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the Scurvy : It ufually fweated them, and they were 
very much relieved. The fame Medicine likewife he 
adminiftred to a great many of the Ship, who were 
very ill by eating a poyfonous fort of Seal in thofe 
Parts, called a Sea-Lion, with which they had a very 
great Amendment, although they had been fo ill with 
feeding on this Creature, as to loofe moft of their skins, 
which peeled off their Bodies by degrees, and in large 
pieces; fo that the Antidote to this ftrange Poyfon was 
to be had very near it, and was very much extolled by 
this Gentleman, who was put to a ftand to know what 
to do in this ftrange cafe, although he very well under- 
ftood the Materia Medica. 
By the preceding Defcription, and Figures relating to 
it, compared with thofe of N°. 191. of thefe Tranfa- 
ftions, it will very eafily appear, that the Cortex Win- 
tetanus, commonly fold in the Shops, is not the True 
Cortex Winter anus. But I muft needs fay, tho' they 
^re the Barks of two very differing Trees, and grow- 
ing in very differing places, and appear quite another 
thing in their outward face, yet their tafte is much the 
fame, and I believe they may be ufed as a Succedaneum 
one for another, tho' if the true were to be had in plen- 
ty, it were much to be valued beyond the falfe, being 
much more Aromatic. 
VI. Pbarma- 
