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It has nat always happrued that the virtues of a 

 plant thus tricd^ ha\n beeu 'in a degree worth 

 setting in a light of consequence : they have been 

 sometimes slight^ and the plant has been di^regard-^ 

 ed ; but tlicy have scarce ever missed to be found 

 of t!:e same nature. 



These experiments^ I have always thought ho- 

 nesty required me to make upon myself, and I 

 Devcr found harm from the trials. I had no right 

 to bring into the least possible danger^ the health 

 of ethers ; as to my own there was no probability 

 of harm ; but if it had happened, the intent would 



have sanctified the accident^ and I should have 

 been contented. 



There is this great use in examining other plants 

 "which have the same sort of flowers and fruits 

 w^ith those which we know to have virtues^ that 

 ■we may in this way discover plants at homc^ io 



supply the place of those we have from other 

 countries. It is certain the sun in warmer climates 

 docs ripen the juices of yegctables farther than 

 in onrs> but yet we find the plants of the same 

 kind from whatever^ part of the world they come, 

 to possess nearly the same kind of virtues ; gene* 

 rally indeed they are the same, only differing in 

 degree. Thus all the mallows of Spain and Italy, 

 to bring the trial to the before-named instance, 

 possess the same virtues with the marsh mallow^ 

 mallow, and hollvoak of England; and the case 

 IS the same with those which are truly mallows 

 isf the East and West Indies ; though this does 



not hold good with respect to some of the 

 plants of those countries which have been brought 

 hither under that name. 



Thus also, thut root which was at one time 

 about to be brought very much into use, under 

 the name of the senega ratile-snake root, but 



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