THE ASSISTANT APOTHECARIES (SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION) REGULATIONS (subjectsofexamination)

ASSISTANT APOTHECARIES (SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 458.01

THE ASSISTANT APOTHECARIES (SUBJECTS OF

EXAMINATION) REGULATIONS

17th March, 1922

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 60 of 1922.

The title of these Regulations is The

Assistant

Apothecaries (Subjects of Examination) Regulations.

The subjects of examination for assistant apothecaries shall

be as follows

(a) Latin names, words and simple directions in general

use in pharmacy; the several symbols (used in

prescriptions), their meaning, use and the relative

proportion, the measures they represent and bear to

one another either by weight or capacity;

(b) the various drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia and an

accurate account, in technical terms, of their

appearance, taste and odour; their dose and

incompatibility;

(c) the official preparations of these drugs; their

composition, appearance, dose and the proportional

quantities of the ingredients of the more important

ones;

(d) poisons: their names, characters, dangerous doses and

the antidotes or other remedial measures to be adopted

in cases of poisoning;

(e) prescriptions

reading,

measuring,

weighing,

compounding, labelling in a neat and distinct hand.