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XII.—ANATOMY, MATERIA MEDICA AND BOTANY.

PROFESSOR DAVIS.

ANATOMY.

In this class are taught Special and Surgical Anatomy. The
lectures are illustrated by fresh subjects, by wet and dry preparations,
and by an extensive series of highly finished paintings.

Text-Book.—Wilson's Anatomy.

MATERIA MEDICA.

The course on this subject embraces:

1. General Therapeutics, or an account of the effects of the
various classes of remedies on the organism, their modus operandi,
and their applications to the relief of disease.

2. A detailed account of medicinal agents, in their commercial
history, physical properties, chemical relations, pharmaceutical
preparations, and effects on the system both in health and in
disease.

The means of illustration in Materia Medica consist of a superb
cabinet of medicines, and a large collection of colored
drawings of medical plants.

Text-Book.—Dunglison's Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

BOTANY.

The Natural History of the Vegetable Kingdom is taught in
this class. It therefore treats of the Anatomy and Physiology
of Plants—the principles and classification employed in arranging
them according to the "Natural" and the "Artificial" methods,
and the characteristics of the various groups.

The applications of Botany to Materia Medica are constantly
kept in view, and incidental reference is had to the relations
which it sustains to Agriculture, Geology, and Physical Geography.