Lectures on the materia medica: containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing Published from the manuscript of the late Dr Charles Alston .. by John Hope ... . Botany, and foon [ viii ] foon after, though fomewhat advanced in life *, wentover to Leyden, to ftudy under Boerhaave ; where heremained between two and three years, and with his ownhand wrote copies of the Lectures of the feveral medicalProfeffors ; and it was there he contracted with his aftercolleague, the celebrated
Lectures on the materia medica: containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing Published from the manuscript of the late Dr Charles Alston .. by John Hope ... . Botany, and foon [ viii ] foon after, though fomewhat advanced in life *, wentover to Leyden, to ftudy under Boerhaave ; where heremained between two and three years, and with his ownhand wrote copies of the Lectures of the feveral medicalProfeffors ; and it was there he contracted with his aftercolleague, the celebrated Dr. Monro, a ftricl: friendfliip,which continued all the days of their lives. In 1720 he began to read Lectures on Botany and theMateria Medica. (Vide Comment, Lipf, Vol. XI. p. 556.) His firft wife was Robina, daughter of Lock-hart, Efq; of Lee, by whom he had one daughter, whois now living. He again married Bethia, daughter of Birnie, Efq; of Broomhill, who bore him no children. He was born in the year 1683, anc^ died tne22d of November 1760, in the 77th year of his age;having been ProfefTor of Botany and the Materia Medicaduring the laft twenty years of his life. * He was then about thirty-three years old, having been born 1683. Edinburgh,April 12, 1770, JOHN HOPE,. E C^T U R E S ON T FI E MATERIA MEDIC A. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION. THAT the knowledge of fimples is abfolutely neceflary for everyone who defigns to make phyfic or pharmacy his profeffion, willreadily be granted, and cannot be denied : but that, in order to it,colleges are ftill wanted in an age favoured with fo many books on the fubjectas this is, may perhaps be doubted by fome, and appear a paradox to the virtues (to fay nothing of the hiflory) of fimples fufficiently ex-plained by any writers on the fubjccl, there might be fome foundation foriuch fufpicions •, but this is not the cafe. There are indeed a multitude oftreatiles, not only on the Materia Medica in general, but alfo almoft on everypar
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