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CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA.

Professor Ro. E. Rogers.—This school is divided into two
classes; one of Chemistry, the other of Materia Medica and Pharmacy.

In the lectures on Chemistry, which are delivered twice a week
throughout the session, all the important applications of the science
to Pharmacy and Medicine are noticed and amply illustrated. In
treating of the various Salts, Acids, &c., their characters, properties
and adulterations are considered, both as chemical and medicinal
agents.

The first part of the course is devoted to consideration of inorganic
substances, and the laws of chemical combination; the subsequent
lectures are appropriated to organic bodies, comprising the
history, analysis and properties of animal and vegetable substances,
with peculiar reference to the active principles most usually employed
in Medicine.