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an arthritic patient, who, after taking, 5n orre 

 fummer, 1800 boles of Mrs. Stephens^ medicine, 

 became in the higheft degree afflidted with the 

 genuine fcurvy, which he thinks might fairly be 

 attributed to the quantity of alkaline fait contain- 

 ed in that medicine. 



145. Usus MuscoRuM. A, H, Berlin. iy66. 



The ufes of this clafs of vegetables in well- cul- 

 tivated countries, and in benign climates, can be 

 but little known in the northern regions they are^ 

 confpicuous. The writer, after having mentioned 

 thofe botanifts who have particularly attended to 

 this clafs, and given due praife to the matchlefs work 

 of Billenius on the fubjed, difplays the particular 

 advantages of mofles in the general economy of 

 nature for inftance, the terreftrial Liuer-worts lay 

 the firft foundation of foil on barren rocks, as the 

 Sphagnum^ and many other bog mojfes^ do in marlhy 

 and boggy places. In human economy, nothing 

 is more remarkable than the utility of the rein- deer 

 mofs^ in the ardic regions. Many of the liver- 

 worts are ingredients in dyeing ; and feveral mofles 

 have their place in medicine, among which parti- 

 cularly may be mentioned the Uchen IJlandicus^ 

 Sp. PI, 161 1. Iceland, or Eryngo-leaved Liver- 

 wort, of the virtues of which, in confumptions* 

 Dr. Scopoli has written a diftind treatife, publifhed 

 in the Annus 2*^^' Hiftorico-naturalis , Lipf. 1769. 



The reader will find a paper, written by the au- 

 thor of this volume, on the ufes of this order of 



plants^ 



