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Paul Reiter
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan,
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| Back to article Figure 5. The English Remedy: Talbor's Wonderful Secret for Curing of Agues and Feavers (1682). Robert Talbor sold the secrets of his malaria treatment to King Louis XIV for 2,000 guineas, on condition that they would not be published until after his death. In 1682, Talbor's remedy was published in French; the English translation appeared in the same year. Front page of English translation and introductory page in which Talbor describes how he went to Essex, and used "that good old way, observation and experiment . . . by which observations, and the assistance of my reason (God blessing my endeavours) I have attained a perfect knowledge of the cure of . . . Agues." Reproduced courtesy of Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. |
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