300 SYLVA FLOR1FERA. 



and appropriated to the lungs; the celestial 

 Crab claims dominion over it, neither is it a 

 foe to the Lion: if the lungs be afflicted by 

 Jupiter, this is your cure." 



In later days, wisdom has shone equally con- 

 spicuous in one of the physicians of the cele- 

 brated Johanna Southcott. 



" There was a time, when we beheld the quack, 

 On public stage, the licensed tribe attack; 

 He made his labour'd speech with poor parade, 

 And then a laughing zany lent him aid; 

 But now our quacks are gamesters, and they play, 

 With craft and skill, to ruin and betray: 

 With monstrous promise they delude the mind, 

 And thrive on all that tortures human kind. 

 Void of all honour, avaricious, rash, 

 The daring tribe compound their boasted trash." 



Crabbe. 



The leaves of the woodbine are the favour- 

 ite food of the goat, hence the French have 

 named this plant, Chcvre-feuille (Goat's-leaf.) 



