[Procecdiugs United States Natioual Museum, 1681. Appendix. J 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



No. 7. 



A C!L,ASSIFICATIOIV OF THE FORm!^ IIV IVIIIC'II DKUOS AND mFDI- 

 €IIVES Al»PEAK, AIVD ARE ADiTlINIiSlTEREI). 



By JAMES M. Fr.II\T, Suig:eou, II. S. Navy. 



The following classification has been prepared as the basis of a special 

 exhibit in the Materia Medica section of the National Museum, illustra- 

 tive of the forms in which medicinal substances appear in commerce, or 

 are prepared for adminstration by tlic pharmacist. 



The exhibit is intended to illustrate this classification by actual sfjeci- 

 mens, which shall be, as nearly as j^ossible, representatives of their re- 

 spective classes. The list of examples is provisional only, and subject 

 to such modifications as a larger exi:)erience may suggest. 



The eflbrt has been made so to condense each definition tliat it may 

 be conspicuously printed on the label of the jar or bottle containing the 

 specimen, together with the name of the hitter. 



CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICINAL FOKMS. 

 I. — Crude vegetable drugs. 



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