SPECIAL COURSES. Students may select one or more of the branches taught and attend the lectures and laboratory work during the time set apart for such study. Students taking single tickets are not entitled to take the examinations for the degree conferred by the College. THE DEGREE. The degree conferred is Doctor of Pharmacy. QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE DEGREE. 1. The student shall have attended three courses of instruction in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Analytical Chemistry, Materia Medica, Botany, and Toxicology; and two in Microscopy, the last of which must have been in this College; and one course each in Mercantile Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence. 2. He must have passed a satisfactory examination in each of the branches taught. 3. He must be recommended by the Board of Examiners. MATERIA MEDICA, BOTANY AND TOXICOLOGY. FRESHMAN COURSE. The first lectures are introductory to the study of elementary botany, after which follow vegetable histology and plant physiology. The subject-matter of these lectures is thoroughly explained by means of charts, diagrams, and specimens. JUNIOR COURSE. This course is devoted to the consideration of the various theories concerning the vegetable world and the practical results obtained by experienced laborers in this science. The lectures are illustrated by means of the lantern and microscope. A large part of the course is devoted to a consideration of the official organic drugs. SENIOR COURSE. The lectures are mainly upon the active principles, adulterants, official preparations, therapeutic uses, and doses; after which the organic and inorganic poisons are taken up under three heads: 1st, Corrosive; 2d, Irritant; and 3d, Neurotic Poisons. Under these three divisions are explained briefly their action, detection, and antidote. PHARMACY. FRESHMAN Course. This course is given to the study of the various pharmaceutical processes and operations. Following in the order named are lectures on metrology, heat, thermometry, evaporation, distillation, fusion, sublimation, calcination, granulation, comminution, solution, filtration, clarification, decoloration, precipitation, crystallization, and extraction, during which the various methods used to bring about the desired results will be illustrated. JUNIOR COURSE. During a part of this course the time is given to the application of the processes considered during the Freshman year to pharmacopoeial preparations, and such modifications as adapt them to special uses. This includes methods for making solutions of various substances, extracts, pills, tablets, triturates, compressed tablets, capsules, powders, suppositories, plasters, ointments, cerates, and oleates. The latter part of this course is taken up with the study of official preparations obtained from the elementary bodies beginning with bromine, chlorine, iodine, phosphorus, and sulphur, followed by carbon, boron, silicon, the inorganic acids, potassium, sodium, lithium, ammonium, magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc, aluminum, cerium, cadmium, manganese, iron, chromium, lead, silver, copper, mercury, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, and gold. SENIOR COURSE. The time during this course is mainly given to the study of compounds chiefly derived from organic matter, and products obtained therefrom, amylaceous and saccharine substances; glucosides and alkaloids, volatile oils and animal products commonly used in pharmacy, vegetable oils, soaps, resinoids and products from resins. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. The instruction in this Department is intended to present the chemical tests of the United States Pharmacopoeia, with methods for the identification of substances and for the detection of impurities; to instruct in the methods of assaying and the use of volumetric solutions, and to enable students to analyze any ordinary mixture of inorganic material. For the purpose of carrying out the work of this Department a large, well-equipped laboratory is provided with all the usual water and gas facilities, and has recently been wired and installed with electric ap paratus whereby electro-chemical methods of analysis can be taught and the application of the electric current to the preparation of chemicals by the methods of electro-chemistry can be illustrated before the students. These and other facilities afford students exceptional opportunities to become familiar with the fundamental principles of the science of chemistry. The first year is devoted to experimental work so arranged as to supplement the lectures in General Chemistry. The second year covers a systematic course in qualitative analysis in connection with the tests of the United States Pharmacopoeia. The third year is devoted to volumetric analysis by means of the standard solutions of the Pharmacopoeia. GENERAL CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. Inasmuch as the subjects of Analytical Chemistry and Pharmacy are fully provided for in other courses, these lectures are devoted more closely to the fundamental principles and classification which must underlie a thorough and systematic knowledge of Chemistry. Owing to the intimate connection existing between Chemistry and several branches of Physics, a number of lectures illustrating the more important laws and principles of some of these branches precedes the regular course in Chemistry, and others on these subjects with which a prior acquaintance is less important follow after the student has acquired some knowledge of chemical changes. During the first half of the second year Physics and the non-metallic elements receive consideration, followed during the remainder of the second and a portion of the third year by the metals. The greater portion of the third year is devoted to the exposition of the more important facts, principles, and theories of Organic Chemistry. MICROSCOPY. The course of Microscopy gives instruction in the use of the compound microscope as an aid in the study and identification of drugs, and requires full attendance from Junior and Senior students. The work includes both lectures and laboratory courses, and consists in the examination of plant tissue as illustrated in various vegetable substances most familiar to pharmacists. Special attention is given to the structural characteristics by which one drug can be distinguished from another as well as to the detection and identification of the most common adulterants used. MERCANTILE PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL JURISPRUDENCE. These courses are required in the Senior class only. FEES. Matriculation $5 Tickets for the full year's course of instruction, Freshman or Junior 70 80 15 Single tickets for Analytical Chemistry. 20 The thirty-eighth annual session of the College will begin on Wednesday, September 21, 1910, and close on Wednesday, June 7, 1911. Entrance examination at I p. m. on Thursday, September 15, 1910, in the Lecture-room of the College. Annual examination of Freshmen and Juniors for promotion and of Seniors for graduation begins on Friday, April 28, 1911. 1910 November 24, legal holiday; no College exercises. December 21, last lecture before Christmas vacation. 1911-January 4, lectures resume. February 22, convocation day. June 7, graduation day; College closes. For further information consult the Dean, Henry E. Kalusowski, 808 I St., N. W. |