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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

hath been the inventer of it or that he hath hit upon it by chance and it may be said that his boldness which would have been taken for a criminal rashness in any but an Emperick hath not a little contributed to the knowledg which we have at present of its use and manner of application The most wonderful effects of this Febrifuge appears in all intermittent Feavers which are its true object for it stops and in fine wholly Cures Quotidian Agues Tertian double Tertian Quartans double and tripple Quartans and sometimes also other kinds of Feavers for there are some continued Feavers which having kinds of Intermissions and Regular Paroxysms observable by some small cold in the extremities of the Body or some horror and shivering betwixt the Shoulders are cured by the specifick almost as speedily and securely as the true Intermittent Feavers and this happens often in respect of slow Hectick Feavers accompanied with a Consumption such as Children are commonly affected with because they have certain inequalities of remission and augmentation which give ground to the Remedy to exert its virtue to second the attempts of Nature and by consequence to reduce the blood unto its former disposition and to restore the Stomach to its Natural strength so that for the future providing only good and well digested Chyle it sends a Vivifying humidity to all the parts which corrects their dryness and restores the lost Plumpness and good habit of body It is nevertheless to be observed that since the matter of continued Feavers is diffused through the whole mass of blood that herein it causes a corruption hard to be rectified and that it wholly takes up Nature without giving her any respite she cannot be in a condition to concur the with Specifick but till by blood letting and Purging the impure and Heterogeneous matter be in some manner expulsed the irritation of the Spirins calmed and the humours be in good enough temper to return into favour with Nature without which the Specifick which does not always excite regular Evacuations is not powerful enough to put a stop to the sedition and compose the disorder which is then in the great Vessels and in all the other principle and more necessary parts of the body For the better understanding of the abovementioned directions and observations I would have it remarked That every thing that occasions an extraordinary agitation in the spirits humors and generally in the liquid and fluid parts of our body may be considered as the primitive cause of Feavers that is to say of those irregular motions which happen so often in the mass of blood but seems the same motions would be quickly rectified by Nature were they not kept in being by some permanent cause and that besides by discomposing all the oeconomy of Nature they corrupt the Ferments that serve for Digestion and by that means render the Chyle impure and of a bad quality the depraved Chylification may be looked upon as the immediate and antecedent cause of Feavers so that a Remedy cannot truly be a Febrifuge unless all at once it correct both the bad disposition of Stomach and of the Ferments of which I have been speaking and that is the proper effect of the English Febrifuge for like the most part of bitter Medicaments it is very Stomachical being proper to consume the superfluous humidities and to restore the bone of the relaxated Fibres of the Ventricle and by that means to encrease the diminished appetite and retrive it when it is wholely lost from whence depends the perfect digestion of the Victuals even of the most solid Food I cannot tell if one may not affirm it to be also more Cordial for besides that it re-establishes the scattered forces of the Body and the decayed natural heat it fixes the heterogeneous Particles that cause the Fermentation of the Blood and rallies and calls together those which have been divided and scattered during its ebullition This Augmentation of force and heat makes it sometimes appear as if this Febrifuge did re-kindle the Feaver after the taking of the first Dose but it only augments it that it may the better engage with it and that apparent disorder is the surest sign of its triumph for the more violent it renders one fit the more we may be assured that it will not be followed by another Many Physicians cannot conceive how this Remedy which seems onely to be fixative can radically cure Feavers and Agues but it is to be observed that though it causes not always a sensible evacuation yet it so powerful seconds the inclinations of nature that during its operation the heterogenious impure or superfluous matters are most commonly forced out to the superfice of the body to be evacuated by insensible transpiration and even very often by copious sweats as also it is sometime the occasion of a critical looseness of the belly and in many Patients the way of the urine serves for so salutary an evacuation that it cures both together the Quartan Ague and the Dropsie occasioned by it Furthermore though the most certain and regular operation of the English Remedy be to stop the fits of intermittent Feavers yet the use of it is not to be thought of dangerous consequence it causes no trouble in the oeconomy of Nature being like other bitter temperate medicaments incapable of making any bad impression on mans body for the reunion that it makes of the parts of the blood always facilitates the expulsion of morbifick Causes and though they should partly stay within after its operation yet by means of it they are corrected and reconciled to nature or at least by reiterated and continual digestions they are at length concocted ripened and dissipated Observations of the Kings chief Physician concerning the practice of Sir Robert Talbor in the prepation and distribution of his Remedy The greatest secret of most of Empiricks consists only in disguising the the Drugs that they make use of for since they are the very same whereof Physicians know the Nature and Properties they could not make them pass for secret Remedies unless they affectedly gave them an air of novelty thus did Sir Robert Talbor in the preparation of the Jesuits Powder either to make it be believed that the virtue of his Febrifuge did not depend on that Book or to make it be thought that he understood it much better than those that had made use of it before him for it was very ordinary with him to besprinkle fix Drachms of Red Roses with two Ounces of the juice of Lemons and afterward to infuse them for the space of four hours in six Pound of Fountain water to make use of that infusion for the making of his Remedy adding thereunto eight ounces of Quinquina powdered and besprinkled with four ounces of the Juyce of Fennel Root and put into infusion only for the space of twelve hours Sometimes instead of that Juyce he would employ the Juyce of Smallage Leaves and at other times