Brooklyn College of Pharmacy - Pharmakon Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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fm. FVDX , XGVN T 'O 4 Cf-53,5 Pr-SAIIUVIAKON 52233 92 si? Materia Medica ARLIEST known of all medications was the use of herbs, either in their external application, as such, or in their lnternal administration by means of their water soluble e.Xtract1ves.. . Made a basis for a theory of the evolution of animal life, scientists have spent ages studying this manifestation of the abundance of nature's bounty seen in-the world around us, yes, even at our very doorsteps. f - ,. Through the history of the ages numerous examples can be cited where the treatment of diseases and the use of offensive tactics were grounded in a knowledge of the plants that grew in such abundance around primeval dwellings The stupefying effects of plants under certain ,conditions was known to the ancient priests and used as part of their sacrificial rituals The curative effects of qu1n1ne was said to be discovered by a savage drinking at a brook in which the leaves of the plant growing at its sides were steeped It was the discovery of the preservative values of certain plants that enabled provisions to be transported over long distances for many weeks with no loss of their edible qualities It was the condimentary properties of certain plants that made food more palatable not only in the middle ages but also at the present time T Alchemists in the olden days ' were famous for brewing love potions poisons and perfumes as well as medicines 1n addition to their other studies and have found their places 1n the histories of those times It is not to be wondered at then that the profession of Phar macy which has as its Lltima Thule the preparation and preserva tion of substances to preserve bodily functions spends so much of its time in studying those manifestations of nature that the layman sees from a merely superficial standpoint The department of Materia Medica Botany and Phaimacognosy is fortunate in having at its head a man who has spent years in 1ts mastery and whose love for his subject plays a large part in making a tedious and dry recital of essential facts a vital and living pait of our education namely Dr A P Lohness The instruction in this department extends throughout the college course and consists of a graded systematic series of lectui es wheiein each drug 1S considered separately its description, botanical o11g1n and family name noted, where it occurs naturally and vheie 1t can be cultivated what part of the plant can be used and how the medicinal constitutents can be best evtracted with a dmcussion of their therapeutic properties and the proper quant1t1es 111 which the finished product can be safely administered r P g 60 QA P C1- f l'J-