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I.—CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA.

PROFESSOR R. E. ROGERS.

The chemical branch of this school is common to the medical
and academical students, and has already been described. Candidates
for the medical degree, although not required to graduate
previously in chemistry, are expected to have such an acquaintance
with the science generally, as is needful for the clear understanding
of medical and pharmaceutical chemistry, and the chemistry
of functions.

The course of Materia Medica embraces:

I.—General Therapeutics, or an account of the effects of the
various classes of remedies on the organism, and their modus
operandi, so far as understood.

II.—Special Therapeutics, or the application of these agents to
individual diseases, as suggested by experience or the theory of
the particular disease.

III.—A detailed account of the medical agents, in their commercial
history, physical properties, chemical habitudes, pharmaceutical
preparations, doses, and medical applications.

To aid the student in arranging the multifarious details of the
subject, and to abridge the labour of note-taking, a tabular digest
of all the topics treated of, is at each lecture placed before the
class. Upon this and the details of the lecture, the student is expected
to be prepared, as well as upon the corresponding parts of
the text-book.

The means of illustration in Materia Medica are unusually
ample, embracing a very full series of specimens of medicines in
their various states, and an extensive suite of accurate coloured
drawings of medical plants, on an enlarged scale.

The lectures on chemistry are delivered twice a week, those on
Materia Medica once a week throughout the course. Meetings for
examination are held separately generally three times a week.