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great Reafon of writing the prefent Book, that 
there may be one Guide and Direction at leaft, to 
be depended upon; and this its Author has 
thought proper to fay at large upon the imme- 
diate Occafion, rather than in a Preface; becaufe 
there it muft have been accompanied with a need- 
lefs Repetition, and perhaps would not have been 
obferved by many, who may have recourfe to the 
Doc TooTru. 
DENS CANINUS. 
A Very. pretty little Plant, with two broad 
Leaves and a large drooping Flower, com- — 
mon.in Italy and Germany, and ee, in our 
Gardens. It is five or fix Inches high. The 
Stalk is round, flender, weak, and greenifh to- 
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wards the Top, often white at the Bottom. The — S 4 
Leaves ftand a little Height above the G 
They are oblong, fomewhat broad, of a beauti-— aoe 
ful Green, not at all dented at the Edges, and 
blunt at the End: They inclofe the Stalk at 
the Bafe. The Flower is large and white, but with 
@ Tinge of redifh; it hangs down, and is long, 
hollow, and very elegant. The Root is roundifh, 
and has fome Fibres growing from its Bottom, it 
full of a flimy Juice. at ee 
The frefh gathered Roots are ufed, for they 
dry very ill, and generally loofe their Virtues in- 
rely. They are good againft Worms in Chil- 
dren, and take a urprifing and fpeedy Effect a- 
__ Gainft thofe violent Pains in the Belly, which are ot 
ing them is in the expreffed Juice; or if Chil 
_ Will not take that, they may be boiled in ! 
__Owhich they give very hile Tate, Tea 
‘to thofe Creatures. The beft Way of giv- 
