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they may be able to fupply this neceflary AfTiftance, 

 . in Places where Apothecaries are not at Hand ; 



, arid chat they may be able alfo to do it without 

 putting themfelves to the Expence of Medicines 

 of Price, when the common Herbs, that may be 

 had for gathering, will anfwer the fame Purpofe. 



However, as there are Cafes, in which more 

 Help may be had from Drugs brought from a- 

 broad, than from any thing we can procure at 

 Home, an Account or thofe Roots, Barks, Seeds, 

 Gums, and other vegetable Producflioi.s, kept by 

 the Druggifts and Apothecaries, is alfo added ; 

 and of the feveral Trees and Plants from which 

 they are obtained ; together with their Virtues. 



This Work therefore, will tend to inflruft thofe 

 charitable Ladies who may be defirous of giving 

 this great Relief to the afflicted Poor in their 

 Neighbourhood, and to remind Apothecaries of 

 what they had before ftudied : Bnt the fir ft men- 



■ tioned Purpofe is by much the mofl ufeful, and 

 the moft confiderable, and for this Reafon the 

 greateft Regard is paid to it. 



The Plants are difpofed in the Alphabet, ac- 

 cording to their Englijh Names, that they may be 

 » turned to the more readily ; and an Account is 

 given, in two or three Lines, of their general Af- 

 e<5l and Place of Growth, that thofe who in part 

 know them already, may underftand them at 

 once: If they are not perfedly known from this, 

 a more particular Defcription is added, by obferv- 

 ing which, they cannot be miftaken or confound- 

 ed with any others ; and after this follow, not 

 only their Virtues, as others are content to fet 

 them down, but the Part of each Plant which 

 contains them in moft Perfection is named, and 

 the Manner in which they may beft be given. 



With 



