Excerpt from An Experimental Inquiry Into the Similarity in Virtue Between the Cornus Florida and Sericea, and the Cinchona Officinalis of Linnaeus: Together With an Inquiry Into the Modus Operandi of Astringent Vegetables in Preventing the Putrefactive FermentationI have only then to shew, upon analytical principles, what foundation there is for a similarity in virtue, between the Cornus Florida and Sericea, and the red Peruvian Bark.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.