LECTURES  IN  THE 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Forty-fourth  Session  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  1864-65. 
The  Lectures  in  this  institution  wili  commence  on  Monday,  October 
3d,  and  terminate  about  the  first  of  March,  They  will  be  held  in  the  Hall 
of  the  College,  Filbeit  street,  on  Mondays,  Wednesdays,  and  Fridays,  two 
lectures  e  ich  evening  at  7  and  8  o'clock. 
The  lectures  on  CHEMISTRY  will  embrace  in  a  systematic  view  the  laws, 
operations,  and  results  of  this  science,  and  its  relations  to  Pharmacy.  The 
elements  concerned  in  inorganic  nature,  and  their  compounds,  will  receive 
such  notice  as  their  relative  importance  in  this  respect  demands;  and  will 
be  illustrated  by  experiment,  diagrams,  specimens,  and  processes. 
Organic  chemistry  will  also  receive  its  full  share  of  attention,  and  all  its 
compounds,  possessing  general  or  pharmaceutical  interest  will  be  brought 
under  consideration  in  a  similar  manner. 
The  lectures  on  PHARMACY  will  treat,  of  the  elementary  operations 
required  in  the  preparation  of  medicines:  viz.,  weights,  measures,  and 
specific  gravity,  the  management  of  heat,  the  manipulations  in  the  processes 
of  pulverization,  solution,  evaporation,  distillation,  crystallization,  &c. ;  all 
illustrated  by  the  most  approved  models,  diagrams  and  apparatus. 
The  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  organic  drugs  will  be  considered  as 
follows  ;  viz.  The  simple  preparations  of  each  drug  will  be  noticed  under 
the  head  of  that  drug,  and  each  compound  preparation  under  the  head  of 
or  chief  constituent.  Each  class  of  preparations,  as  tinctures,  extracts, 
plasters,  &c,  will  receive  a  general  notice  in  its  proper  place.  The  classifi- 
cation of  the  subjects  will  be  in  groups  founded  on  the  nature  of  their  chief 
constituents ;  these  maybe  starch,  gum,  sugar,  resin,  volatile  oil,  fixed  oil, 
tannin,  alkaloids,  etc..  each  group  being  prefaced  by  a  general  description  of 
the  principle  or  principles  giving  it  name.  The  preparations  of  each  drug 
will  be  preceded  by  such  notice  of  its  chemical  constitution  as  will  exhibit 
the  kinds  of  treatment  best  calculated  to  extract  and  preserve  its  active  por- 
tion. 
The  course  will  conclude  with  the  processes  for  those  inorganic  chemicals 
which  may  be  prepared  by  the  apothecary  himself,  when  desirable;  without 
any  reference  to  their  systematic  chemical  relations. 
The  lectures  on  MATERIA  MEDIC  A  will  be  exclusively  devoted  to  vege- 
table  and  animal  substances,  their  origin,  commercial  history,  characters, 
composition,  and  medical  properties,  together  with  their  adulterations  and 
the  means  of  detection;  and  will  be  made  practical  and  demonstrative  by 
the  exhibition  of  an  extensive  collection  of  the  substances,  their  varieties 
and  falsifications,  aided  by  accurate  drawings,  and  a  full  series  of  exotic  and 
indigenous  plants  in  their  dried  state. 
Experiments  illustrative  of  the  proximate  organic  principles  and  modes  of 
