Excerpt from Researches on the Chemical and Medical Properties of the Root of Kahinca We see by this new effort of the French chemists, that Chemistry, beside having removed from our shelves the quantities of rubbish which burthened our'materia Medica; having caused to be laid aside quantities of inert matter, with which the stomachs of our patients have been deluged for centuries past - beside that medicines, supposed to be beneficial, have, by its eans, been laid asrde to make room for the active principles of those ...
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Excerpt from Researches on the Chemical and Medical Properties of the Root of Kahinca We see by this new effort of the French chemists, that Chemistry, beside having removed from our shelves the quantities of rubbish which burthened our'materia Medica; having caused to be laid aside quantities of inert matter, with which the stomachs of our patients have been deluged for centuries past - beside that medicines, supposed to be beneficial, have, by its eans, been laid asrde to make room for the active principles of those drugs which observation and experience have proved useful in the healing art - beside that its analy sis has detected, among the woody fibre, the carbona ceous substance, the greasy oleaginous matter of vege table growth, the portion to which a shrub or root owes its medicinal virtues, and thus reducing to something like a certainty our professional efforts, simplifying and facilitating our prescriptions, enabling us better to un derstand the effect of what we prescribe, to vary our re medies with a better reliance on the effects by abstract ing from among them those parts calculated to produce injurious effects, as well as the useless and inefficacious - we say, besides these benefits, Chemistry, by stand ing porter at the threshold, preventing the admission of new remedies without the scrutiny of her analytical test, will guard our temple against the continual impo sitiou of new drugs, whether herbs, roots, or plants, to which we are continually liable - making pharmaceu tical medicine a vague, varying, and uncertain science, and committing upon the people imposture after impos ture, by which their confidence in the means of the healing art is shook to its base and destroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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