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PREFACE. 
fighter D if orders, that they have both 
a Will and a Power to do. And it 
lies too hard on many Pari floes, who. 
have Abundance of Poor , but little or 
no Trade-, efpecially when fo few now 
know the common Virtues of our own 
Herbs. It is not only a Hardfloip 
upon the Poor, that fo few Simples are 
ufed in PraEUce, but mufl often dif- 
appoint our Expectation, fruflrate our 
Defire , and the Hopes of the Sick ; 
fuch a finall Handful of Simples not 
being able to grapple with and van- 
quijh fuch a Multitude of Difeafes 
and their Symptoms ; tho it mufl be 
confejfed to be a very eafy Way for 
Tyro s to come at the Knowledge of a 
Profefflon, when a few Lines contain 
all Neceffaries for its PraEUce. And, 
fince the prefent fmall Number of Ma- 
terials may fuffice for PraEUce, any 
Perfon that can remember them may 
turn Phyfician ; and Phyficians may 
become what they pleafe befides. Not 
that I would hereby encourage crowd 
ing Prefcriptions with a great Num- 
a ber 
