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of the plant in queftion, he recites the feveral fimptes 

 which have been confidered as Specifics : among 

 thefe we may note particularly the Fern^ mentioned 

 by Biofcorides as anthelminthic, and lately publifhed 

 in France^ as fuch, at the expence of the king. 



The hiftory of the Spigelian with a figure annex- 

 ed, is then delivered at large, nearly as it ftands 

 in Browne's Hiftory of Jamaica^ and in the Ejjays 

 and Obfervations phyjical and literary^ by Dr. Linings 

 vol. i. p. 386. 



The fuccefs of this remedy among the negroes 

 and Indians introduced it into pradice. Dr. Browne 

 adminiftered it in decodlion ; the North American 

 phyficians give the powder of the root on which 

 occafion ^ye may obferve, that fubfequent obferva- 

 tions have proved the South American and North 

 American Spigelia to differ in fpecie : the former is 

 figured in Browne^ and the latter in the EJfays above- 

 mentioned, vol. iii. p. 154. See their botanical 

 diftindions alfo. Linn. Syft. Nat. ed. xiii. p. 166. 



86. MedicamentaGraveolentia. J,T. Fagraus^ 



175^' 



It is a poftulatum in the philofophy of LiNNi^:us, 

 that the qualities of medicines are, in a general 

 way, to be determined by their effed on the or- 

 gans of tafte and fmelling." And further, that 

 the Sapida, or thofe which more fenfibly ftrike 

 the tafte than the fmell, do principally operate oa 

 the vafcular ^nd vital fyHem and that the " Olida^ 

 or thofe which more fenfibly ftrike the organs of 

 fmelling, operate on the medullary or nervous fyf- 

 tem.'! The Sapor Medicament orum of this collec- 

 tion. 



