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performances, and patronized her under- 
taking. 
On publifliing the firfl volume, in 1737, 
Ihe obtained a recommendation from Dr. 
Mead, Dr. Sherard, Mr. Rand, and 
others, to be prefixed to it. And being 
allowed to prefent, in perfon, a copy to the 
College of Phyficians, that body made her 
a prefent, and gave her a public teftimonial 
of their approbation ; v^ith leave to prefix 
it to her book. The fecond volume v^as 
finiflied in 1739, and the whole pubhfhed 
under the following title : 
A curious Herbal, containing 500 Cuts 
of the mofi: ufeful Plants which are now 
ufed in the Praftice of Phyfic, engraved 
*^ on folio copper-plates, after drawings 
taken from the life. By Elizabeth 
*^ Blackwell. To which is added, a 
*^ fhoi t Defcription of the Plants, and their 
common Ufes in Phyfic. 1739/' 2 vol. 
foL 
The dravv^ings are in general faithful ; and 
if there is wanting that accuracy, which 
modern improvements have rendered necef- 
fary, in delineating the more minute parts, 
jet^ 
