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the ftudy of phyfic, by the excellent manner in 

 which it was taught, who otherwife would have 

 engaged in different purfuits. We mufl not 

 deviate into the line of Rofen\ department : fuf- 

 fice it to fay^ that thefe two eminent men, by 

 their united zeal and abilities, failed not to exalt, 

 together with their own fame, that of their uni- 

 verfity, Linn^^us, in teaching the diagnofts mor- 

 horum^ had adopted the plan, with fome alteration, 

 of M. Sauvages's Nofology, of which we fhall be 

 led to give fome account hereafter. In the year 

 1749, he publilhed, for the ufe of his ftudents, 

 Materia Medica, Lii^er L de Plantis digeftus 

 Jecundum genera^ loca^ nomina^ qualitates^ vireSy dif- 

 ferentias^ durationes, Jimplicia^ modos, ufus^ fynony^ 

 ma, culturas, pr^parata, potentias^ compofita. Holm. 

 1749, 8% pp 252. The compendious method 

 in which this work is executed, and the feveral 

 ^ ufeful preliminary papers annexed, render it a 

 very ukful and inftrudlive manual to (ludents in 

 medicine. A materia medica of the vegetable lyng- 

 dom, in which every fmiple was afcertained by 

 fo able a botanift as Linnaeus, was a very con- 

 fiderable acquifition to fcience. In this volume 

 Ere arranged 535 fubjeds, and feveral are for the 

 firft time reduced to their proper genera fuch are 

 the Ipecacuanha^ Pareira hrava^ CocuU Indict^ and 

 others. The method purfued in this volume is 

 as follows. The author gives, 



1. His own fpecific chara6ler of the plant. 



2. C Bauhine^s fynonym : or, if the plant was 

 unknown to him, that of the firll difcoverer. 



3. The country where it is produced. In 



the 



