 Materia medica

Original volume: Examination papers for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine by the University of Oxford (1864–1867). Open the original paper in the scanned volume, PDF page 89.

Original questions are transcribed from the public-domain edition. Credit: Wellcome Collection; original supplied by Royal College of Physicians, London. Source and public-domain rights statement.

The historical standard used below is the British Pharmacopoeia by the General Medical Council (1867). A contemporary July publication notice records official publication notices dated 14 June 1867, before this December examination. Later reprints containing the additions of 1874 must be distinguished from this original issue.^[ref] These are explanations of historical materia medica, with present physiology identified separately where it changes the interpretation.