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to the medical practitioner, are those, for the most part, whose informa-tion on these points is most limited.
The Second and concluding part of this work will contain theVegetable and Animal Materia Medica, and a concise tabular view of theHistory and Literature of Pharmacology: that portion of the tablewhich pertains to Oriental Medicine has been kindly undertaken by Pro-fessor Royle, the learned author of An Essay on the Antiquity of HindooMedicine, and of the Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains .