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 of therapy or dosage will find place herein; but the effort to be fair to all and to preserve a judicial balance will be consistently maintained.

Having previously written two works upon materia medica and therapeutics, the author does not exploit herein either a newborn or a shop-worn enthusiasm. Having very largely used the botanic remedies as discriminatingly as the exigencies of practice permitted, and noted some successes and many failures, he believes himself to be in position to record somewhat of the things the careful and modern practitioner wishes to know regarding the botanic drugs. If the reader but partially agrees with this "preliminary egotism," as a preface is well said to be, as well as with the main text of the work itself, the author will feel abundantly repaid.

Harrisburg, Pa., 1917.