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109. Dii5:TA AciDULARis, E.Vigelius. 



It is not furprizing, that in a country abounding 

 with iron, chalybeate waters (hould be frequent. 

 In fa6b, thefe Acidul^e are fo in Sweden^ and their 

 efficacy has been known, and much extolled in 

 that country, as our author obferves, from the 

 moft antient times. He thinks the inhabitants 

 of thofe northern climes were led to the frequent 

 ufe of the AciduU^ by long experience of the 

 falutary effeds of them as diuretics and tonics^ 

 in remedying the inconveniences arifing from 

 a long winter's diet of faked meats, which dif- 

 pofed the conftitution to fcorbutic, cachedic, and 

 dropfical diforders. The later phyficians of Sweden 

 have regulated the ufe, and confirm.ed the good 

 effeds of them : and Mr. Figelius, in this difler- 

 tation, has, in a concife, elegant, and perfpi- 

 cuous manner, prefcribed the regimen adapted 

 to fuch as enter upon a courfe of thefe waters, 

 digefted under the fix well-known heads of the 

 ^on- naturals, 



no. PoTus Coffee. H, Sparfchuch. 1761, 



A very circumftantial, botanical, and medical 

 hiftory of the Coffee-tree, and its fruit, (Coff^a 

 Arahica^ Sp. PI. p. 245.) The writer is one of 

 the laft of 20 authors who have written profeffedly 

 on this flirub, all of whom he enumerates by name, 

 with the date of their writings, fro;*; 1621 to 

 1^0lm\ treatife in 1755. 



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