Excerpt from A Text-Book of Organic Materia Medica, Comprising a Description of the Vegetable and Animal Drugs of the British Other With Other Non-Official Medicines: Arrange Systematically and Especially Designed for the Use of Students The Table of Contents in the present work has been fully and systematically arranged, with the view of bringing before the student at a glance the sources of the various drugs, as well as the orders and higher divisions of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms to which the plants and animals yielding them respectively belong, more especially those of vegetable origin, which constitute by far the larger proportion of the articles of the Materia Medica. The Author would therefore recommend that, before commencing the study of the drugs of any particular order, reference should be first made to the Table of Contents, when the position of the order will be seen, the names and number of medicinal plants treated of which it contains, and the parts and products of each which are used in medicine. By studying in this way the student will acquire not only a special knowledge of the several drugs, but also a general acquaintance with the several groups in which they are arranged and classified. 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.