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and their father ; the former of which died, and 
the latter narrowly efcaped, by eating the berries 
of this plant. Hill’s Britifh Herbal, p. 3 29. Dr. 
Haller quotes feveral authors both antiertt and mo- 
dern to prove its deleterious quality. Enum. Stirp. 
Helv. p. 5-07. 
As pernicious, however, as this plant has ge- 
nerally proved, when taken unwarily, there are 
gentlemen in the medical way, who have dared to 
adminider it internally in one of the mod formi- 
dable difeafes incident to human nature: this is 
nothing lefs than the cancer. In the year 1739, 
there was a thelis published at Hall in Saxony, 
tending to prove itafpecidc in the cancer. Since 
then it has been adminiflered in a cafe of that 
kind with the greated fuccefs. This cafe is re- 
lated in a very eircumdantial manner and with the 
greateft appearance of candor and ingenuity, in the 
Bithiotheque Des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, for 
the fird three months of the 1757. One fuccefsful 
cafe is far from being fufficient to edablifh the 
credit of a new medicine; hut the refult of that 
cafe feems to render it worthy of a farther trial : 
and happy will it be for a miferable part of man- 
kind, if it be hereafter attended with the fame 
fuccefs. 
Rhamnus, Gen. Plant. N ,c? . 235- 
Rhamnus inermis, floribus monogynis hermaphro* 
ditis, foliis integerrimis. Hort. Cliff. 70. Sp. 
Plant. 193. 
Frangula feu alnus nigra baccifera Park. 240. Rail 
Syn. p. 465. The Blackberry bearing Alder . 
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