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price, and is thought by fome to have been the 

 Afafcetida of the prefent time, is no longer ufed in 

 preference to the Alliaceous tribe. 



To turn from the vegetable to fome of the 

 animal fubftitutes, we may mention the Carp 

 among Fijhes^ as having excluded a great number 

 held in high eftimation in antient Rome, 



The change of Oil for Butter ; of Honey for Su- 

 gar \ oi Mulfa^ liquors made of wine, water, and 

 honey, for the exquifite JVines of modern times ; 

 and that of the antient Zyihus^ for the improved 

 Malt Liquors of this day, are all recited ; not to 

 mention alfo the Calida of the Roman T* averns^ ana- 

 logous to our bewitching Tea and Coffee. 



85. Spigelia Anthelmia. J. G. Colliander; 

 1758. 



A botanical and medical hiftory of the Indian 

 Pinky or Worm-grafs, which has been fo much 

 ufed, and fo greatly celebrated, for expelling 

 worms from the human body. 



Dr. CoUiander does more than barely treat of the 

 plant, having enumerated the feveral kinds of 

 worms infefting the human fpecies ; the Afcaris 

 VermiculariSy and Lumhricoides, Syft. p. 1276, the 

 LumbricusTerreJiriSy y. ib. and the ^T^^i^, Syft. 1324. 

 He then gives a diftind account of the fymptoms 

 that indicate their prefence in the human body, 

 and the difeafes which they too frequently occa- 

 fion : then follows a diftindt catalogue of all the 

 fuppokdAntbelmintbics from the vegetable and mi- 

 xieral claffes j and before he comes to the hiftory 



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