Excerpt from A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacy: Comprising a Concise Description of the Articles Used in Medicine; Their Physical and Chemical Properties; The Botanical Characters of the Medicinal Plants Locke, that great master of matter, mind, and human pas sions, has faithfully, although quaintly recorded this feature of the character of man, too much to the purpose not to be cited in this place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.