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liltened eagerly to every word I laid. In fflort, Ids ap¬ 
petite foon mended ; and I law, in lefs than a week, evi¬ 
dent figns of recovery. He was now • lively, though fo 
weak that he could not get in or out of bed without 
afliltance: he drove to fit up : two men took him between 
them, in the heat of the day, and placed him on a feat 
they had erefled for him on the beach, where he had a 
view of the dripping. In a little time, he was able to 
walk. Every vitit I paid him, he.refumed the fubjeft of 
the fur low, which I perdfted in promifing, feeing the good 
effects it had already produced; and, in lefs than two 
months from the time he had received this promife, he 
was able to leave the hofpital and go to his barrack-room.” 
See Edin. Med. Commentaries, vol. xi. 
Under this date of debility of body, and melancholy 
brooding of the mind upon the recollections of home, it 
will readily be conceived how even defpnir, and filicide, 
may be the refult of the violent emotions excited by 
hearing a national tune, or by any other imprefiion, 
which, by the adociated feelings and remembrances that 
it recals, brings to the view of the individual the fubjeft 
of Iris morbid contemplations. And it will be not lefs 
evident, from the coniideration of the preceding cafe, 
that the employment of phyfical expedients to fupport 
the drength, and to correct the hallucinations of the 
mind, will be totally fruitlefs, until the cordial of hope 
and expectation be afforded. See Zwingerus Did. Med. 
Harder Did. de Nodalgia, in Haller’s Dilputationes, 
tom. i. xi. 
NOS'TOC, /I in botany. SeeTREMELLA. 
NOSTRADA'MUS (Michael), a celebrated French 
phylician and adrologer, was born in 1503 at St.Remi, in 
the diocefe of A.vignon. His family name was Notre 
Dame ; and his defeent was Jewiftr, from the tribe of Ilia- 
char as he pretended, applying to himfelf what is laid of 
that tribe in the book of Deuteronomy; “ that its fons 
are learned men, knowing in all times,” He dudied 
philofophy at Avignon, and medicine at Montpellier. 
From the latter city he was driven by the plague, and 
fpent four years at Touloufe, Bourdeaux, and other 
places in that part of France, pradtijing in the medical 
p,rofeffion. He then returned to Montpellier, and took 
the degree of doctor. His great eiteem for Julius-Coefar 
Scaliger induced him to fix at Agen, the refidence of that 
learned man, where he married. The death ot his wife 
and children caufed him to quit that city; and he palled 
the ten or twelve following years in travelling through 
France and Italy. Returningto his native province,about 
154.4, he fettled at Salon, a central town between Mar- 
ieilles, Aix, Avignon, and Arles; and married a lecond 
wife. His reputation caufed him to be formally invited 
by the corporation of Aix, in 1546, to come and ltop 
the progrefs of a contagious difeafe. He complied, and 
remained in that city as long as the contagion laded; ufing 
with good effeCt, it is laid, a powder for the purpofe of 
overcoming pedilential effluvia. He received a fimilar 
invitation from Lyons in 1547, and refided for fome time 
in that city. On his return to Salon, he employed his 
leifure in compofing fome medical works, confiding 
chiefly of receipts and preparations. 
During his travels, he had acquired the principles of 
judicial adrology, and hadexercifed himfelf in predictions. 
Perceiving in this delufory art a readier way to fame and 
emolument than in the practice of medicine, he now at¬ 
tached himfelf wholly to it; and published, at Lyons, in 
1 555> Seven Centuries of Prophecies, in rhymed quatrains 
of French verfe. The obfeurity of thele predictions, 
together with the air of confidence with which they were 
uttered, excited much attention in an age greatly ad¬ 
dicted to fuperditious belief; and it was not difficult to 
find real events which feemed to correfpond with thofe 
which he had darkly (hadowed in loofeand general terms. 
The public, however, were divided in their lentiments 
of this work : many looked upon the author as a iirnple 
xliionary, or a fool j while he was accufed of the black art, 
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or black rriagic, by others, and treated as an impious per- 
fon, who held a commerce with the devil; at the fame 
time there were not wanting fuch, and thole in great 
numbers, who believed him to be really and truly endued 
with the fupernatural gift of prophecy. However, Henry 
II. and Catharine of Medicis his mother, were refolved 
to fee our prophet; and, receiving orders to that effeCf, 
lie prefently repaired to Paris. He was very graciouliy 
received at court; and, befides the extraordinary refpeCt' 
that was paid to him, received a prefent of 200 crowns. 
He was fent afterwards to Blois, to make a vifit to his 
majelty’s children there, and report what he thould be 
able to difeover concerning their deitinies. What his 
lentence was is not known ; it is certain, however, that he 
returned to Salon loaded with honour and prefents. 
Animated with luccefs, heaugmented his work from 700 
quatrains to the number of a complete milliade; and 
publilhed it, with a dedication to the king, in 1558. That 
prince dying the next year of a wound which he received, 
as is well known, at a tournament, the lance of Mont¬ 
gomery piercing the king’s eye through his golden vizor, 
the book of our prophet was immediately confulted ; 
and in the 35th quatrain of the firlr century this 
unfortunate event was found predicted in the follow¬ 
ing verfe : 
Le lion jenne le vieux fnrmantera 
Eil champ helhque par Jingulier duel, 
Dans cag e d'ordes yeux Ini crevera, 
Deux plaits une, puis mourir, mort cruetle! 
Here the third line plainly expreffes the manner of 
the king’s death, which was by a fatal thrult of Mont¬ 
gomery’s lance through the golden vizor, cage d'or, into 
his eye. (See the article France, vol. vii. p. 706.) So 
remarkable a predidtion added- new wings to his fame ; 
and he was honoured Ihortly after with a vifit from Ema¬ 
nuel duke of Savoy, and the princefs Margaret of France, 
his confort. From this time Noltradamus found himfelf 
even overburdened with vifitors, and his fame made 
every day new acquifitions. Charles IX. coming to Salon, 
was eager above all things to have a fight of him. Nof- 
tradamus, who then was in waiting as one of the retinue 
of the magiftrates, being inftantly prefented to his ma- 
jelly, complained of the little efteein his countrymen had 
tor him ; whereupon the monarch publicly declared, that 
he fhould hold the enemies of Noltradamus to be his ene¬ 
mies. Nor did that prince’s favour ltop here; in palling, 
not long after, through the city of Arles, he fent for Nof- 
tradatnus, and prefented him with a purfe of golden crowns, 
together with a brevet, conftitutfng him his phylician in 
ordinary. Our prophet enjoyed thefe honours only for 
thefpace of fixteen months; for he died July 2, 1566, at 
Salon. Befides his “ Centuries,” we have the following 
compofitions of his : 2. A Treatife de Farclemens cl <ic 
Senteurs, 1552. 3. A Book of Angular Receipts, pour 
Eutretciiir la Saule du Corps, 1556. 4. Des Coujimres, 
1557. 5. A French Translation, of the Latin of Galen’s 
Paraphrafe, exhorting Menedolas to Study, efpecially to 
that ot Phytic, 155.2. 6. Some years before his death, 
he publilhed a fmall inftrudtion for hufbandmen, (howing 
the belt feafons for their feveral labours, which he enti¬ 
tled, The Almanack of Noltradamus. Laltly, after his 
death, there came out The Eleventh and Twelfth Cen¬ 
turies of his Quatrains, added to the former ten, which 
had been printed three times in two feparate parts. It 
is only in thefe firlt editions that our author’s Centuries 
are found without alterations, additions, &c. It is to 
this work that the following diltich of Stephen Jodelld 
alludes : 
Noftra damns cum falfa damns, namfallere nojlrum ejl. 
Et cum falja damns, nil nifi Nojlra damns. 
NO'STRE, or Notre (Andrew le), an eminent plan¬ 
ner of gardens, born at Paris in 1613, was the fon of the 
gardener ot the Tuilleries. He was brought up to work 
2, under 
