C 449 1 
IX. A Letter from the Rev d Mr. Tho. Steward, 
V. 2 ). M» to 1 )r. Mortimer, Seer . R. S. con - 
cerning the Virtues of the Star of the Earth, 
Coroisopus, or Bucks-horn Plantain, in 
the Cure of the Bite of the Mad-Dog. See 
Tranf. N Q 443. p. 319. and 360, 
Honoured SIR ,. 
Bury St. Edmund's, 
Nov . 1. 1738. 
H AVIN G met with a Paragraph in theHiftory 
of the Works of the Learned for July laft, in 
which the Author takes Notice of a Paflage in the 
laft published Thilofophical Tranfatdion, relating to 
fome Vegetables faid to have great Virtue for the 
Prevention of that terrible Malady called the Hydro- 
phobia, viz. The Lichen cinereus t err eft r is, and an 
'Herb called, Stellaria , or Star of the Earth as to 
the latter of which, at lead, I apprehend there muffc 
have been a Miftake, (though an involuntary and un- 
avoidable one, through the Defed or Confufion of 
the Memoirs made ufe of) and a putting of quid pro 
quo (as 'tis commonly exprefs'd) : On this Occafion 
1 drew up a Letter to the faid Author, in which I 
attempted the Redification of it, happening to have 
fome Materials by me, proper (as I thought) for fuch. 
a Purpofe : But conftdering that what he writes is but 
an Extrad from what was publifhed by you as Secre- 
tary to the Royal Society, I conceived that it 
would better become me to addrefs you more imme- 
diately. 
