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MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

Professor Barringer.

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, which are shown to the student as
dealt with in the lectures. Exercises in prescription-writing are given
weekly for several months.

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

The subject of Therapeutics is taken up among the studies of the
fourth year. The range of the work will embrace both general and
special therapeutics, whether rational or empirical, but a constant
effort will be made throughout to trace those general underlying principles
the existence of which alone enables this subject to be called a
science. The method pursued will be that of taking up in order the
perversions of the various organs and functions rather than the individual
forms of disease.

Text-Book.—(To be named hereafter). For reference: Bruce's Materia
Medica and Therapeutics; Brunton's Pharmacology.