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ian botanist, who flourished in the sixteenth cen- 
tury. The vestiges of its hallucinative dogmas 
still before us, in the names of many officinal and 
other plants ; for example: Dentaria, tooth-wort— 
Pulmonaria, lung-wort—Euphrasia, cye-bright— 
Hepatica, liver-wort, &c. &c. Evidences of a 
taint of this doctrine perceivable in the latin 
work of Schoepf, as late as 1787; as well as in 
many anonymous publications of physicians, on 
the virtues of vegetable medicines. 
retarded the investigat 
of the United States. j 
(SES See 
ap Subsection. Be 
An attempt to point out the confusion which 
has arisen in the Materia Medica from the ne- 
in prefering one name to another, without add- 
ing and perpetuating the synonmyn by which 
\the article he designated was known to others. 
The depreciation of: medicines of value, in the es- 
timation of practioners, traced often to this source ; 
and to the inevitable substitution of one article for 
other ng toconfusion of names. 
: Subsection Y 
General. considerations on the constitutional, ee 
moral and physical causes, and modes of live 
