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from one Countrey to another, with small loss, 

 trouble, and charges, so that one Nation may 

 communicate those commodities to another which 

 the Creator hath bestowed upon them all, each 

 granting mutual help to the other by this meanes." 

 Elyot, writing his " Castel of Helth " in 1541, 

 looks back even then to the good old days when 

 home-grown remedies sufficed and cabbage was 

 the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for he writes 

 " before that auarice caused marchauntes to fetche 

 out of the easte and southe partes of the world the 

 traffycke of spyce and sundry drouges to content 

 the unsaciableness of wanton appetites, Coleworts 

 for the vertues supposed to be in them, were of 

 suche estimation that they were iudged to be a 

 sufficient medicine agaynste all diseases." Conradus 

 Herebachius, in his " Foure Bookes of Husbandry, 

 as newely Englished by Barnabe Googe," goes even 

 farther than Elyot in his denunciation of the intro- 

 duction of foreign drugs, seeing in it not merely the 

 greed of the merchantman, but the dire necessity of 

 the druggist's shop. "Nature," he writes, "hath 

 appoynted remedyes in a redynesse for al diseases, 

 but the craft and subteltie of man for gaine hath 

 devised Apothecaries Shoppes, in whiche a man's 

 Lyfe is to be solde and bought, where they fetche 

 their medicines from Hierusalem, and out of Turkic, 

 whyle in ye meane time euery poore man hath the 

 ryght remedyes growing in his Garden : for yf men 



