Excerpt from A Text-Book of Organic Materia Medica, Comprising a Description of the Vegetable and Animal Drugs of the British Other With Other Non-Official Medicines: Arrange Systematically and Especially Designed for the Use of Students

The Author has, for many years past, contemplated the compilation of such a work as the present, for the use of students during their apprenticeship, and as a text-book for them while attending courses of lectures, and as a preparation for their examinations With these special objects in view, the Author has endeavoured to make it as elementary as possible, but, at the same time, thoroughly practical and in accordance with the present state of the science on which it treats. The general characters of the various drugs derived from the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms have been given very fully, so as to enable the student to recognise them with facility and certainty, and thus at the same time readily to detect any adulteration of the genuine drug, or the substitution of the false for the true. In this respect the Author believes that the present work will not only be a trustworthy guide to the student, but also especially valuable to the pharmacist generally, and to all engaged in the prescribing and dispensing of medicines.

It will be noticed that the arrangement of the plants from which the Vegetable Drugs are derived is different in many respects from that ordinarily adopted in works on Materia Medica.

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