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rnting the folids^ deduces its effedls in producing in- 

 flammatory fevers, confumptions, dropfy, jaundice, 

 hemorrhoids, tremors, p^ renfy, ^c, and concludes 

 with fome well-digefted obfervations on the general 

 abufe of fermented liquors, and upon their influence 

 on fociety, both in a political and moral view. 



140. MENTHi?: Usus C. G. Laurin, 1767. 



Mint is one of thofe vegetables which have re- 

 tained their charader in medicine from the earlieft 

 ages, it having been ufed by the Greeks and Romans, 

 England^ above all other countries, abounds with 

 plants of this genus, of which there are not lefs 

 than eleven fpecies mentioned by the EfigliJJj bo- 

 taciifts as indigenous, the Pulegium^ which is a true 

 fpecies of Mint, being included. 



In the natural orders of botany. Mint is among 

 the verticillated plants, which are in general fup- 

 pofed to have refolvent and nervine qualities : and 

 from thefe powers arife the good efFed:s ufually 

 afcribed to this plant, in a variety of diforders 

 here particularly fpecified. 



141. PuRGANTiA Indigena. P. StTandman. 1766. 



After fome preliminary obfervations relating to 

 the opinions of the empirical and dogmatic fedls in 

 medicine, as connedted with his fubje6t, and fome" 

 encomiums on the inftitution of hofpitals, as af- 

 fording a field of obfervation and experiment to 

 the phyfician, which private pradice does not 

 allow, the writer prefents us with a catalogue of 



fuch 



