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carried fo far, we have reafon to hope, 

 that things will go better. The acmella 

 which is very ferviceable in the ftone, 

 (ince it is extremely rare, and dear, is to 

 be fupplyed out of thofe plants which 

 are really akin to it. This choice be- 

 longs to the botanift: for which reafon 

 our prefident has obliged the world by 

 informing it, that x}\^Jiege5heck'[aj2i% neareft 

 allyed to tlie acmella^ may be rightly fub- 

 ftituted in its room ^ ; which Dr. Haflel- 

 quift has confirmed by an experiment 

 made here at Upfal upon a young man 

 afflidled with the ftone. The fkilfull in 

 botany will cafily judge that the Germm 

 leopard's hane^ as well as the comrnan^ car- 

 ries fufpicion of poifon •, yet the former 

 has been looked on as harmiefs by thofe, 

 who were ignorant of botany^ 2cadi the 

 latter dangerous. The diiify is cried up 

 in vain on account of the excellent ver- 

 tue it is fuppofed to pofiefs. Praditi- 

 oners, unlefs they be fkilfull in botany, 

 will fcarcely allow the ^ili rofemary 



c Vid. Am^^nit. Acadcm. vol. 2. p. 151. where fome fuc- 

 cedaneums to the Senega root are mentioned, founded on 

 the fame principles. 



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