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mway the tafte and fmell oiSenna. Monjieiir Marchattd con- 
cluded from this difcovery,that it was more fie to labour to 
know the Remedies that are in our own Land^than to ran 
over all the Earth in queft of that, with much labour and 
charge, which we may have for nothing at home, if wc 
4:ook the pdns to fearch. He added, that a knowing Bo- 
tanift after many long Travels avowed, that there might 
be found in all Countries Remedies for all Difeafes, and 
that having apply'd himfelf to this matter, he had dif- 
covered a good number of Simples commonly to be found, 
that had great Virtues, of which he had graved the Plates* 
He named among others the Achillea Montana Pen£^ which 
fmoaked in a Pipe as T4^^^^, confiderablyeafesan 
This skilM Botanijl he mentioned, was the late Monjieur 
Marchand^his Father, whom out of modeftyhe would not 
name 5 but whom Monfieur VAbbe Bignon^ out of the great 
Love he bears to Learning and Learned Men, named with 
much refpefl: and commendation. He fi-niflit his Difcourfe, 
with advice to 'Phjficians^ to apply themfeiv€s ro the know- 
ledge of what grows in their own Countries^ before they 
think ofgoing farther 5 he faid they ought to negled no- 
thiiig, and that they (hotild rake even in the excrements of 
Animals, thence to get Remedies for Difeafes, after the 
Example of RnUndas thd famous Fhyjician of Ratisbonne, 
who made a particular P^^r/^^^r^p^^i^, wherein all the Com- 
pofitions are different preparations of Excrements. 
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