Title
Materia Medica and Hygiene, 1884-1885
Subject
Letter writing
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
State University of New York at Buffalo. School of Medicine
Educational tests and measurements
Description
This is a photograph of an examination in materia medica and hygiene given at the University of Buffalo medical school after the 1884-1885 session. Frances Proctor Ames graduated from the medical school in 1885.
Creator
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Publisher
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Date
1884-1885
Contributor
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Rights
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Format
image/jpeg
Language
en-US
Type
Text
Identifier
RG9-12-1043_1_5_007
Date Created
2016-05-10
Is Part Of
Frances Proctor Ames Papers, 1882-1948 (RG 9/12/1043)
LIB-UA041
Extent
12.7x21.6
Transcription
Materia Medica and Hygiene.
1884-5.
1. Define Disease and Health, and the relation of Materia Medica to them.
2. Define a Remedy and a Medicine.
3. Define a Pharmacopœia; a Dispensatory.
4. How may medicinal agents be introduced into the circulation? Describe the
avenues of introduction, forms necessary, and means employed.
5. What do you understand by "Incompatibility?" What by "Antagonism?"
6. What do you understand by "Elective Affinity" in the operation of medicines?
and what is its apparent explanation?
7. What are the conditions regulating the Absorption of Medicines? What regu-
lates their Elimination?
8. What do you understand by a Cardiac Stimulant? Give the physiology of its
operation.
9. What are the principal Chemical changes to which remedies are subject when
introduced into the stomach?
10. Give briefly the principal rules regulating the dose of remedies.
11. Give the therapeutics, briefly, of Constipation.
12. Describe the physiological symptoms of Atropine–in small and in large doses.
Of Morphine. Of Quinine.
13. Give the therapeutics of Opium poisoning.
14. Mention five of the principal preparations of Opium, and their doses.
15. Write a prescription containing Acetate of Potassium, Tincture of Digitalis and
Iodide of Potassium, and describe the effect expected from its administration.
HYGIENE.
1. What are the relations of Air to public health?
2. What influence does Water Supply exert upon health?
3. What do you understand by Quarantine?
4. What do you understand by Disinfection? Describe the process ordinarily re-
quired, the time for its employment and the principal agents used.
5. What is the relation of Drainage to public health?
[?]
1884-5.
1. Define Disease and Health, and the relation of Materia Medica to them.
2. Define a Remedy and a Medicine.
3. Define a Pharmacopœia; a Dispensatory.
4. How may medicinal agents be introduced into the circulation? Describe the
avenues of introduction, forms necessary, and means employed.
5. What do you understand by "Incompatibility?" What by "Antagonism?"
6. What do you understand by "Elective Affinity" in the operation of medicines?
and what is its apparent explanation?
7. What are the conditions regulating the Absorption of Medicines? What regu-
lates their Elimination?
8. What do you understand by a Cardiac Stimulant? Give the physiology of its
operation.
9. What are the principal Chemical changes to which remedies are subject when
introduced into the stomach?
10. Give briefly the principal rules regulating the dose of remedies.
11. Give the therapeutics, briefly, of Constipation.
12. Describe the physiological symptoms of Atropine–in small and in large doses.
Of Morphine. Of Quinine.
13. Give the therapeutics of Opium poisoning.
14. Mention five of the principal preparations of Opium, and their doses.
15. Write a prescription containing Acetate of Potassium, Tincture of Digitalis and
Iodide of Potassium, and describe the effect expected from its administration.
HYGIENE.
1. What are the relations of Air to public health?
2. What influence does Water Supply exert upon health?
3. What do you understand by Quarantine?
4. What do you understand by Disinfection? Describe the process ordinarily re-
quired, the time for its employment and the principal agents used.
5. What is the relation of Drainage to public health?
[?]
Original Format
Correspondence
Collection
Citation
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948, “Materia Medica and Hygiene, 1884-1885,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 16, 2024, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/79650.