A Materia Medica Animalia

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Excerpt from A Materia Medica Animalia: Containing the Scientific Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties and Uses of the Substances That Are the Products of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, or Insects The introduction contains a brief and general view of ani. Mal life, and a sketch of the structure and classification of the whole animal world. Occasion has been taken, in the delineation of this preliminary part of the work, to arrange under its respective order, class, and division every Beast, Bird, Fish, and Insect treated of in the work, that furnishes a substance yielding a medicinal agent. That something of this kind was necessary cannot be doubted, and the light thrown upon these subjects by this means seems preferable to incorporating the requisite additions for this purpose with each subject in the body of the work. The Glossary, added to the other contents of the volume, contains numerous terms used in zoological works, and other words of frequent occurrence in, if not peculiar to, the study of Natural History. The careful definition of these terms will be esteemed as real desiderata. 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.