Volume 1

An historical account of mandrakes, both male and female. With a particular account of those which Rachel longed for.

Date:
1741
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of mandrakes, both male and female. With a particular account of those which Rachel longed for. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed of the Nature of Plants, and defcribes with great Accuracy the Grecian Heroes applying proper Remedies to the Wounds of their Foliowers, ai]d particularly men¬ tions the Molly as an <;JFe£lual Prefervative againft Inchantments, and Savin as capa¬ ble of Caufing Barrennefs, Tis true Ho¬ mer has wrote nothing profefledly on the Subject, but as a Poet brings thefe Things occafionally into the Body of his Poem, in order to defcribe the Manners and Cuf- toms of thofe early times. The next eminent Perfon that claims a Place here is Pythagoras, whom Pliny fays was the firft, qui Volumen de earum ejfeEiu compofuit. (a) This Philofopher ap¬ pears to have been a very inquilitive Per¬ fon, and fand of every Opportunity to render his Knowledge univerfal. With this Defign he traveil’d into Egypt (b) the Seat of Arts and Sciences, and there in- ftru&ed himfelf in ail their Myfteries, —He convers’d alfo with the Magi from whom he feems to have borrow’d many of his Opinions. —As to his Knowledge In Phyfick, it is not to be doubted but he deriv'd that intirely from the Egyptians (a) Hitt. Nat. lib. xxv. Cap. 2. (b) Diog. Laer. in Vita Pythag. who