The Botanic Pharmacopoeia: Comprising the Materia Medica, Doses and Preparations of the Medicines Employed in the Botanic Practice

A want having long been felt among Medical Botanists of a work partaking of the nature of a pharmacopoeia, devoted exclusively to the medicines employed in the botanic practice, the idea of writing such a work was, some years ago, suggested to me by an old practitioner in the system. Until recently, however, I did not feel my way clear to the production of such a work. Now it is completed I can only hope that it may be found a trustworthy guide, both to the student and practitioner, and by furnishing the most complete code of instructions yet given in any work on this particular branch of medicine, be of service in raising it still higher in the public estimation and, perhaps, in making it more widely known among allopathic practitioners. Perhaps it is not too much to hope that it may be found useful as a text book to the student preparing for examination as well as being useful as a work of reference to the practitioner.