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238 medical department Practical Chemistry These Demonstrations commence with the Summer Session and terminate towards the end of July The instruction given is comprised in thirty lessons of two hours each and is so arranged that each Student performs the operations which are in most frequent use in the Laboratory for the purposes of analysis or research including the pro- cesses for detecting the chief mineral and vegetable poisons During this Course brief explanation is given of the prin- cipal phenomena developed in order to connect the facts ob served with the principles on which they rest This Course is adapted to the requirements of the University of London of the Conjoint Examining Board in England or Pr the Society of Apothecaries and of the Medical Boards of the Army and Navy as well as to all who with objects professional or otherwise wish to obtain an acquaintance with the processes of Manipulation Materials for working are supplied free of charge but all damage done to apparatus must be repaired at the expense of the Student who may have occasioned the same The text-book in this Class is Bloxam's "Laboratory Teaching י Analytical and Experimental Chemistry In addition to the Chemical Course and to the Summer Class of Practical Chemistry accommodation is provided for those Students who may wish to acquire more minute acquaintance with certain subdivisions of the science than can be conveyed iii regular course of lectures and demon- 8trations The Class formed for this purpose is conducted in the Labo- ratory under the superintendence of the Professors and Demon- strators By this means each Student will be enabled to familiarize himself with the methods of analysis and the operations of research tb ex re