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A Synoptic view of the following
Discourse, to serve as an
Index.
| Page, | ||
| Introduction, | 1–4. | |
| A Plan of the Discourse, | 4. | |
| A Definition of Medicine, | ibid. | |
| Distinction between Physic and Surgery, | 5. | |
| The various Branches of Knowledge which
compose the Science of Medicine enumerated, |
ibid. | |
| Definition of Anatomy, | 6. | |
| Its Importance in Medical Science, | 6–8. | |
| Materia Medica and Botany, why termed the
natural History of Medicine, |
8. | |
| Definition and Importance of the Materia Medica, | 9. | |
| Botany, its Definition and Use, | 10. | |
| Chymistry, Philosophic and Pharmaceutic, | ibid. | |
| Pharmaceutic Chymistry, its Definition and Use, | ibid. 11. | |
| The Theory of Physic or Medical Institutions, What is meant by that Name, | 11. | |
| Physiology, what, | ibid. | |
| Its Importance, | 12. | |
| Pathology, its Definition and Connection with the former, | 13. | |
| Praxis or Practice of Medicine, its Definition, | ibid. | |
| A general knowledge of all the preceeding necessary in learning the Art of Physic, | 14. | |
| The Order recommended in the Study of them, | 16. | |
| Pre-requisites to the Study of Medicine, | 17–18. | |
| A general View of the State of Physic in America and Obstacles to its Study, | 18–23. | |
| Effect of ignorant and presumptuous Practice, | 23–24. | |
