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A62495	The English remedy, or, Talbor's wonderful secret for cureing of agues and feavers sold by the author Sir Robert Talbor to the Most Christian King, and since his death ordered by His Majesty to be published in French for the benefit of his subjects ; and now translated into English for publick good.	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Talbor, Robert, Sir, 1642-1681.	1682 (1682)	Wing T111; ESTC R26272	26,144	122

Infusion it is still to be observed that the virtue of each Dose of that infusion is to be encreased and fortified by the addition of five six or even seven or eight drops of this Tincture as often as the contumacy of the Ague hath resisted its operation after several Doses but this addition is to be regulated by a skilful Physitian who is to take his indications from the nature of the Disease and the dispositions of the subject An Opiat prepared with Quinquina making part of the English Remedy Take what quantity you please of Jesuits Powder prepared as is above directed and incorporate it with a sufficient quantity of the syrup of Lemons or of Grimes if it be for a Woman with Child reducing all into the consistencie of an Opiat by an exact mixture Directions given by the Kings Chief Physician concerning the use of the Opiat There are some Patients upon whom the first infusion though fortified by the addition of the Essence or Tincture has not sufficient virtue to stop the Ague fits to these the specifick is to be given in substance and the best and most commodious way of doing it is the Opiat that is now described it may be given from four to six Drachms once or twice a day according as need shall require and that either upon the point of a Knife in a Wafer or in what other manner one pleases A Purging Wine making part of the English Remedy Take an Ounce of good Hiera Pica and infuse it for the space of eight days in half a Pint or a little more of Claret wine observing to stir the bottle wherein you have put it only once a day for the first three days and not at all to move or shake it during the other five afterward pour out your infusion gently by inclining the bottle into another bottle which is to be closely stopped and keep it for the use follwing Directions given by the Kings Chief Physitian concerning the use of this Purging-Wine When by reason of the Patients repletion or a supervement constipation the belly must be opened we must add to each quart of the infusion of Quinquina three or four spoonfuls of the above-described Purging-Wine mingling all exactly together and use it in the same manner as hath been directed when we spoke of the infusions that is to say in a greater or smaller quantity according as it shall happen in the time of the first second or third infusion and also according to the indications taken from the present state of the Patient and of the Disease It is observed that when there is no considerable repletion and that the costiveness is but moderate simple glysters made of Milk and the yoalks of Eggs are to be preferred before all kinds of purgatives too great a loosness of the belly being always contrary to the operation of the specifick Other Directions given by the Kings Chief Physitian concerning what is to be observed during the course of the English Remedy As it is sometimes useful to open the belly during the use of the English Remedy so at other times it is of great importance to stop it when by a preceding or supervenient loosness the digestion is weakened and the chyle rendred impure for such dispositions are very much contrary to the Cure of Agues in such a case it is necessary that besides the Doses of the specifick that are given every day there be at least two given mingled with an equal part of the tincture of Roses extracted upon hot embers with common water and without the addition of the spirit of Vitriol or any other acid spirit for that effect an ounce of red Roses is sufficient for a quart of water this tincture is extracted in twenty four hours and after it is poured off three ounces of good white Sugar is to be added to each quart In time of the intermission of the Fits and as much as may be at the usual hours of eating the Patients may feed upon what their appetite enclines them to and choose such food as Nature seems to desire without any reservation unless it be of salt Pork and Bacon yet still observing to prefer solid food before liquid and in case of thirst or hunger not to drink untill a quarter of an hour and not to eat till an hour after each Dose of the Specifick that the distribution and digestion that ought to be made thereof be not interrupted It is moreover to be observed that water and tizanne or barley-water do weaken the virtue of the remedy and that so Wine and Water Beer or Ale such as men drink when they are in health is to be preferred before all other Bevrage Furthermore seeing the operation of the Specifick tends always to the recovery of strength and that other remedies do necessarily diminish it they cannot be used both at a time without interrupting many salutary operations and without exposing the Patients to an almost certain danger and especially those who by their proper Constitution by Age or the Contumacy of the Disease are already much weakened and extenuated and therefore as we have just now observed the operation of the Remedy cannot be more efficaciously assisted than by the use of the most nourishing meats because they concur with it to the reparation of strength and put the Patients in a condition of enjoying perfect health so soon as the Ague is stopt Nevertheless a prudent Physitian who intends to give the Specificker may sometimes by Blood-letting Purging and other ordinary Medicins correct the bad dispositions of the body that might hinder the benefit which is to be expected from it but these Remedies being only to be considered as simple preparatives they are always to be used before the Specifick which is never more powerful than when it is given by its self Other Observations of the Kings chief Physician concerning the Virtues of the English Remedy Never did Remedy better deserve the name of a specifick Febrifuge for never did any as yet come to our knowledg that hath so speedily and securely stopt and cured Feavers and Agues as that hath done The truth is Quinquind which maketh the basis of it and which we have had knowledg of for about thirty years does almost infallibly stop the fits of Intermittent Feavers when it is given in substance in white some without other ceremony that is to say according to the method Prescribed by the Jesuits who were the first that brought that Bark into Europe And in Authors that have written since that time some other preparations are to be found which are believed to be more efficacious but experience hath convinced us that these Authors had not as yet found out the securest method to prevent those troublesome relapses which to this present rendered that Remedy contemptible and we must confess that we are in some manner obliged to Sir Robert Talbor for having given us a Preparation much to be preferred before all others whether he

guilty of a no smaller fault in forcing if I may say so his Patients to drink Wine and to eat solid Food during the whole time of continued Feavers and in time of the Fit in Agues for though in the abatement of the one and the intermission of the others that kind of nourishment may back and fortifie the operation of the Remedy yet they considerably oppress the Patients when Nature is taken up in defending her self against the vigour of the Distemper that attacks her and then it appears that the prudence and skill of a Learned and Experienced Physician are at least of as great relief on such occasions as the most efficacious and salutory Medicines I have no more to say to shew how little confidence we ought to have in such kind of Empiricks but that it is strange that this man who hath prescribed to us so many juyces and such like trifles about the composition of his Febrifuge whereof the principle effect is only to be attributed to the Jesuits Powder should conceale the use that he made of Opium whereof he many times added some drops of Tincture to this Febrifuge which may be of great advantage when it is given seasonably in over watchings light headedness and loosness which are frequent symptoms in Feavers and always allayed by the virtue of that excellent Medicine I hope the Reader will take in good part that I describe in this place a Febrifuge Opiat prepared with Quinquina and afterward explain its effects with relation to the Nature of Feavers and Agues An Excellent Febrifuge Take of the Jesuits Powder the Flowers or Leaf of lesser Centaury subtilly Pulverised and of Treacle of each a like weight make them into an Opiat of which the Patient twice a day shall take the weight of a Drachm and a half during the space of six days drinking upon it a Glass of good Claret with Plantin or Bugloss water Reflections upon the use of this Febrifuge The excellency of a Remedy is very often the cause why it is despised Antimony hath been in our days a manifest instance of this but the Jesuits Powder and the English Febrifuge continue us more plainly of the truth of it so soon as chance or industry hath discovered a secret for any particular distemper the people lay hold on 't as of a Publick Good and apply it indifferently to all sorts of evils and if on some occasion it succeed not as it must unavoidably come to pass it is cried down with as much Zeal and Precipitance as it was brought in vogue This is the fortune of all the new Febrifuges having seen wonderful effects of them in some kinds of Feavers men took them for Vniversal Remedies but so soon as they found them produce bad consequences in others for which they were not proper it was then generally concluded that it was dangerous to make use of them For this reason that all scruples may be removed which people may frame to themselves in the use of this Febrifuge I have thought it pertinent carefully to engage into the Nature of Feavers and to mark their differences to observe those which are submitted to this Remedy and those to which it may prove prejudicial and lastly to prove with how much usefulness it may be employed when that is done with all care and necessary circumspection Two motions are to be conceived in the blood that of the whole which is the circulation and another of the parts proceeding from its liquidity A Feaver is a fermentation of the blood fermentation is an irregular motion of the insensible parts motus intestinus partium insensibilium We must look into the causes of the regular motion of this liquid body that by the rule of contraries we may discover those of the irregular motion There are two causes that maintain Vniformity in the motion of the blood 1. It s quantity and the constantly equal force of the spirits which are the immediate movers and impulsers of all the parts that compose this liquid mass 2. the just proportion of the same parts as well in their quantity and quality as in their scituation that is to say when the Sulphureous Acide Watry and Earthy corpuscles are not only in a laudable proportion as to quanty but likewise are so well adjusted and united together that they no ways annoy one another and are moved by the Spirits or Celestial matter that animates them in a regular and uniform motion As long as things are thus it may be said that the blood is in its Natural state of Health and to that end the Author of Nature hath not only made our body transpirable thereby to give vent to the too great quantity of Spirits but hath also put in different places Bowels and percolatories designed to filtrate the superfluous and exceeding parts which might trouble the purety of that Liquor From thence it may inferred that there are two immediate causes of the fermentation of the blood the first is the too great quantity or the tor great motion of the spirits which may be excited by the heat of the Sun violent exercise watching fasting hot and spirituous nurishment and the passions and perturbations of the mind and from thence it is that all Feavers Ephemerae or of one days continuance and simple Synoches which are the slightest of all and may be cured by transpiration alone do arise the second is the mixture of irregular and fermentative corpuscles rerum non miscibilium mixtio which confounding the order and alliance of the parts of the Blood raise a Sedition there and deprave its motion And of these Bodies some only raise a simple Fermentation which at length may be governed and subdued by Nature and the others being more Malignant and Venemous cause Coagulations Dissolutions and Colliguations in the mass of Blood and can in no manner be corrected From the former of these proceed all intermittent erratick and continued Feavers which are called subintrant and from the other spring Burning Pestilential Malignant and spotted Feavers It is now to be considered in what parts of our Body and how these humours are produced Though I have said that there are parts viscera appointed for the separation of the superfluities of the blood yet seeing they do not always discharge their functions aright either through a fault in themselves or through the too great abundance of the same superfluities the same are hurried away by the rapidity of the circulation as filth is carried away by the impetuous current of a River but in the same manner as there happens a turning in that River where the water is stiller and where all that filth turning slowly with the current stops so these heterogeneous bodies turn aside by the coeliack Artery into the branches of the Vena Porta where the Blood circulates more slowly and which for that reason may be compared to a Lake or standing Pool of Water in respect of the other vessels there it is where wanting