OBSTACLES TO THE 
on their hands. It is the bufinefs therefore of 
the phyfician who has any regard for his own 
reputation, and the patient’s welfare, to re- 
quire the apothecary to procure fuch plants, as 
he thinks may be ufefull. 
Simorouba an excellent remedy in the dyfen- 
tery, the fenega root in venomous bites, 
the profluvii cortex in the diarrhea, the 
camphor at a in the green ficknefs, the au~ 
ricularia in deafnefs, the Peragua in the 
diabetes, the fouth-feu tea in the fmall-pox, 
the ferpentum radix again!! venomous 
bites, the wild flax y a very ufefull purge, 
are negle&ed. The juice of the hypociftis y 
and fungus melitenfis y aitho’ powerful me- 
dicines in haemorrhages, and the herba dy~ 
fenterica \ which is named fo from its 
peculiar vertues, have not yet got a place 
among!! our officinals. 
21 . 
Want of care in gathering fimples at a proper 
time y and keeping them , when gathered, ,in a pro- 
per manner . 
1 I fuppofe the Inula diflenterica L. Conyza Media. R. 
174. is here meant; as i find this note upon it in FI. Suecv 
edit. 2. * General Keith told me that the Ruffians, when 
* extremely reduced by the bloody flux, in their expedition 
* into Perfla, were reftored to health by this plant/ 
The 
