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remedies, the profefTor attributed the reftoratioi^ 

 of his health to the ufe of daily morning exercife, 

 after drinking a large draught of pure water. A 

 cafe is alfo related of one who, from his infancy to 

 his 25th year, had never been free from Afcarides^ 

 but he entirely got rid of them by taking a journey 

 on horfeback, as far as 'Tornoa^ in Lapland, 



126. HoRTus CuLiNARis. J . C. 'Tenghorg, ijG^, 



Exhibiting a view of all thofe vegetables, which 

 are, or which the author thinks might, advantage- 

 oufly be cultivated in the fields and gardens of 

 Sweden ; and defcribing, in a fuccind way, the 

 manner of propagating the feveral kinds of grain j 

 hops, tobacco, faffron ^ kitchen or boiling herbs^, 

 fallads, pot-herbs •, fruit-trees and fhrubs j and 

 finally, plants for ornament their proper foil, 

 and the methods of guarding them againft the fey^- 

 rity of the climate. 



127. HiRUDO Medicinalis. Z). Wefer. 1765. 



There are nine fpecies of Leeches defcribed iq 

 the Syftema Natur^^ p. 1079. That ufcd for me- 

 dicinal purpofes is diftinguiihed under the name 

 of Hirudo (Medicinalis) deprejfa nigricans^ fupra li- 

 neis flavis fex : inlermediis nigro-arcuatis fuhtus 

 cinerea nigro-maculata. The anatomical ftru6ture 

 and natural hiftory of this worm, the opinion of 

 the antients relating to it, the proper time of pro- 

 curing it, the method of preferving and applying 

 it, are all difcufled. After this, the author points 

 out thofe difeafes in vv'hich the mode of blood-letting 



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