[Proceedings Uiiitoil States National Museum, 1881. Appendix.] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 xjisriTED STATES nj^tioist^l. jvitjsexjm:, 



No. 6. 



CL,ASSIFI4JATI01V AIVJ> ARRAIVGEITIEIVT OF THE MATERIA ITIEDICA 



COIil^ECTIOIV. 



By JAMES M. FI.II\T, Surg:eon, U. S. Navy. 



PRIMARY DIVISIONS. 



I.' Inorganic Materia Medica. 



'\ 1. Vegetable products 

 II. Orfianie Materia Medica, 



Products of fermentation and dis- 

 tillation. 

 Animal products. 



I. 



Medicines of the Inorganic Division to be classified according to their 

 fundamental elementary constituents, following the order of the ele- 

 ments, given in Eoscoe and Schorlemmer's Treatise on Chemistry. 



With each elementary substance, to be arranged — 



1. The chemical compounds of that element used in medicine and 

 pharmacy. 



2, The preparations of which that element, or any of its compounds, 

 constitutes the fundamental ingredient. 



These preparations to include — 



«. The official preparations of the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



h. The official preparations of foreign Pharmacoi)oeias which are not 

 recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



c. Unofficial preparations which are considered to be of sufficient im- 

 portance or interest to be worthy a place in the collection. 



Poisonous salts, liable to be mistaken, on account of similarity of ap- 

 liearance, for those less active, should be shown with the latter also. 



II. 



1. Vegetable products to be classified according to the botanical 

 affinities of the plant from which derived, following the sequence given 

 in Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plaiitarum, beginning with the low- 

 est order. 



Under each natural order to be arranged — 

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