In this volume only the organic portion of the study of Materia Medica is considered. The book is written with the object of popularising the Laboratory method in the study of Materia Medica. The authors point out in the preface the great superiority of the objective over the didactic method in the study of any subject not only as a matter of training but as making the material more interesting...

At the end of this century medica! care system throughout the world are facing major crises and undergoing major reformo All system and health care providers are realizing that there is not enough money anywhere in lhe world to pay for all the new medical techno!ogy. The USA spends approximate!y 1,250 billion US$ annually in medica! care, whereas developing countries such as Brazil, which try t...