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5.—CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA.

Professor Emmet.—There are two classes in this school;
one of Chemistry, to which there are lectures given twice
a week, and the other of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, to
which is given a lecture once a week throughout the session.

In the Chemical lectures, all the important applications of
the science to the mechanic arts, agriculture and domestic
economy are noticed, and, when practicable, illustrated by experiment.
In the lectures on earths and metals the appropriate
minerals are exhibited and noticed with reference to
the sciences of Mineralogy and Geology. At the close of the
history of inorganic matter, the atomic theory and the laws

of definite proportions are fully explained and exemplified.
The latter part of the course is occupied with the chemistry
of organic substances, and it comprises the history, analysis
and properties of each substance; to which are added
general views of the connexion between Chemistry and the
physiology of animals and vegetables.

In the lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy, the subjects
are treated in the following order:—The operations of
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical preparations, the effects which the
combining of different substances has on their medicinal properties,
the different classifications of the Materia Medica, and
lastly, its several articles treated alphabetically.

There is attached to this school, a very extensive apparatus
and a laboratory, in which the students are occasionally permitted
to see the operations and to perform experiments.—A
free use is made of the black-board in these as in almost all
the other classes in the University.