766 APPENDIX. 



In France 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^, 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 XIV., prescribed Vin de Quinquina, as well as pow- 

 dered bark, for the king in 1686.- — See J. A. Le Roi, 3. Journal de Jasante duroi 

 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 exjieriences, 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 — '■'■ Fehriuni 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 jDoint out Wimmer's Latin translations, tom. i. 

 Ilistoria plantarum, tom. ii. De Causis plantarum. Leipzig, 1854 ; or the 

 French edition of the same translator, Th6ophraste, 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 ga\'e remarkably good descriptions of the indigenous plants, 

 with figures, in his " Kreuterbuclb," the 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 Germariia 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, bom at Morpeth, Northumberland (date not known)> 

 died 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 of Conrad Gesner. The " New Herball, wherein are 



