APOTHECARIES' HALL.

Regulations for the Examination of Apothecaries.

THE COURT of EXAMINERS chosen and appointed by the
MASTER, WARDENS and ASSISTANTS of the SOCIETY of APOTHECARIES,
of the CITY of LONDON, in pursuance of a certain ACT of PARLIAMENT,
" For better Regulating the Practice of APOTHECARIES throughout
ENGLAND and WALES," passed in the 55th year of the reign of his
MAJESTY KING GEORGE the THIRD, have determined:

That every Person who shall be admitted to an Examination for a
Certificate to practice as an APOTHECARY, shall be required to produce

TESTIMONIALS of having served an Apprenticeship of *not less* than
five years to an APOTHECARY; of having attained the full age of Twenty-
One Years, and being of a good moral conduct.

He is expected to possess a competent knowledge of the LATIN LAN-
RUAGE, and to produce CERTIFICATES of having attended not less than

TWO COURSES of LECTURES on ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY:

TWO COURSES of LECTURES on the THEORY and PRACTICE of
MEDICINE:

ONE COURSE of LECTURES on CHEMISTRY; and

ONE COURSE of LECTURES on MATERIA MEDICA.

A CERTIFICATE of Attendance for *six months at least* on the Medical
Practice of some PUBLIC HOSPITAL, INFIRMARY, or DISPENSARY.

The COURT have also determined, that the Examination for a CERTI-
FICATE to practice as an APOTHECARY, shall be as follows:

‡ 1. In translating parts of the PHARMACOPÆIA LONDINENSIS, and PHYSICIAN'S PRESCRIPTIONS.

2. In PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY.

3. In the MATERIA MEDICA and in MEDICAL BOTANY *.

4. In PHYSIOLOGY.

5. In the PRACTICE of MEDICINE.

Regulations for the Examination of Assistants.

That every Person who shall be admitted to an Examination for a
Certificate to act as an ASSISTANT to any APOTHECARY, in compounding
or dispensing MEDICINES, shall be required to translate parts of the
PHARMACOPÆIA LONDINENSIS, and PHYSICIAN'S PRESCRIPTIONS;
and shall be examined as to his knowledge of PHARMACY, and MATERIA
MEDICA.

Notice.

Every Person intending to qualify himself under the regulations of
this ACT, to practice as an APOTHECARY, or to act as an Assistant,
must give notice in writing (*post paid*) addressed to the CLERK of the
SOCIETY of APOTHECARIES, APOTHECARIES HALL, LONDON, on or
before the Monday previously to the day of Examination.

The COURT will meet in the HALL every Thursday where Candidates
are requested to attend at one o'clock, precisely.

By order of the COURT,

JOHN WATSON, Secretary.

LONDON, November, 1816.

‡ The COURT are extremely anxious to impress upon those Persons, who may
be intending to present themselves for Examination before them, a conviction of the abso-
lute necessity of such knowledge of the Latin Language, as may enable them to translate
the Pharmacopœia Londinensis, and Prescriptions of Physicians, which they consider as a
qualification indispensable to the Apothecary.

They are particularly induced to give greater publicity to this Regulation, be-
cause they have had the distressing duty imposed on them of with-holding Certificates of
Qualification from several Persons, principally from their great deficiency in this most im-
portant pre-requisite to a Medical Education.

* By Medical Botany is to be understood those indigenous Plants only, which are contained in the Pharmacopœia Londinensis, and such indigenous Plants as are esteemed of a poisonous quality.