Introduction - Uppsala Monitoring Centre

Francois Chicanneau. This contains several lists of rules: First —
That if the salivation rises plentifully three to four days after the first
unction the cure will miscarry. Second — If gripes and looseness
attend the patient and continue for six to eight days the patient dies,
or at least the cure miscarries. He advocated small doses of
Quicksilver ointment applied by friction. This was called the
‘Montpellier Method’. (Brest, 1732).
Two UK acts bearing the title ‘An act for preventing frauds and
abuses committed in the making and vending unsound, adulterated
and bad drugs and medicines’ were approved in 1735 and 1762.
1733 ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack’ by Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790). ‘He’s
the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.’
James Alleyne’s ‘A New English Dispensatory’ (1733) He repeats
Quincy’s comments on Cinnebar (HgS) and Mercurous sublimates
dulcis.
Hellebore: ‘white and black hellebore, the first of which brings on
such violent spasms, that a prudent physician will not venture to
prescribe it.’
Henbane: ‘All authors agree that the use of them is not so safe’...’’
The bad are those which produce a most profound sleep, commonly
ending in death; but if it happens to be shaken off, there generally
follows a depravation of the faculties of the mind; and of this sort are
the leaves, flowers, fruits, roots and juice of both sorts of Henbane;
seeds of thorn-apple, which being taken to ʒ ss ( half teaspoonful)
creates madness, and to ʒ i (teaspoomful) is mortal.’ (Alleyne, 1733).
‘The Ancient Physician’s legacy to his country being what he has
collected in forty-nine years practice or an account of the several
diseases incident to mankind, in so plain a manner, that any person
may know the nature of his own distemper, and the several remedies
proper for it, wherein the extraordinary effects of mercury are more,
particularly consider’d.’ by Thomas Dover 133 , 1733. ‘Iliac Passion 134 :
You must go no further for the cure of this fatal disease than to take a
pound or a pound and a half of crude mercury.’ (Dover, 1733). That
should settle the patient for good.
Yo-Ho-Ho. Pulv. Ipecac.Co (Dover’s Powder)
‘Oh, Dover was pirate, and he sailed the Spanish Main.
133 Thomas Dover = A Warwickshire physician who became a second captain on the privateer ‘Duke’, which
sailed to South America in the years 1708-1711
134 Iliac passion = intestinal colic