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V.—CHEMISTRY AND MATERIA MEDICA.

PROFESSOR J. LAWRENCE SMITH.

CHEMISTRY.

This subject, included in the medical as well as the general
academic course, and forming a department of the School of
Chemistry and Materia Medica, may be studied separately, or in
conjunction with the latter.

The lectures, which are delivered twice a week through the
session, embrace a course of theoretical chemistry, with an aecount
of its varied applications; more special attention being given

to its application to the Manufactural Arts, Agriculture and Physiology.

The apparatus connected with this department is calculated for
a full experimental demonstration of the different topics embraced
in this course.

The general plan adopted in the course of these lectures is, to
begin with an account of some of the most important non-metallic
elements and their compounds; this is followed by the theoretical
portions of Chemistry, connected with chemical combination, &c.

The chemistry of the remaining non-metallic elements is completed,
and then follows an account of those forces connected
with the chemical force in the production of chemical phenomena,
namely, heat and electricity under its various forms.

The next part of the course is on the metals and their compounds—the
conclusion of the course embraces all the considerations
involved in organic chemistry, principally those relating to
Agriculture and Physiology.

The text-books recommended are, Rogers' Turner, and Silliman's
last edition.

MATERIA MEDICA.

The course of Materia Medica embraces:

1. General Therapeutics, or an account of the effects of the
various classes of remedies on the organism, and their modus operandi,
as far as understood.

2. Special Therapeutics, or the application of these agents to
individual diseases, as suggested by experience or the theory of
the particular disease.

3. A detailed account of the medicinal agents, in their commercial
history, physical properties, chemical habitudes, pharmaceutical
preparations, doses, and the medical applications.

The means of illustration in Materia Medica are unusually
ample, embracing a very full series of specimens of medicines in
their various states, and an extensive suit of colored drawings of
medical plants, on an enlarged scale. Text-Book—Dunglison's
Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

The lectures on Chemistry are delivered twice a week; those
on Materia Medica once a week, throughout the course.