ADMISSION. Students will be admitted to the college upon completion of the preparatory two years' course at the University, or its equivalent. Preliminary examinations will be required, if deemed necessary. Students may be admitted to advanced standing who present evidence of having fulfilled the requirements of this school with respect to preliminary education, and of having completed at accredited medical schools satisfactory courses in the studies of the preceding year or years. REGISTRATION. Students should present themselves for registration on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, September, 8, 9 or 10, 1902, and on Friday, Saturday or Monday, January 2, 3 or 5, 1903. THE DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY. FACULTY. FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., PRESIDENT. EDWARD VERNON HOWELL, A.B., PH.G., Dean and Professor of Pharmacy. JOSHUA WALKER GORE, C.E., Professor of Physics. CHARLES BASKERVILLE, PH.D., Professor of Chemistry. HENRY VAN PETERS WILSON, PH.D., Professor of Biology. CHARLES STAPLES MANGUM, A.B., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica. ISAAC HALL MANNING, M.D., Professor of Physiology. ALVIN SAWYER WHEELER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. Associate Professor of Botany. JAMES EDWARD LATTA, A.M., Instructor in Physics. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PAGE, Assistant in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory. ROYALL OSCAR EUGENE DAVIS, PH.B., Assistant in Chemistry. FOUNDATION. The Department of Pharmacy was established in 1897 and was opened for students in September of that year. Its location at the seat of the University assures to its students the most modern scientific instruction with all the laboratory facilities of the academic department, as well as the courses of instruction in allied branches. These opportunities will meet the requirements of the large number of students who were compelled heretofore to obtain their pharmaceutical education in other states. Briefly stated, the advantages are as follows: 1. Thorough, careful, individual instruction. 2. The practical experience derived from active work in the laboratories. 3. Intimate association with the other departments of the University, to all of which the student of pharmacy has free access, and the daily contact with students pursuing various branches of learning. 4. The use of the large library and reading room and the well equipped gymnasium. 5. The comparatively small cost at which a two years course may be obtained. 6. The course here consists of two sessions of nine months each,-nearly a fourth longer than in many of the Colleges of Pharmacy. The success of the students of this department in their examination before the State Boards has been very gratifying. Students of this department have been applicants before the State Boards of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. None of the graduates of this department applying for license before State Boards have failed to pass the examinations. ARRANGEMENT OF COURSES. The courses are arranged for two sessions of nine months each, and lead to the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy (Ph.G.). The instruction includes: First Year. Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, Practical Course in Operative Pharmacy, Elementary Physics, Descriptive Chemistry, Physiology (optional), Lectures in Pharmaceutical Botany. Second Year. The instruction includes: Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, Practical Course in Operative Phar macy, General Biology (optional), Materia Medica and Toxicology, Qualitative Analysis, Urinary Analysis. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Pharmacy. Professor HOWELL. 1. Theory and practice of Pharmacy. First year. Five hours a week. This course consists of lectures upon the following subjects, with practical demonstration and the employment of proper apparatus whenever necessary. Metrology: comminution, heat, evaporation, distillation, sublimation. Fusion: calcination, granulation, oxidation, reduction, etc. Solution: of solids, liquids, and gases, deliquescence, efflorescence, Colation: filtration, decolorization, clarification, precipitation, etc. Percolation, and the preparation and study of the following: waters, tracts. 2. Theory and Practice of Pharmacy. Second Year. Five hours a week. The senior course takes up in detail the official forms and preparations of drugs. Beginning with the inorganic compounds, the salts are considered with regard to their commercial qualities and pharmaceutical uses and preparations, The organic compounds are taken up, commencing with the salts of the organic acids, and passing to the natural and artificial organic compounds. 3. Lectures on Pharmaceutical Botany. Two hours a week (spring term). This course is preparatory to the study of Materia Medica, and takes up the study of the flower, the various topics of fruits, seeds, etc., and a careful study of the descriptive terms as applied to leaves, stems and roots. This course includes the gathering and proper mounting of specimens of the various official herbs that grow in this vicinity. Materia Medica and Toxicology. Professors HOWELL and MANGUM. 1. Materia Medica. Lectures on the geographical and botanical sources of drugs, descriptions and uses of the same, together with their physical and toxic effects. Three hours a week. Opportunity is given the student to familiarize himself with most of the crude drugs and their preparations.. 2. Toxicology. Lectures on poisons and their specific action on the various parts of the body in their minimum and maximum doses. Three hours a week. Attention is called to the symptoms exhibited in cases of poisoning, to the mode of action of chemical antidotes and physiological antagonistics, and to the relative values of mechanical treatments. Physics. Mr. LATTA. 1. Elementary course. The fundamental facts of physics presented and the general laws illustrated by experiment. Three hours a week (fall term). Chemistry. Professor BASKERVILLE, Dr. MILLS and Mr. DAVIS. 1. Descriptive Chemistry. Lectures with laboratory work. A study of the elements and their compounds, including an introduction to organic chemistry. Three hours a week. Associate Professor WHEELER and Mr. DAVIS. 9. Qualitative Analysis and Toxicology. Laboratory work with lectures. Three hours a week. (Five and a half months.) Second year. Associate Professor WHEELER. 10. Physiological Chemistry, including Urine Analysis. Lectures and laboratory work. Three hours a week. (Three and a half months.) Second year. The following courses are not required of students in Pharmacy but may be elected profitably: |