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Addend, to the Note at p. 319. 
I thought it proper to add the following Paffage taken out of the 
Journal-Book of the Royal Society , fuppofing it to be what Mr. Olden - 
burgh hints at in his Letter. 
cc Nov. 1 6, 1671. [Sir Robert Moray ] exhibited a certain Plant, 
<c (which was by Mr. Wray called Lichen ter re (bit cinereus) faid by 
cc Sir Robert Moray to be very good to cure Dogs bitten by wad Dogs : 
cc His Royal Highnefs having caufed it to be given to a whole Kennel 
cc of Dogs, bitten by a mad one, which were all cured, except one of 
cc them 5 to whom none of it was given. ” 
The Specimen was kept in the Repofitory. 
The -fame Virtue is likewife afcribed to this Plant, in the Third Part 
of Morifons Plantar. Hiftor. Oxon. publifhed at Oxford Anno 1699. 
in Folio, p. 6}2. where the Author, fpeaking of the Lichen terreftris 
cinereus , Rail Hifi. Synopf. fays, Adverfus morfum canis rabidi 
egregium eft Medic amentum. 
Dampier , and the College ofPhyftcians , in their Pulv. Antilyjfus , pre- 
fcribe equal Quantities of the Lichen and Pepper : But Dr. Mead , in a 
Angle Quarto Leaf publifhed by him Anno 1735. hath alter’d the Pro- 
portions of the Compofition, prefcribing double the Quantity of Lichen 
to that of the Pepper. This difference in the Proportions muft be left 
to the Judgment of Practitioners ; but upon the Authority of another 
Minute in the Society’s Journal-Books, it may not be improper to make 
an Addition to the above-mention’d Dampier’ s Powder. 
cc March 7, 1671-2. Sir Robert Moray mention’d, that a whole Ken- 
cc nel of Dogs, belonging to his Royal Highnefs, were bitten by a 
u mad Dog, and had been lately cured by a certain Herb called Stel- 
laria , or Star of the Earth. ” 
This Plant is the Lychnis vifcofa , flore mufcofo Cafp. Bauhin. in 
Englifh, Spanifh Catch- fly. See thek Tranfaffions, N° 187. where is 
a Receipt to cure mad Dogs , &c. wherein this Plant is a principal In- 
gredient ; which Receipt, communicated by Sir Robert Gourdon , was 
there publifhed by his M a j e s t y ’s \_fpecial ] Command , Anno 1687. 
Wherefore, fuppofe the Compofition were to be thus : 
Take Afh-colour’d Ground-Liver-wort, black Pepper, and the 
Herb Spanifh Catch-fly, all finely powder'd, of each two 
Drachms , for four Doles, to be taken as Dampier prefcribes 
in his Letter in thefe TranfaCtions, N° 237. 
ERRATUM. 
