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bath  and  steam  bath,  and  the  processes  of  evaporation  and  dis- 
tillation, will  be  successively  described  and  exhibited. 
In  this  connection  the  officinal,  and  some  unofficinal  prepara- 
tions will  be  classified  and  described,  and  their  proportions, 
properties  and  doses  exhibited,  with  a  view  to  familiarize  the 
student  with  this  class  of  facts,  so  essential  to  a  ready  familiar- 
ity with  his  profession. 
Proximate  principles  of  plants,  such  as  starches,  gums,  sugars, 
and  fixed  and  volatile  oils,  resins,  and  those  animal  products 
used  in  medicine,  which  will  be  brought  into  view  in  the  lectures 
.  on  Materia  Medica,  will  be  noticed  in  this  course  only  in  their 
more  practical  relations  to  the  art  of  preparing  and  dispensing 
medicines. 
Of  the  organic  acids,  alkaloids  and  neutral  principles,  those 
which  are  prepared  by  the  chemist  and  pharmacist  will  come 
within  the  scope  of  this  course  ;  the  processes  of  their  manufac- 
ture will  be  described,  and  their  uses,  properties,  apjjlications 
and  tests  of  purity  explained. 
The  branch  of  the  general  subject  called  Extemporaneous 
Pharmacy  will  claim  attention  toward  the  end  of  the  course.  It 
will  embrace  the  construction  of  formulas  and  prescriptions,  and 
the  proper  technical  language  and  abbreviations,  and  the  art  of 
combining  medicines  into  eligible  forms,  and  of  preparing  pills, 
lozenges,  suppositories,  mixtures,  inhalations,  fumigations,  ce- 
rates, ointments,  liniments,  plasters,  cataplasms,  &c. 
Dispensing  medicines,  which  is  an  art  of  the  highest  interest 
and  utility  to  the  pharmacist,  is  an  appropriate  termination 
to  this  course.  It  embraces  a  consideration  of  a  variety  of 
apparatus,  implements,  glass  ware,  &c.,  and  of  those  minor 
manipulations  which,  when  skilfully  executed,  add  so  much  to 
the  success  and  reputation  of  the  pharmacist. 
The  text  book  of  this  course  is  the  Treatise  on  Pharmacy,  by 
Prof.  Parrish,  third  edition. 
The  public  Commencement  for  conferring  degrees  is  held  near 
the  middle  of  March. 
