INTRODUCTION. xx 
Drigeift’s Shop of her own: This fhould be fup- 
plied from the neighbouring Fields; and from 
her Gatden. There is no Reafon the Drugs 
fhould not be as well preferved, and as carefully 
laid up, as if thé Produét of a different Climate, 
though the Ufe of the frefh Plants will in general 
be beft when they can be had. 
_ As'there are fome which will hot retain their 
Virtues in a dried State, and can be met with only ~ 
during a {mall Part of the Year ; it will be proper 
to add the beft Methods of preferving thefe in 
fome Way, according to the Apothecaries Man- | 
ner; and thefe Chapters, with tie which fhall lay 
down the Method of making the Preparations fron» 
them for reatly Service, will be fufficient to lead 
to the perfect Ufe of the Medicines of our own 
G And it will be found up Experience, 
that Biol vhs fufficiently know to make a 
pee Ufe of aie need feldom have Deaton 
to any others. 
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CHAP. I. ip ae 
Concerning the Methods of colleéting and pre 
frig Ph Par fe fe 
pes Virtues of diffetent Plates : - prin- 
cipally in certain Parts of thiats 3 thofé 
diferent according to the Nature of thé Herb, 
thefe feveral Parts are to be feleéted, and the reft 
left; and thefe are in fome to be vufed freth and 
