Excerpt from The-Romance of Empire Drugs: English Herbs, African Fruits, Australian Gums, Indian Roots, Canadian Beaver and New Zealand Whale, All Contribute to This Empire Tale Nations, the wish is expressed that something of real and novel interest is being presented to the reader. It will be found that there are many. Medicinal substances produced within the British Empire not included in the present work, which is mainly concerned with vegetable drugs. It is worth mentioning, therefore, that the Empire is rich in practically all products used in medicine. 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.