Excerpt from The American Botanist, and Family Physician: In Which the Medical Virtues of the Mineral, Animal and Vegetable Productions of North America Are Exhibited, Together With Their Uses in the Practice of Physic and Surgery Tar. Auflror of the following sheets is a native of* new-hampshire, but now resides in the northerly part of Vermont where he has been for a num ber of years engaged in the practice of physio and as health is the foundation of all the enjoy merits of life, the preservation of it (next to our eternal well-being in the world towards which we are making rapid advances) demands our most se rious attention - for if possessed of all that this perishing world could afford, without this inestima his blessing, our conditions would be miserable. 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.