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it ftronger than at the firft, as the patient always 
found the like effe&s from the fame dofe. 
So fingular and happy an event, as attended Dr. 
Lambergen’s adminiflration of this plant, certainly 
merits the attention of the medical profeflion ; and 
furely, one may add, entitles the medicine to future 
trials. And as the authenticity of the cafe will not 
be difputed, it is therefore greatly to be wifhed, that 
thofe gentlemen, who belong to the public hofpitals, 
and others that have frequent opportunities of attend- 
ing patients labouring under this deplorable difeafe, 
would give it a further trial. A cancer, even in its 
latent, but much more in an ulcerated date, is al- 
lowedly one of the molt terrible and formidable 
diforders to which human nature is liable ; and hath 
long been ranged, very juftly, among the opprcbria 
medicorum , inftances of a radical cure being rarely 
met with : indeed, one of the firft phylicians (23) of 
our age tells us, that it is not known to have been 
cured at all, but by a total extirpation of the part ; 
and all, who are converfant in phyfic and furgery, 
know very well, that that operation is frequently no 
lecurity againft its return. 
I have here endeavoured, in as concife a manner 
as might be, to exhibit the hiftory of this extraordi- 
nary plant. The being able barely to know and dif- 
tinguilh one plant from another, however praife- 
worthy in itfelf, ought not to be the only view of 
our botanical refearches : we fhould do more, and 
(23) Dr. Van Swieten Comment, in Aphor. Boerh. fe&. 492. 
endeavour 
