134 CHAPTER 10, 
for the laft time in 1678. This excellent 
man, who in the charafter of furgeon, fuccef- 
lively ferved four fovereigns of France^ was 
attached to the proteftant caufe 1 and for 
his extraordinary merit, and his having 
cured Charles IX. of a tendon wounded in 
bleeding, was faved from the maffacre of 
St. Bartholomew. He furvived this event 
19 years, and died in 1590. His works 
were colleded by himfelf, in 1582, in folio, 
and ran through nine or ten editions on the 
continent. Parey's improvements in his 
profeffion had been Angularly important; 
there can be no doubt, therefore, that our 
author performed a very acceptable fervice 
to his countrymen, by putting his writings 
into an Englifh drefs 
* Miller confecrated the name of Johnson by af- 
figning it to a berry-bearing (hrub of Carolina^ belonging 
to the tetrandrous clafs \ firft figured by Plukenet, 
tab, 136. f. 3. and fince by Gates by, vol. 2. tab, 47. 
The Englifli Botanifts, who muft confider Johnson as 
entitled to fo honourable a diftin6lion among their 
worthies, will regret that his name fhould not be re- 
tained in the Linnaean fyftem, in preference to Callicarpay 
by which term this fhrub is now well known in the 
Englifh gardens. 
Before 
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