Excerpt from Medicinal Plants, Vol. 1 of 4: Being Descriptions With Original Figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine, and an Account of the Characters, Properties, and Uses of Their Parts and Products of Medicinal Value, (Nos. 1-69) Ranunculaceæ to AnacardiaceæUses, is of special importance to the practitioner of medicine, and here great care and much discrimination have been exercised to give as full a summary as possible of those diseases in which the drug has been found of more especial value, as well as those in which it has been regarded as useful, and also those in which it seemed worthy of a more extended trial than it has hitherto received in this country. In the case of some new remedies, more particularly those introduced from the United States of America and India, it is believed by the authors that much benefit will arise from their more general use. The medicinal properties and uses of drugs have been supplemented in all cases when necessary, by some notice of the economic uses of the plant described, but the authors have here been obliged to confine themselves to a brief account of the more important applications, as not falling further under their province.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.