Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of Napellus: To Which Are Added Observations on Several Other Species of Aconitum

The following Inaugural Dissertation obtained from the Senatus Academicus of Edinburgh a Gold Medal at the Graduation of 1844, and printed in accordance with the recommendation of the Medical Faculty, is now submitted to the Profession. In preparing it for publication, condensation has been studied, as far as was consistent with clearness and accuracy, the section treating of the History and Botanical Characters of the plant has, with this view, been much curtailed, and its Chemistry entirely omitted, as every thing satisfactorily ascertained respecting it is to be found concisely and well detailed in the admirable and complete Materia Medica of Dr Pereira. The desire of the Author has simply been to retain nothing that did not immediately relate to his own investigations.

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