Excerpt from A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Reference to the Most Direct Action of Drugs The faithful character of those parts of this work, devoted to the Materia Medica of the Vegetable remedies, and to Elec tro-therapeutics, is almost entirely due to the faithful and care ful study, untiring research, and persistent effort of Dr. A. W. Smith, of Chicago, late professor of Materia Medica in Bennett Medical College, who has labored constantly with the author during the entire year just past in the preparation of those parts of the work. 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.