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would export it in preference to China, fince 
jt would gain thereby ftill greater profit. 
Be this, however, as it may, the plant that 
cured me of my quinfy is equally efficacious 
in the cure of wounds ; at leaft fo my Efcula-* 
pius affured me. But he added, that, to pro^ 
mote digeftion in the wound, and bring it 
into a healing ftate, a certain quality of fome 
kind of fat muft be added to the cataplafm, in 
order to give it a degree of unduoufnefs, 
without which it would be of no avail. 
Is it not Inconceivably ftrange, that, among 
the countlefs multitude of plants which cover 
the furface of the globe, fo fmall a number 
fhould be known I And that in the moft com- 
plete and amply furnifhed botanic garden 
fcarcely three hundred and fifty are to be found, 
that afford food or medicine, either to man, or 
the animals he has domefticated ? But what 
ought ftill more to aflonifh us is, that among 
this fmall number, if there be any of rea) im- 
portance to us, we have been almofl: always 
indebted to favagea, or even to the beafts^ fpT 
their difcovery. 
My diforder and convalefence had continu-f 
ed tv/enty days, During this time, my people, 
havingj 
