266 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



of the virtues of it they took out of Dioscorides, whose 

 Cynocrambe is another thing.* 



I intend this week to remit Martens's Spitzberg voyage. 

 When I say I have nothing new in my Synopses, I mean 

 by new not published in print, for else I have some 

 species of birds and fishes taken out of Martens, and 

 some others out of Hernander, which are not in the his- 

 tories I mentioned of Mr. Willughby. I should be glad 

 to see anything of yours published in print, for I know 

 it will answer the opinion I have of it. My wife tenders 

 her humble service to you by the hand of, 



Sir, 

 Your affectionate friend and humble servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



This letter should have been sent last post, but that 

 the postboy neglected to call as he passed by; since 

 which time, upon applying a new plaster of that e ranis, 

 I found my leg so painful all day, that I was afraid to 

 continue it on all night, so I took it off, and applied my 

 usual plaster : after which, going to bed, I rested about 

 three hours, and then waking found a great disturbance 

 in my belly, so that I was forced to rise. Afterwards I 

 could not sleep till daylight. The day following (which 

 was yesterday) I was more at ease than I have been a 

 great while, feeling no pain at all : yet in the night, after 

 my first sleep, the pain returned and continued as before, 

 but yet during the remission of the pain the sores ceased 

 not to run as before. I am apt to think that the mercury 

 in the plaster might affect and work upon my body, for 

 I find still a working in my belly, so that I believe I am 

 not yet qmte clear of it. 



Eor his honoured friend, 

 Dr. Hans Sloaue, at 

 Montague House, London. 



* The Cynocrambe of the herbalists is Mercttrialis percnuis, Linn. ; that 

 of Dioscoridcs is Theliffoniiw Cynocrambe, Linn. C. C. B. 



