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wc mention the Veronica Hybrida^ or Welch Speed* 

 well, which is believed to have arifen from the 

 Officinalis and the Spicata ; as the ^ihthorpia Euro- 

 faa is from the Golden Saxifrage, and Marfl^ 

 pennywort. 



53. Obstacui^a Medicine, J, G. Beyerften; 

 1752- 



An enquiry into, and a brief difcufTion of, the 

 caufes that have hitherto impeded the progrefs of 

 phyfic. An ingenious and well -conduced plan, 

 and moil laudable defign, which all thofe who wilh 

 well to the art would defire to fee ftil'i farther illuf- 

 trated, by fome fuch charafler as v/ould command 

 attention, and give the fubjeft that importance 

 which it demands. Among other obftacles, the 

 writer mentions— the force of cuftom in direcfling 

 prefcription theories founded on hypothefes \ 

 negled of nofology ^ too little attention to reputed 

 poifons ; timid prefcription ; too fmall dofes ; ig- 

 norance of apothecaries in botany, and the Materia 

 Medica ^ ufe of compound medicines ; ignorance 

 of the natural clafTes of plants ; i^c. —all which 

 pofitions are confirmed by fuitable reflexions, and 

 examples, 



34. Plants Esculents Patri^. J, Hiorth, 

 1752. 



A lifl of fuch native plants of Sweden as have 

 been, or in fome way or other may be, objefls of 

 culinary ufe, principally as aliments ; to which 

 ^re added Gopdiments, and Succedanea^ to feveral 



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