21. A materia medica may also include accidental poisoning and some information from clinical treatment. 22. He then began lecturing in Materia Medica at Glasgow University. 23. He translated 34 volumes of Materia Medica into Chinese and authored other medical books. 24. "Compendium of Materia Medica " was a massive literary undertaking. 25. It is a work epitomizing the " materia medica " known at the time. 26. From 1880 to 1897 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Glasgow University. 27. His brother was Matthew Charteris, Regius Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Glasgow University. 28. From 1742 he gave lectures in physiology, botany and materia medica at the botanical garden. 29. It was a Latin treatise on drugs, entitled " Materia Medica Antiqua et Nova ". 30. Four hundred plants of the materia medica are described and their uses in medicine explained.
