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 thai the jmrl'uit was to no purpofr. They wo 

 to leave the plant* of the ancient., 



..; aMcorfej i" which they w« 

 and to begin clc novo the experiments on llieir medical 

 qualities- All that was gained by their lean h 

 of •boot five hundred] ■■ DhanatnMf 



there woe haidly twenty known to&certtl 

 them, only fueh as can K 



plant*. The mnltkodeof ufelefi and oo cern i lnr e u w tt ei 

 with which (he apothecaries (hop* were filled, and of 

 which, even in our timet, wc have not been 

 them. is to be charged to theft ffamin e rion* t*pd proved 

 . ■!" their labours. Wc need only 

 mention Hellebore as a proof of this- The variety of 

 opinions among the ancients, relative to the phut to 

 which SneCTcwort belongs, Which * li' highly com- 

 mended by the ancients added to the iton> of medicinal 

 (hops no left tlian ten forts of roots, fomciiir i 

 owl other* very djdereoi LnquaBtj 

 tientt, whieh known. Butwh) (honld 



in no) exculpate both thoeneki i 

 who lived in very dlflcmni cmntml ftw . 



i been reduced t<> the form of al 

 i, .Mir own age that baa given 



Hut wiiwithdandiiii; this advantage o\i-t the ancients, and 



the upi*itii!iity afforded us of examining many of the 



remedies which the vegetable kingdom all 



their native climates, yet we an QUI 



tatot) -wiihicfiK^lornaiiy which arc hi trc.j-' 



