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MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.
PROFESSOR BARRINGER.
In Materia Medica particular stress is laid upon the
physiological action of drugs as furnishing the only basis
for a rational system of therapeutics. The Department is
provided with a good collection of drugs, both crude and
prepared, which are shown to the student as dealt with in
the lectures. Exercises in prescription-writing are given
weekly for several months.
Text-Book.—White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics. For Reference:
Brunton's Pharmacology; Wood's Materia Medica.
The subject of Therapeutics is taken up among the
studies of the third year. The range of the work will
embrace both general and special therapeutics, whether
rational or empirical, but a constant effort will be made
throughout to trace those general underlying principles
the existence of which alone enables this subject to be
called a science. The method pursued will be that of
taking up in order the perversions of the various organs
and functions rather than the individual forms of disease.
Text-Book.—(To be named hereafter.) For Reference: Bruce's
Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Brunton's Pharmacology.
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