As there was a great need for Materia Medica which would give complete knowledge of the uses, effects, mode of preparation, physiological and pathological action of our remedies. Therefore, W H Burt designed and arranged a Materia Medica where one can readily find what a drug is, where it is obtained, how it is prepared for medicinal use, how it acts upon the human organism, what tissues it specifically acts upon, how it affects them, how much quantity of the drug is to be taken to produce certain results and what are its characteristic therapeutics. There is set pattern followed throughout the book so as to make the understanding of all the drugs easy. This is a complete symptom register of provings.