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3 provinces. that part of Hindustan being a newlv-oon-
4 <)tiered country. In order to render the work more
5 .acceptable to the English faculty, 1 have introduced
6 these particulars in the second volume, where, besides
7 a description of the new ‘method of treatment ? adopted,
8 may be found (as already Stated) the Flora Cash mo-
9 reana, which, though not perfect, contains maty of
10 the principal qualities and hitherto unknown effects of
11 those plants, which, by experiment, I discovered.
12 The 'Illustrative plates have been drawn with accuracy.
13 My object is, to place the work within the reach
14 of every one whoso health is dear to him, and to render
15 it useful to all. it will be found more especially valuable
16 to those, Who, living in the interior of the country, are
17 shut out from immediate medical assistance; also to
18 travellers, who are much exposed to noxious influences,
19 and who may not have a physician near them. With
20 the aid of this work, and a family medicine-chest (which
21 can be prepared, at a trifling expense, at any phar-
22 macopolist’s, where the purity of the articles and the
23 exactness of their preparation may be depended upon)
24 my advice can be followed, as easily and certainly, as
25 if 1 were Consulted personally.
26 Every rational being ought to possess at least some
27 slight acquaintance with the structure of the human
28 body, and also of its functions ; and should acquire a
29 knowledge of so much of the healing-art as may be
30 necessary to maintain a healthy action under ordinary
31 circumstances. The celebrated Delphic inscription—
32 r«Kh ctuvrn, i. e. Know Thyself, which sentence of the
33 Oracle greeted every one who entered the Temple of
34 Wisdom, teaches us, plainly, that the sages of antiquity