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INTRODUCTION. eS 
fied. I have entered upon the undertaking with diffidence, 
well knowing the difficulties attending it. But asI have had gi 
considerable experience in the healing art, duty to society 
seemed to impel me to communicate it, in. the hope that it 
might-possibly be beneficial to the human family, when I can 
no longer be so ; for I should always have esteemed myself a 
_ useless member of society had I not contributed my mite, 
however imperfect, towards the improvement of ‘physic. | 
In giving the history of diseases, causes, symptoms, &c. 
~-Filay no claim to originality" correct description of dis- 
ease being the same ever y where. I have therefore taken them, y 
principally, from different medical works, wherever I have 3 
found them agreeing with my ideas, making such alterations _ 
“as Isawfit. I have also extracted ‘such. observations upon — 
diseases as I imagined might be useful, whenever I have found — 
them coinciding with my views. And for these I am m chiefly 
_ indebted to the estime ble Bucuan, and T {OMAS, who, how- | 
ever we may v ary ‘do 
very correct and plain in Fear descriptions, Ta 
ment of Materia Medica I have likewise derived great baum 
fit from the descriptions. of THATCHER, RarFinesqu 
Henry, whose works have contributed largely 
lopement of the medicinal resources of our cou 
This book is written in plain. language, in ¢ 
ci ‘student may come at once at the substance €: 
_ without being under the necessity C bh 
a host of Latin technical. terms, ich only 
fuse an confound him, or, at ios 
_ The Engli : 
:  mbiieciaianit to retain. 
. Above all, T aN: 
