Excerpt from Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon Page: Part First. - The materia medica, 7 to 98 as in actual use tot-day by American Physicians. Alphabetically arranged. 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.