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70. Flora Monspeliensis. 'T.E, Nathhorji. 175^- 



The happy climate, and variety of foil and fitua- 

 tion of Montpelier^ renders this Flora one of the 

 moPc copious of any. The vicinity of fome con- 

 fiderable mountains and forefts, and the maritime 

 fituation of the place, confpire to favour the 

 growth of the plants of northern Europe^ and of , 

 northern Africa^ many of which are common to 

 the Eaft alfo. This catalogue is compiled from 

 the Botanicon Monfpelienfe of MagnoU 1688, and 

 the Methodus Foliorum of Sauvages. The Flora 

 Monfpeliaca has fince been greatly enriched by the 

 publications of Gouan. 



71. FUNDAMENTA Valetudinis.P, Engfirom, lys^- 



The author of this thefis derives the foundation 

 of firm health and vig-our of conftitution from two 

 fources : ift, Good fiamina tranfmitted by pa- 

 rents. 2dly, Care taken in the education, from 

 the birth to the perfedl ftate of adolefcence. From 

 the firft, he thinks, that flrength in the nervous 

 fyflem and from the fecond, that ftrength in the 

 wafcular fyftem, muft be derived. In confidering 

 his firfl: pofition, he has, in a concife m.anner, 

 thrown together a variety of arguments, which he 

 endeavours to confirm by the moft refpedabie 

 authorities, to prove that various diforders are 

 tranfiniifible to the offspring ; alfo, that (inde- 

 pendent of the fpecific diforders thus tranfmitted 

 from the parent) others arife in children from 

 enervated and debauched progenitors. To the 



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