Am.  J.Ph.] 
14 
[Jan.  1879 
LECTURES 
IN  THE 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Fifty-eighth  Session  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy, 
1878-9. 
The  Lectures  in  this  Institution  will  commence  on  Wednesday,  October  2d,  and 
terminate  about  the  first  of  March.  They  will  be  held  in  the  Hall  of  the  College, 
Tenth  street  above  Cherry,  on  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday  evenings  to  the 
senior  class,  and  on  Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings  and  on  Saturday  afternoon 
to  the  junior  class.  . 
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  experi- 
ment, diagrams,  specimens  and  processes. 
Organic  Chemistry  will  also  receive  its  full  share  of  attention,  and  all  its  com- 
pounds possessing  general  or  Pharmaceutical  interest  will  be  brought  under  con- 
sideration in  a  similar  manner. 
The  LECTURES  ON  PHARMACY  will  treat  of  the  elementary  operations  re- 
quired in  the  preparation  of  medicines,  viz.,  weights,  measures  and  specific  gravity 
the  management  of  heat,  the  manipulations  in  the  processes  of  pulverization,  solu- 
tion, evaporation,  distillation,  crystallization,  &c;  all  illustrated  by  the  most  ap- 
proved models,  diagrams  and  apparatus. 
In  connection  with  this  the  officinal  and  some  unofficinal  preparations  will  be 
classified  and  described,  and  their  proportions,  properties  and  doses  exhibited.  The 
organic  acids,  alkaloids  and  neutral  principles  prepared  by  the  chemist  and  phar- 
macist, together  with  the  processes  for  their  manufacture,  will  be  described,  and 
their  properties,  uses,  applications  and  the  tests  of  purity  explained. 
The  branch  of  Extemporaneous  Pharmacy  will  claim  attention  during  the  course, 
and  will  embrace  the  construction  of  formula  and  prescriptions,  technical  language 
and  abreviations,  and  the  art  of  combining  medicines  into  eligible  forms,  together 
with  the  consideration  of  the  various  apparatus  and  implements  which  are  required 
for  the  successful  practice  of  the  art  of  dispensing  medicines. 
The  LECTURES  ON  MATERIA  MEDICA  will  be  exclusively  devoted  to  vegetame 
and  animal  substances,  and  will  aim  mainly  to  present  the  leading  characteristics  of 
each  individual  drug.  The  physical  characters  of  drugs,  their  structure  and  chemical 
relation  will  therefore  occupy  most  of  the  course,  while  their  botanical  and  commercial 
history  will  receive  their  full  share  of  attention,  as  well  as  the  proximate  principles 
upon  which  the  medicinal  virtues  of  each  depend,  and  a  concise  view  will  be  given  of 
their  medical  properties,  the  officinal  preparation  and  doses  of  the  same. 
The  extensive  cabinet  and  herbarium  of  the  College,  as  also  the  private  collection 
of  the  Professor,  together  with  plates  and  drawings,  will  furnish  ample  means  for 
illustration,  to  be  aided  by  experiment  wherever  it  is  deemed  necessary. 
The  LECTURES  ON  BOTANY  will  commence  in  April.  The  eourse  wiEi  mbrace 
general  and  special  morphology,  organology,  and  a  concise  view  of  systematic  botany 
embracing  the  characteristics  of  those  natural  orders  and  genera  which  are  of  greatest 
importance  to  the  Pharmacist.  Wednesday  afternoon  of  each  week  will  be  devoted 
to  these  lectures  and  to  excursions  into  the  surrounding  country,  affording  healthful 
recreation,  and  the  best  means  of  becoming  practically  acquainted  with  the  living 
plants. 
