Second Edition
“Medicine is mine; what herbs and Simples grow
In fields and forests, all their powers I know.”
DRYDEN.
Epigraph
“Jamque aderat Phoebo ante alios dilectus lapis
Iasides: acri quondam cui captus amore
Ipse suas artes, sua munera, laetus Apollo
Augurium, citharamque dabat, celeresque sagittas
Ille ut depositi proferret fata clientis,
Scire potestates herbarum, usumque medendi
Maluit, et mutas agitare inglorius artes.”
VIRGIL, AEnid: Libr. xii. v. 391-8.