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Sub-acid and gentler Herbs: The Mordicant and pungent, and suchas repress or discuss Flatulency (revive the Spirits, and aid Concoction ;)with such as abate and take off the keenness, mollify and reconcile themore harsh and churlish : The mild and insipid, animated with the pi-quant and brisk The Astringent and Binders, with such as are Laxa-tive and Deobstruct: The over-fluggifh, raw, and unactive, with thosethat are Eupeptic , and promote Conco&ion: There are Teltorals forthe Breast and Bowels : Those of middle Nature, according as theyappear to be more or less Specifick ; and as their Characters (tho’ briefly )are describ’d in our foregoing Catalogue-. For notwithstanding it seemin general, that raw Sfillets and Herbs have experimentally been foundto be the most sovereign Diet in that Endemial ( and indeed with usEpidemical , and aldiost universal) Contagion, the Scor but e, to whichwe of this Nation, and most other Islanders^ are obnoxious; yet, sincethe Nasturtia are singly, and alone as it were, the most effectual andpowerful Agents in conquering and cxpugning that cruel Enemy, itwere enough to give the Sallet-Dresser direction how to chuse, min-gle, and proportion his Ingredients ; as well as to shew what Remediesthere are contained in our Magazine of Sallet-Tlants upon all Occasi-ons, rightly marlhafd, and skilfully apply’d. So as ( with our * sweetCow ley )

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If thro' the strong and beauteous FenceOf Temperance and Innocence ,

And wholfome Labours , and a quiet Mind i .Diseases Tajfage find.

They must not think here to assailA Land unarm'd, or without Guard ;

They must fight for it , and dispute it hard,Before they can prevail ;

Scarce any Tlant is used here y

JVhich 'gainst some Ail a IVeapon does not bear .

This brings to my Memory, what I have heard of one Signioffaquinto, Thysician to Queen Anne ( Mother to the Blessed Martyr ,Charles the First) and was so to one of the Topes : That observingthe Scurvy and Dropsy to be the Epidemical and Dominant Diseasesof this Nation, he went himself into the Hundreds of Essex , (re-puted the most unhealthy County of this Istand ) and us’d to follow theSheep and Cattel on purpose to observe what Plants they chiefly fed up-on ; and of thole Simples compos’d an excellent EleHuary , of extra-ordinary Effects against those Infirmities.

Thus we are told, that the Vcrtqe of the Cophee was discovert! byMarking what the Goats so greedily brutted upon. So Æsculapius isfsid to have restor'd dismcmbcr’d Hippolitus y by applying some Sim-ples he observ’d a * Serpent to have us’d to another dead Serpent.

We have said how necessary it is, that in the Composure of a Sallete Very Plant should come in to bear its part, without being over-power’db Y lo me Herb of a stronger Taste, so as to endanger the native Sapora od Vertue of the rest; but fall into their Places, like the Notes in

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Usus Lc Auxilio est Anguis ab Angue dato, Ovid Fast .lib, vii,

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