STUDY XI. 327 



I (hall purfue this reflection no farther, as it 

 would lead me into a deviation from my fubject.; 

 but if Phyficians would pay the attention to it 

 which it merits, they muft fludy more carefully 

 the plants of their own country, and not prefer to 

 them, as they generally do, thofe of foreign cli- 

 mates, which they are under the neceflity of mo- 

 difying a thoufand different ways, in order to give 

 them, as chance may direct., an adaptation to local 

 maladies. One thing is certain, namely, that when 

 Nature has determined a certain favour in any ve- 

 getable, (lie repeats it all over the Earth, with a 

 variety of modifications, which do not, however, 

 prevent our diitinguilhing it's principal virtue. 

 Thus, having placed the cochkaria (fcurvy-grafs) 

 that powerful anti-fcorbutic, even on the foggy 

 (hores of Spitzbergen, fhe has repeated the fa- 

 vour and the medicinal qualities of it, in the creffes 

 of our brooks, in the garden creffes, in the naftur- 

 tium, which is a crefs of the rivers of Peru j in a 

 word, in the very grains of the papaya, which 

 grows in humid places of the Antilles Iilands. We 

 find, in like manner, the favour, the fmell, and 

 the medicinal qualities of our garlic, in the woods, 

 the barks, and the mofles of America*. 



* I muft here obferve that garlic, the fmell of which is fo 

 formidable to our fine ladies, is, perhaps, the moft infallible re- 

 medy in the World againft the vapours, and all the nervous dif- 

 orders to which women are fo fubject. Of this I have had r.e- 



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