MATERIA MEDICA.
The course on this subject embraces—
1. General Therapeutics, or an account of the effects of the
various classes of remedies on the organism, their modus operandi,
and their applications to the relief of disease.
2. A detailed account of medicinal agents, in their commercial
history, physical properties, chemical habitudes, pharmaceutical
preparations and effects.
The means of illustration in Materia Medica are ample, comprising
a full series of specimens of medicines in their various
states, and an extensive suit of colored drawings of medical plants,
on an enlarged scale.
Text-Book—Dunglison's Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
