A guide to pharmacy and dispensing for nurses and women desirous of qualifying as dispensers / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943
Date:
[1916]
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Credit: A guide to pharmacy and dispensing for nurses and women desirous of qualifying as dispensers / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    calling, the following particulars of the requisite course to take will be found of service. The first step in training is to pass an approved preliminary examination and to become registered as an apprentice or student of Pharmacy, the registration fee for which is two guineas. The certificates which are accepted for regis- tration must include English, Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry, and two optional subjects are also included, one of which should be Latin, but a modern foreign language or book-keeping would be accepted. The list of certificates authorised may be obtained from the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 17 Bloomsbury Square. They include the Junior or Senior Local Examinations, Higher Local Examinations, and Responsions of the Uni- versities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Matricu- lation Examination of the Universities of London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and Sheffield ; also the Junior or Senior Examination of the College of Preceptors, and those of many other bodies. This having been done, the student must for three years take practical instruction, and be engaged in the translation and dispensing of pre- scriptions. This may be accomplished by be- coming apprenticed to a registered chemist, or may be obtained in a hospital or dispensary where prescriptions are dispensed, providing the