THE DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY. FACULTY. FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., LL.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 WILLIAM CHAMBERS COKER, PH D., Associate Professor of Botany. ROYALL OSCAR EUGENE DAVIS, PH.D., Instructor in Chemistry. WADE HAMPTON OLDHAM, Assistant in Chemistry. GREEN RAMSEY BERKELEY, A.B., Assistant in Biology. 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 labora tories. 3. Intimate association with the other departments of the University, to all of which the student of pharmacy has 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 length of the course which 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 examinations before 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.). First Year. Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, Practical Course in Operative Pharmacy, Elementary Physics, Descriptive Chemistry, Physiology (optional), Lectures in Pharmaceutical Botany. Second Year. Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, Practical Course in Operative Pharmacy, 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. 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, etc. Colation, filtration, decolorization, clarification, precipitation, etc. Percolation, and the preparation and study of the following: waters, 2. Theory and Practice of Pharmacy. Second Year. Fire hours. The official forms and preparations of drugs are taken up in detail. Beginning with the inorganic compounds, the salts are considered with regard to their commercial qualities and pharmaceutical uses and preparations. The organic compounds are studied, commencing with the salts of the organic acids and passing to the natural and organic compounds. 3. Lectures on Pharmaceutical Botany. Two hours (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. Instruction is given in the gathering and proper mounting of specimens of the various official herbs that grow in this vicinity. Materia Medica and Toxicology. Professor HOWELL. 1. Materia Medica. Lectures on the geographical and botanical sources of drugs; descriptions and uses of the same, together with their official preparations and doses. Three hours (fall term). Opportunity is given to the student to familiarize himself with most of the crude drugs and their preparations. Text: White and Wilcox. Professor MANGUM. 2. Materia Medica. This course is devoted to the study of the origin and constitution of remedial measures, their preparations and doses; and in particular, their physiological action and the indications for their rational use. Opportunity will be given to students to familiarize themselves with the more important crude drugs and their preparations. Instruction is given by means of lectures, recitations and demonstrations. The lectures intended to accompany the work in Toxicology are given as a part of the course in Materia Medica. Physics. Professor GORE. Elementary Physics. The fundamental facts of Physics are studied with some special attention to heat and electricity. Text-book, lectures and experiments. Two hours. Chemistry. Professor BASKERVILLE, Dr. DAVIS and Mr MARRIOTT. 1. General Descriptive Chemistry. The elements are studied in a systematic manner. The laws governing their combination, and the compounds resulting, are considered with appropriate reference to their occurrence and relationships to medicine. The latter part of the course is taken up with organic chemistry. First year, three hours, lectures, and two hours, laboratory. Texts: Venable and Howe's Inorganic Chemistry According to the Periodic Law, and Remsen's Organic Chemistry, supplemented by lectures and quizzes. Associate Professor WHEELER, Messrs. MARRIOTT and WHITAKER. 9. Qualitative Analysis and Toxicology. Laboratory work with lectures. The behavior of the elements and their compounds is studied in the laboratory. Practice is given in the analysis of known and unknown mixtures with especial reference to the detection of poisons and determination of the purity of drugs. Second year (September to February), six hours. Text: Venable and Wheeler's Qualitative Chemical Analysis and the This course supplements the lectures given by Professor Mangum on 10. Physiological Chemistry including Urinary Analysis. Lectures and Second Texts: Halliburton's Chemical Physiology and Jackson's Laboratory The following courses are not required of students in Pharmacy but may be elected profitably: Physiology. Professor MANNING. The study of physiology is begun in the spring term of the first year, during which the physiology of digestion, the digestive glands, blood, respiration, metabolism, excretion and animal heat is considered in lectures illustrated by experiments. The study is continued in the fall term of the second year by the consideration of the physiology of the muscles and of the nervous system. During this term also the student learns the methods of ex |