dependent upon the chemical constituents contained in the drugs operated upon, this course forms a complement with that on organic materia medica and pharmacognosy. The pharmacy of the new synthetic remedies receives due attention. In the lectures on pharmacy is included a consideration of the inorganic materia medica, so that nearly all the official drugs and preparations in the pharmacopoeia are noticed, and the student is instructed in the nature, preparation, and uses of practically all the more important official drugs, chemicals, and medicaments. Assay Work. Several laboratory sessions are devoted to the processes of assaying. Students are required to make gasometric estimations of solutions of hydrogen dioxide and of spirit of nitrous ether; also alkaloidal assays of such drugs as opium, cinchona, nux vomica, belladonna, hydrastis, etc. The work of preparing some of the standard toilet articles, with the capping and wrapping of the containers, is carried out in the laboratory. Prescription Work.—The course includes about twelve lectures as well as the actual dispensing of prescriptions. These deal with all the details of the management of the prescription counter, the subject of incompatabilities being fully considered. Many difficult or obscure prescriptions are submitted to the students, who are called upon to deal with them as they deem best. Their knowledge of weighing, measures, percentages, doses, etc., as well as their skill in compounding, are tested by this work in the laboratory. BOTANY, MATERIA MEDICA, AND PHYSIOLOGY. Courses 1 and 5 are continuous lecture and recitation courses during the first year. Courses 2, 3, and 4 are continuous laboratory courses during the first year. 1. General Pharmaceutical Botany. Professor CAREY. A course of lectures on the domains of botany, referring especially to the cell and cell-contents; general morphology, and physiology of cells, tissues, and organs; the absorption, assimilation, and storing of food-substances; occurrence and formation of cell-contents; ascent of cell-sap; phyto-syntax; symbiosis; movements of plants; pollination and fertilization of plants; origin of domestic plants; influence of cultivation, etc. 2. Microscopy. Professor CAREY. Study of the optical properties of mirrors and lenses, and the mechanism and manipulation of the compound microscope; comparison of the more important miscroscopes now in use; the properties and uses of micro-reagents; the cutting of sections and preparation of microscopic mounts. This course is a necessary preparation for courses 3 and 4. 3. The Histology of the Cryptogams. Professor CAREY. Laboratory course in the study of the histology of types of cryptogamous plants, as algae, fungi, lichens, liverworts, mosses, and ferns. Special attention is given to the evolution and biological relationship of the plant groups referred to as revealed by their structure. The evolution and modification of cells, cell-contents, tissues, and organs; alteration of generations and sporeformation are also considered. 4. The Histology of the Phanerogams. Professor CAREY. The laboratory course is a continuation of course 3, and consists of the study of the histology of coniferous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous plants. Special attention is next given to cellmodification and cell-contents, so as to prepare the student for the intelligent study of the histology of vegetable drugs. Suitable micro-chemical reagents are employed to aid in differentiating cells, tissues, and cell-contents. 5. Vegetable Organography and Taxonomy. Professor CAREY. A course of lectures and recitations on the gross structure of plant organs, special attention being given to leaf-modification, phyllotaxy, inflorescence, flowers, fruits, and seeds. The principles of classification and nomenclature are explained. This course is intended to prepare the student for an intelligent study of the gross structure of vegetable drugs and the identification and classification of the more common plant forms. This course is supplemented by field excursions for the purpose of studying the local flora, especially from the ecological and economic standpoint. Each student is required to analyze a number of flowering and fruiting plants. Special attention is given to taxonomy. 6. Materia Medica. Professor CAREY. Lectures and recitations on the history, character, gross strueture and properties of drugs. Two sessions each week. 7. Human Anatomy and Physiology. Professor CAREY. Lectures and recitations intended to acquaint the student sufficiently with the morphology and physiology of the human body, to enable him to understand the processes of digestion, assimilation, circulation, respiration, and nerve action, and the physiological action of drugs. 8. Materia Medica Review. Dr. SIMMONS. One hour a week will be devoted to materia medica following the classification of organic drugs by the natural orders. SECOND OR SENIOR YEAR. Professor CAREY. 9. Materia Medica. Lectures and recitations on the nomenclature, natural order, botanic source, part official, habitat, constituents, official preparations, properties, action, uses, and the doses of their preparations. 10. Applied Botany. Professors CAREY and SCHNEIDER. This is a course of six lectures, dealing with the natural orders to which many of the important medical plants belong. It is placed in the Senior year because the student will better appreciate being able to recognize in field work the members of a family. Plants from the local flora (as far as possible) will be selected and studied with care. The work will also be elucidated by lantern slides. Certain of the tropical and semi-tropical orders will be considered in the field work in Golden Gate Park. The following orders will receive special attention: Solanaceae, Cruciferae, Liliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Violaceae, Berberidaceae, Malvaceae, Papaveraceae, Leguminosae, Rosaceae, Geraniaceae, Rhamnaceae, Umbelliferae, Labiatae, Scrophulariaceae, Curcubitaceae, Myrtaceae, Compositae. 11. Materia Medica Review. Dr. SIMMONS. On hour a week will be devoted to materia medica following the classification of organic drugs by the natural orders. This is accomplished by demonstrations with samples of crude drugs for macroscopic study. The features of this course are classification, together with a knowledge of constituents. 1. Pharmocognosy. SECOND OR SENIOR YEAR. Professor SCHNEIDER. This course consists of the macroscopical and microscopical study of the more important official and unofficial vegetable and animal drugs. Attention is given to the history of drugs; the habitat and range of drug-yielding plants and their botanical characters, together with the characteristics of the order to which they belong; active and inert constituents; the influence of cultivation on the properties of drugs; the common drug adulterants, the macroscopical and microscopical study of powdered drugs and spices, with special reference to the detection of adulterants, and the identification and comparison of pure and adulterated products; the modes of collecting, manner of curing, garbling, powdering, sifting, and preserving drugs; drug parasites; causes which lead to the deterioration of drugs; drug sophistication, accidental and criminal; relationship of active and inert drug constituents to methods of extraction; the influence of cultivation on the properties and physiological action of drugs; time of collecting. 2. Bacteriology. Professor SCHNEIDER. This course will consist of lectures, recitations, and occasional laboratory demonstrations. It will include a discussion of the occurrence, range, and distribution, the morphology and physiology of microbes; microbes in health and disease; the use of microbes in the various industries; disinfectants and disinfection; immunity, natural and acquired; phagocytosis, opsonins, toxins, etc. The course is intended to give the student a general view of the subject with special reference to its bearings upon pharmaceutical practice. It is also a preparatory course to the work of the third or graduate year. 3. Economic Pharmaceutical Botany. Professor SCHNEIDER. A course of lectures on the history and commerce of vegetable drugs. A special study of the cultivation of drug-yielding plants in California. What drug-yielding plants may be cultivated profitably in the various geographic areas of the United States, etc. TOXICOLOGY. Dr. HAYDN M. SIMMONS. This course consists of lectures and reeitations. It includes the history of Toxicology, with definitions of terms, and a sketch of the |