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other (light medicine is prefcribed to a 

 poor countrey fellow, it muft be the pro- 

 duce of the 'Indies, fo that they cannot 

 afford to purchafe it. Hence people ab- 

 hor the thoughts of employing a phyfici- 

 an or an apothecary. 

 19. 

 ^he ignorance of many for reign plants. Hence 

 we are uncertain whether thofe which arc 

 brought to us be genuine or fpurious ; and 

 hence alfo their genera being unknown, we 

 are uncertain about their vertues. 



To this head may be referred the fea laven- 

 der^ the myrobalan^ the Jiarry annifeedy the 

 half am of Copaiva^ the half am of Feru^ the 

 gum anim£y caraun^^ elemi^ the gum rojins 

 of myrrhy bdellium^ fagapenum^ the aloes 

 woody calamhac"^, 



20. 

 ^he ufiial cuftom in apothecaries fhops of pro- 

 viding only drugs of quick fale. Thus they will 

 not procure Ibme whofe vertues are now-a- 

 days well knov/n, for fear they fhould lye up- 



^ Hence appears one of the advantages amongft many 

 others that may arife from the voyages of the dlfciples of Lin- 

 noeus into the reraoteft parts of America, and Afia, from 

 whence many of our drugs come. 



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