TR A YELLING, &c. 27 



fpccies of fmilax^ ipecacuanha^ a fpecics of bo^ 

 ney-fuckle^ acmclla^ a fpecics of hemp agrimony^ 

 contrayerva of dorftenia^ and fimomha of pi- 

 Jlacia^ which in fome difeafes are reckoned 

 fj^ecifics ? what are all thefc, I fay, but reme- 

 dies approved by long ufc amongft the vulgar? 

 and are not innumerable remedies ufed among 

 pur own countrey people of the fame nature ? 

 were not all thofe I have enumerated found out 

 by ^ barbarians, and when experience had 

 fliewn, that they were ufeful, and efficacious 

 in many difeafes, were they not thought wor- 

 thy to be communicated to the reft of man- 

 Jcind ? Let our young phyfician then learn, 



* Vid. Fires plant arum Amc^nitat, academ, vol. i. p. 

 403. where Brunnerus is quoted for faying, that barbari- 

 ans have done more towards the advancement of phyfic, 

 than the learned of all ages. In the fame palTage the fol- 

 lowing words of Tournefort are quoted, que tout le tra^vail 

 des homtnes n^a encore rien produit deji ajfure que deux ou trois 

 drogues ■ que les fawvages trowvent da?is les hois. The 

 author fubjolns to thefe quotations a lift of twenty medi- 

 cines with an &:c. taken from barbarous nations, now 

 ufed in our fliops. 



The curious reader may find in Dampier's voyages a 

 yery extraordinary inftance of the fkill of the favages of 

 America in the chirurgical way. Wafer there gives an 

 account of a cure performed upon himfelf by thefe peo- 

 ple, and his teftimony is the itronger, as he was a fjr- 

 geon himfelf. 



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