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_ the action of medicines on the body, and the mode 
of their operating,—the application of the prin- 
ciples of medical chemistry and medical bota- 
ny: The natural history, systematic classifica- 
tion, botanical and chemical characters and pro- 
perties, synonymes, demonstrative elucidations, 
medicinal properties and effects, —of all the articles 
legitimately recognised as medicines of repute and - 
efficacy. Their doses, pharmaceutic prepara 
peculiarities of operation in idiosyncratic consti- 
tutions: their therapeutic application sustained by 
— ed. and more simple than the sac division by 
writers on the subject. Theclasses are expung- 
ed, because it is believed they cannot be claimed 
as comprising articles of such specific effects as 
each class itself would imply and require. | 
B. Comprises a philosophic investigation of the — 
vast assemblage of neglected moral remedies, or — 
restoratives, acting on the physical constitution — 
through the intervention of the moral attributes of — 
man. A scrutiny of the influence and effects of 
the passions and emotiors and of religious and po- — 
litical temperance, in curing, or aiding in the cure of — 
diseases. The necessity of a study of these, in their — 
varied. inflections towards and transmutations 
into other passions and emotions of greater or less 
sanative effect, in order to be possessed of the ju- 
dicious command of their remediate powers. The 
