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conftitution of nature, there is'a variety of other difpenfa- 
th more i ely pertain to mankind, and in 
enn they are more efpecially imterefted. Such are their 
eing born of parents for fupplying the feveral eeaerations 
of the worid, whence refult fundry relations an 
their being futained b food, covered and fhelt 
clothes and habitations, healed b phyficians, and taught 
by the learned and fiilful ; their forming of focieties for my- 
tual convenience and comfort; and the inftitution of govern- 
ment, or the fubordination of fome to the authority of 
others, for preferving good order, for the proteétion of vir- 
tue, and the reftraint aad punifhment of vice. Moreover, 
wars, peftilence, famine, earthquakes, perfonal and natural 
calamities, and fimilar events, may be re 
and reformation ; but none merely for detiruiion, exce 
where reformation cannot efted. 1e facred {crip- 
2 veal an d other difpenfations of divine prov 
dence, which have been directed tot omotion of the 
ae principles, moral conduct, and true happinefs of 
man nkind Thefe have varied in eal ages of the world, 
and have been adapted by the wifdom and goodnefs of God 
to the circumftances of his intelligent and accountable crea- 
‘tures. In this fenfe the various revelations which God has 
‘communicated to mankind at different periods, and the means 
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writers of the various difpenfztions of religion n, as they ex- 
ilted before and after the fall of man, that of the patriarchs, 
sthat of Mofes, that of Chrift, called the difpenfation of 
grace, the perfection and ultimate objet of every other ; 
‘ail of which were adap ted to the conditions of the human 
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rational and moral ‘ahabitarss, See Covenanr and Re 
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DISPENSATORY, in Medicine, is fynonymous to the 
word ate ate and ape a colle€tion of formularies- 
‘or dire@tion the ufe of apothecaries. private 
practitioners have oes and publifhed oo but 
thofe which are of greateft authority, have been co 
es of medical men. 
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next in Scotland, and the laf in Ireland. 
lawful for apothecaries to = either or all of thew 
fit ; 3 oily, iti 
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n enfatory,”? ener 
includes the lateft editions of the three guonaes pharma- 
copceeias in one volume. 
Although the apothecaries of London are enjoined, pad 
his Majelty’s difpleafure, to keep all the fimple and c 
pound remedies prefcribed in - balay ae dates of the aul 
college « . ene and no vary from them of their 
a fa@ that all lie apothecaries do never- 
idee pierbe. daly for their patients, without regarding 
the formule of the college! But a much more lamentable 
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fa& is this, that any pe erfon who ara however j ignorant 
and uuflilful he is in phyfic, may 
he will; which, indeed, is done continually by hun 
illiterate in the metropolis ar fewhere, without being 
punifhable by law! Th t quantitics of licenfed quack 
medicines oe ee are peice ies by ignorant men or 
women (with very few to the great profit of 
the revenue Od the aoe n et of his maj; fty’s fub- 
aa roving how little avail are the ftatutes of the col- 
e for preventing pharmaceutical abufes, &c.! he firft 
dpestatry fays Beckmann, (Hil. Invent. vol. ii.) was 
drawn up by Valerius Cordas, or at leaft his was the firft 
oy ne an mentioned by Maittaire. 
p- us, however, appears to have firft uled t 
ae “i penftorian is a collection of receipts, ee 
dire e the medicines moft in ufe. 
f Cordus was im resell my en: 
a fays, that this isa 
miftake, and tiat the error feems to have arifen from the 
Chriftian name of Matthias s Lobelive, which ftands in the 
title of fome editions, becaufe his annotaiions are added t to 
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ERIS, in Botany, (from dc, oe and wupe, @ 
we, beceufe the two lateral leaves of the calyx are each 
furnifhed with a little {pur-like bag or a. which os 
a part of the generic charaCter,) a akc rehid. 38. 
f. F. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. 59. sand order, Canes 
Monandria. a Ord. Orchidee 
Gen.Ch. Cal, Pevianth of three leaves; the Mpper-ane 
erect ar jee forming a fort of helmet with the two 
petals; the two lateral ones preading horizontally, each 
furnifhed with a central pouch or fpur pointing downwards. 
Cor. Petals two, fhorter than the calyx, spree upwards, 
abrupt, fheltered by the upper calyx-leaf. ary or lip 
proceeding from the bafe of the ftyle, ered, pete at the 
ower part, attache e organs of impregnation, re- 
top ‘of mi ftyle, ere& or reclining oblong, of. two cells, 
covered with a veil which bears at its margin on each fide 
in front, a little ea pete {piral appendage ; pollen ob- 
ong, eee its ftalks g 
of the veil. Peric ae of one cell, with three angles 
and ieee valves, buriting at the angles. Seeds numerous, 
minute, roundifh, each with a membranous integum 
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with the or: ae of impregnation. 
covered mas a wel bearing two “fpiral appendages in front. 
Five {pecies of this genus are enumerated by Swartz 
copied by Willdenow. 1. D. capenfis (Arethufa capeniis ; 
405. Thanb. Prod. 3.), a native of 
Table mountain at the Cape of Good H 
bearing two lanceolate ae and one flower.” This isa 
pretty plant, about a foot , with a purple flower re- 
markable for its long-pointed oe calyx. 2. D. villofa. 
parieease Host : ara = od, 3.) 
oe with two leaves and one flower and ger 
airy. en nears “e to Sea thapeds {mooth 
beseth. fringed at the margin.” ‘This alfo at the 
Cape, and is faid by the. you unger aes to look like a 
Commelina. 3. D. ical Swartz. Omhid. 4c. bi 
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