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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    impoflible to conceive that he had the leaft Defign of impofmg upon Pofterity. —— If a Cheat or Impofition of this kind had once got footing in the World, we ftiould have met with heavy Aecufations againft him in all the Writings of Anti¬ quity ; but the contrary is evident, as they all mention him, as a Writer of great Eminence and Veracity, a moft famous Lawgiver, and an excellent Man. •jp If we confider how little we know of the Antiquities of thofe Nations, who flourished neareft the Times in which Mofes wrote, it will appear no great Won¬ der that we are now perfectly ignorant of the Nature and Species of a Plant, whole original Name is hardly known. We have only fome Fragments of the Chat- dale Philofophy preferved by different Writers, and their Botany, if it were ftill extant, would in all Probability afford us no great Satisfaction. The Egyptian Lear¬ ning is that from which we might have expeCted the greateft Affiftance in deter¬ mining the prefent Enquiry. Antiquity •f The Author Is not ignorant of what Longbms, Apion> &c. have faid, but as their Aecufations have been already fully anfwered by the moll eminent Wri- ter?^ it is not worth while to regard them. men-