The design of this work is to profit the many thousand persons that are suffering from chronic diseases. I presume that every man, woman and child, farmer, mechanic and day laborer, as well as professional men, have a right to acquire all the knowledge it is in their power to grasp. This book is calculated for the many that are not able to obtain the important and essential medical knowledge that is necessary for the perpetuation of health, longevity, wealth, and happiness, 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 phaeton. 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 ailment that the human organization is heir to. My object 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 unfortunte enough to need them to heal their ailments. 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 relieve and heal all afflictions, or at least a great many of them, or the great majority of them. It is admitted by all of our classical medical men, that the great masses of the people know too little about themselves and remedies that grow in their yards, gardens, and woodlands. In this work it is the author's object to acquaint the people with an important and valuable knowledge of the medical action of a great many of our most common herbs, roots, barks, flowers, and leaves, so that they may be enabled to gather them in the proper season, and cure them by the proper process, so that they may have and retain all of their original pure medicinal virtues, and so that they can well understand how to make their own gatherings into safe, reliable, and efficient infusions, decoctions, and tinctures; their dose, and how to administer; when and what for. Knowledge is power, and he who seeks it is wise, and he who neglects it does so to his own sorrow and detriment. Hippocrates, who is admitted by the medical profession to be the father of medicine, says: "All men ought to be acquainted with the medical art." I have written this work with the belief that the people in general are ready to receive such knowledge, and will be thankful for and profit by it.

J. I. LIGHTHALL,
Indian Medicine Man.