The PREFACE.

tret Virtues ; it being certain there is not one of them that has not m it formfpecifick Quality for the Cure of Difeafes. 'tis pity there are few Terfonswhofe Leifure and Fortune will give 'em an Opportunity of applying all theirTime to this Bufinefs ; but I am perfwaded that any Phyfcian or Apothecarythat wohJ ufe a little Induflry this Way might, in the Courfe of his Life, dip-cover the particular Virtues of one Drugg j and this woud, in Time, enrichthe Praftice of Phyfick j with a great, many more Simple Medicines that arefurer, fafer, and more efficacious then thofewe ufe at this Day.