Excerpt from To You!, Vol. 7: A Magazine for the Discriminating Individual, That Develops and Enhances the Art of Living Here and Hereafter; September-October, 1940 Rationally used herbal remedies, dieting and total abstinence from food were forms of treatment in vogue in various localities. Every tribe knew some of the poisonous plants in their vicinity and the anti dotes for them. The parts of plants used as medicines were often roots, occasionally twigs, leaves or bark, but rarely flowers or seeds. They were used either fresh or dry, and generally as decoctions. 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.