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on their hands. It is the bufinefs therefore o^ 

 the phyfician who has any regard for his own 

 reputation, and the patient*s welfare, to re- 

 quire the apothecary to procure fuch plants, as 

 he thinks may be ufefull. 



Simorouba an excellent remedy in the dyfen- 

 tery, the fenega root in venomous bites, 

 the profluvii cortex in the diarrhasa, the 

 camphorata in the green ficknefs, the au- 

 ricularia in deafnefs, the Peragua in the 

 diabetes, the fouth-fea tea in the fmall-pox, 

 the ferpentmn radix againft venomous 

 bites, the wild flax ^ a very ufefull purge, 

 are negleded. The juice of the hypociftiSy 

 and fungus melitenfis^ altho' powerful me- 

 dicines in haemorrhages, and the herha dy- 

 fenterica^^ which is named fo from its 

 peculiar vertues, have not yet got a place 

 amongfl our ofEcinals. 



21. 



JVant of care in gathering fimples at a proper 



time^ and keeping them^ when gathered^ in a pro- 



per manner, 



» I fuppofe the Inula diflentcrica L. Conyza Media. R. 

 174. is here meant; as i find this note upon it in Fl. Suec. 

 edit. 2. * General Keith told me that the Rufilans, when 



* extremely reduced by the bloody flux, in their expedition 



• into Perfia, were reilored to health by this plant.' 



The 



