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systems of which the general system is composed. Nor 

 does he confine himself to a history of the effects of me- 

 dicines upon the human constitution. In many in- 

 stances, he pursues the enumeration of effects through 

 all the known classes, or series, of animals ; and even 

 points out their effects upon vegetables. He enumerates 

 the principal diseases, and the peculiar forms, or varie- 

 ties, of those diseases, in which the medicines are used 

 with advantage ; or in which, considering the subject 

 both practically and theoretically, they are contra- indi- 

 cated. He is careful to mention the doses in which the 

 articles he treats of, are used, in persons of all ages, and 

 of various constitutions ; and he pays particular atten* 

 tion to the pharmaceutical tieatment of those aiticles. 



In this course of lectures, none of the really tmpor- 

 tant articles of the Materia Medica are left unnoticed. 

 Many of the articles, however, are dismissed with a very 

 few words ; that it may be in the power of the Profes- 

 sor to give an extensive history of those medicines, or ar- 

 ticles, which he supposes to be peculiarly entitled to the 

 attention of physicians, especially those of the United- 

 States. 



In short, the Professor views his subject, and endea- 

 vours to treat it, as one of the most important 

 OF all the branches of Medical Science: a 

 bi'anch which necessarily involves a greater variety of 

 matter than any of the other branches ; a branch, the 

 state of which may be considered as the best land-mark 

 of the actual medical improvements of a country. 



