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medical department 95 parative Anatomy by Experiments and by Microscopical Observations From the great extent of the subjects to be treated in this Course it is proposed to discuss some of them only in alternate years IV Chemistry Theoretical and Practical An extensive Philosophical Apparatus Mineralogical and Metallurgical Collections valuable Chemical Museum and complete Laboratory are attached to the Chemical Department The Course is divided into two Parts Part comprises preparatory view of the Forces which concur to the production of Chemical Phenomena with de- scription of the Elementary Bodies and Inorganic Compounds 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 Course -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