I 6 J 

 n tboA «>t" the MKientl arc 10 us; they would foon 

 ted for others; our experiment! would be 

 laughed at, aunt pollciity would lufe the benefit of our 

 Theft arc not new troth*, hut loch ai 

 are well known, and luve often been demonllratcd by 

 other*; yet they ere important, as they ftm 

 the oft* of botanical (cknee. A rcitain and cxaA know- 

 ledge of plants from which medicine* arc taken, b Hill 

 Skrj with refboQto fu>h plants a* arc not cul- 

 tivated, but grow wild By [request gathering, ihefc 

 planti are liable to be too nun h dtmUUJbcd, fo a> not to 

 afford a fumricut fupply when ic-niiiitc. and even 10 be 

 quite c\iir|utcd from the place* in whkh they were firfl 

 collected. If then wc did not know the plant from whkh 

 I'uili a medicine <m prepared, wc Ihould not be capable of 

 afcci taming by fearch. whether nature might not nave 

 prodocedltin ewcrcintablcnfindit, 



wc rouft cither be without the delired remedy or fpecific 

 againft particular difeafej. or elfc even wifli to have it left 

 known, on annum of ha dual] 'juaniity. The lufs would 

 l>c the mem felt, a* the dUcoverktofegM might perhaps 

 (cutely exhibit any thing thai would fo completely au- 

 fwei our porpoft*. An enenfive knowledge of the ve- 

 getable Uogdocn, ■cqnaiimincewith the mem 

 of plants, would perhaps be the only means of leading to 

 the dUcovery, and on fuch an otcaliou might eompen- 

 iatcfor what we had lull; face, if wc with to find a reme- 

 dy that moil marly approac he. to any particular one. it 

 can fcarccly be looked tin .LiimugiUmli .1- Nature has fit 



