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perty of madder in colouring red the bones 
of animals that are fed with it, appears to 
have been knov/n to Lemniiis ; but whether 
he learnt it from Allzaldus, or the latter 
from him, I know not. His book was 
among the earlieil: producTtions in its way, 
and feems to have been well received, as 
may be judged by its paffing through twelve 
or thirteen editions, from its firll publica- 
tion in 1563 to 1627. 
I conceive this Thomas Newton to have 
been the writer of thofe commendatory 
lines prefixed to Lyte's Herbal ^ in which, 
after complimenting tlie author for his ju- 
dicious feleftion of ufeful knowledge from 
former writers, he has veijfified, in lefs than 
two pages, the names of more than two 
hundred worthies in medical fcience, from 
the earlieft antiquity to his ovv^n times*. 
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