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V.—CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA.

Professor Emmet.—There are two classes in this school; one of
Chemistry, to which there are lectures given twice a week; and the other
of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, to which is given a lecture once a
week throughout the session.

In the Chemical lectures, all the important applications of the science
to the mechanic arts, agriculture and domestic economy are noticed, and
when practicable, illustrated by experiment. In the lectures on earths
and metals, the appropriate minerals are exhibited and noticed with reference
to the sciences of Mineralogy and Geology. At the close of the
history of inorganic matter, the atomic theory and the laws of definite
proportions are fully explained and exemplified. The latter part of the
course is occupied with the chemistry of organic substances; and it comprises
the history, analysis and properties of each substance; to which are
added general views of the connexion between Chemistry and the physiology
of animals and vegetables.

In the lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy, the subjects are
treated in the following order:—The operations of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical
preparations, the effect which the combining of different substances
has on their medicinal properties, the different classifications of the
Materia Medica, and lastly, its several articles treated alphabetically.

There is attached to this school, a very extensive apparatus and laboratory.