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the more Surprizing if it fliould be Dog-mercury ; which 
by all Writers I have perufed, is reckoned innocent and 
to have the fame Vertue with the ordinary Mercury u- 
fed every day by Phifitians. On thefe Confiderations ' 
I begg'd the Favour of Mr. Baxter, that he would pleafe 
to write to the Gentleman who fent the Account, for a 
Dried Sample or Specimen of the Herb which he 
did, and -it proves to be the fame they thought it was, 
the Stalks, Leaves and Spikes agreeing exa&ly in every 
thing with thofe of Dog-Mercury. It is delcrib'd and 
figured in feveral Authors. Mr. Ray in his Hiftory of 
Plants calls it Mercurialis Per ennis repens Cynocrambe 
diffa, p. 1 63. Gerard calls it Cynocrambe, p. 333. Par- 
kin/on, Mercurialis Syheftris Cynocrambe difta vulgaris , 
p. 295. Theatr. Botan. Johan. Bauhine in his Second 
Tome, Lib. 23. Cynocrambe mas & fosmina five Menu- 
rialis repens t p.9J9. And Cafpar Bauhine in r his Pinax, 
p. 122. Mercurialis Montana tefticulata & fpicata : In 
which Books the other Names given it by other tlerba- 
lifts may be found, whither I refer you for a further 
Account of it. Whether the Quantity or Quality of 
this were the Caufe of the EfFe&s I know not, but think 
that every Body will do well to be cautious and wary 
in the ufe of it in fuch Quantities, after fuch a Warning* 
, T wrs 7 &c. 
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