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Excerpt from A Treatise of Therapeutics: Comprising Materia Medica and Toxicology, With Special Reference to the Application of the Physiological Action of Drugs to Clinical Medicine Although pharmacy, or the science of preparing medicines, is entirely distinct from therapeutics, or the science of the application of medicines to the cure of disease, it is evident that some acquaintance with the former is necessary to the correct appreciation of the latter. Further, as the basis of both these studies, must first come a knowledge of materia medica, or the substances used as medicines. Pharmacology is the general term em ployed to embrace these three divisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.