Excerpt from Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacy: Specially Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Medical, Pharmaceutical, Dental, and Veterinary Students This work, originally published eight years ago and a second edition four or five years later, is intended to give to practitioners and students of medicine, in as concise and clear a manner as possible, those points which are of value, without the lengthy detail usually found in text-books. Many new and some old drugs and pharmaceutical preparations have been in tentionally omitted from this edition, and only those are con sidered which are in everyday use and of recognized therapeutic value. It is not an easy task to adopt a system of classification suiting the ideas of all so the author chose to arrange the drugs in alphabetical order, concluding that this arrangement would be more easily comprehended and applied by those for whom the work is intended than would any other more com plicated form. The first part is not intended as a study of botany, etc., but merely a synopsis to familiarize the student with those terms which are frequently used in Parts II and III. In Part II, in considering the individual drugs, only those essential points which are of value are noted, it being the author's desire to eliminate all matter of a superfluous nature. 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.