To the READER 
Wound, and helps to conlblidate it, than 
many other Remedies, and ibme Excrefcences 
of Trees properly prepared, ferve for Do- 
meftic Ulcs. 
Is it not then Matter of Wonder, that 
this fo ufeful and diverting Branch of 
Knowledge, Ihould of all others be the 
moll negleded by Phyficians and Apothe- 
- caries, whom it moll concerns to be weB 
acquainted with it ; and that the Bufinefs 
ol Herbs is in many Places intircly left to 
ignorant Women, who impole upon the 
Country Difpenfators, quid fro qm. Cud-> 
^I'eed for Gtoufidfine, Uqmrke Vetch for 
Goats-‘rm^ the common Ifldtims-greijs for 
the Rue-ka-ced^ * . Round-km^ed id'iidMmt 
for Horehoiind 
Botany has once been thought a Prince- 
ly Study, and diverfe Plants bear to this 
X)ay the Names of their 'f' Royal Admirers 
of both Sexes; Would Peifons of Leifure 
but confider the Advantages flowing from 
the 
i 
* Menthaftrum nigo& ratmdiarc 
flore Spieato. 
t Gentiana Gentian, from Gentims Kifig itf linria. 
Achillea farrow’, AcInIJ.es H:eTV^ 
L)^machia \V illow Hcrb,y}mj? TiFrieni 
Hful Relation of Alexander the Gmau 
Archemifia Mugwoxt, f~om Areibaaiila. cf 
Halicarnafllis, - 
