Letter 3011

[fol. 141] Honrd Sr The last weeke I was favoured with yr letter & by the returne of the Carier I received gesn: Epist: for wch & all other yr former civilitys I am very much obliged to yr Gesner & Cisalpinus are reputed by several to have been the first authors who reduced Botany to genus & species Cisalpinus I have read over & find nothing farther in […] of that kind then some discours hints as if he […] such a methode necessary & it is probable gesner in […] Epistles (which I have not as yet read over) many have […] the same but I do not find that either of them ever attempted it though they were the most learned men of their time medicins in the country were never worse then of present both simple & compound though at Bradford we are wel served. I have several times been obliged to send for [medicines] twenty miles & when they came none of the best. Certainly you can not undertake a weeke of greater thrice then clearing the […] medcins for which yu wil have the thanks of the […] through the whole nations that yu may enjoy a long health to do good to mankind is the hearty wish of. your most obliged servant Ric: Richardson North Bierley Mar: 4th 1723/24