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firfl: clafs he refers Mania^ Epilepfy, Gout, Stone, 

 and fome others ^ to the latter^ particularly the 

 Rickets. In confidering his fecond pofition, he 

 prefcribes the appropriate regimen to the mother 

 during pregnancy, and for the nurfe, whom he 

 would always fuppofe to be the mother : and 

 iifially, concludes with fome forcible perfuafives 

 to young men, not to defeat thefe defirable ends^ 

 by a courfe of intemperance. 



72. Specifica Canadeksiitm. 7. Von Coelln, 

 1756. 



In the firft chapter of this tradV, the writer, 

 after prefenting us with a view of the progrefs of 

 medical fcience through the feveral fchools and 

 feds of phyficians, and condemning that farrago 

 of compound medicines, with which the practice of 

 phyfic hath been fo long burthened^ confiders the 

 return to a more fim.ple mode of prefcribing as in- 

 timately connec!:ed with its improvement. This , 

 leads him to his fubje6l, which is intended to exhibit 

 and recommend to the notice of phyflcians, a num- 

 ber of fimples frorn the vegetable kingdom, ufed 

 by the natives of North Ammca^ in the cure of 

 their difeafes, fome of which may be worth the 

 notice of European phyf^cians, Thefe may be 

 confidered as conflituting the Materia Medica of 

 the Indians^ among whom, as with other barbarous 

 nations, all that can be called phylic depends en- 

 tirely on the empirical application of fimples ; nor. 

 can it be doubted, that long experience hath con- 

 firmed the efEcacy of many to them. 



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