A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to call after his own Name importing the lame with Requies (as we have an Ele- duarv called Requies Nicolai) a compofing Medicine. The lame Galen certifies, that formerly Emperors and Kings were wont to make it their Care (and ipared no Cofts) to procure and fetch the Species for Treacle, from Sy- ria, Rahefiine, AEgypt, Cappadocia^ Rontusf Macedonia, Spain, France, Mauritania, &c. And that none might diipenfe it, but only ftich Phyficians as were permitted by fpecial Licence. Rrofper Alpinus (de Medic. AEgypt. /, 4. c. 8.) tells us, the Egyptians were negligent enough in the making of other Medicines; but by the particular (hid: Command of the great Turk, they prepared their Theriaca with the utmoft Care and Exadnefs, in the Temple op More ft an, at Grand Cairo, in pub- lick before ali the Phyficians: And that it was not lawful to do it in a private Shop; nor to reach it the Ohrirtians. However, Rrofper worm’d out the Secret, and lays it before us, fomething differing from ours; particularly, he faith it hath but 59 Ingredi¬ ents, whereas ours hath 61. as R liny hath told us (l. 19. c. 1.) Mithridate hath 54, Mithridate and Treacle, and that Tribe of pompous Compofitions, grew into inch Fame and Falhion, (as things which can’t be under- flood will certainly be admir’d) that wTe find a Mub
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