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KllL An Accmnt of a Boo\. 
Wjloire des Vlantes qui naiffent aux environs de Tar is 
avec leur ufage dam la mede'cine par M. Pitton ToHrne" 
fort de l*Academie royale des Scie^ces^ DoHeur en Me-- 
decine de la faculte de Paris & profejfeur en hotani^ue 
au jar din royal des Plantes, A Paris de llmprimeri^ 
Royale 1698. 8vo. 
THE Author of this Book is very well known to the 
Learned already by his Works formerly publiffii- 
ed ; in this Book he gives an Account of the Plants gro^^^- 
ing wild about Paris, The Preface relates the Succeft of 
fev^era! Experiments he made to di(cover the Salts con- 
tained in the Earth, wherein Plants grow, many of rhefe 
were done with great Labour and Nicety. He likewife 
gives his Opinion of the (everal Ways of the Operation 
of Medicaments on humane Bodies, and of his Opinion 
of the Caufes of the fame. 
The Book it felf is divided into Six Herborifations, 
each of which contains the Plants he met with in the 
Gourfe of the Walk he prefcribed to himfelf. To the 
Names he gives each Plant from the befl: and moft com- 
mon Authors, he adds a critical Account of the extant 
Defcriptions and Figures of each, 1^/2. Where it is ill, and 
where well defcribed and figured He gives farther, very 
often, an Account of the Chymical Analyfis of it, which 
he generally extrads from the Regifters of the Academte 
Royale. He alfo gives an Account of the Vertues afcribed 
to each Plant, from the moft approved Authors, or from 
Information he received frorn the Inhabitants of feveral 
Countries he liv'd in, or traveled through. There are fa 
many new and obfervable things of ufe m this Book, the 
Curious, for full Satisfadion, muft have recourfe to it 
themfelves, L I J XIV. An 
