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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered November 2, 1842
You are aware that my department in this school is that of Materia Medica, or the Science which treats of Medicines. The time allotted, in the arrangements of'the schoolyto the course Of lectures on this subject is so completely filled up by-practical details, that little or none is left for considera tions Of a general nature, for which, therefore, I am com pelled to seek opportunity in my introductory addresses. Through these, accordingly, I have endeavoured to present to the'notice, and press upon the adoption of the student, var1ous facts, sentiments, and principles, having a more or les'sclose' relation to Materia Medica, and a more 'or less important bearin g upon its successful application to practice; but yet not exactly suited to the body of the course. I have thus, in different lectures, given sketches of the general history of the Materia Medica, and of its particular history in the United States, observations upon the relative import ance of the Science, and its claims on the attention of the student, an'aecount of the more frequent sources Of error and abuse in its practical application, and a dissertation upon the advantages Of a therapeutical recourse to moral in?uences as auxiliary to the physical. In continuance of the same plan, I propose at present to offer to the class some considerations upon the proper choice of medicines.
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