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106 medical department by Preparations and Diagrams of parts in Human and Com- parative Anatomy by Experiments and by Microscopical Observations From the great extent of the subjects treated in this Course some of them will be discussed 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 in 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 Me- tallurgy of the Pharmacopoeia of the principal Manufactures and of Domestic Economy Materia Medica and Therapeutics In this Course is given an account of the natural history chemical nature and mode of action of the Substantias used 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 llalford Bart they are also illustrated by coloured