IV 
PREFACE. 
whereby they are divided into feparate 
Chapters, with refpedt to their Parts 
ufed in Medicines. The Chapters are 
fubdivided into Articles : Wherein I 
have fet down, i . The different Names, 
ancient and modern, of each Drug ; 
2. A Defcription of it; 3. The Marks 
dire&ing how to choofe it ; 4. The fy- 
nonymous Names, and native Soil of 
the Plant to which it belongs, if yet 
afcertained ; 5. Its chymical Analyfis , 
when judged requilite ; 6. Its Virtues, 
Dofes, with fometimes its bad Quali- 
ties, and Reafonings upon the Manner 
in which it operates ; and, in the laft 
Place, are commonly fubjoined fome 
Forms, according to which it may be 
conveniently adminiftred. 
In fhort, I have tranflated whatever 
appeared to me in my Author necef- 
fary to be known by Gentlemen who 
are engaged in the Study, or Pra&ice of 
Phyfick ; and believe, or at lead: hope, 
that nothing, that might prove of real 
Advantage to them, is omitted. 
I have 
