The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

EXAMINATION OP APOTHECARIES.

We have. seen a printed copy of the resolutions which the
society of apothecaries has -'
just issued for the guidance of siu
dentsintending, to qualify themselves to practise as apothecaries
in England and Wales: We understand that these rcgolations
complete the scheme of study which the society has for many
years past been slowly developing, and which are not expected
to require further alteration, except, perhaps, in a few points of
detail. lhe prefatory remarks on the part of the court of exa-
miners express satisfaction at observing the benefits derived
from the course of study enjoined, the incrfased acquire-
ments of candidates, under the late regulations, which pre-
scribed a shorter period of study than- is now requisite.
Every candidate is required to produce testimonials of having
served an apprenticeship of nut less than five years to an apo-
thecary, of being full 21 years old, and of good moral conduct.
Students, whose attendance on lectures shall commence ou or
after the Ist October, 1835, will be required to prriduce proof of
having attended during three winter and two strummer sessions,
in a specified order, lectures on chemistry, anatomy, and phy-
siology, urateria media', and therapeutics, botany, principles
and practice of medicine, midwifery and diseases of women and
children, and attendance on cases, forensic imedicine, as well
as anatomical demonstrations, dissections, medical practice of
an hospital, and such other branches of study as may improve
the student's general education. The number of lectures is
specified—viz., not less than 100 on chemistry, the same num-
ber on materia medica and therapeutics, &c. Each' strident
must likewise produce proof of having dissected the whole of
the body once at least.
The examination of the candidate for a certificate of qualifi-
cation to practise as an apothecary will be as follows :—in
translating parts of Celsus de Medieinii, and Oregory'S Con-
spectus Medicina Theoretive e ; Physician's prescriptions, and
the Pharmacopeia Londittemis ; chymistry, materia medica and
therapeutics, botany, anatomy and physiology, and principles
and practice of medicine.
These regulations, prOperly enforced, as there can be no
doubt they will be, must not only secure the competency of the
practitioners, but raise the qualifications of apothecaries to a-
very respectable standard.
No hospital not now-recognized by the society as a school of
.practical medicine, will in future be placed upon the list of re
cognized schools, unless situate in London or in a city or town
in which schools of medicine are established, and the physi-
cians attached to it give a full course of instruction on' clinical
medicine and morbid anatomy. The hospital must contain at
least 100 patients, and be under the care of at least two physi-
cians. The society propose to recognize as. schools of practi-
cal medicine such dispensaries as are situateinsoine city or
town where there is a recognized medical school, and where
the rules of the dispensary permit the attendance of students,
and the
.physicians afford them instruction, provided the dis-
pensary is under the care of at least two physicians qualified in
a specified manner.
A book is kept at the Hall for. the_reflistraticin of,the names
of the students, and of the lecturers; hospitals, or dispensaries
they attend,. and which they are required to register personally.
—Times.