A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall.

  • Steggall, John, 1795?-1871.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prenticeship of not less than five years to an apothecary, of having attained the full age of twenty-one years, and of good moral conduct: and also testimonials of having attended Two courses of lectures on chemistry. Two courses of lectures on materia medica, therapeutics, and botany: Two courses of lectures on anatomy and physiology : Two courses of anatomical demonstrations : Two courses of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine: to be attended subsequently to one course of lectures on chemistry, materia medica, and anatomy : Two courses of lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children : And nine months, at least, the physician’s practice at a hospital (containing not less than sixty beds,) or twelve months at a dis- pensary: such attendance to commence subsequently to the termi- nation of the first course of lectures on the principles and practice of medicine. Students are, moreover, earnestly recommended to attend cli- nical lectures, and diligently to avail themselves of instruction in morbid anatomy and forensic medicine. The examination of the candidate will be as follows: 1. In translating grammatically parts of the Pharmacopeia Lon- dinensis, and physicians’ prescriptions ; and, after the 1st of January, 1831, candidates will be required to translate portions of the fol- lowing medical Latin authors, viz. Celsus de Medicina, or Gregory Conspectus Medicine Theoretice.* 2. In chemistry. 3. In materia medica and therapeutics. 4. In botany. 5. In anatomy and physiology. 6. In the practice of medicine. N.B. Physicians’ pupils, who intend to present themselves for examination, must appear personally at the beadle’s office, in this Hall, and bring with them the tickets, authorizing their attendance on such practice, as the commencement thereof will be dated from the time of such personal appearance. No testimonial of attendance on lectures on the principles and practice of medicine, delivered in London, or within seven miles thereof, will render a candidate eligible for examination, unless such lectures were given, and the testimonial is signed by, a fellow, * For the first twelve months the translations from these authors will be confined to the first and third books of the former, and to the first ten chapters of the latter.
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