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Article LVL 



Refult of Experiments to afcertain the Advan^ 

 tage of cultivating Rhubarb. 



AFTER the receipt of the feveral letters re^ 

 lating to the expediency and advantage of 

 cultivating the Rheum Palmatum, or True Rhubarb, 

 on a large fcale in this country, the Society re- 

 (juefled feveral medical gentlemen to make experi- 

 ments on the Jpecirnen3 fent by their correfpori- 

 dents. Thefe experiments were made with care 

 and accuracy^ and the refult is contained in the fol- 

 lowing Report^ which was fent to the Society by 

 Dr. Falconer, of Bath, In confequence of this 

 Report, premiums, to the amount of one hundreci 

 pounds, were offered for cultivating and properly 

 curing this plant in the four counties, 



Br, FalconerV Report, 



Rhubarb is the Rhaved oi the Arabians; the 

 Rha Bar bar tm of Alexander Trallianus ; the Rheum 

 ofPaulus Agineta; the Rheum Bar harum ofMy- 

 repfusj the Rha Barharum Officinale of Cafpar 

 Bauhin, and of the London Difpenfatory. What 

 it is of Linnaeus, I cannot fay. Dr. Lewis fays^j 

 it is tlie Rheum foliis Juhvillofis peliolis aqualihusy 



Linnai^ 



