The Edinburgh University almanack. MDCCCXXXIII.

Date:
1833
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    geons into the Navy, it will be required that they produce proof of having received a classical education, and that they possess a particular and competent knowledge of Latin ; also, That they have served an Apprenticeship, or have been employed in an Apothecary’s shop for not less than two years. That their Age be not less than twenty years, nor more than twenty-six years ; and that they are unmarried. That they have attended an Hospital in London, Edin- burgh, Dublin, or Glasgow, for twelve months. That they have been engaged in actual dissections of the human body twelve months; and That they have attended Lectures, &c. on the following subjects, at established Schools of Eminence, for periods not less than hereunder stated; observing, however, that such Lectures will not be admitted for more than two different Branches of Science, by one Individual, viz. Anatomy, 18 Months Surgery, - 18 ••• ■! ' Six of them may be Military Theory of Medicine, 1 6 L Surgery. Practice or Medicine, - 12 Clinical Lectures on v the Practice of Me- V 6 ... dicine and Surgery, J Chemistry, 6 Materia Medica, - 6 Midwifery, 6 Botany, - 6 Although the above are the only qualifications which are absolutely required in Candidates for the appointment of Assistant Surgeon, a preference will be given to those who, by possessing a knowledge of diseases of the Eye, and of any branch of science connected with the profession, such as Medical Jurisprudence, Natural History, Natural Philoso-