Excerpt from The Chrono-Thermal Manual: Containing a List of the Doses of the Principal Medicines, Both Mineral and Vegetable, and Most of the Latest Pharmaceutical Preparations, Also the Latin, French, German and English NomenclatureThe Object of this manual is to prevent mistakes being made by Physicians, (particularly young graduates, ) in the doses of medicines. SO numerous have been the lives of persons lost by over-doses Of the more active medicines, both mineral and vegetable. I hold that, as regards the quality, we have not such a thing as a poison, but only as to quantity. Having been a student of medicine for nearly thirty years, and a practitioner Allopathically, and as a chrono-thermalist for nearly twenty years, l presume will be sufficient to satisfy all those into whose hands this little work may fall, that I ought to be acquainted with the subject which I am about to introduce.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.