Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair].

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PREFACE T O T H E Second D E C A D. H E Advantages of the Title of Diftertation given to tbui Treat! (e, and of the Manner of diflributing the Plants in it, ire evident in this Second Decad. For I am not ccnfind to the hare Rules of a Botanical and Pharmaceutical Hlffory, by only givmg the lynonimous Names, the Deferiptien, Time of flowering, and Place of growing of'the Plants, nor to a Recital of the ordinary Virtues, Ules, and Shop Prepara¬ tions, but bn/ve.the Liberty of adding what elfe concerns them, fuch-as an Im¬ provement of the different Sexes, their Generation, Vegetation, Structure and Nourifhment, with the Circulation of the Sap, &c. And as to the Or¬ der of ranging them, 1 have chofen not to do it purely alphabetically, nor friVxly methodically *, for 1 add the Con-Geners, Brethren of the fame Fa¬ mily, to whatever the Alphabet introduces, which is the reajen that thofe tiro Decads have not yet quite exhaujled the fir ft Letter j this perhaps may make the unwary Reader afraid of the Worlds being drawn to too great a Length, as in¬ deed it would, Jhould every Letter of the Alphabet take up as much room as the firfi , but if he confiders how many Plants are already deferibed, which, according to the Courfe of the Alphabet, muft have been referved for feme of the fubfequent Decads, how many Claffes are explained, and how many general Ideas of Virtues are given, he will eafily conclude that the Length of the two or three Decads will Lave lefs to be faid upon each Particular hereafter, and confe- quently every Decad muft contain a greater Number of Plants than at prefent. I ben® O'