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to be a mod efficacious remedy againft 
the hooping cough •, which yet is com- 
monly ufed in this difeafe by the Wef- 
trogoths. The "Turkey baum is kept in 
our ffiops, altho* much weaker than the 
Canarian , which is excluded. The white 
faxifrage and dropwort , tho 5 neither of 
them has any extraordinary quality, yet 
hold a place amongft our officinals. The 
mechoacana is feldom ufed, as being of 
no great ftrength, yet it is a very pro- 
per purge for infants. The oak of Je- 
rufalem is gathered from the European 
plant, whereas both tafte and fmell in- 
ftrudt us, that we ought to get it from 
the American , as a moil powerful remedy 
in confumptions. The plant, and ftalk 
of black currants , no contemptible medi- 
cine in the hydrophobia , in feverifh dy~ 
fenteries , and other contagious diftempers, 
are now negleded, as the antients have 
faid nothing about their vertues ; which 
yet are difcoverable by the fmell, tho 5 
not by the tafte. 
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