256 CHAPTER 47. 
he loft his Hfe, protefting his innocence to 
the laft. 
So refpedlable a performance as Mrs. 
Blackwell's, attraded the attention of 
phyficians on the continent, Tkew, of 
Nortmhergy in the year 1750, engaged an 
artift of that place to copy Mrs. Black- 
well's plates, and himfelf fupplied feveral 
defcdts in the drawings* He fubftituted fome 
entirely new figures ia the room of the ori- 
ginals, very confiderably reformed and am- 
plified the text, tranflated it into German 
Latin y and planned the addition of a 
fixth century of plates. He prefixed a mofl; 
elaborate and learned Catalogue of Botani- 
cal Authors, but did not live to finifh the 
work. The Fifth Century v/as publiihed 
in 1765 y and Dr. Trew dying in 1769, 
the fupplemental volume, exhibiting plants 
omitted by Mrs. Blackwell, articles 
newly introduced into practice, and figures 
of the poifonous fpecies, was conduced 
by LuDWiG, BosE, and Boehmer, and 
printed in 1773. Thus reformed, Trew's 
edition furpaffes any other work of the fame 
defign. If there are imperfedions in it, 
they 
