The battle in France came to an end only after 1658, when Louis XIV, having fallen ill during a military campaign and not responding to traditional treatments by the royal physicians, was cured by a vomit induced with a dose of antimony administered in wine by a local physician. The Parisian medical faculty, the corporate body which had previously condemned the use of antimony, then had little recourse but to vote in favor of legalizing the use of this Paracelsian vin émetique.
