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with crrcat l^raife, of which others have made lit- 

 tie Account : Tl^efe are the Means by which the 

 lirfl Guefies have been made about tlieir Virtues i 

 and Experiments have always confirmed them. 

 It has not always happened, that the Virtues of a 

 Plant thus tried^ have been in a Degree worth 

 fetting in a Light of Confequence : They have 

 been Ibmetimes flight, and the Plant has beendif ■ 

 regarded ; but they have fcarce ever mifled to bg 

 found of the fame Nature, [ 



Thefe Experiments, I have always thought Ho- 

 ftefty required of me to make upon myfelf, and 

 I never found Harm from the TryaJs, I had no 

 Right to bring into the leaft pofllble Danger the 



t 



Health of others r^5-ro my 



bability of Harm ; but if it had happened, the 

 Intent would have fancfHfied the Accident, and 

 I fhould have been contented. 



There is this great Ufe in examining other Plants 

 which have the fame Sort of Flowers and Fruits 

 Vfltti thofe, which we know to have Virtues, that 

 we may in this Way difcover Plants at Home, to 

 fupply the Place of thofe wc have from other 

 Countries. It is certain the Sun in warmer Cli- 

 mates does ripen the Juices of Vegetables farther 

 than in ours, but yet we find th^ Plants of the 

 fame Kind from whatever Part of the World they 

 come, to poffefs nearly the fame Kind of Virtues; 

 j^sneraiiy indeed they are the fame, only differing 

 in Deg^ree. Thus all the Mallows of S^ain and 



Italy, to bring the Tryal to the before named 



Inftance, poffefs the fame Virtues with the Ma 

 mallow. Mallow and Holyoak of England -, 

 and the Cafe is the fame with thofe which are 

 truly ISTallows of the Eajl and Jf^efi- Indies ; though 

 this do not hold good with refped to fome of 



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