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fented them to the Company^ refers in fome of thefe 
Books to fome of the fame kinds he load fent him be- 
fore, as will appear hereafter. 
The Order in which they are defigned tohe puhli/hed 
is fach as they came over in : The firjl Book \y ill be in 
this Tranfa6tion^ the others in thofe facCeeding, as 
they can be got ready atGrefhamCollege^^nd for thePre/x. 
ThQ Plants themfelves, and the Origwd Papers of 
Mr Brown are kept in the fame Order^ and with the 
fame Numbers in the Repofitory of the Society as they are 
here publiflied, for the inlpection of th^ Cmiom,^ who 
are defired to handle them tenderly, left they (hould 
be iri'jiEred, and the good intentions of the Eajl In^a 
Company 2ind Royal Society be truftrated, which are, 
that they may laft for the Infornrntion 3Lnd Z)fe of /all 
inqiiiGxiv'Q PerfoKs, and be forthconiiiag.oa ajl QccaQofls 
wherein they can. be oiSertficeix^iV^w) 1i{)rnod'i :ii i J/rn 
s That they may be of great Vjfe to' t&e, publick, js 
nikmfeft from this one particular. Soxiie years^ agQ, I 
think , ever fince the year 1672, a Root was made 
i^at ZJfe of with fome Succefe. iti Bpkpikk^ Qonttid- 
fiv£ or Head Difeafes 5 'twas ; calf d. by ^ Qfr jPe*?^^, - a 
Phy fician lince dead, Cajjurmniar^ and a, (heet of Paper 
was then printed of its Vertues. It feenfd to be a kind 
of Zedoary better than ordinary ^ bilt whence it came, 
or ho^ ' to come by it , (the name being feign'd 
to hide it) and the perfon dead, none xou'd telV 
When I faw this Collection dt the Eajl-India-houfe^ I 
fouiKi arriongft other things this Root by the name of 
Beng'dle, and an account that it was much ufed by 
the Natives in the Indies. I told fome Drugjlers of 
tills ^ifcovery, they font for it, and have received it 
.from the //^(^/'ej' by that name, and now it is better iin- 
derftood, as v/iU appear by thefe papers, and to be had 
in greater plenty, fo that even the p^oorer fort of People 
may receive benefit by it at a more moderate price, and 
the 
