This section is from the book "A Treatise On Therapeutics, And Pharmacology Or Materia Medica Vol1", by George B. Wood. Also available from Amazon: Part 1 and Part 2.
Though an animal diet may be considered as tonic, and this includes many distinct substances, cod-liver oil is the only one, strictly entitled to the name of a medicine, which belongs to this subdivision.
 
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