Excerpt from A Treatise of the Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Vol. 1 of 2 Tic relations, they are necessarily very complex in their structure, and often bring articles together of the most Opposite remediate properties. Cullen's ar rangement, which is principally founded Upon the general effects of medicinal agents, and partly also, in its minor subdivisions, upon their physical relations, is still viewed by many, and I believe justly too, as the most perfect classification that has hitherto been offer ed upon this subject. But even this arrangement does not bring into view all those general analogies which. 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.