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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.