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8 GEXERAL PRINCIPLES. 



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II. Class— ANIMAL EIXMENTS— 1 Order. 



1. O. COMPOUNDS of Carbone, Hydrogene, Oxigene and 

 Azote. G. Glutten, Albumine. Gelatine. Adipocire. Fungin, 8tc. 



III. Class.— PECULIAR ELEMENTS.— 4. Orders. 



1. Order. AZOTES or Vegetable Alkalies, •containing Azote. 

 3 Families. Carbonits. Oxigenits. Ammonits or true Alkalis. G. 

 Ferment. Narcotine. Asparagine. Morphium. Quinine. Eupato- 

 rine. Comlne. Daturine, &c, 



2. Order. ACIDS, formed by Carbone, Hydrogene, with Cxi- 

 gene in excess. G. Acetic. Malic. Oxalic* Benzoic. Citric. Tar- 

 taric, Gallic. Mor*c. Fungic, Sec. 



3. Order. WATERS, formed by Carbone with Hydrogene and 

 Oxigene in the proportion of Water. G. Lignites. Fecules. Sac- 

 charines. Gums. Amarines. Polychromites. Tannines. Extrac- 

 tives. Mucilages. &c. 



4. Order. OILS, formed by Carbprte, Oxigene, with Hydrogene 

 in excess. G. Gluines. Wax. Fixed Oils. Aromes. Resins. Picrines. 

 Acrines. Camphors, Sec, ^ 



THIRD SECTION-3IEDICAL PRINCIPLES. 



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1. Every vegetable substance produces effects on the human 

 frame ; but these effects can only take place by actual contact of 

 the parts, or their effluvia, 



2. These effects are either grateful, or unpleasant, or noxious, 

 and either nutritive, or medical, or poisonous. 



3. Nutritive substances sustain life, the noxious impair it ; 

 while the medical preserve or restore health. 



4. Plants may be noxious toman, while they are innocent 



or nutritious for animals or cattle, and the everse may as often 

 occur • 1 



5. The popular belief that every country produces simple* 

 suitable to cure all their prevailing focal diseases, is not devoid 

 of truth.' 



6. There are many modes of effecting cures by equivalent re- 



