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Excerpt from Synopsis of the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania The following outlines of the Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy have been prepared, that the Student attending the course may possess a guide to the leading facts and principles comprised in so extended a subject. No doubt can exist with respect to the advantages of such assistance. The strongest memory finds difficulty in appropriating all that is communicated by oral instruction, and many important points are lost to the generality of students. The text-books which treat of the same department pursue neither the order nor the method presented in the lectures, and loss of time is entailed by reading all that is relevant or irrelevant to the portion of the subject under consideration at any given period. The United States Dispensatory, and Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica, have been recommended in connection with the course; but so extensive is their range that they are scarcely adapted for the momentary requisitions of the student. 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.