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Ejfentia Ahfinthii in this dreadful difeafe. This 

 difquifition concludes with an obfervation, on a 

 milk-diet in the ftone and gout, the efficacy of 

 ■which he confirms by two well-adapted cafes j 

 which however, agreeably to foregoing obfervations, 

 prove the necelTity, in the gout, of adhering to 

 the regimen, when once adopted, throughout life. 

 One of thefe affords a melancholy Icflbn of the 

 danger of deferting it, in the cafe of a French ge- 

 neral, who, after twenty years freedom from the 

 difeafe, at the age of 70, died in confequence of 

 a fit brought on by one plentiful meal of animal 

 food. 



24. Gemm^ Arborum. p. Lotfling. 1749. 



This gentleman, who afterwards, at the recom- 

 mendation of LiNN^g^us, obtained a penfion as 

 naturalifc to the King of Spain^ and died in his 

 fervice in America^ has here given us a curious and 

 elaborate difquifition on the Buds of trees, a part 

 in vegetables which, till this time, had been lefs 

 attentively examined than many others. 



Gems or Buds are fmall rounded parts, made up 

 of fcales, differently arranged, fituated commonly 

 on the ftem, or branches of trees, and containing, 

 in epitome, the rudiments of either the future 

 flower fingly, the leanjes fingly, or both flower 

 and leaves. Analogous to the flower^ and leaf» 

 hearing Gem^ which is the moil common, is a Bulb 

 placed at the root of many plants, inafmuch as 

 both contain a future perfect plant, requiring only 

 envelopement, by the genial efFed of heat, Thefe 



