[Proceedings United States National Museum, 1881. Appendix.] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



UNITED STATES ]Sr J?L T I O isr A. Ij ]musexjm:, 



No. 7. 



A CL.A8SIFICATIOIV OF THE FORITIS IJV WHICH DRUCiS AND IUF]>I. 

 OINFS APPEAR, AND ARE ADITIIIVI^TERES. 



By JAMES M. FJLINT, iSurgeon, U. 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 the pharmacist. 



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

 mens, which shall be, as nearly as possible, representatives of their re- 

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

 to such modifications as a larger experience may suggest. 



The effort has been made so to condense each definition that it may 

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

 specimen, together with the name of the latter. 



CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICINAL FORMS. 

 I. — Crude vegetable drugs. 



