Excerpt from Materia Medica and Therapeutics: A Manual for Students and Practitioners This compend is based upon the works of such acknowledged authorities as Brunton, Bartholow, Wood, Bruce, Edes, and Biddle, and upon the compiler's own notes of the didactic lectures of Pro fossor Peabody of New York. It has been the endeavor of the writer to consider particularly those drugs which have recently recommended themselves to the notice of therapeutists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.