PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
9 
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LECTURES FOR THE ENSUING 
SEASON. 
The lectures will be held in the hall of the College, Zan 
street, on the evenings of Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur- 
days, beginning the third week in October, and continuing 
until the latter end of March, two lectures being delivered 
each evening. 
The lectures on Materia Medica will be delivered by 
Joseph Carson, M. D. 
This course is devoted exclusively to the consideration of 
the articles of Vegetable and Animal origin. It comprises an 
account of the sources from which they are derived, their 
character, commercial history, chemical composition, and 
medicinal properties, with the preparations made from them. 
In connection with the characters of genuine drugs, their 
adulterations will be exhibited, and the means of detection 
pointed out. 
When detailing the sources from which drugsare derived, 
the Botanical and Zoological description of plants and 
animals affording them will be given, and an exposition 
of the systematic arrangement to which they belong, as 
also an explanation of the Nomenclature by which they 
have been designated in our own and other Pharmacopoeias. 
To render the entire course practical and demonstrative, 
the lectures will be accompanied with the exhibition of an 
extensive and complete collection of the substances de- 
scribed, comprising their varieties, modifications, and falsi- 
fications ; of a collection of accurate drawings, and a full 
series of dried specimens of plants both exotic and indi- 
genous. 
Where it may be practicable, experiments will be con- 
ducted in the presence of the class, to show the proximate 
principles contained in particular articles, the means by 
which these may be detected or separated, the difference 
between genuine and spurious articles, and such other che- 
mical facts as may be interesting or important. 
