A
TREATISE
ON THE 
ORIGIN of DISEASES, 
And the USE of the 
PURGING POWDER, 
By JOHN AILHAUD, M. D. 
Counsellor and Secretary to his most 
Christian Majesty, and Professor of 
Physic in the City of Aix in Provence. 
To which are added, 
A great variety of Cures authenticated by the 
most respectable Personages and most cele- 
brated Physicians on the Continent. 
Translated for the Author from the Original 
French. 
The SECOND EDITION, 
Corrected and improved.
LONDON: 
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Blanket Warehouse on the North Side of St. 
Paul’s Church-yard, the sole Proprietor of these 
Powders; where they may be had for 12s. the 
Packet, containing ten Doses. 
N. B. This Book of the Treatise and Cures are given with 
the Powders; and, for the Benefit of Foreigners, an 
Account of the Cures is published in French, which 
may be had at the same Place. 




THE 
PREFACE. 
THE most probable principles are 
not always favourably received, 
though the principles themselves should be 
founded on nature, though they should be 
consistent with sound reason, and capable 
of producing the greatest benefits to man- 
kind, because they contribute to the pre- 
servation of life and health; yet where 
prejudice prevails, these principles will 
have no effect, for persuasion is very dif- 
ficult, when a man will not listen to 
reason. 
A series of facts are necessary to sur- 
mount such incredulity. Nothing is more 
convincing than examples, and of these I 
can produce a number sufficient to justify 
myself, and to convince the public of the 
truth of my assertions. 
Though my system of the cure of Dis- 
eases should seem strange to the prejudiced,
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yet every one, who has the least regard to 
truth, may be convinced by my arguments, 
that the rules I lay down are founded on 
nature, reason and experience, the only 
guides of a true physician. 
I may add that more than fifty years 
experience in the practice of physic, has 
been attended with all the success I could 
expect in a science so obscure and uncertain. 
My purging powders were looked upon 
as a paradox, as soon as ever they were 
offered to the public. Their efficacy and 
effects were not only doubted, but appeared 
to the imaginations of many, as mere illu- 
sions. Others, indeed, were so kind as to 
look upon their virtues as problematical; 
and, in a word, the generality dissented 
from me in opinion; nevertheless the great 
numbers of cures confirmed by authentic 
letters, at present in my possession, will 
evince, that my system is well-founded. 
These proofs invincibly demonstrate both 
the excellence and the properties of 
my remedy. My son Gaspar Ailhaud, 
M. D. is the only person to whom I have 
communicated this secret, whom I have 
not only instructed in the composition of 
these


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these powders, but likewise in the manner 
in which they are to be taken. 
The Public will be so good as to apply 
to him, and I will be answerable for his 
care. The long trial I have had of his 
experience and abilities, has determined 
me to make use of him as my Substitute, 
and to seek in him that repose which my 
age requires. Notwithstanding I shall 
still continue my labours for the public 
good, with all that disinterstedness and 
generosity which may be expected from 
a person who has always made it his 
study to deserve the esteem and approba- 
tion of mankind in general. 
To prevent imposition, my powders are 
sold in packets sealed with my own arms;
each of which contain ten doses, and a 
paper of directions, having my seal like- 
wise annexed, dated 20th Nov. 1744, 
and signed both by myself and my son. 
The ten doses are inclosed in a square piece 
of paper, on the back of which is the 
following inscription: 
“ Bon pour dix prises de ma poudre.” 
i. e. Ten doses of my powders.—
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Whoever shall be desirous of writing to 
me, will be so good as to transmit their 
letters to some friend, post paid; and at 
the same time, they are desired to mention 
the country in which they live, that an- 
swers may meet with the patients, as 
easily as their letters are brought to us. 
Our address or direction is as follows: 
“ A Monsieur Ailhaud, Secretaire du 
“ Roy, et Docteur en Medecine à Aix 
“ en Provence.” 
Before I conclude, I beg leave to add, 
that from abundance of cases which have 
fallen under my own notice, as well as 
that of my friends, these powders are 
proved to be of the greatest service to per- 
sons who are preparing themselves for in- 
oculation; and are not less useful to cleanse 
the passages, &c. after the small-pox is 
turned. 
A

A 
TREATISE
OF THE 
ORIGIN of DISTEMPERS, 
And the USE of the 
PURGING POWDER. 
CHAPTER I. 
On the Origin of Distempers. 
ARTICLE I. 
Evincing how much mankind are concerned in
preserving the health of the body, and the 
means of effecting it. 
OF all the cares which present them- 
selves to the mind of man, from his 
first entrance into the world, the most im- 
portant is, undoubtedly, that which regards 
the preservation of his being; I mean his 
health. If that decays, must not all decay 
with it? If that be destroyed, must not all 
perish at the same time? Mankind have 
been


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been so universally convinced of this truth, 
from the beginning of the world, that every 
individual has thought it his duty to pre- 
serve and increase his health. The manner 
in which they have prosecuted this has dif- 
fered very much; but yet every one has fol- 
lowed that road, which he thought to be the 
best. 
Although I cannot but commend the endea- 
vours, and admire the learning of many, yet I 
must beg leave to say, that method leading to 
their success has been such as I could neither 
persuade myself to approve, or to recommend. 
Men have been erroneous in their princi- 
ples from the time that they took it into their 
heads to disturb, or intermeddle with the ever- 
admirable operations of Nature. This is a 
work of superior intelligence, to which we 
ought to pay homage, but over which it 
was never allowed us to tyrannize. Phy- 
sicians may be justly, and ought to be, its 
spectators, admirers and ministers, but never 
its disturbers, never its destroyers, never 
its tyrants. 
The faculty of helping and assisting na- 
ture, is given only to a few, to some it seems 
natural; it is a gift of God, for which they 
are indebted to him; others may acquire it 
by long and painful Labour. Let it be ac- 
quired in what manner soever it will, it 
renders men truly valuable to the commu- 
nity, and should make them esteemed as 
persons sent into the world by heaven for the 
comfort of the creation, and worthy of being 
treated,

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treated, with distinction, by the wise. The 
prudent man, indeed, will never let them 
leave him without some marks of his es- 
teem and acknowledgment. 
What then is this faculty which properly 
constitutes the characteristic of a physician? 
In what does this faculty or aptitude of re- 
lieving nature consist? Is it to raise and 
recover nature when it is really in its worst 
stage, and in a state of dissolution? Ac- 
cording to this idea, it would be the office 
of a physician to revive the dead! But, 
alas, only he who created man, can recover 
him from such a state! Is it to divert the 
course of nature in her miraculous opera- 
tions, by opening new passages, forcing it 
backwards, or doing violence to it in some 
other manner? And yet is it not the greatest
rashness to endeavour thus to disturb and 
reverse a course of operations so wisely es- 
tablished by the very author of nature? 
What then is it?—no more than this—and 
let it not be forgotten:—It is to remove 
every thing that obstructs the operations of 
nature, which has in it every thing that is 
necessary to repair it, and will repair itself, 
as soon as the obstructions which impede its 
operations shall be taken away. 
The whole duty of a Physician then is, 
Removere prohibens; that is, to remove what- 
ever hinders nature from continuing her 
course, and to supply her afterwards with 
those things which may give her fresh vi- 
gour to continue her spontaneous opera- 
tions;


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tions; and then, being free and disengaged, 
she will re-assume and recover her former 
health. What indeed is health, but that 
entire strength and vigour which we receive 
from nature? And what is sickness, but 
that which alters, depraves and vitiates, in 
whatever manner, this valuable and precious 
strength, vigour and foundness of body? 
The species of sickness are many, but 
nevertheless the most common are pleurisies, 
peripneumonies, apoplexies, hemorrhages. 
Inflammations, erysipelas, either partial or 
universal; epilepsies; all kinds of cholics; 
malignant and intermitting fevers, the mea- 
sles, small-pox, diarrheas, the tenesmus, 
dysenteries, all kinds of fluxes, the gout, 
the rheumatism, pains, heaviness, swellings 
of the stomach, loathings, dropsies, the piles, 
or hæmorrhoids, whites in maids and women,
and all ailments incident to the fair-sex; 
with an endless number of other diseases 
too tedious to be enumerated. 
The cure of most of these disorders, has, 
according to modern practice, been hitherto 
confined to phlebotomy. An intollerable
error, which I wish I could banish from 
my native country! What could have given 
men grounds for so fatal a mistake? Nothing 
certainly but another mistake which insinu- 
ated itself without being perceived, owing 
to the infatuation of mankind, viz. That 
distempers are in the blood, or arise from
thence. 
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Let us then attack the first monster, which 
is the parent of the second; let us destroy it, 
and, if it be possible, let us free the whole 
earth from it by establishing the following 
doctrine: 
ARTICLE II. 
No Distemper resides in, or receives its Origin 
from the Blood. 
THIS truth would have been received 
at first sight, and publicly acknow- 
ledged by the whole world, if men had 
studied, with attention, the nature of the 
blood, together with its properties and of- 
fices. They could have found it to be per- 
fectly distinct from the humours; to be more 
subtile, more light, more active, more 
warm, more pure, than they, formed and 
destined by nature to diffuse itself into all 
parts of the body, to animate, enliven and 
nourish it; to preserve it sound; and to be 
subservient both to its internal and external 
vegetations and sensations. 
This being once perceived and under- 
stood, men might have comprehended its 
nature, subtility, purity, and the homo- 
geneity of its parts; what is the principle 
of their union, and diffusion over the whole 
body; I might have said, they would have 
had some idea of its incorruptibility, and 
that whenever it begins to be corrupted, or 
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to have its parts disunited, or coagulated, it
ends in the death of the patient; that if it 
be corrupted, it is no longer blood; and 
that while it subsists in its natural state, it 
is always homogeneous, and there are al- 
ways hopes of a cure. I term it incorrup- 
tible in the same sense as air, fire, and other 
things are said to be incorruptible, though 
mixed, and divided into such small particles 
that they cannot perform their original ope- 
rations, and are consequently corrupted. I 
call the blood incorruptible, in comparison 
with those humours which are much more 
corruptible, more dense, and less uniform in 
their constituent particles; thus a diamond, 
gold and cedar, are stiled incorruptible, 
though indeed all material things are neces- 
sarily subject to corruption. 
From these first principles, we should 
advance to more circumstantial particulars of 
the functions of the blood; we should ex- 
amine how it receives its aliment from the 
chyle, and how it supports and nourishes 
the solids itself. We should observe that the 
aliment it receives, is in proportion to the 
quantity of chyle it can assimilate, and to 
the demand which is requisite to recruit 
what it expends in nourishing the solids, 
and in the exercise of its functions; that 
it never receives more than it stands in need 
of, let the chyle be ever so redundant. The 
remainder of this chyle is of a nature dif- 
ferent from the blood, and that which is 
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received into the veins and arteries, serves 
it only as a vehicle, by which it is distributed 
and evacuated according to the exigencies of 
the whole machine. We may perceive, in 
the admirable mechanism of the human 
body, several glands through which the 
humours are secreted or filtrated: some of
these glands are appropriated to the eyes, 
from whence they secrete a serious humour, 
which seems to moisten the eyes, and facili- 
tate that motion, and for no other use. 
Some belong to the ears, which produce a 
humour that becomes viscid, and of a yellow 
colour, to promote and preserve the sense of 
hearing, and for no other use. Some are 
placed about the nose, to strain and secrete 
the mucus, and for nothing else. Some of 
them reach to the mouth, to convey the 
saliva thither, and for no other purpose; 
we may assert likewise of all the other 
glands, that they have different functions 
appropriated to them according to the diffe- 
rent exigencies of the body, so that one gland 
never performs, naturally, the function of 
another, i. e. it does not secrete or filter 
what another ought to secrete or filter. 
Hence the mucus is never secreted through 
the eyes, nor the saliva through the ears, &c. 
The Faculty are agreed, that there are six 
non-naturals, or things without which we 
cannot subsist, though they do not enter 
into the construction of the body; these 
non-naturals, are the air, eating and drink- 
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ing, motion and rest, sleep and watchful- 
ness, the fœces or excrements, retained hu- 
mours, and, lastly, the passions of the soul. 
When all these are enjoyed with modera- 
tion, or without excess, namely, when we
breathe a good air, when we drink and eat 
only what is necessary; when we enjoy 
motion or rest, sleep or watching, only 
with moderation; when the fœces are nei- 
ther too dry nor too fluid: lastly, when the 
passions of the soul are balanced by reason, 
the blood being then neither precipitated nor 
retarded in its course, it is not disturbed in 
its functions, and every thing proceeds in a 
salutary career; but if we breathe a bad air, 
or expose ourselves to intemperance; if we 
give way to immoderate agitations, or to a 
state too free from action; if we enjoy too 
long, or too short sleep; if our body be too 
lax, or too costive: Lastly, if we indulge 
any of the passions, such as grief, joy, anger, 
envy, jealousy, &c. immoderately, then the 
blood is disordered in its secretions, either 
by too much swiftness, or too much flow- 
ness; the unfiltered humours that remain in 
it alter, disturb, and impede it in its action; 
and are sometimes so redundant, viscid, in- 
flamed and foul, that the blood is disordered 
by them, and in a manner loses its natural 
course and motion. From hence arise fevers, 
eruptions, in a word, all distempers receive 
their origin from hence, the humours being 
discharged and precipitated sometimes to the 
head,

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head, sometimes to the breast, sometimes to 
the stomach, the reins, the arms, the legs, 
&c. in proportion to the different weakness 
of the parts, which are forced to give way  
to the torrent. 
To unprejudiced persons this simple de- 
scription alone, grounded upon nature itself, 
and which can never be contradicted but by 
those who are wilfully blind; to such per- 
sons, I say, this description alone is sufficient 
to convince them, that all distempers pro- 
ceed from unfiltrated or unsecreted humours 
detained in the blood, and never from the 
blood itself. 
But prepossession is so strong, and the 
force of prejudices, in which we are edu- 
cated, hath gained such an ascendency in 
our minds at a practice so manifestly opposite 
to them, that I believe it is necessary to 
add, by way of eclaircisement, and, in or- 
der to force conviction, the illustrations 
which follow. 
Our reasoning with respect to the blood in 
a human body, should be somewhat similar 
and analogus to those concerning wine in a 
hogshead, or water in a bason. The wine 
is originally good, pure and wholesome: 
the water which flows from a fountain into 
a bason, runs into it pure, clear, and good 
for drinking.—The wine in the hogshead 
chances to be spoiled; the water in the 
bason becomes dirty and muddy. From 
whence do these disorders proceed? Do they
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proceed from the nature of the wine, or the 
nature of the water? You will not presume 
to say they do. You know very well that 
the heat of the spring or summer, has caused 
your wine to ferment, which raised the 
dregs, made it thick, and turned it. You 
know likewise, that water is of itself clear 
and good for drinking, and that it is only 
the filth, which is mixed with it, that ren- 
ders it unpotable and unwholesome. 
Now, let me ask you, why you do not 
reason in the same manner about your blood? 
Was not your blood good at your birth? 
you was born in perfect health, your youth 
was alert and brisk, and you have been full 
of strength and vigour; you have fallen into 
some of the excesses already mentioned; 
since that time you began to languish, to be 
in pain, and to be sick. From whence 
comes your disorder? is it from your blood? 
can you say it is, or can you even think so? 
It was good of itself, and it is so still. If 
your blood were bad, there would be an end 
of you: Its parts are so homogeneous, so sub- 
tle, so united, that if one part should begin 
to be disunited or coagulated, the other part 
must, for the same reason, be so too. And 
as it is impossible to make sour or bad wine 
good again; and corrupted water, which has 
lost its nature, to become potable, even so it 
would be impossible to human art, and to all 
kinds of species, to restore the blood after it 
had lost its essential properties; none but he
who 

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who created it, can restore it to its former 
state. 
You must then seek for the cause and 
source of your illness somewhere else; nor 
can it be found but in the humours which, 
having failed to percolate through the chan- 
nels which nature has assigned them, thereby 
remain in your blood, and mix with, disturb 
it, render its motions either too precipitate, 
or too slow, and have thereby disordered it 
in the first stage of its operations. It is here 
you should search for the cause of your dis- 
ease, and not in your blood. It is in these 
gross humours, which are putrid, inflamma- 
tory and pestiferous, you must trace the 
cause of the head-ach, fainting, fevers, de- 
fluxions, the gout, rheumatism, or any 
other disorder with which you are afflicted. 
To effect a cure, you must begin to eva- 
cuate these humours by the general canal 
which nature has assigned; expel this nui- 
sance from your body, which infects, vitiates, 
and torments it, evacuate by siege or stool,
that which was not evacuated when it 
ought; and because when the general canal 
empties itself, all the less and subordinate 
canals which run into it, are emptied like- 
wise, so you will have the comfort to find 
your blood re-assume its liberty, its purity, 
its natural motion, and your body will re- 
cover its former agility, vigour and health. 
You will perceive your wounds, tumours 
and ulcers dry up, close and heal, and your 
flesh will re-assume all the beauty of youth. 
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What would you say of a man who should 
draw and spill his wine upon the ground, as 
a means of restoring it to its former good- 
ness? What would you say of another, 
who should draw the water out of a bason 
and scatter it about, as a means of restor- 
ing it to its former cleanness? This is 
what you do when you are fond of being 
bled. You attack the innocent, and excuse 
the guilty. You expel the good citizen from 
your city, but let the enemy who is attack- 
ing it alone. 
How much more wisely does he act, who 
applies himself to remove the dregs from his 
hogshead, and the filth from his bason? 
So likewise would you have acted more 
prudently, by evacuating the humours that 
disturb the animal œconomy, and the ope- 
rations of the blood, by means of the purge 
I now offer you. If a description of the 
history of the most common and stubborn 
disorders were necessary to produce con- 
viction, I could say much concerning de- 
fluxions, perepneumonies, inflammations of 
the breast, which are so common, and rise 
at the beginning of every winter. 
In the summer season you are not affected 
with these disorders, because then the hu- 
mours are dispersed by perspiration. But 
when the cold shuts up the pores, and re- 
tains them in your body, where they are 
treasured up and augmented, they then dis- 
turb the free and natural motion of the 
blood,

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blood, and overflow the weakest part of the 
body. 
Whence comes the diversity of defluxions, 
but from the redundance of the humours 
which cause them upon the different parts of 
the body in which they are deposited? 
whence can the obstinacy and long duration 
of colds and defluxions proceed, but from 
hence? That you are not exact and con- 
stant enough in purging yourself, and in 
purging yourself thoroughly? Follow my 
advice, and your own experience will fully 
convince you of its expediency. 
Whence proceeds the irregularity in the 
courses of women and maids? unless from 
the disorders caused in the filtrations of the 
humours by the different excesses, or pas- 
sions wherewith they are agitated. 
Whence proceed vertigoes? Those ver- 
tigoes which transform themselves into so 
many shapes, that they have exhausted the 
whole art of physic, and are almost epide- 
mical; that are so afflicting to those who 
have them; and appear meer dreams and 
visions to those who have them not! Whence 
do they proceed, but from humours not 
filtrated and detained in the blood; which 
thereby disturb it in its circulation, by the 
obstructions and bad fermentations, which 
they occasion? From hence proceed trouble 
and confusion in the animal spirits, and these 
spirits having not a regular course in the 
nerves, the faculties of seeing and moving 
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are interrupted in such a manner, that the 
patients stagger, fall, and have their eyes 
oftentimes overcast by a thick darkness. 
This is the origin and true cause of verti- 
goes, but never the blood itself. 
What then can be more efficacious for their 
cure, than the use of a purge like mine, 
which, by its operation, disperses the unfil- 
tered and stagnating humours, and destroys, 
by degrees, the obstructions and bad fer- 
mentations, that are the source of them? 
But as the obstructions which commonly 
cause vertigoes, are generally dry, and ad- 
here strongly to the bowels, in such a case 
it is necessary to repeat the use of the purge, 
till, by its operation, it shall have dissolved 
and destroyed all those obstructions, and en- 
tirely expelled the bad fermentations which 
they proceed from; and till it shall have 
restored their former liberty and free course 
to the blood and spirits. 
Much might be said of other diseases, 
which are avowedly dispersed by evacuations 
alone, such as cholics, loathings, fevers of 
all sorts, &c. 
I shall now conclude, for what need is 
there to add proofs to demonstration? Let 
men be as obstinate, and as conceited as they 
please, it will be found true, nevertheless, 
that all distempers which afflict us, derive 
their origin from the humours which are not 
filtrated and detained in the blood, or in the 
parts of the body, but not from the blood 
itself. 
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APPENDIX. 
Where then is the wonder? And why 
should men exclaim so much at my asserting, 
that my purging Powder is a remedy for all 
distempers? Does not that deserve to be 
called a remedy for all distempers, which re- 
moves and destroys the cause of all diseases? 
Is there any one so unreasonable as to ima- 
gine, I would assert that my Powder pre- 
serves from a fall, from the shot of a gun, 
from poison, or other accident? Can any 
one suppose that I intend to destroy physic, 
when I am laying down a method of rendering 
it more certain and more infallible? Can any 
one imagine I have a design to proscribe all 
surgery, because I assert that bleeding is pre- 
judicial? Has Surgery then no other ope- 
ration but bleeding? Has it not, besides 
wounds, fractures, dislocations, the opera- 
tion for the stone, the fistula, trepanning, 
&c? It is true my Powder will be a useful 
preparation for all these operations; and will 
always favour and promote the cure of all 
wounds. Is it to abolish an art, to promote 
the effect of its operations? Is it to anni- 
hilate pharmacy, to plead so strongly in fa- 
vour of cathartics? 
Let men cease their exclamations. Let 
them lay aside all prejudice. Let them per- 
mit truth to triumph, and let them give
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endless thanks to God the Father of lights, 
from whom cometh every good and perfect 
gift; for it is not from any other, nor from 
myself, but from him alone, that I could 
acquire this knowledge. 
It is true, the occasional cause of so great 
a favour, may partly be ascribed to my own 
personal complaints, and to the bad state of 
health in my parents, brothers, sisters, and 
other relations, who being all afflicted with 
different diseases, ended their days early, and 
left me the only survivor, and that time a 
young practitioner, inheriting my father’s 
infirmities, and dragging on a lingering life. 
I, nevertheless, prosecuted the study of phy- 
sic, and I longed to find out a certain re- 
medy for all my complaints. My masters 
were men of great abilities and erudition. I 
followed them, as it were, step by step; but 
when I was left to myself, and had acquired 
more knowledge by my own experience, I 
adopted cathartics, to which they preferred 
bleeding; and, by degrees, by the blessing 
of God, I was convinced, at last, that dis- 
eases did not proceed from the blood, but 
from those humours which disordered it. 
From that time I applied myself to the com- 
posing of my purging Powder, and, both 
from my experience, confirmed by that of 
numberless other persons, I had the happi- 
ness to bring it to such a pitch of perfection, 
that, though I humbly acknowledged my- 
self as nothing in the sight of God, yet I 
certainly


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certainly believed that this discovery was a 
singular favour with which he was pleased to 
favour me for the good of mankind in ge- 
neral. 
There are no chymlcal or mercurial ingre- 
dients in the composition of this Powder, as 
may, at first sight, be imagined. It con- 
tains nothing but the products of the earth, 
the riches of the fields, the sweet aliments 
of man, which are dispersed abroad in small 
numbers; but, being collected together by 
a wise hand, have powerful effect. You 
may then take this Powder without scruple 
or fear. By means of it, I myself, though 
from my birth of a tender and sickly con- 
stitution, have had the happiness to arrive at 
the age of seventy-nine years, full of vigour, 
being the father of a numerous and vigorous 
offspring, who are, at present, I thank God, 
in perfect health; who likewise have never 
taken any other medicine, no more than 
myself, for any disorder whatsoever. 
CHAPTER II. 
Concerning the Use of the Purging Powder.
AS I have already sufficiently, I might have 
said sensibly, demonstrated, that all dis- 
eases proceed from vitiated humours, but not 
from


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from the blood, I imagine it would be un- 
nessary at present to shew that bleeding is 
useless, unnatural and pernicious. 
There is but one general cause of all dis- 
orders, and that is foul humours. Nothing 
else is necessary but to evacuate them, ac- 
cording to the exigencies of nature; and this 
effect is produced by my purging Powder, 
which I prescribe to all patients according to 
their case, and in proportion to the stubborn- 
ness of their distempers. I prescribe it with 
the more confidence, as I am assured, by 
numberless experiments, that it is the most 
efficacious, speedy, and gentle remedy in the 
whole materia medica; and this I shall en- 
deavour to prove in the following articles. 
ARTICLE I. 
My purging Powder is the most efficacious Remedy 
in all Distempers. 
THIS proposition may seem unaccountable 
to some, because they will not emanci- 
pate themselves from the prejudices in which 
they have been educated; and they will not 
acknowlege that there is one general cause of 
all distempers, as I have demonstrated in the 
foregoing chapter. 
But let them do me the favour to weigh 
my reasons; and, if I should be mistaken, 
let them convince me of my error, not by 
sophistry,

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sophistry and raillery, but by solid reasons 
and invariable truth. 
Tell me, if you can, you who make a 
right use of your reason, what Physician can 
interest himself so much in curing his patient, 
as nature herself does? 
What Physician understands the distem- 
per of his patient, as well as nature does 
her’s? 
Where is the Physician who has as great 
a talent in curing his patient, as nature has 
to cure herself? To equal her, he must be 
possessed of the power of converting chyle 
into blood, and the blood into solids. 
In a word, where is the Physician who has 
as strong a desire to cure his patient, as na- 
ture has to cure herself? 
I suppose, you will readily answer all 
these queries in the negative; and allow that 
there never has been such a physician. 
Now, in this case, wherein the physician 
can neither be so much interested, nor en- 
lightened, nor skilful, nor desirous to cure 
as nature is, what is his office? Is it to 
counter-act the operations of nature, with 
an intention to give it new discharges by 
opening veins, by cauteries, by ligatures, 
&c. Is it to disturb or do it violence in, 
any respect? Who is not convinced of the 
temerity of this method ? Who is not ready 
to condemn it? 
What then is the office of a Physician, 
but to observe and second nature in its ope- 
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rations, by removing from it that which 
confuses, disquiets and disturbs it, and by 
administring to it, afterwards, good and 
proper nourishment fit to repair its strength, 
and enable it to suppurt and continue its 
operations ? Does not common sense suggest
this method and process ? 
Now, this is the real effect of my reme- 
dy; removere prohibens; To discharge the hu- 
mours which precipitate or retard nature in 
its course, and to reduce them to the purity 
which is necessary, to evacuate the fæces 
which infect it, to expel that which affects 
and incommodes it; to supply it with good 
and wholesome food, which it next stands 
in need of, and by which it insensibly 
strengthens, repairs, and regains its vigour. 
After this manner, the patient finds himself 
soon cured, being neither weakened by bleed- 
ing, exhausted by rough cathartics, nor 
brought too low by long dieting.   
This has been proved by a thousand and 
a thousand cases; it is what I am ready to 
prove at any time to any patient; it is what 
I have offered to prove in the hospitals; it 
is what I am ready to confirm by a great 
number of letters, which I am ready to 
shew to any one. 
Am I then to be blamed for saying, that 
my remedy is the most efficacious? Where 
is the danger of taking it? It impedes not 
the operation of nature; it only takes away 
what disturbs it, and takes it away effectu-
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ally: it does not at all affect the strength of 
a patient, but removes that which oppresses 
him, and removes it without pain. It does 
not rob him of nourishment; but, on the 
contrary, as soon as it has evacuated the 
foulnesses, it renders him able to make good 
chyle, and the chyle to make good blood; 
and it is good blood, which, being of a bal- 
samic nature, cures all his complaints, re- 
pairs all his losses, and restores him to his 
former vigour. 
But my remedy is not only efficacious, 
but, as will appear from 
ARTICLE II. 
My purging Powder is the speediest Remedy that 
can be had against all Diseases. 
MY propositions are so new, and, at first 
sight, convey an idea so contrary to 
the prejudices in which people are generally 
educated, that I doubt not they are daily 
discouraged from acquiescing in my opi- 
nion; some, because they do not properly 
understand what is meant by a Distemper, 
confounding, through inadvertency and ig- 
norance, under this name, wounds, rup- 
tures, dislocations, frights and similar acci- 
dents, which are very improperly termed 
distempers: others, because they are so pre- 
possessed in favour of bleeding, that no- 
thing can eradicate their prejudice; the 
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idea of inflammations, apoplexies, &c. im-
mediately occurring to their minds, they 
are so strongly rooted in them prepossessions, 
that there is no possibility of making room 
for truth. 
What an absurdity is it to affect to be 
wiser than nature, to pretend to point out 
new paths to it, as if its own were not wise- 
ly established? What an absurdity is it, in 
spite of common sense, and often at the ex- 
pence of one’s life, to call that a remedy, 
which is prejudicial; that a speedy remedy, 
which retards a cure, and that a great and 
wonderful remedy, which kills the major 
part of persons that are sick? 
Can any one seriously call bleeding a re- 
medy, when, by diminishing the quantity of 
the blood, it diminishes the strength of the 
patient? Can we call that a speedy remedy, 
which gives occasion, to the enemy, of for- 
tifying himself, I mean, to the humours, of 
acquiring a greater ascendency over the 
blood? Will any one, in fine, give the 
name of a remedy to this operation, which, 
by weakening the patient, often makes him 
perish, and from which, tho’ some of a more 
athletic constitution survive, they have a 
long stage of recovery to pass, which some- 
times leads them to drag on lingering death, 
or a dying life? 
Such is the consequence of Bleeding, tho’ 
so much in repute! Bleeding! the inven- 
tion of the blind, a gentle and effectual 
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means to work imperceptibly the destruc- 
tion of mankind! 
How much more mild is that remedy, 
which the Creator has showered down upon 
the produce of the ground; which he has 
taught us by the instinct of animals, which 
he has extolled in the scriptures, which he 
imparted to Solomon, and to which he 
marked out a daily road in man himself! 
Such is every purging remedy! To deny 
it, is to run counter to nature itself. 
Now, my purge has these advantages 
over other cathartics, viz. to operate al- 
ways; sometimes to operate in one hour, 
sometimes in two, sometimes in three, more 
or less, according to the constitution of the 
patient, and the nature of his disorder: and 
this is done without disquieting and shaking 
the whole machine of the body, as other 
cathartics, now in practice, do; without 
corroding the stomach, bowels, or any other 
part of the body; working always gently, 
always successfully, if there be any hopes, 
and never attended with the least danger, 
being always a friend to the stomach and 
breast. 
Where then can we find a better, or a 
more speedy remedy? Is the exhausting a 
person’s strength, and precipitating him into 
agonies speedily, the method of a speedy 
cure? But is not this the effect of all vio- 
lent purges, those real poisons, which are 
so much in vogue among modern practi- 
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tioners? Can a patient be speedily cured 
by giving him those weak purges, which 
only carry off the gross humours, and al- 
ways leave the dregs of fevers behind them; 
I mean the dry and old obstructions, the 
tough and glutinous humours that maintain 
them. 
My medicine carries all off, dissolves all, 
and disseminates its salutary influences every 
where. There is no distemper, however 
inveterate, but must yield, as much as pos- 
sibly, to its benignity and power. 
This I have experienced times without 
number; this is what I can verify at any 
time; this is what the letters and certifi- 
cates, which I shall subjoin to this treatise, 
will abundantly evince. What would any 
one desire more, to prove the goodness and 
speediness of a remedy ? 
I was informed some years ago, that my 
powders revived some old distempers, which 
were judged to have been cured, and of 
which no symptoms appeared; they men- 
tioned particularly the megrims, fever, &c. 
It was also added, that some people made 
use of these cases as a handle to decry my 
powders. I was not at all surprized at the 
information, I knew that my powder leaves 
nothing in the human body imperfectly 
cured: but I have been as much rejoiced to 
learn, at the same time, that by repeating 
my powder, three doses have perfectly cured 
those revived disorders, and shut the mouths 
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of those, who were either alarmed or ma- 
licious. 
This course ought always to be pursued, 
when a person relapses into any disease: 
When it changes its appearance, when it 
does not yield immediately, or when it 
seems to be irritated, I cannot repeat it too 
often; the powder should be repeated with- 
out fear: This is the best and surest means 
of curing and eradicating all diseases. 
In a word, men may think that a remedy 
which must be repeated so often, is loath- 
some and expensive: But let them consider, 
that it is by far more tiresome to be sick, 
more disagreeable to be unable to go abroad, 
and to wear away, oftentimes fruitlessly, 
and perhaps with danger, by taking violent 
or inefficacious medicines. 
Besides, if any remedy be more speedy, it 
cannot be-so gentle; its effects would likewise 
be less certain, and it would not cure so ra- 
dically. Its very repetition is rather a proof 
of its goodness, gentleness and efficacy, as 
those have experienced, who have been 
cured by it of the most inveterate diseases.
I do not know whether the following 
illustration may be approved of by every 
one; but I would act in the same manner 
with respect to a human body oppressed with 
sickness, as I would with respect to a bason 
which abounds with foul sediments. How- 
ever indurated, caked, and dry, these foul- 
nesses might be, yet if I could not remove 
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them all at once by any instrument, be- 
ing fearful of breaking the bason, I think
I could not hit upon a better expedient, than 
that of making an aperture at the bottom, 
through which the sediments might pass; 
at the same time as I turn a clear spring 
into it above, which by its action and flu- 
idity would agitate, soften, and carry away 
the sediment, and leave my bason of water 
as clear as I could wish it to be. 
Though the examples may not quadrate 
entirely, for then they would be identities, 
it is sufficient if they should serve to ex- 
plain what I am endeavouring to inculcate. 
Our body is a kind of a bason, in which 
the fluids circulate, by which we subsist, 
and especially the blood, which is the life 
and strength of it. 
The infection, for instance, may have 
diffused itself even to the extreme parts. 
Obstructions, sediments, poisons, and in a 
word, foulnesses are ingendered, mixed, in- 
crusted somewhere, and perhaps all over it. 
One time you complain of your stomach, 
another of your breast, another of your 
head, eyes, teeth, arms, legs, &c. Where 
is the remedy for all these complaints? The 
mechanism of your body is delicate; if you 
should have recourse to violent remedies, I 
will not be answerable for the safety, 
of the machine. We can see only the ex- 
ternal part, we do not know what passes 
within, but by conjecture, chance, and as 
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it were, by groping. You are already in a 
panic about it, and very near falling into 
despair. 
But be comforted; the author of nature, 
who has given you only one mouth to re- 
ceive, has given you several passages to re- 
fund, and amongst the rest a principal one, 
through which all the foulnesses that op- 
press you may be evacuated, either mediate- 
ly or immediately, and restore you to your 
former vigour and health. 
Open the clear spring at the top of the 
machine, which will insensibly carry off and 
purify all these foulnesses. I mean, take my 
powder, promote its effects by good broths, 
assist it with water, either by itself, or with a 
bit of burnt bread in it. This is the clear 
fountain. According as the foulnesses are 
gradually discharged and diminished, add 
good nourishment proportionable to your 
appetite, without over-charging it, and your 
stomach being cleansed, it will digest its ali- 
ments and form good chyle; this chyle will 
diffuse itself into your blood, it is the clear 
spring which will temper, nourish and re- 
new the blood, and give it strength to per- 
form its secretions, to pursue its circula- 
tion, and continue the natural course of its 
operations. This is the process in which 
health may be repaired, and repaired infal- 
libly! 
But time is required to dissolve a Polypus, 
or a Noli me tangere, to remove the obstruc- 
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tions of the glands, to carry off foulnesses, 
to restore palsies, to remove dropsies, to de- 
stroy the effect of poisons, to combat and 
overcome the bad effects of mercury, of the 
Quinquinna, or Jesuits Bark, &c. 
What would you think of one, who, in- 
tending to cleanse his bason, should be dis- 
couraged at the first vapours which would 
exhale from its foulness or sediments, and 
should cease to turn the clear stream into it, 
or not dare to agitate the sediments any 
more? This is what you do, when, after 
taking the first dose of my powder, you find 
some alteration; when you perceive, for 
example, either the defluxions increased, the 
fevers changed, wounds suppurated, or old 
distempers revived. Notwithstanding these 
symptoms, the medicine ought to be re- 
peated, that what is only in motion may be 
diluted; it is then only you can have hopes, 
because the enemy then begins to march out 
to surrender the place to you, because the 
foulness is discharging itself from the bason, 
that is, from your body. 
Be not then discouraged from the use of 
my powder, be your distemper whatever it 
may; be confident it cannot hurt you; and 
if you continue the repetition of it, it can- 
not but restore you to your former health, 
by curing you not only of those complaints 
which affect you, but also of others which 
are ready to shew themselves, and of which 
you are not yet sensible. 
Let


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Let us now proceed to obviate objec- 
tions. 
Is not a purge, we may be demanded, is 
not a purge irritating in inflammations, pleu- 
risies, peripneumonies, inflammatory or ma- 
lignant fevers, &c? Does it not heighten 
inflammations? Will it not give occasion 
to greater eruptions, to more dangerous dis- 
charges, to more copious humours, &c? 
I answer, 
First, By no means. Because that which 
removes the cause of inflammations, erup- 
tions, &c. cannot augment them. For ex- 
ample, he who diverts the stream which 
makes a bason overflow, cannot be said to 
make it run over. This is analogous to the 
operation of my remedy; it discharges all 
the humours which make all these havocks, 
&c. Therefore it cannot increase them. 
2dly, I must beg leave to distinguish, as 
the logicians say. To purge with cathar- 
tics, which shake the whole frame of the 
body, which are pungent to the stomach, 
are violent in their operations, and excite 
vomiting, as many purges do, now in com- 
mon use, are to the prejudice of the deli- 
cate and weak machine of our body: I 
grant that such purges cause all these bad 
effects; but a purge with my mild powder, 
which is natural, and efficacious, can have 
no such effects. 
3dly, Let us suppose that my purge should
cause some emotion, it cannot but be slight,
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it cannot be prejudicial, or, at the utmost, 
it can cause but very little hurt, which is 
very soon compensated by the great benefits 
which accrue from the evacuation. For 
then all the vessels are relaxed, the erup- 
tions cease, the passages are insensibly closed, 
the foulnesses are discharged, and are no 
longer to be apprehended. 
But I may be asked; let a purge be as 
mild and as efficacious as it will, is not such 
a one slow in its operations? And does not 
bleeding relieve more speedily in inflamma- 
tions, &c? 
I answer, 
First, That a purge which is always sa- 
lutary, ought not to be called slow. 
2dly, That bleeding, which is always 
hurtful, always diminishes the strength of 
the patient, always yields to the triumph of 
the enemy, I mean, to that of the humours; 
bleeding, in this light, cannot justly be 
called a speedy remedy, nor even any re- 
medy at all; nor can it deserve a preference 
to my purge. 
3dly, That my remedy is speedy enough, 
when quickened or seconded with a large 
glass of water or tea; and I am sure, that 
if the blood be not in a condition to be di- 
luted, or condensed, (in which case bleed- 
ing is so far from being of service, that it 
is downright murder) I am confident, that 
if there be the least hopes of a recovery, it 
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But it may still be urged. Will not bleed- 
ing be of service as a preparative to a purge, 
by relaxing the nerves, and suspending erup- 
tions? 
I answer, That it must be confessed that 
bleeding sometimes is successful; but how 
much has it exhausted the strength of the 
patient? Should I consent to bleeding, I 
would not venture it above once or twice, 
to satisfy those who are so fond of it, let the 
consequence be what it would. But rny 
real opinion is, that this pretended prepara- 
tion is in no-wise necessary; either because 
bleeding is not in itself either operative or 
curative, or because, by weakening the pa- 
tient, it may likewise weaken the very ef- 
fect of the purge, which will not then be 
able to operate so well, when it finds the 
machine weakened too much. 
But you will reply; When the blood 
bears a yellowish, olive, or whitish colour, 
can any one deny the seasonableness of 
bleeding? 
I answer, If you should stir the sediments 
at the bottom of a bason, would not you 
see the water tinged with the colours of 
those sediments? Would you infer from 
thence, that those colours were natural to 
the water? Would you, in consequence, 
assert that it would be proper to draw the 
water out? For my part, I am of another 
opinion; and I say, that the sediments 
ought to be cleared from the bason,
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that the water would then recover its na- 
tural colour, and it would become pot- 
able again. Remove likewise the humours 
with my purge, your blood will recover its 
natural colour, and then you may judge if
it would have been right to have had it 
extracted. 
But to proceed: When I see a man void- 
ing blood at his nose and ears, I conclude 
that there is a violent fermentation in his 
body. 
To allay this, you have recourse imme- 
diately to his arm, his neck, or his foot; 
and by bleeding, diminish the mass, which 
is at that time in commotion. You think 
you do rightly; your patient is eased im- 
mediately by it; I grant it; but yet give 
me leave to tell you, you resemble a cook, 
who seeing his pot boiling over, runs with 
a great ladle to take out part of the liquor, 
and spills it on the ground. 
How much more prudently would he 
have done, if he had drawn from under the 
pot the fire which made it boil over. He 
could not have prevented that from being 
spilled, which had been spilt, nor that which 
had run over from running over. He does 
not prevent it, neither, by his great ladle. 
But yet, is it not true, that by drawing the 
pot from the fire, or by raking out the fire 
from under the pot, he will speedily and 
infallibly prevent its boiling over any 
more? 
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The application is plain. Remove like- 
wise, by my purge, the bad humours which 
occasion inflammations, eruptions, foul- 
nesses, &c. and your blood being freed from 
them, will regain its liberty, and will re- 
turn to its natural course, and you to your 
former health, without being weakened by 
bleeding, or harrassed by violent remedies. 
I can never inculcate this truth too much, 
Suppose a gardener, who, seeing the bason 
overflow, should have recourse to a pitcher 
to diminish the quantity of water, and scat- 
ter it about. 
But would he not have acted more pru- 
dently in loosening the stopple underneath, 
especially if, as in the human body, he could 
preserve all his water, and let out only the 
sediments, which augment the quantity of 
it, and cause it to overflow? 
These are the advantages of my Purging 
Powder! by it you evacuate speedily, effi- 
caciously, entirely and easily, the fæces 
and foulnesses of your body, which occasion 
all your disorders, and at the same time vou 
preserve your blood, which is all your 
strength. Can any thing be more evident? 
But if, after all, any one has a mind to 
fling his blood away, let him do it; I can 
do no more than pity him. 
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ARTICLE III. 
My purging Powder is not only the most effica- 
cious, the most speedy, but likewise the most
mild Remedy that can be taken in any Dis- 
temper whatever. 
THIS proposition will be as easy to prove 
as those which have preceded. What- 
ever veil men may cast over truth, it will 
never take away its force or its brightness. 
A remedy that has nothing disagreeable 
to the taste, which may be taken so easily, 
which purges without affecting the patient 
with pain, which purges thoroughly, which 
leaves us in full enjoyment of our strength, 
which renders us more alert and vigorous, 
which may be taken without the least dan- 
ger, which may always give us hopes, but 
never alarm our fears, which may be taken 
and repeated for forty, fifty, or sixty days 
together, without exhausting or weakening 
the patient; with which a person may al- 
ways eat, if he hath not a fever, and eat 
too with an appetite: I say, can such a re- 
medy be equalled? or is, or can there be, 
any one more mild? 
My remedy is of this nature. It is pos- 
sessed of all these characteristics, and distin- 
guished by them from all others; I pre- 
scribe it likewise with all the integrity and 
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candour becoming my profession, age, re- 
putation, and honour, as possessing all these 
virtues. 
But as some carry their incredulity very 
far, and others are more easily convinced 
by facts, than by arguments, and as exam- 
ple is by far the shortest way to secure con- 
viction, I shall now produce to the sight of 
the incredulous, not the patients them- 
selves, who have been cured, but their let- 
ters, which it will not be possible to inva- 
lidate, because the persons themselves are 
yet alive, and there are vast numbers of 
them whose integrity must be above the least
shadow of suspicion. 
Yet it is not without some reluctance,
that I have ventured to produce the letters,
with which they have been pleased to ho- 
nour me, and the certificates which were 
dictated by gratitude and unaffected truth. 
My system is indeed so clear and so strong, 
my success is already so well established and
recommended by frequent trials, that I 
might have justly thought it unnecessary to 
have recourse to such a proof.
I use it therefore to surmount the incre- 
dulity of some, in compliance with the so- 
licitations of others, and to convince the 
world how many different distempers have 
been cured by the same remedy; and con- 
sequently how infatuated and blind they 
must be, who will neither hear nor believe 
that “ there is one general cause of all dis- 
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tempers, and that one and the same remedy 
can of itself cure them all, let them be ever 
so different. 
This is the great point, against which 
not only the whole faculty of Physicians are 
in arms, but likewise the prejudice of the 
public is so strong, that the bare mention 
of a Remedy for all disorders gives the alarm, 
without reflecting, at the same time, that 
Bleeding is as universal a remedy in their 
esteem. Yet, notwithstanding, people of 
all ranks and sexes set up for judges, and 
pronounce, with clamour and disdain, a sen- 
tence of contempt against me and my 
powder. 
Yet, what can either of these say, when 
they have read the following letters and 
certificates, the originals of which I am 
ready to produce? 
What will they be able to say, when 
they find, beyond all doubt, that so many 
distempers, apparently so different and so 
opposite to each other, have been all hap- 
pily and radically cured by a single and 
identical remedy? I mean my Powder, 
whose admirable effects at once demonstrate 
its efficacy, and establish the solidity of my 
system.
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The CONCLUSION. 
IT has therefore been demonstrated, that 
my Powder may be taken with success 
in every distemper. It is likewise evident, 
that it may and ought to be repeated, with- 
out danger, in all cases; as it appears that 
it cannot, of itself, produce any bad effect,
and that it is capable of producing all the 
good that any one can desire of it. 
This consequence necessarily follows, 
from the great variety of cures which it has 
performed in different constitutions affected 
with different distempers. 
Will any one, after all, oppose its excel- 
lence and mildness? 
Will any one assert, that it is useless,
and that it is of no service, when it has 
cured distempers, which the whole body 
of physicians have declared incurable? Will 
any one say that it inflames, or over-heats? 
If it did, it would have calcined the bodies, 
of those persons, who have repeated it for 
forty, fifty, or sixty days together; or of 
others, who have taken from eighty to three 
hundred doses of it, in the space of one 
year. 
Will any one say, that it disorders and 
corrodes the bowels, when it stops the 
bloody-flux, cures the hemorrhoids, and re- 
stores the tone of the stomach? 
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Will any one urge, after this, that they 
have seen some patients void blood after 
taking it? I will not deny but this may be 
fact, but I will deny that it is the cause of 
it; and, as a proof that my powder does 
not produce this symptom, it need only be 
repeated in that case; and it will stop this 
discharge of blood, unless there be some in- 
curable rupture, which will never proceed 
from the powder, as is manifest from the 
long use that a great many persons have 
made of it. 
If it should be objected, that, though it 
does good to some, yet it does harm to o- 
thers; I beg leave to ask, how that can do. 
harm which is so mild, and may be repeat- 
ed so often in so many distempers? It 
may be given to children just born, or to
pregnant women before, in, or after their 
delivery, and to nurses; and at the same 
time cures both the mother and the child. 
You may indeed object, that all persons 
have not the same constitution; but had all 
the variety of patients, mentioned in the 
letters annexed, the same constitution? 
Did they live upon the same kind of food? 
Did they inhabit the same country? Did 
they breathe the same air? Had they the 
same distemper, the same age, the same 
constitution? 
It is with respect to this difference in the 
constitution and habit of body, of which 
some are purged or moved with more diffi- 
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culty than others, that I have proposed and 
prescribed a diminution or increase of the 
dose, according as it operates either too 
much or too little. 
Lastly, though men may look upon a 
powder, which I maintain to be good for 
every distemper, as a strange phænomenon 
in the province of physic, yet it is not the 
less true, that it has the virtue of curing 
all; especially as it is demonstrable from 
experience; and it is impossible that dif- 
ferent patients could have been cured by 
the sole means of my powder, if there were 
not a general cause of distempers, which is 
destroyed by it. Distempers differ by acci- 
dent only; and consequently shew them- 
seves in different parts of the body, and 
with different symptoms: but they are, not- 
withstanding, all produced by one and the 
same cause; I mean, by the humours which 
are not secreted, and are detained in the 
blood, the natural circulation of which they 
disturb; or, being extravasated in different 
parts of the body, they hinder and impede 
it in its primitive and natural functions. 
CHAP-


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CHAPTER IV. 
The Manner of using the Powder. 
IT is not alone sufficient to have a good 
remedy, but we must know how to make 
use of it. It is evident, from a great many 
of the following certificates, that it was to
the manner of knowing how to make use 
of my powder, that the patients, in a great 
measure, owed the cure of several dan- 
gerous and chronical distempers; for if the 
use of it had not been repeated without in- 
termission, they would not have been cured 
of their complaints. 
The Powder therefore must be continued 
and repeated constantly, and without in- 
termission, in dangerous and stubborn cases, 
to perform its wonderful cures. 
This being premised, I proceed to the 
manner in which it should be taken. 
Care must be taken never to give it in 
the cold fit of an ague; for the cold shiver- 
ing with which the patient is seized weakens 
it, and destroys its activity; so that you
must wait till the hot fit begins, for then it 
can produce its effect. 
It may be taken in all the stages of any 
other distemper with safety. 
This Powder should be taken in the 
morning fasting, in a little cold or luke- 
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warm water, if the disorder or taste of the 
patient require it. Immediately afterwards 
take a porringer of thin and light broth, and 
three hours after, another of the same sort. 
In case you have not broth, it may be su- 
perseded by a glass of water, or by half a 
porringer of warm water, with the yolk of 
an egg beaten into it. You must take care 
to drink a glass of water after each motion 
or stool, this vehicle being necessary to tem- 
per the salts, to soften and dilute the fæces 
which form stoppages and obstructions, and 
are the primary cause of distempers. It 
also causes the discharge of slimy matter, 
and evacuates it with ease and without 
pain. The complaints which are made of 
its inflaming or over-heating, commonly 
proceed from a neglect in drinking or di- 
luting. But a remedy ought not to be 
blamed, when the regimen prescribed is not 
followed; and, indeed, Physicians are in 
the wrong to take occasion, from the mis- 
conduct of a patient, of declaiming against 
my Powder, which is no ways in fault. 
Some may be afraid, that their stomachs 
will be weakened by drinking water; but 
they are under a mistake; for the foulnesses 
are what weaken it, and not the water, 
which carries them off. 
Some, indeed, entertain a wrong opinion 
of my Powders, from the first dose they 
take; and are dissatisfied, for want of con- 
sidering that the first dose, meeting imme-
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diately with obstacles, a dense plethora, in- 
veterate foulnesses, old obstructions, hard 
and incrusted fæces, and being not suffi- 
ciently assisted by drinking, has not strength 
enough to make its way; and then, only 
putting the humours into motion, without 
carrying them off, vapours arise from this 
mass of confused fæces, and cause either 
loathings or cholics, or other symptoms, 
of which they complain; and then one person 
immediately grows out of conceit of my 
powder, another execrates it, a third de- 
preciates it, as if it had done the greatest 
mischief, because it has not wrought a spe- 
cial miracle in their favour. Where is the 
justice of all this? I would recommend it, 
therefore, as a precaution against all these 
inconveniencies, that as soon as ever these 
alterations are discovered, and the Powder 
ceases to work, that the patient should take 
one or two doses more, within five or six 
hours after the first, and that these two 
doses should be assisted with two porringers 
of broth, at the interval of three hours be- 
tween each of them. 
This Powder may be taken four or five 
hours after meals; and, in case of urgent 
necessity, sooner; having first made the pa- 
tient vomit by means of luke-warm water, 
or by means of a feather pushed down his 
throat. 
The Powder may be taken in wine, broth 
or tea, or be formed into pills, by mixing 
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it with syrup, for those who have an anti- 
pathy against taking it in liquids. 
No one need deprive himself of deep, if 
he finds himself drowsy after taking it, but 
may sleep safely for two or three hours after, 
at which time it generally begins to work: 
but as soon as it begins to work, the pa- 
tient must avoid sleeping, that its effects 
may be the more speedy and efficacious. 
Women with-child may take it, and 
thereby avoid bleeding, which is sometimes 
judged necessary, to procure a more easy and 
happy delivery. The Powder will free them 
from those humours which would render 
their labour hard and difficult, and thereby 
will administer more aid and relief than 
bleeding. 
We know that a milk-diet is used purely 
to restore the balsamic quality of the blood; 
nevertheless, as this aliment has ceased to 
be a natural one, by the constant use and 
substitution of others from our infancy, it 
often creates obstructions and bad fermen- 
tations, which sometimes produce more 
dangerous distempers, than those it is in- 
tended to cure. To prevent these incon- 
veniences, it would be proper to purge 
every five or six days, to discharge the slime 
which this foreign nourishment might have 
left behind it, which, by fermentation, may 
produce putrefaction, the cause of divers 
distempers, that are occasioned by drinking 
milk. 
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It would be difficult to prescribe a fixed 
and invariable rule for the number of doses, 
which ought to be taken in any particular 
distemper. 
Though distempers proceed from the same 
cause, yet they are more or less inveterate 
according to the different habit of the body, 
or the nature of the constitution; and for 
this reason the remedy operates quicker or 
slower. The advice to be given in such 
cases, is, to continue the use of the Powder 
till the patient be perfectly cured. Never- 
theless, we may make use of intermissions 
or intervals between every three, four, six, 
eight or ten doses, or more, according as 
the state or the strength of the patient shall 
require. 
This Powder is a specific remedy against 
spitting of blood, hemorrhages, cholics, de- 
fluxions, fluxes, and numberless diseases of 
that kind, for the cure of which the pa- 
tient should take at least two, three, or 
four doses; oftentimes more is necessary, if 
the disease be of a long standing, and there 
be a great disorder in the humours. 
It is also of great use in continual burn- 
ing, malignant, lingering, and hectic fe- 
vers, the quincy, peripneumonies, the true 
and false pleurisy, and other inflammatory 
diseases ; which may be cured by four, seven, 
or ten doses. 
It removes head-aches, vertigoes, tetters, 
or ring-worms, numbness of the limbs, the 
rheu-


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rheumatism, tremors and convulsions by 
taking to about thirty doses. 
The epilepsy, commonly called the fall- 
ing-sickness, and the scurvy, being in their 
own nature more inveterate, and more dif- 
ficult to be cured, require forty, fifty, sixty, 
and sometimes eighty doses. 
In this place, I cannot help observing, 
that no remedy can cleanse the mass of 
blood from those viruses, which infect it, 
better than my Powder, as more than three 
hundred persons have experienced, whose 
names I forbear mentioning, as I have burnt 
the letters in which they have returned 
thanks; though I cannot but confess I re- 
ceived great pleasure from the information 
they gave me, that they were perfectly 
cured. 
It may not be improper to inform the fair 
sex, that they may continue the use of 
these powders during their natural courses, 
and women in child-bed may do the same 
during their lying-in. 
Maids and women may receive benefit 
from it in the whites, which it disperses and 
cures radically, by a long continuance; 
which ought to be at least forty days. 
Vapours of all sorts are easily dispersed 
by two, three or four doses, every fifteen 
days, during eight or nine months. 
The Incubus, or Night-mare, colds, the 
choaking catarrh, the cough, the palpita- 
tion of the heart, the consumption, the
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bloody flux, the iliac passion, the diar- 
rhæa, the tenesmus, all sorts of cholics, all 
disorders of the reins and bladder, the yel- 
low-jaundice, the green-sickness, the sup- 
pression or too copious discharge of the 
menses, are removed by four, six, twelve, 
or eighteen doses; as well as the gout, the 
sciatica, the scurvy, sore-eyes, the erisepi- 
las, or St. Anthony’s fire, the itch, the 
piles, and the rickets. 
The schirrus, or king’s-evil, and the can- 
cer, which are obstinate diseases, and pro- 
duced by a great corruption, have need of 
of between twenty to sixty doses; as like- 
wise the dropsy in the breast, for which, 
sometimes, even one hundred and fifty doses, 
if not more, are requisite. In the mean 
time, it should be observed, that other spe- 
cies of dropsies are often cured by four, 
five, or twenty doses. 
To be brief; it is an excellent remedy a- 
gainst the apoplexy: In the very beginning 
of the fit, the patient should take two doses 
at once, and you should continue to give 
him one dose every second hour, during 
four or six hours, more or less; and if you 
find that it does not produce as copious an 
evacuation as could be wished, it will be 
proper to excite and increase it, and give it 
new strength, by four, six, or ten grains of 
tartar-emetic, which, being mixed with the 
powder, increases its activity, and makes it 
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surmount all the stoppages and obstructions 
that prevented the evacuation. 
This Powder requires no particular regi- 
men or diet; you may make use of all sorts 
of food of good juices and light digestion, 
such as soup, and boiled or roasted meat at 
dinner, and at supper likewise. You are 
only to abstain from sallad and fruits; but 
you may, nevertheless, eat fruit that is 
baked or stewed, and may use all sorts of 
herbs in pottage. As for your drink, it 
should be pure water, with a piece of toasted 
bread in it, with which a little good red 
wine might be mixed at meals. 
They who are in a fever should take no 
other nourishment than flesh-broth, which 
they should drink every two, three, or four 
hours, according as their condition requires, 
that they may make a gradual transition to 
soups, and from soups to more solid food, 
when they shall be entirely freed from the 
fever. 
The public should be advertised, that 
though we have ascertained the number of 
doses proper for each distemper, yet it is 
difficult to determine so precisely, as that 
the greater or less number should not de- 
pend upon the circumstances of the patient. 
But what ought to secure to us the confi- 
dence of our readers, is this, that we can 
with certainty assure them, that one, two, 
or three doses more than what is necessary, 
can never produce any bad effects.
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In case the remedy should irritate and in- 
crease the disorder (which very seldom hap- 
pens) yet no dangerous consequences are 
to be feared, because this proceeds from the 
redundancy and bad quality of the hu- 
mours, which being put in motion, pro- 
duce this increase of the disease; but which 
will diminish and disappear soon after, by 
the evacuation. It is therefore necessary to 
continue the use of the powder, that the 
evacuation being more copious, the patient 
may be cured the sooner. 
For your direction, I shall give a detail 
of the exact quantity of the doses, which 
are proper for every age. 
From the birth to one 
year old—2O grains
From 1 to 2—25 
From 2 to 4—35 
From 4 to 8—45 
From 8 to 12—55 
From 12 to 18—65 
From 18 to 60, and 
above—1 drachm, or 72 grains 
If the single dose should not cause a suf- 
ficient evacuation, it should be increased by 
part of another dose, which may be doubled 
when necessary. 
If the patient, on account of the delicacy 
of his constitution, and the good state of 
his humours, should find himself purged
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too much by a single dose (which very 
seldom happens) the dose may then be di- 
minished, in the same proportion as it is 
increased for those whom it does not purge 
enough. 
This Powder, which never grows old, 
nor loses its strength or virtue by time, 
provided it be kept in a dry place, may be 
safely carried to the remotest parts of the 
world. 
Signed, 
AILHAUD, M. D. 
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LETTERS 
CONCERNING THE 
CURES 
PERFORMED BY 
Dr. AILHAUD’s 
UNIVERSAL REMEDY. 
The SECOND EDITION, 
Corrected. 
LONDON: 
Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXIX.



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ADVERTISEMENT. 
DAILY experience confirms that of 
seventy years, which demonstrates, 
that Mr. D’AILHAUD’s Powder is 
an Universal Remedy. This collection 
of cures performed by it, presents us with 
many testimonies to establish its credit. 
The impartial Reader will be convinced 
that a person can be cured more certainly 
and more speedily by this medicine than by 
any other. The proof of this has been ren- 
dered complete in a work of six volumes on 
the Universal Medicine, of which a very 
short abstract has been printed at Stras- 
bourg, by Crestman and Levrault, in 12mo, 
containing 100 pages; and at Carpentras, 
by Dominick Gaspard Quenin, under the 
title of, An Abridgement of the System of Mr. 
D’Ailhaud, on the Origin and Cure of Dis- 
eases; with the Objections, and Answers, to 
which his System has given Occasion, in 12mo, 
containing 88 pages. 
Our Readers may have recourse to this 
Abridgment; there they will find that the 
Universal Medicine has gained in its 
favour

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favour the united applauses of persons of the 
first rank; that a great number of Physi- 
cians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries, are be- 
come its most zealous defenders; and the 
indecent clamours of their brethren, who 
have published observations against this Spe- 
cific, have served only to extend its repu- 
tation. It is held at present in such esteem 
as even to exceed the very hopes of its in- 
ventor. The King has rewarded him for 
the discovery of it; the Parliament of Paris 
have made two Edicts, in the months of 
August and October, in the year 1766, a- 
gainst the enemies of Ailhaud’s Powder; 
every body declares in its favour; and the 
poor especially bless a remedy which is de- 
livered to them gratis, and which cures them 
of every distemper that is curable. 
The invitation given to those who at- 
tend the Hospitals, to the Lords of Manors, 
to Curates of Parishes, and to all charita- 
ble persons in general, to send for a quan- 
tity sufficient for the poor, is the best re- 
source for the sufferings of mankind, and 
the least equivocal or ambiguous proof of 
the disinterestedness of him, who supplies 
them with it in so generous a manner. 
As it would prove tedious to transtate all 
the Letters written to Mr. D’Ailhaud, on 
account of the Universal Remedy, we shall 
insert only those sent by the chief person- 
ages


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ages, who have sent him authentic certifi- 
cates. 
The curious may apply to Mr. Win- 
ning, at the Carpet and Blanket Ware- 
house, the North Side of St. Paul’s Church- 
yard, who is the only person in Great Bri- 
tain that has the Sale of the Universal 
Remedy. 
If any person, for their better satisfac- 
tion, should desire to peruse the following 
Letters in the original French, they may be 
furnished with them, according to the Edi- 
tion published by Permission at Carpentras, 
A. D. 1766.
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LETTERS 
addressed to 
Mr. D’AILHAUD, 
Counsellor and Secretary to His Most
Christian Majesty, Baron of Castelet, 
Lord of Vitrolles and Mount-Justin, 
M. D. of the College of AIX, in 
Provence; 
BY THE 
Nobility, Gentry, Physicians, 
Surgeons, &c. 
LETTER I.
YOUR Powders always produce won- 
derful effects upon those that take 
them; notwithstanding which, they cannot 
persuade our Physicians to approve of them, 
though they see the cures which they per- 
form. However, there is one who makes 
use of them; and another, having his son 
seized with an universal Rheumatism, con- 
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sented to his making a trial of them; when 
two doses enabled him to go abroad, and he 
was in a condition to be carried to his fa- 
ther, who lives about four leagues from 
hence; and then he took three doses more. 
He is now well, and if he would have 
listened to me, he should have taken some 
more doses to establish his health. 
Malignant Fevers have been very rise in 
these parts, and carried away a great many. 
I had a man and a maid servant attacked 
with this disease; the former was cured 
with six doses, without bleeding; the other 
with the same number, notwithstanding she 
would be bled twice after the two first doses, 
once in the arm, and the second time in the 
foot, which brought her into so dangerous 
a state, that she was at the point of death, 
and sent for her confessor. Being in a de- 
lirium, I forced her to take the third dose, 
which had so good an effect, that she re- 
covered her senses: I continued prescribing 
this divine remedy, and she is cured. 
The daughter of Mr. Touya, a button- 
maker of this town, being in a most de- 
plorable condition from the same disease, I 
went to visit her, and with four doses put 
her out of all danger. 
A person named Barraqué, a servant at 
the Golden Lion in this town, who had for- 
merly lived with me, being very ill, I per- 
suaded him to take your Powders; three 
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A poor girl, of a tender age, affected 
with the Dropsy, came to beg a dose of the 
Powder of me, which I gave her very wil- 
lingly. She took it; and her mother, whom 
I have seen since, informed me that she was 
cured. I do not know her name, but I 
know that she is grand-daughter to one 
Lanthere, of this town, who lives in Se- 
gueres-street. 
I am now going to relate a surprizing 
cure. Mr. Petel, general contractor for the 
navy, before he sat out for Paris, at the 
beginning of last April, the horses being in 
his chaise, was attacked with a fit of the 
Gout, to which he had been subject for 
some time: I went to wish him a good 
journey; but finding him in bed, I pre- 
scribed your Powders to him, which he con- 
sented to take, from the assurances I gave 
him, that they would soon put him into a 
condition of going on his journey. He 
took one dose, which had so wonderful an 
effect upon him, that he found himself easy 
about ten o’clock at night. He felt, not- 
withstanding, a numbness in his foot, but 
had a very good night, I went the next 
morning to visit him, and to persuade him 
to take a second dose. I found him up, and 
ready to come to my house, to inform me 
that he was going his journey, and that he 
was free from pain. He accordingly per- 
formed his journey, without any return of 
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the fit, and came hither again on Tuesday 
last, in perfect health.
One Pillot, a weaver of Jeube, was at- 
tacked with a malignant Erisipelas on his 
head, which occasioned my going to see 
him, though he lived a quarter of a league 
from my country seat, where I then was. 
He was in bed in a little hovel, his head 
and his whole body were very much swoln; 
his smell was very offensive, and he spake 
inarticulately, and with great difficulty.— 
Seeing him in this condition, I prescribed 
him a dose of your Powder; he answered 
me by signs which I did not understand: 
but a woman who was by, told me, that 
they gave him nothing but broth, wine, or 
water; and that, as soon as it was in his 
mouth, he returned it through his nose; 
and, consequently, that it could be of no 
service to him, because he could swallow 
nothing. Nevertheless, I insisted upon his 
taking the Powder, and at last I made the 
poor fellow consent to it; I prepared it for 
him in an earthen dish, to make him swal- 
low it, if possible; I gave it to him myself: 
He had scarce got it in his mouth, when he 
returned it through his nose. As it fell 
into the dish, I was not at all discouraged, 
nor indeed was the patient, who longed for 
a cure: at length, with great difficulty, he 
swallowed the Powder. The next morn- 
ing he was seemingly dead, but about nine 
o'clock a child came to me, desiring me to 
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let him have a dose of the Powder, (tell 
ing me that his father had suffered very 
much during the night) and I sent it him 
with great pleasure. The man was per- 
fectly cured, and is now full of vigour and 
health. Signed, 
Taules Lord Donecey.
Oleron,  
15 June, 1765. 
LETTER II. 
WE have had here Madam de Bongard, 
daughter of Mr. de Bertilly, comp- 
troller and treasurer to the gentlemen ca- 
dets, and Page to the King, who was de- 
livered with great difficulty. This young 
lady had a fever at the end of the eighth 
day, with a considerable inflammation in 
the lower belly, accompanied with a loss 
of milk. Neither physic nor surgery were 
spared, but no medicines had any effect. 
The patient being in great danger, her fa- 
ther, who is a great friend to your admira- 
ble Powders, sent to the Carmelites for a 
packet, containing ten doses, which cured 
her in fifteen days; and she enjoys a good 
state of health, in spite of all other pre- 
scriptions. 
Mr. Curien, a merchant of this place, a 
gross, but well-looking man, was attacked 
by a Schirrus in the liver for some time; 
Physic and Surgery exerted their utmost
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powers, without having any thing more to 
prescribc. The patient, being quite ema- 
ciated, had recourse to the Carmelites, from 
whom he received several packets of your 
wonderful Powders. By those he was per- 
fectly cured in about two or three months, 
recovered his flesh, and is now surprizingly 
well. 
For my own part, I cured myself of a 
Nephritic Cholic, and have cured a great 
many of fevers, defluxions of the breast, 
colds, obstinate coughs, dysenteries, vomit- 
ings of blood, &c. and prescribed to several 
in the gout, who have had no return of it 
for one or two years, though before they 
had it twice a year; not to mention a great 
many other disorders. I see surprislng cures 
performed by your Powders every day. 
Luneville, in Loraine, 
9 August, 1765. 
Signed, 
Montant, 
Surgeon in Ordinary to the 
King of Poland. 
LETTER III: 
I Can delay no longer to inform you, that 
on the 13th of December, 1763, I was 
sent for to Boubert on the Canche, to visit 
one Eugene Ledoigt, aged about 24 years, 
who had been ill for a twelvemonth past, 
and was given over by all the physicians 
and surgeons of the place. At my en- 
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trance, I was shocked to see a person in the 
Phthisyc, worn to a mere skeleton; his skin 
was dry, and burning hot, and he had had 
no sleep for six months at least. After I 
had examined him, and enquired of him 
concerning all his complaints, and the man- 
ner in which he had been treated, I was 
afraid of prescribing any medicine but your 
excellent Powder, and that in a very small 
quantity, that is to say, one dose at three 
times; which I repeated, and continued in- 
creasing it till it came to a whole dose at 
once. He had taken about forty-five doses 
in four months time, after which he reco- 
vered his taste and his appetite so well, that 
he is now as fat as any one need to be. 
In May, 1764, in the village of Fieu- 
villez, near Abbeville, the wife of a weaver, 
eight days after her delivery, was attacked 
with a continual burning fever, attended 
with heated urine, and a suppression of her 
evacuations. This woman was healed by 
taking two doses of your Powders. 
Some time after, another woman, of the 
same place, affected with the same disorder, 
was likewise cured by two doses. 
In February 1766, at the village of Bou- 
nier, between Doulens and Herdin, in the 
province of Artois, a man aged about 64 
years, being ill of a continual inflammatory 
fever, attended with faintings, shortness of 
breath, and so great an oppression that he 
was in danger of being suffocated, was 
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cured by taking four doses of your excel- 
lent Powder. 
At Filliares, near 
Hesdin, in Artois,  
12 April, 1766.
Signed, 
Gillion,
Master Surgeon. 
LETTER IV. 
MISS Montgon, my youngest daughter, 
was in the convent, and was then but 
eight years old, but tall and big enough for 
one of twelve. She was afflicted, between 
four and five months, with pains in her 
stomach, and vomiting after meals. I was 
resolved to give her your Powders; and 
knowing her to be very hard to purge, I 
went beyond the quantity prescribed for 
one of her age, and made her take a full 
dose, which did not move her at all, but 
made her make urine copiously for twenty- 
four hours; and from that time to this she 
has been free from her disorder. 
At the Castle of 
Vedrines,
near Brioude, in Auvergne, 
16 July, 1766. 
Signed, 
The Marquis of Montgon
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LETTER V. 
I Have saved the life of my treasurer’s 
daughter, who was given over by her 
Physicians and Surgeons, by curing her of a 
disorder of which one of her sisters died 
the year before. This child was scorched 
up, covered all over with the Leprosy, and 
could neither take nor swallow any thing. 
Seeing her in this condition, I said to her 
father, Sir, as she can take nothing by the 
mouth, give her half a dose, mixed with 
water, in clysters, and you will find 
that the stomach will empty and cleanse 
itself afterwards, and she will then be able 
to swallow. My advice was followed, and 
it had so good an effect, that she is per- 
fectly recovered, to the great surprize of 
those gentlemen who had before given her 
over; and her father has thanked me for 
my care. 
A young lady, a relation of mine, of a 
delicate constitution, and a weak breast, 
being in a dangerous way, notwithstanding 
the advice of the most able physicians in 
Lower Poitou; a man of uncommon abi- 
lities, and more zealous for the health of 
his patient, and his own reputation, than 
his interest, after having exhausted every 
specific to restore her to her health, finding 
that all the medicines he had prescribed did 
not answer his expectations, did, at last, 
himself advise, and make her take in his 
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presence, the Universal Remedy, which 
restored her to her health. 
Signed, 
The Marquis D’Espaligny, 
Grand Seneschal of Poitou. 
Ry, near Mirebeau in Poitou, 
21 July, 1766. 
LETTER VI. 
THE Surgeon-Major of the regiment of 
infantry of Saxe-Gotha, in garrison 
here, has given your Powder to three sol- 
diers, who were sick in the hospital; one 
of whom had been in a languishing condi- 
tion there for eight months, and had tried 
every remedy without effect: three doses 
cured him. After the first dose, he voided 
a parcel of worms: he is at present with 
his company, and does duty. The second 
voided bloody urine; a single dose stopped 
that disorder; he remains still in the hospi- 
tal. The third had an hectic fever; he has 
already taken seven or eight doses; and 
there are hopes of his cure likewise. As for 
my own part, it confirms my health more 
and more every day. I return you thanks 
for all your good prescriptions, which you 
have been so kind as to honour me with in 
your letters, during so long and tedious a 
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disease, which would have brought me to 
the grave, had it not been for your Uni- 
versal Remedy. 
Signed, 
De Saint-Fief, Captain in Plunket’s 
Regiment of Foot, in the Service 
of their Imperial and Royal A- 
postolic Majesties. 
Luxembourg, 
4 August, 1766. 
LETTER VII. 
IT is sixteen years ago, since I began to 
take your Powders, for a most violent 
Cholic which endangered my life. I had 
been two years in this condition, without 
being able to digest any thing, voiding 
whatever I eat without any alteration; 
which rendered me extremely weak, and I 
was never well. Being nearly exhausted by 
the remedies which I had taken, I was de- 
termined to take a dose of your Powder, in 
the instant that I should be attacked with a 
fit of the cholic; I accordingly did so, which 
freed me from pain in one hour’s time; and 
I was well enough to receive a great deal 
of company that very day. I continued 
to take one dose every fourth day, for three 
weeks, and deferred them according as I 
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found myself grow better. I believe I had 
taken three parcels, or packets, the first 
year; afterwards I took only one dose every 
six weeks; these Powders always made me void 
a great deal of phlegmatic, bilious, slimy mat- 
ter. For these four years I have made very 
little use of them, having had but two fits 
of the cholic since I began to take your 
Powder. 
One of my friends, about twenty-four 
years of age, had been afflicted with a slow, 
lingering fever for four years; she took a 
dose of your Powder every day for four days 
successively, which produced such a strong 
evacuation, that she voided, in one day, 
more than eighty times, excrements, the 
stench of which was intolerable. This 
threw her into a violent fever, attended 
with a dreadful cholic. She took again, in 
the afternoon, half a dose, which moved 
her five or six times; in a few hours after 
she felt no pain, and is now entirely freed 
from her lingering fever. 
I had a servant who was ill of a Dysen- 
tery: This disease had made terrible ha- 
vock in the parishes near Boulogne. No 
remedy had been found to stop it; more 
than half of the patients died who were at- 
tacked by it. I made my man take a dose 
of your Powder, which, though he was then 
very ill, quite recovered him in about four 
hours after. 
I have given it for different diseases to 
three

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three different persons; the first had a ner- 
vous disorder; the second, a dropsy in the 
breast; and the third a fever; and it cured 
them all. I know several persons who 
make use of it, and highly applaud it. But 
you are so accustomed to hear its praises, 
that it can receive no addition from mine. 
Signed, 
D’Ausey, Marquis of Cressy, 
Poictiers, in Poitou, 
24 August, 1766. 
LETTER VIII. 
YOUR Universal Remedy always per- 
forms wonders. One Joseph Vermelle, 
a poor vine-dressser of this town, who was 
not able for a long time to do any thing to 
earn a livelihood, and was scarce able to 
drag himself along the streets, is so per- 
fectly cured by it, that he works any where 
in carrying wood, exercises his strength in 
every manner, without the least inconveni- 
ence, and lives at present upon the fruits of 
his labour. Four or five doses of your Uni- 
versal Remedy sufficiently effected the cure 
of this poor man, who blesses God, and the 
inventor of so great a remedy. 
A woman, named Joan Theraube, of the 
same town, who had been given over for 
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two years by the physician that attended 
her, and whole stomach was entirely ruined, 
either by her disorder, or by the long use, 
(I might have said the execrable abuse) of 
milk, to which she was advised, has re- 
covered her appetite, her strength, and 
flesh, by means of four and twenty doses 
of your Remedy, which I prescribed her.— 
Another woman, named Tourrel, of the 
parish of Ribes, who for these two years 
has been confined to her room on account 
of a tumour, or swelling, in the superior 
and anterior part of the thorax, has been 
enabled to go to church, which is a great 
way from her own house, by taking about 
nineteen doses of this Powder. She never 
ceases to bless the effects of this Remedy 
and the author of it, for his charity in giving 
it to her. This made such an impression 
upon the parish, that Mr. Le Prieur himself 
makes use of it, with the greatest satisfac- 
tion, resolving never to make use of any 
other remedy. I shall conclude with some 
cures performed in my own house. 
About two months ago my wife was 
suddenly seized with an inflammatory swel- 
ling in her breast, which gave me some ap- 
prehensions of a cancer. Two doses of 
the Universal Remedy put an end to both our 
fears; But I must confess, I was obliged to 
make use of all my rhetoric to persuade her 
to take it; so great a prejudice had she im- 
bibed against it!
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My daughter, aged twenty-two, in all 
other respects very healthy, had her face 
covered all over with large red pimples, 
which disfigured her, and made her very 
uneasy. She was cured of them by taking 
two doses of your powder. 
Joan Crutolon, my servant maid, of the 
parish of Lablachere, was, about three 
months ago, suddenly seized with the pa- 
roxysm of a fever, attended with pains in 
the reins, and in her head, which were 
so violent, that the was almost distract- 
ed. One dose of the Universal Remedy 
dissipated all these symptoms so effectually, 
that she was able to go about her business 
within thirty-six hours, and has been re- 
markably well ever since. 
I might be too prolix, if I should enter 
into a detail of the great number of com- 
mon complaints, which have been removed, 
by taking your medicine, from a variety of 
patients. 
Signed, 
Davisard, M. D. 
Joyeuse, in the lower Vivarais, 
14 Sept. 1766. 
G3 LET-

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LETTER IX. 
THE good of mankind obliges me to give 
you a detail of a great number of cures 
wrought by your Universal Remedy in my 
presence. Nothing should be omitted, when 
we are about to prove the goodness of a me- 
dicine, known in every part of the world, 
by incontestible facts; and which are at the 
same time so astonishing, that none but 
those who shut their eyes can doubt of its 
efficacy. 
1. Miss Magis, the daughter of a mer- 
chant who has been settled here some years, 
has been some time in a weak and deplora- 
ble state of health: she was judged to be 
in a consumption, and she had all the sym- 
ptoms of one; she coughed continually, and 
could take no rest either by day or by night; 
besides which, she had a slow, lingering, 
hectic fever, which weakened her so much, 
that had it not been for your Universal Re- 
medy, she could not have lived a fortnight 
longer. Her Physician had given her over. 
Mr. de la Croix, Surgeon-Major to the Re- 
giment of Flanders, was the only person 
who continued to attend her, and that was 
merely from a principle of friendship; for 
he frequently assured me, that he could do 
no more for her; and, in short, that he had 
seen a great many patients, but had never 
met with one in her case; and at the same
time 

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time confessed that he was at a loss to deter- 
mine what it was. I importuned him for a 
long time to permit her to take some doses 
of the Universal Remedy; her parents were 
against it; but seeing that there was no 
resource, they gave their consent to her 
trying one dose, which made her void hard 
clotted bile, with slimy purulent fæces. 
The Surgeon, who is justly esteemed a man 
of great abilities in his profession, was in 
the greatest astonishment, and ordered her 
to continue the Powder. After the third 
dose, her cough and fever ceased, and after 
the eighth, she was radically cured. She 
is at present at Leige with her father, and 
has ever since been in perfect health. 
2. One of our Notaries here has a little 
girl, about six or seven years old, who 
from her very birth had been troubled with 
fainting fits, and appeared as dead four or 
five times in an hour. The Physicians of 
this place have exhausted all their art to 
cure her, but in vain. Her father, after 
consulting the most celebrated Physicians in 
Paris, Montpellier, and London, which 
put him to immense expences, without pro- 
curing the least relief to his child, at length 
had recourse to the Universal Remedy; and 
ten doses perfectly cured her. I forbear 
mentioning either the name of the father 
or his daughter, for fear of giving them 
any uneasiness; because the disorder with 
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which she was affected, was, I believe, a 
very inveterate Epilepsy. 
3. The Chevalier de Blangeur, a veteran 
Life-guard to his Majesty, was attacked last 
year with a violent fever, attended with 
very acute pains in his left arm, owing to 
a Rheumatism of twenty years standing. 
His Physician made him take a variety of 
medicines, without procuring him any re- 
lief. I importuned him to take the Uni- 
versal Remedy, and the fifth dose not only 
removed the fever, but his rheumatism like- 
wise. He is now at Madrid, where he is 
in perfect health, as I understand by a let- 
ter I received from him a few days ago. 
4. In June last, I was myself attacked 
with a Tertian Ague, attended with an a- 
cute pain in my head. Seven doses of the 
Universal Remedy entirely cured me; and I 
never was so well in my life, as I have been 
since that time. I would not let any Phy- 
sician or Surgeon attend me, and I am re- 
solved never to make use of any. 
5. Mr. Boeleux, Contractor for his Ma- 
jesty’s Board of Works and Fortifications, 
had a Quartan Fever about eighteen months, 
during which time he had taken every me- 
dicine that could be thought of; but, find- 
ing that nothing could remove the fever 
with which he was affected, he tried the 
Universal Remedy. He is now at the seventh 
dose, and he missed the fever yesterday; 
from whence he imagines himself to be 
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cured, but is determined to take a few doses 
more, by way of security and prevention. 
I can assure you, that all my acquain- 
tance, who have tried the above-mentioned 
Remedy, have always been cured by it, let 
their distemper be what it would. It would 
be too tedious to give you a detail of them, 
but I hope I shall soon be able to give you 
an account of some new cures. 
Signed, 
Vendroux, Comptroller of the Posts, 
and Deputy of the Affairs of his 
Majesty’s Houshold. 
Dunkirk, 
19 September, 1766. 
LETTER X. 
MR. Mabille, a Notary Public, was very 
much troubled with a Retention of 
Urine; a single dose of the Universal Re- 
medy cured him 
Mr. Desvachez, his brother-in-law, had 
frequently epileptic fits, attended with a 
violent fever. The physician who attended 
him, finding his patient in the utmost dan- 
ger, advised his relations to a consultation
of Physicians. Accordingly, three Physi- 
cians were called in, who were of opinion 
that his case was desperate, and that no- 
thing 


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thing more could be done for him; in ef- 
fect, he had lost all his senses. Mr. Ma- 
bille, whom we have just mentioned, gave 
him, at several times, a dose of your Pow- 
der in the morning; and in the afternoon 
he came to his senses. By continuing the 
use of your Universal Remedy, he remains 
in perfect health. 
Mr. Montreuil, a merchant, was at- 
tacked by the Phthisic, about a year ago; 
he coughed and spit both day and night; 
he had a great loss of appetite, and a slow, 
lingering fever. His cure was effected by 
about thirty doses of your Powder. I for- 
bear mentioning a vast number of other 
cases, confining myself only to the most
striking, &c. 
Signed, 
Dupont de Castile, Counsellor 
and Secretary of the King. 
Valenciennes, in Hainault, 
20 October, 1766. 
LETTER XI. 
MY present avocations will not permit 
me to inform you of the principal ob- 
servations which I have made upon the use 
of the Universal Remedy; I shall confine my- 
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About three years ago, I was sent for by 
the Lady who is President of St. Colombe, 
to tap the wife of John Sylvester, the La- 
dy’s farmer, by the order of Dr. Cairol of 
Mirepoix. After trying all the means that 
could be thought of, to prevent a rupture and 
effusion, and finding that the dropsy was be- 
come so desperate, that the patient could 
not receive any relief but by tapping, I 
performed the operation, and repeated it 
seven times within the space of a year; 
drawing from her each time * fifty pints of 
water; during which, and in the intervals 
between the operations, I never failed re- 
commending your Powder. At last, I got 
the better of all those who were against 
it; and, from the first doses, I had the sa- 
tisfaction to find the swelling of her body 
considerably diminished, and that of the na- 
vel especially, which had increased to the 
size and length of a child’s arm of two years 
old, and suspended as far as her right thigh. 
I made her continue the Powder; and at 
the tenth dose every thing disappeared. She 
has enjoyed her health perfectly these two 
years, her menses having returned about a 
year ago. She is at present seven months 
gone with-child, without the least signs of 
a relapse into her former disorder, the sym- 
ptoms of a true pregnancy being very clear; 
she still continues her labour, and works 
daily in the fields. 
This

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This is all I can add at present, con- 
cerning the good effects of your Powder: 
I shall reserve the principal cases till I have 
more leisure, &c. 
Signed, 
Palmade, Master Surgeon, 
Chalabre, in Languedoc, 
20 October, 1766. 
LETTER XII. 
MR. John Foulques, a manufacturer of 
silk stockings, at St. Laurents, has la- 
boured, these eight years, under a very great 
inflammation in the superior part of the 
great orbit of the eye; on account of which 
he often applied himself to Mr. Mejan, of 
Montpellier, the most celebrated Surgeon 
in those parts. Mr. Mejan gave him a great 
many prescriptions for this fistula, which 
were followed with the greatest exactness. 
Notwithstanding this, his disorder termi- 
nated in an abscess, which suppurated, and 
discharged itself copiously for several years; 
so that the patient wished for death, rather 
than to live in so deplorable a condition.— 
He applied to me, and I prevailed upon him 
to take your Powders; he took ten doses. 
The third dose removed the inflammation 
entirely; the seventh deterged or cleansed 
the


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the abscess of the fistula; the ninth closed 
the wound, and the patient was radically 
cured. It is proper to observe, that he has 
enjoyed a perfect health ever since that time, 
and has grown fat: though during his dis- 
order, the great discharge had reduced him 
to a skeleton. He has done me the favour 
to come to this town on purpose to thank 
me, and assure me of his gratitude. 
Signed, 
SERRE', Master Surgeon of St. Lau- 
rent le Misnier, Lower Languedoc,
near Ganges. 
Montpellier, 
19 July, 1766.
LETTER XIII. 
LAST February, my wife fell into a 
putrid fever, which held her for two 
and twenty days; by means of nine doses 
of your Powder, she has perfectly reco- 
vered. My daughter, about twelve years 
old, was ill at the same time with my wife, 
of a putrid, verminous fever. By taking 
four doses of your excellent Powder, which
made her void forty worms, she was per- 
fectly cured. I know of no remedy better 
than yours; it never suffers the patient to 
relapse, and leaves no bad symptoms be-
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hind it. For my part, I shall never make 
use of any other. 
Signed, 
Fraichnet, Master Surgeon.
Bonrencontre, in Agenois, 
17 July, 1766. 
LETTER XIV. 
I Can never give you praises enough for 
your most invaluable Powders. They 
have had such an amazing effect upon one 
of my maids, whose leg was almost mor- 
tified, that I can never doubt of their un- 
common virtues. I had recourse to all 
the powers of physic, to procure her some 
relief, but in vain; though I was at a great 
expence. But by means of three or four 
parcels of your powders, she is very much 
relieved, and continues to make use of 
them. I know a great many in the coun- 
try who have taken them, &c. 
Signed, 
PRIRIER, Seneschal of Champigny. 
Champigny upon the Veude, near 
Richelieu in Touraine, 
19 July, 1766. 
A LET-


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A LETTER from Mr. Champion, 
Dean of the College of Physicians at Mons, 
in Maine. 
I Think I cannot better display the good 
offices you are incessantly heaping upon 
the poor, or pay that homage to truth which 
I ought, in behalf of your Powder against 
its implacable enemies, than by multiplying 
the evidences of its excellence by the salu- 
tary effects which it produces before my 
eyes, and the cures which is performed by 
it alone, or to which it contributes. 
Every day have I been in expectation of 
your last volume: I at length received it. 
with a great deal of pleasure, neatly bound, 
for which I return you my hearty thanks. 
I have read it through with so much satis- 
faction that I was resolved to read the for- 
mer volumes carefully, which I had run 
over in haste. But this puts me to some 
inconvenience, as I have but little leisure. 
In a word, I shall make the best use of your 
present, considering the continual avoca- 
tions to which I am exposed. 
Accept then, I beg you, Sir, this feeble 
testimony of my obligations, and be per- 
suaded that I have made no variation in the 
judgment that I have passed concerning 
your Powders from my own experience. I
enter upon the subject with the cure of our 
Magdalen, No. 4, page 294, of your last
volume, a new subject for thanks.
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1st, It was the 15th of June last, that 
this young woman made the first trial of 
the Universal Remedy, in the decline of a 
relapse of a malignant catarrhal fever, that 
affected her breast. On the 17th she took 
a second dose; the 20th I gave her an 
electuary, composed of juice of liquorice 
1 scruple, of cynoglos, or dogs-tongue root, 
and cocao butter, each half a drachm, and 
sugar half an ounce: the whole to be di- 
vided into four doses, to be taken every 
three hours, and repeated the next day. 
The 21st, in the evening, bled in the 
arm, and repeated the next morning; and 
in the evening, half an ounce of diacodium. 
The 29th, the nocturnal sweats continuing 
to excess, and the patient complaining of a 
pain in her side, with a dry cough, I or- 
dered her to be bled twice that day in the 
arm, which mitigated her sweats, and al- 
most removed the pain in the thorax. July 
1st, a fourth dose of the powder, a fifth the 
3d; a sixth on the 7th of July, and a se- 
venth the 13th; all of which were attended 
with a gentle evacuation, more or less co- 
pious, and two of them with a great many 
worms. 
July 17th, at night, a violent relapse, on 
account of having been too active, through 
an excess of good spirits, and without my 
knowledge; in consequence of which she 
wetted thirteen shifts within that night and 
the next afternoon. On the 18th, about 
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ten at night, the fever having increased very 
much, attended with an oppression of the 
breast, she was bled in the arm: she wetted 
only one shift in the night. The 19th, in 
the morning, a greater increase of the fe- 
ver, which forced me to open a vein again. 
The 20th, gave the eighth dose of the Pow- 
der; the ninth the 26th; the tenth the 1st 
of August; the eleventh the 5th; at last a 
recovery without a relapse: and the 27th of 
September, the twelfth finished the cure 
to my great satisfaction. 
2. On July 19th of the same year, Mrs. 
Bellemarre was in the fifteenth day of a 
continual fever, with irregular paroxysms; 
and at the thirteenth dose of the Universal 
Remedy, she did me the honour to send to 
me; but she had so great a confidence in 
your Powders, as well as Mr. Bellemarre, 
that I had nothing to do but make my ob- 
servations, not indeed without trembling, 
upon the consequences of a malignant ca- 
tarrhal fever, which gave me great appre- 
hensions for the lungs, and seemed to me 
to require various assistances administered 
with the greatest prudence. 
July 26th, the Powder caused a bilious 
vomiting, and five or six stools. The next 
day, gave the sixteenth dose, followed three 
hours after with eighteen grains of ipeca- 
cuanha, which I prefer to tart. stib. She 
vomited twice or thrice with ease: about
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two hours after, she took half a dose of the 
Powder, and found herself very well. 
The 28th she was seized with the men- 
strual flux. Notwithstanding this, she took 
a dose of your Powder the next day, with 
a success that surprized me; it having 
caused eight stools, without the gripes, and 
at the same time promoted the periodical 
flux; though it seemed to me rather more 
likely to have hindered it. But however 
copious the evacuation might have been, 
Mr. Bellemarre gave her half a dose more, 
which caused four more stools. 
August the 1st, gave the nineteenth dose; 
the twentieth the 3d; the twenty-first the 
4t ; August 5th, in the morning, a pa- 
roxysm, after having wetted three shifts in 
the night; in the evening, a dry husky 
cough and oppression, which did not last 
above three hours. I recommended bleed- 
ing to no purpose; the Universal Remedy 
was to do every thing. The twenty-second 
dose was taken the 7th; the twenty-third 
the 11th, early in the morning, About 
nine o’clock I found her in a paroxysm, 
which had begun with a shivering; not- 
withstanding, she took half a dose about 
twelve o’clock; nine or ten stools in all; 
another paroxysm towards the evening; the 
left leg œdematous, but less painful, and 
less benumbed. 
August 13th, one dose, which caused five 
stools within nine hours, and I found her
with 

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with very little fever; she continued to 
mend for three days after; my fears ceased; 
the Powders were victorious. A dose on 
the 19th, another the 21st; the last (which 
made the twenty-seventh and a half) on the 
31st.—A perfect cure, to the glory of 
the Universal Remedy, to the confusion of 
its calumniators, to my great satisfaction, 
to the applause of every physician, or prac- 
titioner, who is free from prejudice, and a 
friend to mankind. 
3. July the 11th, my son gave a dose of 
your Powder to one Bordagere, belonging 
to Mr Maule, in a tertian fever or ague; 
a third dose, given on the 24th, was suffi- 
cient for her cure. 
4. August the 3d, two doses, at two 
different times, were given to a poor wo- 
man, named Droune, about fifty years of 
age; she was afflicted with a cancer in her 
breast, which was beginning to ulcerate: 
They caused but two stools, for which rea- 
son I repeated them the next day. I con- 
tinued giving her one or two doses every 
day, so that about the 23d of August she 
had taken thirty-four; about September 18, 
she had taken twenty more, and had used 
in all about four ounces of ointment of 
canet. I was very desirous of carrying 
the experiment farther; but, notwithstand- 
ing the mildness with which these medicines 
operated, and the benefit she received by 
them, the poor unhappy woman had not 
per-

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perseverance enough to make trial of any 
more of them. 
5. August 4th, one dose was given to 
the cook of the Benedictines, belonging to 
the Abbey of St. Vincent, who was trou- 
bled with a violent spasmodic cholic, with 
the greatest success, assisted with half an 
ounce of salt of saignette (for he had taken 
an emetic on the 2d of August, which had 
no effect) and four clysters in the evening, 
but had no stool. The 5th, a second dose 
was given, which produced a copious and 
salutary evacuation. August 7th, the pa- 
tient was able to go abroad. 
6. The 7th of the same month, one 
dose was given to Miss Thoury; it was the 
day after a nephritic fit, and her menses 
were just over; a second dose the 19th, a 
third the 21st, with the greatest success. 
7. December 23d, one dose was given 
to our Magdalen, the first of the present 
year, at the beginning of a cold, with the 
greatest success imaginable, notwithstanding 
the inclemency of the weather. A dose on 
February 19th, voided a great many worms; 
one on the 31st of March, which had the 
same effect. 
8. On the 5th of last January, a dose 
was given to Mrs. Thoury, a widow, of a 
very advanced age, in a fresh attack of the 
Palsy, she was purged very violently in- 
deed, but without any cholic, and very 
much


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much for her benefit, as it carried away her 
disorder. 
9. February 12th, one dose to La Sou- 
chay, a fruiteress of St. Germain, for a very 
violent pain in her stomach, but without 
any fever. In the evening, one drachm of 
theriaca, a second dose the next day, the first 
having given her no motion. This made 
her bring up an egg, which she had eaten 
on the 8th, and had grown hard, instead of 
digesting. The third dose was given the 
14th, the fourth the 16th, the fifth the 
19th, the sixth the 22d; the menses on the 
23d, succeeded by a cure. 
10. On the 15th of the same month, 
one dose was given to Rouillard, jun. of 
the same place, after bleeding three or four 
times in the arm for a false pleurisy. A se- 
cond dose the 19th, a third on the 23d, a 
fourth on the 3d of March, a fifth the 12th, 
which confirmed the cure. 
11. February 21st, a dose was given to 
one named Viesse, in a pleurisy, after being 
bled in the arm once; a second the 23d, 
which proved sufficient for her cure. 
12. March 5th, one dose to the young 
woman’s brother, No. 1. p. 294. of your 
last volume, after bleeding thrice in the 
arm for the same complaint; a second the 
8th, with a happy success. 
13. March 5th, a dose was given to a 
young maid belonging to Madam de Pul- 
nau, for a double tertian, which proceeded 
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from an inveterate head-ach; a third, on 
the 8th, carried off both the fever and the 
head-ach. 
14. March 10th, Miss Bellemarre gave 
one dose to a young country girl, her ser- 
vant, for a double tertian; a second dose 
the next day; a sixth the 17th or 18th, 
succeeded, some time after, with 2 grains of 
tart. stib. in two doses; a copious evacua- 
tion upwards and downwards. These doses 
made her void a great many worms. On 
March 24th, gave the eighth dose; in the 
night-time she grew delirious, which, to- 
gether with the worms, and a state of in- 
dolence and deafness, indicated a putrid, 
malignant fever, which the pulse presaged 
from the first. The 26th, a bilious vomit- 
ing, for which I repeated two grains of the 
emetic, in two doses. The 28th, gave a 
bolus of powder of vipers, and contrayerva, 
of each half a drachm; myrrh 12 grains, 
and syrup of kermes, to be made into three 
doses, which were taken every third hour 
with the greatest success. The boluses were 
repeated the 30th, together with theriaca 
and lemonade; in a word, a cathartic bo- 
lus terminated the cure, because the patient 
would not take the Powders. 
15. March the 14th, Madam Rebin, of 
the parish of St. Benedict, tried a dose, to 
her entire satisfaction, after having left off 
the usual purges, because of the ill effects 
she had felt from those, which she had
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formerly taken, on account of an extreme 
weakness of the nervous kind. A fifth dose 
was taken April the 16th; the 25th a per- 
fect cure, from an intermittent fever, by 
means of the Powder, cordial antispasmodic 
draughts, and syrup of bark, mixed with 
iris of Florence and wine. 
16. March 22d, Madam Bellemarre 
gave a dose to her son, aged about fourteen 
years, for a double tertian; she gave the 
second the 24th, the third the 27th, omit- 
ting the 29th and 30th; and April 1st, the 
fever was gone. 
17. March 22d, my son gave a dose to 
one Louvel, a poor girl about twenty years 
of age, for a continual fever, with pains 
all over her body, and a second the next 
day; a third the 25th; bled twice in the 
foot on the 27th; gave a fourth dose the 
29th; a fifth the 22d of April, which con- 
firmed the cure. 
18. March the 31st, Miss Tafté took a 
dose of your Powder for a violent rheuma- 
tism in the neck, which had troubled her 
between three and four days; she took a 
second the next day. These two doses 
having very little effect, she took two doses 
at once the next day, which operated but 
very indifferently; but on the 3d of April 
the same dose operated beyond all expecta- 
tion. These six doses effected a perfect 
cure in four days time. 
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19. June 17th, a dose was given to one 
Le Bruns, of the parish of du Pré, a man 
sixty years old, after bleeding four times in 
the arm, the 15th and 16th, for a real 
pleurisy; gave the second dose the 19th, 
the third the 20th; the 21st bled again 
twice, because of the violence of the fever, 
the hardness of the pulse, the pain in his 
side, putrid spitting, and impatient prayers 
of the patient; gave a fourth dose on the 
22d, which was soon succeeded by a per- 
fect cure. 
20. June the 20th, the day after being 
bled twice in the foot, one dose was given 
to a young maid, servant of Mr. de Sest- 
riche, sen. who was troubled with a fever, 
attended by paroxysms, and an excessive 
pain in the head; gave the second dose on 
the 22d, on the expiration of the paroxysm;
a third the 24th; and a cure succeeded. 
21. June the 25th gave a dose to one
Hervé, a poor man lately married, belong- 
ing to Magdalen parish, after bleeding thrice 
in the arm for a pleurisy; a third dose, 
July 2d recovered him. 
22. July the 2d, gave one dose to the 
wife of Mr. Dagoreau, a shoe-maker, for 
a troublesome rheumatism in the neck, near 
the scapula, without any fever. A second 
dose the next day, a third the 4th; and in 
the evening, I found her up, and in good 
spirits, troubled only with a slight pain in 
one of her arms. 
23. The

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23. The 4th of July, gave one dose to 
the Visitor of the Benedictines, at the Ab- 
bey of St. Vincent, for an Asthma; and a 
second dose on the 8th; both of them so 
much to his satisfaction, that he begged me 
to give him some more, to carry with him 
in his journey. 
24. The 11th of July, gave a dose to 
a woman belonging to the tan-yard, who 
was seized with. They had 
begun the 9th with 4 grains of tart. stib. 
the patient would not consent to be blooded 
in the foot; but in the evening I found that 
she had altered her mind, and undergone 
the operation, and I ordered her to repeat 
the bleeding the next morning. Gave a 
second dose the 12th, a third the 13th, a 
fourth the 18th, a fifth the 21st, a sixth the 
24th, a seventh the 31st. On the 10th of 
August the menses appeared, and on the 
18th gave the eighth dose, and the ninth dose 
the 19th. On the 24th of August bled 
twice, gave the tenth dose the 27th, which 
had a wonderful effect; but on September 
6th, there came on such a fit of the asthma, 
with a palpitation of the heart, that I 
thought it necessary to have recourse to the 
following bolus: 
Take kermes min. 3 grains, scam- 
mony of Aleppo, 9 grains; squills and 
saffron, of each 18 grains; aron-root, and 
sperma-ceti, of each one drachm; incor- 
porated


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porated with honey, for six doses: take 
one every hour. 
This was attended with immediate success. 
To prevent a relapse of the Palsy, I in- 
tended to continue the Powder; but the poor 
woman refusing to take it, I left her to her 
own obstinacy. 
25. July 15th, gave a dose to Lady 
Rome, of the parish of St. Benedict, bed- 
ridden, without any fever, but so emaciated 
and weak, that I almost despaired of her; 
a copious evacuation by siege, but as gentle 
as could be wished; gave a second dose on 
the 17th, and on the 18th she was quite 
recovered. 
26. On July 15th, I at last tried your 
Powder for a Cold, with which I was seized 
myself after a quotidian fever. The eva- 
cuation being very moderate, I repeated it 
the next day. A fresh cold, with a loath- 
ing and loss of appetite, made me have re- 
course to it again on the 29th and 30th. 
The fourth dose operated more than either 
of the former, but with all the mildness 
imaginable, These four doses did not hin- 
der me from visiting my patients from morn- 
ing till evening; and I can assert, from my 
own experience, that our profession never 
was in possession of a Remedy so efficacious 
and mild, so universal, or more free from 
danger. 
27. The 26th of the same month, gave 
a dose

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a dose to one Poirier, a young man, near 
Grenouillet, in the intermission of his fe- 
ver. Notwithstanding the most copious and 
mild evacuation by siege or stool, the head- 
ach continued equally violent, on account 
of which I ordered him to be blooded in 
the foot. The next morning, gave a second 
dose; on the 28th, an evacuation, attended 
with a critical hæmorrhagy in the night. 
The 29th, in the morning, I found him in 
a fine sleep, without any fever; and on the 
31st he went to work. 
28. July 26th. I gave a dose, in the 
same house, to a poor woman named Gui- 
tet, on her coming out of the paroxysm of 
a fever, with petechiæ, or pimples, all over 
her body. The patient would not consent 
to be blooded, on account of the weakness
of her eyes. A second fit in the afternoon; 
gave the Powder the next day; a third dose 
the 31st,—and a cure. 
29. The same day, gave a dose to the 
wife of Mr. Bouthier, Sacristan of St. Hi- 
lary, after a great loss of blood which suc- 
ceeded a false conception of three months 
standing; gave a second dose the next morn- 
ing; the 28th she was much better. 
30. On the 3d of August, gave a dose 
of your Powder to one Binet, of the parish 
of St. Benedict, preceded by bleeding in the 
foot the evening before, for a double ter- 
tian; the paroxysm about one o’clock at 
noon; bleeding repeated; gave a second
I2 dose

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dose the next day; a fourth the 8th; on 
the 9th, four grains of tart. stib. in four 
doses; these operated very copiously, both 
upwards and downwards; gave the eighth 
dose the 17th, the ninth the 24th; and the 
27th the fever left her. 
31. The 18th of August, about four 
o'clock in the evening, gave a dose to a 
widow in the same house, for pains in the 
abdomen, who was shrieking in a shocking 
manner, and breathed with great difficulty 
and pain, but without any fever. In the 
evening I gave her half an ounce of dia- 
codium; and a second dose of the Powder 
August 23d; bled twice in the arm on the 
24th; the pain returning with its first vio- 
lence, I gave the third dose on the 27th, 
which was succeeded by a cure. 
32. August the 22d, I met with the 
Chevalier de Tilly, as he came to Alençon;
he informed me, that he had lately cured 
himself, in four days time, of a tertian fe- 
ver, by taking six doses of your Powders 
in that time, each dose assisted by half an 
ounce of salts. 
33. August the 22d, gave a dose to the 
daughter ot one Durand, in Gold-street: 
she had met with a terrible accident on the 
20th, having been seized with convulsive 
motions all over her body, with the loss of 
her senses, and false languors, occasioned by 
a violent fright as she was going from ta- 
ble. I began with ordering her immedi- 
ately


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ately to wash her feet with warm water, 
and gave her five grains of sal. emetic, in as 
many glasses of luke-warm water; after 
this, I ordered bleeding in the foot, and a- 
bout nine o’clock at night bled again, and 
a third time the next morning. After this, 
the Powder operated so well, that there was 
no need of repeating it. 
34. The 26th of August, gave a dose 
to one Vanier, a pedlar, aged seventy-five, 
for an œdema in the lower extremities, 
which threatened a dropsy; a second dose 
the 29th; a fifth on the 6th of September; 
but all without any great success. The 13th 
gave the sixth dose, on his coming out of a 
fit of an ague, which had seized him the 
preceding evening; the seventh the 14th, 
after a second fit, with a delirium in the 
night.—This surpasses all credit. 
35. September the 3d, gave one dose to 
Mr. Batteaux, a taylor, in the parish of Pré, 
in the intermission of a violent fever, which 
had seized him in the evening; this dose 
had no sensible effect. A second fit on the 
4th; gave a second dose the 5th, which 
evacuated copiously, and with its usual mild- 
ness; a third paroxysm on the 6th in the 
evening; gave a third dose the 7th, after 
his sweat. The 8th he was cured, with- 
out any relapse. 
36. September 3d, gave a dose to Mrs. 
Chevron, of the parish of St. Benedict, in 
a quincy, after being bled three times. On 
I3 the

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the 5th, the abscess opened, but a small fe- 
ver remained, which happily yielded to the 
third dose, taken the 15th; this was too 
great an intermission, according to my ad- 
vice and opinion! 
37. On the 10th of October, I was o- 
verjoyed at meeting Miss Mitton’s semp- 
stress, whom I had not seen for a long 
time, and found her perfectly recovered.— 
April 13th, 1765, this woman began to take 
the Universal Remedy; she was then about 
seventeen years of age, and rather large for 
one of those years, but had never had the 
menses. I repeated the Powders on the 
16th, 18th, 22d, and 25th of April, and the 
6th of May. These six doses restored her 
to a tolerable state of health, without ever 
procuring her the periodic discharge of her 
sex. But on the 27th of February, 1766, 
she consulted me, with tears in her eyes, for 
a sore hand, which had an œdematous swel- 
ling, the very sight of which filled me with 
fear and concern. I ordered her to return 
again to the use of your Powders, of which 
I should have persuaded her to take more, 
if I could have prevailed on her. 
March 12th, an eruption broke out all 
over her body, attended with a violent itch- 
ing; on this account I ordered her to be 
blooded in the arm; and the second day 
after I gave her a third dose. April 24th, 
she had got no farther than her thirteenth 
dose. 
On

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On the 1st of May, for want of your 
Powder, I prescribed a diluting cathartic 
emmenagogue bolus, composed of hemlock 
in powder, 3 grains; myrrh, 6 grains; 
scammony of Aleppo, and saffron, of each 
9 grains; aloes, and mercurius dulcis, of 
each 12 grains, the whole mixed with syrup 
of buckthorn. 
May the 3d, I added 3 grains of hem- 
lock, and I added three on the 6th likewise. 
The last bolus having purged rather too 
much, I left out, the 9th, 3 grains of scam- 
mony, and substituted in its room 12 of 
hemlock; the 16th I prescribed 15 grains 
of hemlock. 
May 17th, the menses appeared; and as 
for her hand, it mended every day, by means 
of these medicines, and fomentations of 
hemlock with strong herbs, in which she 
fomented her hand warm, for half an hour, 
or more. 
May 27th, gave the fourteenth dose of 
the Powder; the fifteenth on June 10th, and 
the last dose a little while after the menses.
38. ’Tis with a great deal of pleasure 
that I inform you of the almost perfect cure 
of a poor girl, twenty-two years of age, or 
thereabout, who never had the menses, and 
was afflicted with a scrophulous, ulcerated 
tumour in her hand, which Madam Helie 
had the charity to dress. By means of fifty 
doses, or more, of your Powder, since last 
April, she has found herself very regular. 
39. I


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39. I had like to have forgot Madam 
Duplessis, a Religious in the convent of St. 
Francis of Sable, of an advanced age, who 
must have inevitably perished of an invete- 
rate vomiting of all kinds of food, had she 
not been cured entirely by the Universal Re- 
medy. In the months of April, May, and 
August, I gave her thirty doses of your 
Powder, besides other medicines; and she 
has returned me thanks, for the part I had 
in her cure, by a letter, dated December 
20th, which gave me an inexpressible plea- 
sure. She therein expressly informs me, 
that she is now in better health, than she 
ever was before her last illness. 
40. I wish, Sir, I could send you an 
exact account of the disorder and cure of a 
country Vicar, who was troubled for more 
than a year with a disorder in the brain, and 
a nervous complaint, so that he was unable 
to perform his duty; but he has of late 
been able to discharge the duties of his 
function, let them be ever so long, owing 
solely to the use of your Universal Re- 
medy. 
I should fill a volume, Sir, if I were to 
give you a detail of all the good effects pro- 
duced by your Panacea, under my hands, 
and those of my son, since the last I have 
mentioned: I shall restrain myself therefore 
barely to mention them. 
1. The


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1. The Prior of Degres, who took your 
Powder three times, between July 10, 1765, 
and the 15th of the same month. 
2. Poor Barbier, of the Magdalen. 
3. Poor Le Roux, at the Hospital. 
4. Poor Le Prince, a woman, at St. Be- 
nedicts. 
5. One, named George, of the Abbey of 
St. Vincent, who took one dose August 6th, 
1765, after having immediately brought up 
a purging potion; and repeated it the 18th 
with the greatest success. 
6. Mr. Beury Taylor, seized with a Pal- 
sy, who took three doses between the 9th 
and 13th of August. 
7. Young Le Clair, of St. Giles’s, who 
took one dose on the 10th, was blooded in
the arm the 13th in the morning and in
the foot in the evening, in the paroxysm of
his fever; he repeated the Powder the next
day, and was soon cured. 
8. La Papin, a woman aged forty, of the 
parish of St. Vincent. 
9. Mr. Herve, Priest of the Psallette of 
the collegiate church of St. Peter, who took 
four doses of your Powder between August 
10th and September 2d, for an hypochon- 
driacal complaint; but it still remains, not- 
withstanding the efficacy of the medicine. 
10. A foot-boy of Mr. Courtemanche, 
who, on getting rid of a purple fever, took 
one dose the 19th; the next day he was 
blooded

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blooded twice in the foot with the greatest 
benefit. 
11. An old man of Mr. Le Prince’s 
bleaching-yard, who had been troubled up- 
wards of a year with a flying rheumatism; 
he took twelve doses between August 19th 
and October 2d, with great success. 
12. Poor Chereau, of St. Vincent’s. 
13. La Berlanqué, of St. Germain’s, who 
took one dose the 12th of September for a 
diarrhæa. 
14. One, named Cotton, of St. John’s, 
who, by four doses, which he took between 
August 20th and September 13th, for a 
weakness in all his limbs, was put into a 
condition of walking with crutches, when 
he left off taking the Powder, 
15. La Bouland of Gourdain. 
16. Poor Gebert. 
17. A man named Beaumont, who took 
one dose August 27th, was blooded in the 
foot on the 28th, and repeated the Powder 
the 29th. 
18. Miss Le Peltier de la Couture. 
19. Her mother. 
20. Poor Rousseau of St. Giles’s, cured 
of a double tertian fever by two doses. 
21. The widow Coulon, of St. Ger- 
main’s, swoln with a large schirrus, like a 
woman gone seven or eight months with 
child, who from September 19th to Octo- 
ber 10th, 1765, had taken five doses, and 
as


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as many from February 13th to March 7th, 
and always with some benefit. 
22. Her sister La Dessomme. 
23. The widow Allard, of St. Hilary’s. 
24. The wife of Mr. Le May, of the 
Palace. 
25. Poor Courtalier, of St. Germains, 
who after four doses, between September 
22d and October 22d, 1765, for an Ascites 
Dropsy, was obliged to stop, in order to be 
carried to the Hotel-Dieu. 
26. Poor Le Roux, of St. Benedicts. 
27. Mr. Ragot, of St. John’s. 
28. La Coudrai, of St. Pré. 
29. A young maid servant of Madam 
Poisson’s. 
30. Poor Bousson, a girl, afflicted with 
one of the most stubborn and inveterate dis- 
orders I ever saw. Between October 28th, 
1765, and September 11th last year, she 
took 181 doses, to confess the truth, with- 
out being cured, but not without sensible 
benefit. 
31. Mr. Guimond, of St. Benon. 
32. Mr. Besirac junior, a surgeon. 
33. Lady Picneau, of La Couture. 
34. The widow Boullou, at Mr. Mace’s. 
35. Poor Pousset, in Montoise-street. 
36. A poor woman, near Mr. de la 
Courbe’s, freed from a violent fit of the va- 
pours, by one dose, without any other dis- 
charge than a great deal of wind upwards 
and

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and downwards. A cure was confirmed by 
a second dose two days afterwards. 
37. Her husband, who took it three days 
successively. 
38. Mr. Vildé, apprentice to Mr. Des- 
bois, master surgeon of our town. 
39. Poor Plottin, of St. Benedicts. 
40. St. Louis, nurse to Mr. de la Courbe’s 
child. 
41. La Courtois, of St, Giles. 
42. The Rev.—, who took three 
doses at twice, on the 25th and 26th of 
June, 1766. 
43. Mr. Gibadan, woman’s taylor. 
44. Froger de Perdreau, who took two 
doses at once, July 18th last, and the same 
quantity on the 20th. 
45. Mr. Bouthier, Sachristan-of St. Hi- 
lary. 
46. Mr. Plart Chasier, his neighbour. 
47. His wife, who took nine doses be- 
tween March 4th and April 8th; and twen- 
ty-four between June 28th and September 
5th; but left it off, as soon as she began 
to feel the happy effects of it for an here- 
ditary bad leg. 
48. A person, named La Boureans of Pré, 
cured by taking four doses, from August 26 
to September 2, of a continual fever, with- 
out bleeding. 
49. Poor Froyer, of St. Vincent. 
50. Our gardener’s wife, of Pré, a very 
corpulent woman, and six or seven months 
gone


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gone with-child, who, after being bled 
twice for a Quincy, took one dose on the 
4th of September with the greatest success. 
51. Madam Raucain, of Gold-street. 
52. A man, named D’Agoreau, of the 
parish of St. Vincent. 
53. Du Trou, a poor woman, about 36 
years old, or thereabout, after being bled 
twice for an inveterate, habitual head-ach, 
took one dose September 14th, a second the 
29th, but would not take any more, not- 
withstanding it had been of service to her. 
54. Poor Gilonard, aged sixteen, in the 
parish of St. Benedict. 
55. The widow Goussard. 
56. Poor Harvé, of St. Peter’s Market, 
who took five doses between the 11th and 
18th of September. 
57. An old soldier, named la Grandeur, 
who from September 20th to October 21st, 
took five doses with great benefit. 
58. Miss Agé, of St. Benedict. 
59. La Brard, a young woman of Saint 
Giles’s. 
60. Miss Bourdais, at the widow Verdier’s. 
61. Mr. Petitpain’s daughter, aged 22. 
62. A poor man afflicted with the Gout, 
in the parish of Pré, to whom, after twice 
bleeding, my son administered one dose of 
your Powder October 21st, and a second on 
the 24th. 
63. Gouaie of Cocheraus, a poor woman 
labouring under a flatulent or windy cholic,
K who

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who took two doses on the 24th, at the dis- 
tance of eight hours, the first having had no 
effect; and took a third the next day with 
great success. 
64. A young girl of the parish of St. Vin- 
cent, who having taken a composition of 
scammony and saffron, of each 6 grains, ni- 
tre 12 grains; jalap, and gum-arabic, of 
each 12 grains powdered, with a drachm of 
sugar; without effect. She tried one dose of 
the Powder on the 7th, without being 
moved, but was very heartily purged the 
next day by the second dose, and on the 10th 
by the third, which removed a very obsti- 
nate pain in the stomach. 
65. One, named Texaier, in the Mag- 
dalen House, who took a dose the 8th, after 
having wetted eight shirts, by means of 3 
drachms of theriaca, in three dofes in the 
evening, for, a fever, which had seized her 
on the 6th, with a delirium, and which a 
second dose, taken the next day, perfectly 
cured, &c. &c. 
You have here, Sir, a great number of 
witnesses, who give in their evidence in be- 
half of your Universal Remedy, and testify 
their obligations and gratitude to you by 
my pen; without mentioning a great many 
more, whose cures I have been informed of 
only by report. 
It remains, Sir, that I should acquaint 
you, how much I participate with you in
the

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the full satisfaction that you have obtained 
in the Parliament of Paris, against a ca- 
lumny, which is no less extravagant than 
injurious. No one, I assure you, can in- 
terest himself more zealously in your tri- 
umph, and in the success of your Powder, 
than myself. And I now hope that a sen- 
tence, no less mortifying than just, will stop 
the mouths of your adversaries for ever. 
Triumph, Sir, and continue to avenge 
yourself, like a Christian Hero, by pardon- 
ing injuries, by the love of your enemies,
and by such sentiments of compassion, as 
are due to their blindness. How much is 
human nature to be pitied, when it is sub- 
jected to the ascendancy of prejudice, or the 
tyranny of the passions! Continue to 
establish, more and more, the excellence of 
the Universal Remedy, by multiplying your 
benefactions to the poor. May the most 
ardent prayers be offered to heaven for your 
temporal and spiritual happiness! May 
they draw down upon this Remedy the 
especial blessing of the sovereign arbiter and 
disposer of life and death, who renders it 
eminently superior to all remedies that are 
known. I have the honour to be, 
Champion, Dean of the College 
of Physicians.
Mons in the Maine, 
16 Nov. 1766. 
K2 A LET-

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A LETTER from M. de Tallange, 
Commander in Chief of the Fortresses of her 
Imperial, Royal, Apostolic Majesty. 
I Received in due time the letter with 
which you honoured me, dated July 21, 
with an order upon Strasbourg for ten 
packets of your Powder, which your gene- 
rosity has appropriated to the poor. Your 
charitable intention has hitherto been en- 
tirely completed; and myself, Sir, as your 
steward, ought to give you an exact account 
of the manner in which they have been 
distributed. 
I received, October 15, on St. Thomas’s 
day, from Strasbourg, the ten packets, or 
parcels of powders, with four copies, con- 
sisting of five volumes, which you ordered 
to be sent with them. I had that day a 
very large company at my house, which 
came thither to celebrate the festival of our 
most august Empress. On opening the 
packet, I informed all the company what 
it was; every one was eager and impatient 
to read all the books, so that I scarcely had 
a perfect set left, I could not say much, 
because all of them were men of rank, such 
as Prelates, Abbots, and the Chiefs of Or- 
ders, whom I could not refuse. From that 
time the books have circulated from hand 
to hand, and from one town to another. I 
could have wished that you had sent me a 
greater


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greater number; they should have been dis- 
posed of to the greatest advantage. I sent 
one of my servants to Inspruck, on pur- 
pose to know if the gentleman, your dis- 
tributor, had this edition; he sent me word, 
that he had only a small abridgment, or ra- 
ther fragment, in German, which contained 
only the directions for taking the Powder, 
and mentions none of the cures. He was 
so good as to send me that, importuning me 
at the same time to procure him something 
better, if it were in my power. All that 
have read, or are now reading your books, 
have taken, and are now taking your Pow- 
ders, upon my recommendation, with the 
greatest confidence. I have received the 
greatest joy and satisfaction on account of 
it, from the numberless thanks that are 
given me every day. It had so good an ef- 
fect upon the officer, whom I mentioned to 
you, Sir, that he finds himself perfectly 
cured; although every one, and even he 
himself, despaired of his cure. He says, 
that he never was so well in his life, and 
never had so good an appetite: He sleeps 
for eight hours together, he goes a hunting, 
and performs the most fatiguing exercises 
with ease, though he is fifty-two years of 
age: I introduced him to the company, 
who asked him a thousand questions. He 
was cured, by fourscore doses, of an inve- 
terate Lues, of four and twenty years stand- 
ing, and of a retention of urine, which 
K3 made

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made him despair every day by the exquisite 
pains he suffered. At present he is as active 
as a young man of twenty; he is very sen- 
sible of the greatness of his cure, and speaks 
of it to every body he meets. 
I have had two occasions of demonstrat- 
ing the efficacy of your Powder, which I 
ought to inform you of. 
First, A poor woman of this place, named 
Eleanor Riderin, had been delivered three 
days, without having any discharge or eva- 
cuation; the fourth day she had continual 
and excessive heats, with fits, and a deli- 
rium. I was informed of the desperate con- 
dition of this poor woman, and solicited her 
to make a trial of your Powder. I imme- 
diately sent for the midwife, who told me 
that all your Powders could not save the 
lying-in woman; that she had already a 
gangrene in her body, and that she would 
die the next night at farthest. She had been 
told, that this year had proved fatal to wo- 
men in child-bed; and that, last month, 
four had died on the fifth day after their de- 
livery, in the same condition, for want of a 
discharge, attended with a gangrene. Upon 
this, I said to the midwife, “ this woman in 
child-bed, I suppose, is given over, and I 
may give her what I please.” She replied, 
“ that I was at liberty to do what I thought 
proper; but she would lay a wager, that she 
would be dead by the next day.” I imme-
diately sent her a dose of your Powder, with 
my


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my soup, about eleven o’clock in the morn- 
ing. The patient took it with ease; two
hours after she evacuated copiously, and the 
discharge began, to the great astonishment 
of every one; the heat ceased, and she had 
a very fine night. The next day, about 
noon, the discharge ceased, and the heats 
returned with great violence, accompanied 
with fits, and a delirium. I made her take 
a second dose, which finished her cure; for, 
two hours after, she began again to evacu- 
ate, and discharge, without intermission, till 
she was perfectly easy; which every one 
looked upon as a kind of miracle. The poor 
woman came to thank me, for saving her life, 
as soon as her time was up; but I told 
her, that she was obliged to you for her re- 
covery; and I advised her to pray, and make 
her children likewise pray for you. Sir, and 
for the prosperity of your family; which 
they really do very heartily, and with the 
sincerest gratitude. 
The Prelate of the famous Abbey of 
Polling affords a second proof of the effi- 
cacy of your Powder; which is so much 
the more glorious, as it refutes every thing 
that can be urged against it. 
A regular Canon of this Abbey was for 
twelve years like an ideot, and lost the use 
of all his limbs, except his legs, owing to 
a great fright which he received on the 31st 
of December, 1754, occasioned by his be- 
ing


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ing run-away with by the horses in a post- 
chaise, which he could no ways stop. He 
does not know how, or by what means, 
he had got into a river, neither could he 
remember how he fortunately got out of 
it; for he had entirely lost his senses. In 
a word, from that time his complexion has 
been of a pale yellow, and he has not been 
able to say Mass, on account of his weak- 
ness, and his being sometimes out of his 
senses. The Prelate said, that if your 
Powder were an Universal Medicine, it 
ought to cure the Canon; I replied, that 
he ought then to give it a trial. Accord- 
ingly, I gave him the Powder which was 
sent me for the use of the poor, thinking 
that I ought to establish your reputation, 
and the same of your Powder here first. I 
succeeded, Sir, according to my expecta- 
tion, and inform you of it with the greatest
pleasure imaginable. To-day the Canon 
has taken the forty-fourth dose; he has 
taken, and continues to take it every day 
without intermission. He now appears like 
one that is born again; having recovered a 
fine fresh colour, a good appetite, and ju- 
dicious reasoning; and celebrated Mass, for 
the first time since his recovery, on Mon- 
day, the eighth day after Lady-day. 
Represent to yourself, Sir, the acclama- 
tions of joy, and the continual discourses 
of all companies, and every other place, 
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in praise of your Powder, which is named 
divine. Those who have taken it load 
you with blessings, and offer up the most 
ardent prayers for your preservation and 
happiness. 
These different cures have so wonder- 
fully prepossessed the minds of people, that 
they are come to a resolution to have a 
warehouse for the sale of your Powders at 
Munich, another at Polling, and a third at 
Mittevald. Mr. de Stetzinger, Professor of 
Physic, and Governor of the Royal Hospi- 
tal, prescribes your Powder to every one 
without distinction; he has made a great 
many trials of it on patients troubled 
with different diseases; and says, that 
he knows not what it is compounded of, 
but is certain there can be no danger in 
taking it, and that it is both mild and in- 
nocent. Mr. Obl, the Physician, says the 
same. Mr. Paris, Physician to the Royal 
Hospital at Strasbourg, who has been con- 
sulted concerning your Powder, said, he 
knew that it was good, and he would al- 
ways prescribe it for people that abound 
in humours, but not for lean and spare 
people. 
Our men of letters will not hear of any 
Remedy but Ailhaud’s Powder men- 
tioned; more especially, since they have 
read in your Directions, that they may take 
coffee immediately after. 
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I should not have delayed my answer so
long. Sir, if I had not been desirous of 
giving you an account of the progress of 
the Universal Remedy. I am very 
much concerned to put you to the expence 
of postage, but our franks will not go be- 
yond the frontiers; if you know of any 
other method of conveyance, be so kind 
as to inform me. If you think me able to 
be of any service to you in these parts, I 
am entirely at your command; I shall 
think it my duty, and take a sensible plea- 
sure to shew you the ardour of my friend- 
ship, and to convince you, by the most 
certain proofs, of my affection and attach- 
ment. 
You see, Sir, what use I have made of 
the Powders, which you sent me for the 
service of the poor; pardon me, if I have 
not literally answered your intentions.— 
But the Prelate of Polling has made some 
amends, by distributing twenty florins to 
the poor in your name, as an acknowledg- 
ment for the cure of the Canon. I beg 
you would repair the wrong that I have 
done them: I must solicit your charity for 
them, and beg it with so much the greater 
confidence, as you have had the generosity 
to offer me as much as they shall have oc- 
casion for. I shall not be extravagant in 
the use of it; and do hereby assure you, 
that I will give no more away to those who 
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are able to pay for it; though I believe, 
nevertheless, that you will approve of the 
manner in which I distributed what I have 
already received. Should you be so kind 
as to send me another freight, I beg you 
would send me some books with it. 
Signed, 
Talange, Commander in Chief of 
the Fortresses of her Imperial, 
Royal, Apostolic Majesty in Ti- 
rol. 
Scarnitz, 
13 Dec. 1766. 
FINIS.