A Contribution To South African Materia Medica Chiefly From Plants In Use Among The Natives Third Edition Largely Extended

Author : Andrew Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781332256372
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book A Contribution to South African Materia Medica written by Andrew Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Contribution to South African Materia Medica: Chiefly From Plants in Use Among the Natives A Knowledge of the plants imported into the Medical Art is traceable in every country to the early inhabitants, whose experience suggested the maladies in which the medicinal plants they had discovered could be employed with advantage, and whose tentative efforts showed the mode of treating diseases. That applies to this country; but how a drug acts, what it can do, the amount of dose, and with what other drugs it ought to be supplemented or controlled, are things left uncertain. With the plants brought forward here as new to scientific use, much of this has yet to be ascertained by experimentation, and those who experiment are strongly advised to begin with very small doses. Large doses may do great mischief, and they always defeat the object for which they are taken. The plants named here may be classed in a threefold way into - a few important - a number fitted for minor uses - and the rest adduced to show what people resorted to, when they could have recourse to nothing else. 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.