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Both thefe falfe Kinds were brought me from Ma* 
Yyland in 172* 5 ") by one M. SeymouT a Surgeon^ who 
informed me that they grow there in great Plenty, 
being called Ipecacuanha by the Inhabitants, and ufed 
as a Vomit by thofe of inferior Rank, I have fince 
that Time received a Sample of the Brown Sort, taken 
from a Parcel which lay in the Cuftom-houfe, above 
twelve Years ago, and called by the Name of wild 
Ipecacuanha, 
The forementioned Illuftrious Sir Hans Sloane 
did me the Honour to inform me that this falfe Brown 
Kind was the fame that was formerly fent to him 
from Fkginia for the true Ipecacuanha^ and which 
lie afterwards difcovered to be the Root of a poifon- 
ous Apocynum defcribed by him in his NaturalHi^ 
Jory of Jamaica ; in which Ifland it is very com- 
mon, and likewife in Ne^Jpain, as appeared to 
him by the Specimens fent him by his Correfpondent 
Dr. Burnet, 
In his Introdudion to the fecond Volume of that 
excellent Hiftory, he has^-obliged us with a very full 
and diflind: Account of what he had learned from'his 
Friends abroad, concerning the pernicious Effeds. of 
the feveral Parts of this Plant, and of the great Pains he 
was at to prevent its being brought into Ufe in this 
Country, which was then very much to be apprehend- 
ed, Helvet ills' s Name will always be mentioned 
with Honour for the great Share he had in rendering 
the Ufe of the true Ipecacuanha common in Europe j 
and I cannot think that Sir Hans Sloane deferves a 
much lefs Degree of Praife for having deteded this 
- falfe Kind, which was infenftbly creeping inter Ufe^ 
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