A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World; With Their Virtues and Uses, as Far as Hitherto Certainlt Known, in Medicine and Mechanics: Illustrated by a General Review of the Knowledge of the Ancients, and the Discoveries and Improvements of Later Ages in These Studies. Including the History of the Materia Medica, Pictoria, and Tinctoria, of the Present and Earlier Ages. As Also Observations on the Neglected Properties of Many Valuable Substances Known as Present; and Attempts to Discover the Lost Medicines, &c. of Former Ages, in a Series of Critical Enquiries Into the Materia Medica of the Ancient Greeks. With a Great Number of Figures, Elegantly Engraved