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.
