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AN ACCOUNT 



MEDICINAL PLANTS GROWING IN JAMAICA. 



[This paper appeared originally in the 8th volume of the London 

 Medical Journal. The additions inclosed in brackets have been 

 extracted from Dr Wright's Herbaria, begun in the year 1773, 

 and completed in 1813. — Ed.] 



To Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. 



Sib, 

 At the request of the late Dr Fothergill and Dr So- 

 lander, I drew up an account of the officinal plants grow- 

 ing in Jamaica, for the Medical Society of London ; but the 

 death of those valuable friends, and the dissolution of that 

 society, have occasioned it to remain unpublished. Having 

 now revised this paper, and added thereto a considerable num- 

 ber of observations and facts, I take the liberty, Sir, of pre- 

 senting it to you as a testimony of my respect ; and, if it meets 

 with your approbation, I request the favour of you to trans- 

 mit it to Dr Simmons, to be inserted in the London Medical 

 Journal. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient and very humble servant, 



William Wright. 



Edinburgh, \ 

 May 27. 1787. J 



