TRAVELLING, &c. t 7 
Ipecies of fmilax> ipecacuanha , a Ipecies of ho- 
ney-fuckle , acmetta , a fpecies of agrimony , 
contrayerva of dorjlenia , and fimoruba of 
which in fome difeafes are reckoned 
fpecifics ? what are all thefe, I fay, but reme- 
dies approved by long ufe amongft the vulgar? 
and are not innumerable remedies ufed among 
our own countrey people of the fame nature ? 
were not all thofe I have enumerated found out 
by d barbarians, and when experience had 
Ihewn, that they were ufeful, and efficacious 
in many difeafes, were they not thought wor- 
thy to be communicated to the reft of man- 
kind ? Let our young phyfician then learn, 
* Vid. Vires plant arum Am^nitat. academ. vol. i. p. 
403. where Brunnerus is quoted for faying, that barbari- 
ans have done more towards the advancement of phyfic, 
than the learned of all ages. In the fame paflage the fol- 
lowing words of Tournefort are quoted, que tout le travail 
des hommes ri*a encore rien prqduit de Ji ajfure que deux ou trois 
drogues que les fauvages trouvent dans les bois. The 
author fubjoins to thefe quotations a lift of twenty medi- 
cines with an &c. taken from barbarous nations, now 
ufed in our (hops. 
The curious reader may find in Dampier’s voyages a 
very extraordinary inftance of the ikill of the favages of 
America in the chirurgical way; Wafer there gives an 
account of a cure performed upon himfelf by thefe peo- 
ple, and his teflimony is the Wronger, as he was a fur- 
geon himfelf. 
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