The Preface. 
they may exert them and aft like Men ? But if, at 
firji View, Men dread the fatal Confequence of an intail' d 
War, and would fain promote the Happinefs of their Chil- 
dren 7 and the Peace of the World, let them cftablijh, by 
an agreeable Convcrfation , thofe Buies of Civil Life our 
good Forefathers injoin' d , for after all, good Example, is 
more prevalent, and more inftruclive than Precept * and the 
general Neglcft of it is really the Source ofallourMifleries. 
In the Firji Part of the following Herbal, I have only 
defer ib\l fuch Plants as grow in England, and are not 
commonly known ; for I thought it necdlefs to trouble the 
Bender with the Defcription of thofe that every Woman 
knows , or keeps in her Garden. And, becauje this Trca- 
tife is deftgn'd for general Vfc, and, I hope, may be fler- 
viceable to Families in the Country, that are far difiant 
from Phyfjcians, I have added an Explanatory 'Table, con- 
taining the Terms of Art, and the Explication of them . 
But here the Header is to be admonifh'd, that the Conjli- 
tutions of Men are fo various,and the Signs and Symptoms 
of Difeafes fo abftrufe, that it is very hazardous, in many 
Cafes, to adminifter Phyficl \ without the Advice of a Phy- 
fician. 
In the Second Part of this Book., which treats of Fo- 
reign Plants, I have made no Inscriptions of the Herbs, 
or Trees’ for I account it unacceffary to defer i be the Form 
or Shape of that, which moft of us are never like to fee. 
The Gums, Balfams, Juices, and the like, that are par- 
ticularly treated of in this Part, contain the moft eminent 
Virtues of the Plants or Trees' from whence they proceed ; 
and are imported a-part, and fold fo by the Druggift , and 
make up a good part of the Materia Medica ; and there- 
fore may well deferve to be handled feparately. 
To be plain, There is little or no Curicftty in this Work.- 
but 1 believe there will be found more Praclice in it, than 
in any Englifh Herbal yet publifh'd. The Vert ues are 
faithfully deliver'd, and not fo promifcuou fly as is cufto- 
mary in Treat ifes of this kf nd '• And. the Medicines in- 
flated 
