Excerpt from Potter's Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing: With Especial Reference to the Physiological Action of Drugs; Based on the Ninth Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia Including Also Many Unofficial Remedies The operations of Nature herself, the actions of the various sub stances described in the Materia Medica, also those of food, clothing, climate, heat, cold, electricity, and of all other remedial agents, forces, and measures, - are all included in the term Therapeutics, which may be divided into two grand divisions, viz. 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.