Download or read book In Defense of Medical Botany (Classic Reprint) written by Wm. M. Starr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Defense of Medical Botany The design of this work is to profit the many thousand persons who are suffering from diseases of every kind, even to the advanced or chronic stage. I presume that every man, woman, and child farmer, mechanic and day laborer, as well as profess ional men, have a right to acquire all the knowledge it is in their power to grasp. This book is calculated for the many who are not able to obtain the important and essential medical knowledge that is necessary for the perpetuation of health, longevity, wealth, and hap piness, by purchasing the regular medical text books of our classical colleges, as well as those Who live in the palace and take pleasure in the barouche and phaa ton. It is to teach the humble and poor, the farmer and mechanic, the merchant and his clerk, that God, in his infinite wisdom, has created and grown an herb with medicinal properties to prove a balm to every ail ment that the human organization is heir to. My oh ject is also to teach the many that a large number of these valuable herbs, roots, barks, leaves and flowers, grow within the immediate reach of those who may be unfortunate enough to need them to heal their ail ments. Every person's physical organization is his own, and he has a right to understand it, and most especially hygiene and Nature's remedies that will. 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.