'The\j\'i% of Mr, RAY»_ 59 
time, with Eruptions in his Legs, 
which were often very irkfome to 
him, by their immoderate Itching, 
and fbmetimes Swelling and Inflam- 
mation (17). 
By this Time Mr. Ray % Catalogue 
of Englilh Plants was grown fcarce, 
and was much called for. Upon 
which he was greatly foKcited, by 
his ingenious Friends, to, review and 
improve that Book for a Third Edi- 
tion, which he confented to. But 
there ariflng a Difference between 
(17) About the firft coming of them, he tells 
Dr. Tancred Robinfon,^ in a Letter of April the 
8th 1687, that he was pretty well eafedof his 
Pain, and the Pruritus was abated, which he 
could aferibe to nothing but the Ufe of Holy- 
hock Leaves boiled in May Butter, with which 
he anointed the Eruptions the Night before j 
and wonders that fuch a fimple Ointment fhould 
not only abate the outward Heat and Itching, 
** but remove the inward Pain in the Mufcles.” 
him 
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