398 APPENDIX. 
What Encouragement to the Attempt, that there 
are fuch Multitude of Objects for the Tryal; and 
‘that the difcovering but one Remedy among 
them all, for a Difeafe we knew not how fo well 
to cure before, is a Source of more true Ho- 
nour, than can be derived from all the ufelefs 
Knowledge in the World. 
If any fuppofe the Tryal dangerous, they mif- 
lead themfelves ; and to encourage fo laudable an 
Undertaking, I fhall obferve how little is the 
Hazard, and how confiderable the Advantages, 
from what we know already. 
If a Man were to be turned loofe upon an 
Ifland where no Perfon had fet Foot before, he 
might dread to tafte of any Plant he faw, be- 
caufe he might not know, but every one he faw 
was fatal > And fuppofing him to have got over 
this Fear, the Ienorance of the Virtues of all 
would keep him backward: But this is not at all 
the Cafe with him, who fhall at this Time fet a- 
_ bout inquiring into the Virtues of Plants in Eng- 
-fand. ‘The poifonous Plants, native of our Soil, 
are hardly a dozen, and thefe are charaétered even 
to the Eye, by fomething fingular or difmal in 
_ the Afpect. “They are well’ known ; and he has 
nothing to do, but to avoid them. For the reft, 
he has fo many, whofe Ufes and Qualities are 
already perfectly known, that he has a great Foun- 
_ dation to go upon in the Search, becaufe he can 
compare thofe he does not know with them. 
_ Their Taftes will go a great Way toward inform- 
ing him; but this is not all, their very outward 
oe ~— him: For in general thofe Plants 
Which agree in t al Aff 4 ikewife 
‘s hee : © extern pers agree likewife 
-_ To give an Inftance in the Marfhmallow. 
It is known to work by Urine, and to be good a- 
