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dity when compared wiih the iajunftioiis of 
modern phyficians. 
Our author aifo wrote On the Nature 
" of Wines commonly ufed in England^" 
in vindication of the ufe of Rhenifh wines. 
To this was annexed a trad On the Na- 
tare and Vertue of Treacle/' But, as I 
never faw thefe treatifes, I can give no ac-^ 
count of them. 
Dr. Turner was the author of many 
polemical and religious trcatifes, chiefly 
WTitten in defence of the Reformation, Of 
thefe, a life is p-iven in the Atbcna Oxoiiien-' 
fh, and a more accurate and enlarged one 
in Eifliop Tanner's Bibliotbeca. Several 
of his tradls are yet in manufcript, in vari- 
ous Hbraries. He collated the tranflation 
of the Bible with Hebrew^, Greek> and La- 
tin copies, and corrected it in many places. 
He procured to be printed at Antwerp y 
a new and corrected edition of the Hilhria 
Goitis nofrro', f. Anglic^^ written by William 
of Newhiirghy from a manufcript he found 
in the library of /^Flv/j- ; but complains, that 
the printer not only omitted to iniert cer- 
tain 
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