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MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

Professor Barringer.

In Materia Medica particular stress is laid upon the physiological action
of drugs as furnishing the only basis for a rational system of therapeutics.
The Department is provided with a good collection of drugs, both crude and
prepared, which are shown to the student as dealt with in the lectures.
Exercises in prescription-writing are given weekly for several months.

Text-Book.—White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics. For Reference: Brunton's
Pharmacology; Wood's Materia Medica.

The subject of Therapeutics is taken up among the studies of the third
year. The range of the work will embrace both General and Special therapeutics,
whether rational or empirical, but a constant effort will be made
throughout to trace those general underlying principles, the existence of
which alone enables this subject to be called a science. The method pursued
will be that of taking up in order the perversions of the various organs and
functions rather than the individual forms of disease.

Text-Book.—(To be named hereafter). For Reference: Bruce's Materia Medica and
Therapeutics; Brunton's Pharmacology.