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V.—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 effect 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 laboratory.