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demands it. I muft alfo give you notice, that feme Per 
fons have counterfeited the Remedies which I have given 
for the Bloody Flux, but the SucceCs has not been ao- 
fwerable to their Pretences, therefore Men muft be on 
their guard, and not fuffer themfelves to be abus'd ; for 
I affure you, that I have communicated my Secret to 
none but his Majtfty. 
Soni< Notes on this Paper^ hy Hans Sleane, M, D. 
ALtho' I am of Opinion that the itoot mentioned in 
the foregoing Paper, is not fo infallible a Remedy 
for Fluxes, as is pretended ; yet confidering that fome- 
times thofe Didempers yield not to ordinary Means, and 
that this has a great Reputation in our Neighbour Na- 
tions, and may be had in this, I thought it might be 
beneficial to the Publick , to have it ( which was 
communicated to me by Dr, Ctar/es Pre/ion) Printed 
\w Englijhy thatit may beconfidered of, and brought in- 
to ufe, if by proper Judges of the Circumftances of the 
Sick, it may be thought Harmlefs and Helpful. 
In order to a fuller Underftanding of it, I think it ne- 
ceflary to take notice, that Ptfot in his Edit. 1648. 
loi. i6y8. />. 231. Pomet, p. 46. Mangrove ^ p. i6. 
and an i\uthcr at the End of Dr. U(lers Exercitations 
lateJy Printed abroad, have treated of this Herb. It 
feems to have been firft taken Notice of by an A- 
nonymous Portugal^ who Uved ia Brafile (fuppofed 
to be one Manoel TriJIaon) whofe Book falling into the 
Hands of the Englijb] is Tranflated and Publilhed by 
Purchoi^ in the Year 1615-. In whofe Pilgrims^ Vol. 4. 
Lii.-jXap. 1,^ p. 13 1 1, he fpeaks of an Herb call- 
ed in Bra jite, Igpecaj/a^Qi Pigaya.^ wbicbl verily beliei^e 
to be this. 
Jgfaaya, 
