: Throughout these monographs are references to “Specific Medicines”. Insome respects Specific Medicines are the single reason that Eclecticism survivedso long in the face of “Organized Medicine” and were still being manufactured forthe surviving Eclectic M.D.s as late as the early 1960s. Using up to eight organicsolvents and the Lloyd Extractor, Specific Medicines represented the strongestpossible concentration of the bioactive aspects of botanicals that would stay in acolloidal solution.