2i8 OBSTACLES TO THE 



in di {locations ; and of the tremella^ Flor. 

 Suec. 1017. for fixed pains in the joynts. 

 They alfo chew, and blow the fumes of 

 garlic into infants to affwage their gripes j 

 or bruife, and apply it to the navel by 

 way of poultice'. 



14. 

 The negleB of travelling out of Europe. Which 

 would afford us an opportunity of knowing 

 plants, familiar to forreign nations. And I 

 fee not why we fhould be afhamed of learning 

 any thing ufeful from Barbarians. 



It is not long ago that fome botanills, who 

 went to America, difcovered to us thofc 

 excellent medicines, the great water-dock 

 in the worft fcorbutic cafes ; the monarda 

 in intermittents -, the collinfonia in the 

 colics of lying-in women ; the lobelia^ the 

 ceanothiis^ the dieriilla in venereal cafes ; 

 the fenega root and ophiorrhiza againft the 

 bite of ferpents and burning fevers. The 

 celebrated Kalm very lately let us know, 



* Ulluoa obferves that fome difeafes at Carthagena are 

 become fatal, v/hich formerly were not fo. Which he attri- 

 butes to the negleft of the Indian remedies. For he fays the 

 old women even now fometimes cgre the chapetonade, which 

 is one of the diftempers he mentions, and formerly never fail- 

 ed to cure it. 



that 



