The said Mr. Witherden (in the 3. page of his Pamphlet) expresses himself in these words, viz. That which is called the Elixir Salutis, that it is the same with mine I affirm; And for the Truth thereof, I appeal to any Judicious person, who will but try them both, and I will abide by his Impartial Censure, etc. then breaks out into scurrilous Impertinencies, and Moccado ends of Latin, which I the said A. D. (humbly conceive) might as well have been omitted; and the Sense, Construction, and Orthography, better minded: See page 2. line 19 and other places of his Pamphlet; very much misbeseeming so learned an Oracle as he would be deemed. Yet, as to Mr. Witherden's Affirmation concerning his Elixir, I, the said A. D. shall not Controvert, (the person affirmant being a Gent.) but shall (in some Cases) grant him: For indeed (here at London) we well know, That the Balderdash stuff, foisted out by Most of the Counterfeiters of my Elixir, is by themselves and others (as wise as they) called the Elixir Salutis, and that by way of preeminency (no doubt) unto all other: Yet, of such kinds of Balderdash liquours, the Judicious persons under London's Meridian (let those in the Country be as prodigal of their healths and ease as they will) have reason enough about them, to let others make Trial, before they venture; for that some foolhardy people have Tried away their ease, others, their healths, and some their lives; (as is too well known.) Yet concerning the weight and validity of the said Mr. Witherden's Proof by Appeal, and his Promise threupon; (admitting his Rhetoric do prevail upon a Judicious person to take his Drink, having taken my Elixir before; I, the said A. D. do affirm that the said Promise is grounded upon Cautelous and Subterfugeous terms, whereby he reserves a latitude to himself of Decrying, Excepting against, and Exploding the Judgement of any person, as Partial, and Injudicious, (if against his liquor) be the same person (in all Judicious unconcerned men's estimations) never so judicious and unbyass'd, and skilful also in the Smells, Tastes, and Tinctures of Drinks.  
The said Mr. Witherden (the Latin Interpreter) in the 3. page of his Pamphlet, vainly tells me of an old Proverb, Nè Sutor ultra Crepidam, to intimate unto the World, that I have heretofore followed the Trade of a Shoemaker, which 〈◊〉 News unto most Citizens (here) of any standing; And I am so far from being ashamed of it, that it is a thing with me, not unfrequent, (when any occasion presents) to acquaint some, (that I judge strangers to me) that I have been formerly of that Profession or Trade: And it is in London very well known, that (in those days,) I lived in as good repute, (paying scot and lot) and spent as much in House-keeping in one Year, as some of the Country Gent. may afford to spend in two: And certainly, the said Mr. Witherden will far better than his Betters in Drink-dabling, if he do not (at the foot of the Account) read himself a Cobbler, and one necessitous of a thread of the Charity of those great Friends (he boasts of) wherewith to botch up his own Reputation: But to return from that impertinent Digression, this Mr. Witherden hath vainly drawn me into; I would fain know from this learned Mr. Witherden; (for so he will have himself deemed) fasque nefasque; that is, right or wrong; How much less effectual did the late Dr. Trigg's having been a Shoemaker, render his Medicaments? or, admitting he had been a complete Gentleman, that is, by Extraction, Education, and Possession; what Additament could his Gentility have made to the virtual efficacy of his Medicine?  
The said Mr. Witherden, in the 4. p. frumps me with crabbed words, picked from others, Glorying that his own former Industry hath freed him from any necessity of Soaring with borrowed Wings: Whereto I, the said A. D. do answer, I am altogether unconcerned whether he flies or lies, or whether those Wings, he hath, be his own, or borrowed: That matter concerns others in this City, more than it doth me, or (as I hope) ever shall: For my own part, I am not of any so quick and volatile Spirit, or have I the custody of any Wings, either my own, or borrowed; or the least skill in Soaring; therefore, were I in Debt, and my Creditors neversomuch enraged against me; I must necessarily stand my Ground; yet do I acknowledge, that (were I desirous of such a kind of Learning, as this Gentleman saith he hath by his former Industry acquired) I would never read over the voluminous Legends of Tom Thumb, or Ransack the College of Gotham for a Tutor; since my knowledge hath been so enriched with the Treasure of Mr. Witherdens' lofty lines; whom therefore I shall (by way of caution) humbly put in mind of Ovid's old Pentameter Verse upon Iccarus, viz. Iccarus Iccariis nomina fecit aquis.  
But whether will this Gentleman's wild Digression lead me? into the language of the Beast? to swim with borrowed Bladders, out of the reach of our own Reason and Understanding? We must know that poor London hath neither of the Academies in her; no, the Country must enjoy them both; and therefore I will implore this learned Country Gentleman Mr. T. W. to let me know (with as much speed, as the matter requires haste) how nigh unto the White my following Guests at this Verses meaning, comes, viz.  

He that Soars so nigh the Sun, as to melt the Wax, that fastened his Wings, may chance to craze his empty Sconce upon the Rock of Ignorance.   
The said Jane White, she also hath Dabbled together, what she calls a Famous and wonderful never-failing Cordial Drink of the World, and (wanting a Father for this poor Brat) she (raking under the Toombs) lighted upon the ashes of a long since deceased Doctor, whom she calls Dr. Bostock, she looking upon this Doctor, as too civil to give her the lie, she tells him boldly (I cannot say to the Teeth) that this her Brat is his, which (he not denying) it is taken for a truth by some few here, but most generally believed in Utopia, Gotham, and some higher part of Bethlehem: Her Tables (round about the City) beginning thus, Eximia praedico. Whether she hath the Latin Tongue or not, I cannot conclude, but you shall see her aptness and readiness to a worse Tongue, in her licentious Pamphlet; where is stolen and bombasted in the sum and substance of my the said Anthony Daffy's Books of my Elixirs Virtues and Directions for taking it; The said Jane White from the bottom of the first page (of her Book) forwards, lays a foundation, whereby to insinuate into strangers (especially crazed ones) some colour of reason to believe a Virtue in her Drink: Her own words are these; For by good experience of my sad condition and others, for the space of Twenty Years, I was driven from one Doctor, to another, but all they could do, was not able to help me; and a few lines after, having told us of the perfect health, she now enjoys, by the means (as she saith) of her Drink, to the great admiration of herself and all that formerly knew her: She speaks of many that heard of her long languishing condition, unto which Narrative of the said Mrs. White, concerning her own sad and long languishing condition; I, the said Anthony Daffy, do answer, That I and my Wife have known the said Mrs. White for above these 15 Years last, and been very conversant with her Intimates all along, and I do say, that this her suggestion is (as I can sufficiently prove it) most notoriously untrue: I would fain know of her the names of any two out of those many (she talks of) that heard of her sad and long languishing condition: This her Never failing Stuff, having been public above 5 Months, and having (as the said Mrs. White alone, saith,) immediately in three Days given her much ease, and in one months' time become Master of that her tedious Distemper, which she, nor any body else knows what it was, to the admiration of all that knew her formerly; I would fain know, (if it had those admirable effects upon her) how it comes to pass that this wonderful Never failing Stuff jade's all persons besides, that meddle with it; Mrs. White, I tell you and all the World, that the appropriating, or misapplying of my Elixirs known Virtues unto your Balderdash, can make the same no more like my Elixir, or do it any more good than I should do my Dog by calling him Lion, alas, the Dog would remain but a Cur still; and ne'er the sooner partake of the Majesty, strength, or force of a Lion; yet (here) I would not be mistaken, these I do not speak of as parallel Cases, but, by way of Allusion; for any man to call his Dog, Lion, is an indifferent thing; but in your case lurks a lie, with a Design (for lucre's sake) to deceive.  
The said Robert Brooke, in his Printed sheet, (under the Apothe caries Arms) speaks tumid big words of an Elixir Salutis, prepared by him, according to Art; saying, he hath tasted Hind's Drink, and my Elixir; and finds them (to the best of his Judgement) one and the same; proceeding (as he presumes) from one Fountainhead, (his Master) who, (having taken his Degree of Doctor in Physic at Cambridge, and ad eundem gradum at Oxford,) may think it beneath him to appear publicly in Print; further adding, that several of his Acquaintances and Patients, that have taken Hind's Elixir, & his own; (finding them both one) advised him to make it publicly known; though one of the said M. Brooks his Patients, and near Neighbours, having tried his Drink, came lately, (if not too late) to me the said A. D. for my Elixir, telling me, that the said Mr. Brooks his Drink, (to speak in modest terms) did no wise answer expectation; the said Brooks further adding, that he should be very improvident, to hide such a precious Talon from the World; confesses openly to have taken the substance of my Papers, as well, that of my Elixirs Virtues, as the other, of my Directions.  
This R. B. and too learned Apothecary, being (Narcissus-like) Ravished with his own confident and high expectations, from the Golden-fleece of this his Precious Talon, doth (in affectation) talk like himself.  
Now I, the said A. D. (instead of Answering him) shall only draw the Spirit of his words, and spin them into a finer thread; that so the Reader (having a Prospect thereof in Epitome) may answer him for me. The Epitome of R. B. his own words is this, viz.  
R. B. hath prepared a Drink, called (by himself) Elixir Salutis, (to the Best of his own Judgement) as good as my Elixir; proceeding, (as he presumes) from the same Fountainhead with mine, (Dr. Nemo, of both Universities;) And his nameless Acquaintance and Patients, that have taken Hind's, and his Drink, finding them both one) advised him, to publish his Elixir; which is accordingly done; And the same either is, or is not to be sold at Westminster-Hall-Gate, by Mr. John Nest, Stationer, the Bottles sealed with R. B. and a great Cross, (I think.)  
How great pity is it, that this Ingenious Animal did not, in penning that his learned piece, (especially, being under the Banner, and for the honour of his Company) bethink himself of avoiding that grand Maxim, In generalibus versatur dolus, the Gentleman is not ignorant of deceits lurking under the thicket of general terms.  
Certainly this Stuff was never designed to find any belief or Credit in the City of London, by any body, whose brains were any thing nigh coddled; But plainly appears to have been Calculated for the Meridian of the University of Gotham; whereunto if this qualified and accomplished person, R. B. shall please to repair; he (the Man) may (Nemine contradic●●●●) take his Degree of Doctor, as well as his Master; Nay, (more than that, he may be Dr. Brooke, that is somebody.  
In tender consideration and ●●●●…ity of the great + that R. B. already finds in the Provident and High 〈◊〉 Improvement of that his Glittering and Precious Talon, by him published for the World's good: I, the said A. D. do (for his re-Incouragement) freely grant him, that the best of his Judgement in Drink-dabling, is altogether, as good, as that of his nameless Patients; And further; That his Presumption concerning the Fountainhead of my Elixir, is equivalent unto that Art of his, according whereunto, he prepared it; And that his Never failing Cordial is as Authentic, as the best of his own Judgement, or Hinds either.  
The said Edward Willet also, hath lately published a licentious Pamphlet, entitled, Elixir Triphera Solutinae, or the Famous Never-failing Cordial, Experienced (as himself saith) by many, for cure of the Gout, Stone, etc. and so goes on in an Apish Imitation of my, the said Anthony Daffy's sealed Books, taking the sum and substance of my (long since published) Experiences, of my Elixirs Virtues, and Directions also: And doth (for lucre's sake) misapply them to that his Never-failing stuff, endeavouring thereby (what in him lies) to bring contempt upon my Elixir Salutis; and to foist his own stuff upon misinformed People, in lieu of it; he saith his stuff is sold for iij s. the half Pint Bottle, sealed up, but mentions nothing of the Coat of Arms, or Impression of the seal; It seems, he is void of fear of any man's changing, or sophisticating it; but that matters not much.  
Yet forasmuch as the Counterfeiters of my Original, sincere, and Famous Elixir Salutis, do swarm so in every corner; and most discreet People being awakened, and (not without good ground) very cautious what they receive into their Bowels; I the said A. D. do affirm, that (if Mr. willet's Cordial be by many Experienced such a Never-failing stuff, for the Cures, he talks of, he detracts much from his own profit, and also from the good of the public, in not mentioning (out of those pretended many) one, or two persons names and abodes, that have so experienced the Never-failing Virtue of his Drink: If he Prints again, I advise him not to forget it then, as wilfully as 'tis omitted now.  
Yet another Counterfeiter of my Elixir Salutis, by the same name; This is so young a Cub Quack, with its swaddling Clouts so close about it, and its Teeth not come, that the Animal cannot tell you its name, sex, or place of abode, (if any it hath) It may be deemed a Monster, for (notwitstanding its Nonage) it begins betimes, stealing (not only) the name of my Elixir, but the sum and substance of my (the said A. Daffy's) sealed Book, (nigh verbatim), and great part of my Directions also: But (being very provident) it doth (in its licentious Libel) chop up my sealed Books, & my Directions together, for saving of Paper-charge; telling the world, that the Bottle is sealed with the Half-Moon and Ermines, and that its newfound Dibble dabble is for many years experienced by divers persons in and about this City, whose names it were too tedious, there to insert: Note that this young Quack is not so courteous as (with the rest, to let the world know, how its secret knack of Drink-dabling was acquired; or whether it dropped out of the Clouds upon it, nay it is so sullen, that it will not instance, by name, so much as one of those divers Persons (in its Libel mentioned) that have experienced the least good by that its Famous Stuff, as itself tells you.  
But this Animal (in a short time) finding the vain insufficiency of its said former Libel; sets the same thing out again, in another Dress; the new ignorant and nonsensical Libel is tied, (tail to tail) to the Scurvy-Grass-paper, which as I am credibly informed) is also stolen from another Author: The nameless Animal, now, (for so it still remains) bethinks itself of one of its omissions in the former Libel; and in the new Libel, talks like an old Man (as it were) saying, that the original of its Drink, was from Dr. Buttler, in King James' days; and that this Doctor (at his death) left this Receipt in English to his Kinsman, Dr. Trigg; forgetting to tell us by what line this Receipt descended from Dr. Trigg upon itself, and how it knows it the same Receipt; yet the matters not much.  
The Table of this learned Animals conceited Famous Cordial Drink, is Apishly varnished over, with this Golden Inscription, Elixir Salutis, Rightly prepared, according to Art: And the poor Innocent thing, most unjustly hanged up to rights upon Aldersgate; and that by great mistake, instead of its Author, at Bethlehem-gate.  
I presume that no persons, (well in their wits) will take into their Bowels they know not what, from they know not whom; especially, when they cannot see or hear of the Author that made it, or any one, that took it, and lived a Month after.  
Observe, That no one, of the 7 aforenamed Counterfeiters, of my Elixir, or the last mentioned nameless one, (though all clothed and clogged with Impudence too much) dares to nominate any one person, besides themselves in particular, if such may themselves (speaking for their own gain, and in their own case in particular) be believed; that hath made any advantageous Experiment upon any of their Drinks; which is indeed the cunningest and safest course, they could have taken.  
Courteous Reader; Thus much I have (as I ought in bounden Duty to God, the public Good, my own, and my Elixirs known reputation) declared to the World, for the prevention of further mischief by these Mercenaries and, Counterfeiters, that do (for a piece of bread) seek to endanger, not only People's Ease, but their Healths, and Lives too.  
If (notwitstanding all this) any persons be inclined to meddle with any of their Drinks; I have done my duty; let them use their liberty: they may, (as well as other have done,) feel and sadly experience the weight of this caution▪ Qui antea non cavet, post dolebit; that is, he that is not wary before, may be sorrowful afterwards, when too late; But to the Resolute, I matter it not at all as concerning myself, and conclude with them, as before in another Advertisement, viz. Qui vult decipi, decipiatur.   

My Hours to be spoken with, are from Six to Twelve in the Forenoon, and from One to Four the Afternoon, at my House in Prujeans-Court, in the Great Old-Bailey, the Porched Hou● fronting the Street.   

With Allowance.