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This Defcrlption he perfortneth in fuch a Method , that 
he reduceth thefaid Plants to Four Claffes Alphabetically, 
according to the Four Seafons of the year ^ wherein they 
grow or are in flower 5 that (o the Curious Botanijl and 
others may know , when fnch and fuch Plants are to be 
had and gathered for ufe» This he doth, beginning from 
the Winter -plants , and thence proceeding to the 
Vernal and jEftiVal , and concluding with the Autum» 
ual. 
He inferts in many places divers Remedies and ufcful 
Advices for Plealth : In the doing of which, and (hew- 
ing himfelf very particularly concern'd for the cure of 
' the Tabes Anglica^ (the Consumption,^ fo much reigning in 
England , he eraployeth more than one page in recom- 
mending to the Englijh Nation (for whom he exprefTerh a 
fiogiilar efteem ) that Plant, which the Latins call Cheli- 
donium.majus vtilgare, the greater Celandine^ as an approved 
medicin and no leis than a Specifick to cure that Difeafe, 
after the ufe of Aotimonial Eraeticks ; teaching wichall, 
that it is to be prepar*d and ufed , for that purpofe^ in its 
Tincture , together with the Trifolium fihriiium Tabern<e- 
montani ^ and exhorting alfo diligent Anacomifts, to open' 
and Vi^ell to examine the Liver and other vifcera of fuch , 
as dye of this ficknefs, beiug himfelf altogether pcrfuaded, 
that thofe arc the Parts- which are primarily and by tdio- 
pathy affedted in a Coniuraption, and the Lungs not other- 
wife than fecondarily and by confent\ Where he alfo taketh 
notice, that one of the main caufes of the frequency of 
this Difeafe among the Engiifli is, their eating abundance 
of fugar and other fweet things, which^ in his opinion, do 
eaufe a great ObftrucSion in the Liver and other Entrals, 
(the origin of Confumptions which by the aforefaid Plants 
is powerfully refolved and opened. See him p* 4^» 
to 49* 
Further, amongft many other Advices , this Author ob- 
ferveth 5 that there is hardly any thing more infalubrious , 
"than to eat freflily gather'd Fruit, efpecially if they were 
expofed to the Sun 5 cfteeming, that the imprefEouj made 
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