Excerpt from The American Practice Condensed, or the Family Physician: Being the Scientific System of Medicine, on Vegetable Principles, Designed for All Classes For the benefit of those who still remain ignorant of the present state' of medicine and surgery, I will very briefly advert to its history from its commencement to the present day; and. 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.