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MATERIA MEDICA.

 

Professor Barringer,

Mr. Brenneman, Assistant.

In Materia Medica particular stress is laid upon the physiological
action of drugs as furnishing the only basis for a rational system of
therapeutics. 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.

Text-Books.—White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics. For reference:
Brunton's Pharmacology, Wood's Materia Medica.