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OBSTACLES TO THE 
in difiocations ; and of the tremella , Flor. 
Suec. 1017. for fixed pains in the joynts. 
They alfo chew, and blow the fumes of 
garlic into infants to afiwage their gripes ; 
or bruife, and apply it to the navel by 
way of poultice \ 
14. 
! The neglect of travelling out of Europe. Which 
would afford us an opportunity of knowing 
plants, familiar to forreign nations. And I 
fee not why we fhould be alhamed of learning 
any thing ufeful from Barbarians. 
It is not long ago that fome botanifts, v/ho 
went to America, difcovered to us thofe 
excellent medicines, the great water -dock 
in the worft fcorbutic cafes ; the monarda 
in intermittents ; the collinfonia in the 
colics of lying-in women ; the lobelia , the 
ceanothus , the diervilla in venereal cafes ; 
the fenega root and ophiorrhiza againft the 
bite of ferpents and burning fevers. The 
celebrated Kalm very lately let us know, 
1 Ulluoa obferves that fome difeafes at Carthagena are 
become fatal, which formerly were not fo. Which he attri- 
butes to the negle£t of the Indian remedies. For he fays the 
old women even now fome times cure the cbapetottade , which 
is one of the dillempers he mentions, and formerly never fail- 
ed to cure it. 
that 
