Excerpt from Vegetable Charcoal: Its Medicinal and Economic Properties, With Practical Remarks on Its Use in Chronic Affections of the Stomach and BowelsIt should moreover always be borne in mind, that the great science that watches over health, is as complicated as it is important - that it requires attainments of the highest order, - knowledge of every kind, - and after the experience of ages, still remains to the most learned and most skilful a science of great uncertainty, as respects the issues of life and death. Medical treatment Should therefore, on no account be heedlessly, thoughtlessly, or ignorantly undertaken by irresponsible persons. It is better, far better to prescribe no medicine at all, than to prescribe it indiscreetly and this fact Should never be lost Sight of, that the simplest elements in matter relating to health become the most potent instruments for good or for ill, according to the knowledge or ignorance of those who employ them.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.