Excerpt from A New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Vol. 1: Arranged Upon a Physiologico-Pathological Basis, for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine The Repertory, at the end of the Second Volume, has been greatly enlarged, and will be found of eminent advantage to those who desire to avail themselves of this work, as a clinical guide at the sick bed. The author avails himself of this opportunity of tendering his warmest acknowledgments to the Profession for the nume rous and unsought-for expressions of approbation which he has received from students of medicine, as well as from many of our most eminent practitioners; and will endeavor to render subsequent editions of this work as complete as the progress of the medical sciences may enable him to do. 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.