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Excerpt from The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 14: Dependable Therapeutic Fact for Daily Use; August 1907
All roads lead to Rome, and all fair minded investigation of the galenic prepara tions leads to the active principles. Why, oh why should we continue to use remedies which from their very nature must vary so enormously, and to obtain which in reasonable uniformity it is necessary to bring to the standard by adding the alkaloid if too weak, or by diluting if too strong? 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.