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 relations, pharmaceutical
preparations, and effects on the system both in health and in
disease.
The means of illustration in Materia Medica consist of a superb
cabinet of medicines, and a large collection of colored
drawings of medical plants.
Text Book.—Dunglison's Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
