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76 medical department This division of the Course which occupies from the begin- ning of October to the end of December is specially adapted to the Matriculation Examination of the University of London and may be attended separately Part II Current Affinity and its Associated Forces Or- ganic Products and their Metamorphoses and the Chemical Principles of Physiology It is the primary object of these Lectures throughout not only to verify the results of the reasoning by experimental illustrations but to elucidate the grand Phenomena of Nature and explain the Combinations of Art in the processes of Me- tallurgy of the Pharmacopoeia of the principal Manufactures and of Domestic Economy Materia Medica and Therapeutics Cotirse -In this Course is given an account of the natural history and chemical nature of the Substances used as Medi- cines In the first part these are described in conformity to their arrangement in Natural History and in the second part according to their uses as Medicines The Lectures are exemplified by Experiments and by the Drugs and Pharmaceutical Preparations presented to King's College by the Society of Apothecaries and by the late Sir Henry Halford Bart they are also illustrated by coloured drawings of Plants by the Herbaria of King's College and by the Collections of the Professor Collection of Materia Medica has been formed expressly for the use of the Students VI Principles and Practice of Surgery This Course is illustrated by Preparations Models Casts and Drawings and occasionally by recent Specimens of the effects of surgical disease or injury To these Lectures be- longs the large collection of Diagrams and Casts presented to the College by Mr Green general view is first given of the doctrines or principles of Surgery these are next applied in practical manner to