PHARMACOGNOSY.
Professor Lambeth.
The Department is provided with a good collection of drugs, both
crude and prepared, with which the students are made familiar as dealt
with in the lectures. Exercises in prescription-writing are given weekly
for several months, these exercises being required both in the ordinary
English or apothecary system and the French or metric system. The
course is in part a laboratory course, students working in sections
which vary in size according to the work in hand. The practical experience
given is intended to acquaint the student as thoroughly as
possible with the physical and chemical properties of the materials used in
the treatment of disease, to which he will find it much easier to add the
physiological action, than if he had approached the subject first from the
medical side.
