Vui The PREFACE, 



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i77to the Virtues of Herbs ^ may feefft 

 the Province of a Wo f nan. It is an 

 Honour to the Sex^ that they have put 

 our Studies to ife ; btit it would he we 

 if we had do?ie fo ou?f elves ; or if con 



fiderihg that they mighty we had made 

 our Wi^itings ^nore intelligible to them. 

 T^e Intent of Words is to exprefs 



cur Meaning : Writings are publijhed 

 that they may be underfood ; and in 

 this Branchy I fhall always f up p of e he 

 ' writes befly who is to be underfood moft 

 'U?jiv erf ally. Now fo far are we from 



having had this Point in view in Bo 

 Tanyy that more ?2ew and ^nore f range 



Words have been introduced into ity than 



into all the Sciences together : And fo 

 remarkable is the Swede before jnenti- 

 onedy LinntEUSj for this \ that a good 

 Scholary nay the befl Scholar in the 



Worldy flDall not be. able to tinder 



fland three Lines together in his befl 

 Writings y although they are written 

 in Latin, a La/7guage /;? which he 

 s ever fo familiar. The Author has 



?iGl been at the Pains to explain his 



nemo 



