oe contains them in moft Perfe€tion is nam 
wi INTRODUCTION. 
they may be able to fupply this neceflary A ffiftance; - 
in Places where Apothecaries are not at Hand 3. 
and that they may be able alfo to do it without’ 
putting themfelves to the Expence of Medicines. 
of Price, when the common Herbs,~ that may be 
had for gathering, will anfwer the fame Purpofe. _ 
. However, as there are Cafes, in which more _ 
Help may be had from Drugs brought. from:.a-> — 
broad, than from any thing we can’ procure at 
Home, an Account of thofe Roots, Barks, Seeds, 
Gums, and_other vegetable Productions, kept by. 
the Druggifts and Apothecaries, is alfo added; . 
and of the feveral Trees and Plants from which . 
they are obtained; together with their Virtues. 
This Work therefore, will tend to inftrué thofe 
charitable Ladies who may be defirous of giving» 
this great Relief to the afflicted Poor in her = 
Neighbourhood, and to remind Apothecaries of — 
what they had before ftudied: Bnt the firft men- 
tioned Purpofe is by much the moft ufeful, and, z 
the moft confiderable, and for this Reafon the 
- The Plants are difpofed in the Alphabet, -ac- 
cording to their Exglih Names, that they may be 
turned to the more readily; and an Account. i 
given, in two or three Lines, of their general Af- 
ct and Place of Growth, that thofe whoin part @ 
now them already,-may underftand them’ at 4 
once: If they are not perfeétly known from this, 2 
a more particular Defcription is added, by obferv- 
_ ing which, they cannot be miftaken or confound-. — 
ed with any others; and after this follow, not 
only.their Virtues, as others are content to fer. 
_ them down, but the Part of each Plant which» — 
: d, and 
the Manner in which they may beft be given. 
