Pharmacographia : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger, and Daniel Hanbury.

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1879
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    In Franco Talbor had the good fortune to cure the Dauphin of an attack of fever, and also treated with success other eminent persons. (See Lettres de Madame de Sevign'e, nouv. ed. tome v., 1862, 559 ; also tome vi., letters of 15th and 29th Sept, and 6th Oct. 1679.) The physicians both in England and France were exceedingly jealous of the successes of an .irregular practitioner like Talbor, and averse to admit the merits of his practice. Yet D’Aquin, first physician to Louis XIY., prescribed Vin de Quinquina, as well as pow- dered bark, for the king in 1686.—See J. A. Le Roi, J. Journal de la sante du roi Louis XIV., Paris, 1862. 171. 431. But Talbor’s happy results brought him into favour with Louis XIV., who induced him, in consideration of a sum of 2,000 louis d’or and an annual pension of 2,000 livres, to explain his mode of treatment, which proved to consist in the administration of considerable doses of cinchona bark infused in wine, as will be seen in the pamphlet: Les admirables qualitez du Kinkina confirmees par plusieurs experiences, Paris, 1689. 12°. Talbor did not long enjoy his prosperity, for he died in 1681, aged about 40 years. He was buried in Trinity Church, Cambridge, where a monumen- tal inscription describes him as—“ Febrium malleus” and physician to Charles II., Louis XIV., and the Dauphin of France. In Talbor’s will, proved by his widow, Dame Elizabeth Talbor, alias Tabor, relict and executrix, 18th Nov. 1861, and preserved at Doctors’ Commons, mention is made of an only son, Philip Louis. See page 344. Theophrastos Eresios, of Eresos, in the island of Lesbos, about 370- 285 B.C. The earliest botanical author in Europe, having consigned in his works, written about the year 314 B.C. or later, an admirable amount of excel- lent observations, either of his own, or, as many suggest, originated from Aristotle. Among the numerous editions of Theophrast’s works (printed as early as A.D. 1483) we may point out Wimmer’s Latin translations, tom. i. Historia plantarum, tom. ii. De Causis plant,arum. Leipzig, 1854 ; or the French edition of the same translator, Theophraste, CEuvres completes. Paris, 1866, Firmin Didot. See pages 42. 97. 136. 142. 146. 147. 161. 166. 175. 179. 234. 259. 292. 310. 321. 393. 418. 439. 519. 529. 567. 576. 595. 598. 620. 644. 661. 664. 677. 690. 715. 723. 733. Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708. Important as are his attempts to establish a scientific classification of plants, his merits as a careful observer (1700-1702) of eastern plants are of still more weight from a pharmaceutical standpoint. The latter is evidenced by his Relations d’un voyage du Levant. .... Paris, 1717, 2 vols. See pages 163. 175. Tragus (Bock), Hieronymus, 1498-1554. A friend and pupil of Brunfels (see B.), protestant clergyman at Hornbach, near Zweibriicken, Bavarian Palatinate. He gave remarkably good descriptions of the indigenous plants, with figures, in his “ Kreuterbuch,” tire best edition of which was published in German at Strassburg, A.D. 1551, and a translation in 1552 : Hieronymi Tragi, de stirpium, maxime earum quae in Germania nostra nascuntur usitatis nomenclaturis, etc. libri tres. See pages 170. 295. 384. 388. 434. 450. 456. 469. 540. 665. 676. 694. 699. 731. 734. Turner, William, born at Morpeth, Northumberland (date not known)> dk'd 1568. In 1538 he was a student of theology and medicine in Pembroke College, Cambridge. Turner lived many years in Germany, and was an intimate friend ol Conrad Gesner. The “ New Herball, wherein are