On the Tincture of Gold or True Potable Gold

How can a Medicine penetrate to the extreme parts of the human body, namely the hands and feet, and dissolve coagulated, stony matter, which no corrosive can dissolve outside the body? It is sufficient if the Medicine, finding viscous, tartareous, and saline matter not yet entirely coagulated, dissolves and expels it. The same is also to be understood regarding the stone of the kidneys and bladder. By this reasoning, I too shall ascribe to my Tincture of the sun the cure of gout in the hands, gout in the feet, and the stone of the kidneys and bladder, as much in the old as in the young; provided, however, that when necessity demands it, specific cathartics are also administered, and externally, hot springs for the sake of assistance, by which nature may be able to perform its office the more quickly. It is necessary, however, before all things, not to postpone divine providence: for often God afflicts us with a certain disease incurable by art, unless the divine anger is appeased beforehand by humble Penance, which is the best medicine of all. Likewise, the cure of all diseases proceeding from the corruption of the blood, such as leprosy, the French disease, and other impurities; which are removed by this Tincture, if cathartics and diaphoretics are administered at the same time, purifying and renewing the blood better than other medicines. This Tincture also removes all obstructions of the liver, spleen, kidneys, and other parts, because it heats, attenuates, cuts, and evacuates the origins of various diseases. It also cures all violent and acute diseases such as epilepsy, plague, fevers, etc.