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made here, to confirm the truth of the doctor’s 
affertions; more efpecially, as fbme of the difeafes, 
in which Dr. Storke found the Cicuta attended with 
great fuccefs, are fuch as are of all others the mob 
lhocking to human nature, and have, by too long 
experience, been found to give way to no other 
means. 
Hence it is highly important to every one, more 
particularly to phyficians, that the very plant, di- 
rected by Dr. Storke, be adminiilred, and no other 
in the place of it, either through inattention or want 
of knowlege ; as judgment in the phyfician is of no 
real fervice, unlefs his prefcriptions are faithfully pre- 
pared. 
For thefe reafons, it may not be improper to in r 
form thofe medical practitioners, who are not con- 
verfant in botany, and who may neverthelefs be de- 
firous of trying the effedts of the Cicuta, that at this 
time of the year there is another plant, growing in 
the fame places, and often mixed with it, fo much 
refembling it in appearance, as not, without fome at- 
tention, to be dibinguiihed from it; which, however, 
greatly differs from it in fenfible qualities. Great 
care therefore ought to be taken, that the one of thefe 
lhould be feledfed from the other. 
The plant fo much refembling hemlock, is the 
Cicutaria vulgaris of the botanibs, which in fome 
parts of England is called cow-weed, in others wild 
cicely. Its greateb refemblancc to hemlock is in the 
fpring, before the balks of the leaves of the hemlock 
are interfperfed with purple fpots; and therefore, at 
that ieafon, more ealily mibaken for it; though, 
even then, the leaves of the hemlock fmell much 
bronger, 
