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Show 0 A GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY: 0 R, N E W and A C C U R A T E D E S C R I P T I .0 N S 0 F THE Animals, Yegetabl es, and Minerals of the o 1 F F E R E N T P A R T S of the W 0 R L D; WITH Their VIRTuEs, and USEs as far as hitherto certainly known, in MEDICINE and MECHANIcs: ILLUSTRATED By a G E N E R A L R E vI E w of the Know ledge of the Ancients, and the Improvements and Difcoveries of later Ages in thefe Studies. INCLUDING The H 1sT oR Y of the MATE R I A ME D I C A, P I C T 0 RIA, and TINCT 0 RIA of the Prefent and Earlier AGEs. AS ALSO 0 B s E RVA T 1 oN s on the negleEted Properties of many v::tluable Subftances known at prefent ; and Attempts to difcover the lo!l: Medicines, &c. of former Ages, in a Series of Critical Enquiries into the M Act E RIA ME D JC A of the Ancient GREEKs. WITH A great Number of F I G U RES, elegantly Engraved. By J 0 H N H I L L, M. D. Acad. Reg. Scient. Bttrdig. &c. Soc. L 0 N D 0 N: Printed for THoMAs 0 s noR N E, in Gray's-Inn, Holbourn. MDCCLI. |