A critical dissertation on the mandrake of the antients; : with some observations on the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman literature, botany, and medicine. In a letter to a Fellow of the College of Physicians.

Date:
1737
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Credit: A critical dissertation on the mandrake of the antients; : with some observations on the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman literature, botany, and medicine. In a letter to a Fellow of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CRITICAL • DIS S E RTATION ON THE MANDRAKE, &c. SIR, H E uninterrupted Courfe of Friendfhip that has always fub- filled between us, join'd to the __p good Opinion you are pleafed to entertain of me, puts it out of my Power to difobey your Commands: And I think I can’t give you a ftronger Proof of that Influence you have over me, than in complying to give you my Sentiments on the Mandrake of the Ant lent $. But in the mean time I can’t help accufing you of an unfriendly Piece of Severity, in inv? A 2 poling tU