Excerpt from A Treatise of the Materia Medica, Vol. 1 of 2 IT may be further obferved, that through the whole of this Work, I have omitted a number of articles entirely, and have been brief upon many 0. Thers to be commonly found in books, while on fome others I may fcem to be rather difi'ufe. This I ac knowledge to be true; but I flatter myfelf that the attic es om3tted, or pafi'ed over flightly, will be found by molt judges to be fuch as do not de ferve more particular notice. I lhould indeed have omitted more than I have done, had it not been that I judged it necelfary to correct the affertions fre quently to be found in the writers on this fubjeet. 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.