Excerpt from Useful Cathartics: A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics With Suggestive Formulas and Recipes When physicians no longer prescribe physic whether the patient needs it or not, when doctors cure and neven cause the cathartic habit, when patients Who require an evacuant are fitted carefully, skillfully and artistically with the very agent best suited for them, when medical students are taught therapeutics with sufiicient thoroughness to enable them to prescribe the proper purge with intelligence and efficiency, when books _on pharmacology and therapeutics adequately deal with the use of medicines - then, a publication like the present little book will no longer be required. May that day soon be here. 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.