DR. B. MURE’S MATERIA MEDICA, OR Provings of the principal Animal and Vegetable Poisons OF THE BRAZILIAN EMPIRE; AND THEIR APPLICATION IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN’S METHOD, BY CHARLES J. HEMPEL, M.D. FELLOW AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOMŒOPATHIC COLLEGE; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HAHNEMANN SOCIETY OF LONDON, &C., &C. NEW-YORK: WILLIAM RADDE, No. 322 BROADWAY, PHILADELPHIA: RADEMACHER & SHEEK.—BOSTON: OTIS CLAPP.—ST. LOUIS: J. G. WESSELHOEFT.—LONDON: JAMES EPPS, 112 GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY.—MANCHESTER: H. TURNER, 41 PICCADILLY. 1854. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by WILLIAM RADDE, In the Clerk’s Office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of New-York. HENRY LUDWIG, Printer, 45 Vesey-street. TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE. Though the precious metals hidden in the Brazilian soil, may be never so abundant; though the splendor of its precious stones, may be never so brilliant; though the crops which the soil yields to the farmer, may be never so rich: yet there are, in the Brazilian empire, treasures of a far, greater importance, and infinitely more necessary to human happiness. They are the powerful means which this vast country furnishes for the cure of disease.