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DIVISION IV. 

 MATERIA MEDICA. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 MISCELLANEOUS MEDICINAL PRODUCTS. 



In a work professing to be a popular history of the econo- 

 mic productions of the vegetable kingdom, it would be 

 entirely out of place to enter into a description of all those 

 vegetable materials which constitute the remedial agents 

 used in pharmacy. Indeed they are so numerous that the 

 present volume would prove insufficient for the slightest 

 sketch of their qualities and characters. 



There are a few however which are of such familiar use, 

 that a selection of these, and such others as are possessed of 

 some interest, will perhaps be acceptable to the reader. 



