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tices by the State Boards of Pharmacy 

 preliminary to eligibility for examination 

 as assistant and pharmacist ? 



9. Present an exhibit of practical ex- 

 perience requirements for all the Phar- 

 macy Laws. What should be the minimum 

 period required for the respective grades 

 of registrations and how can this be de- 

 fined as applied to practical experience in 

 a pharmacy or "drug store ?" 



REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS 



10. What States recognize more than 

 one grade of Licentiates, and by what 

 Titles are the several grades distinguish- 

 ed ? When two grades of licentiates are 

 recognized, what are the Age require- 

 ments ? 



a) For the higher or Pharmacist's 

 grade? 



b) For the lower or Assistant's grade? 

 it. In what States is it customary to 



present the same list of Questions to Can- 

 didates for both grades, the grade or 

 certificate granted, depending upon the 

 percentage of correct answers returned by 

 the Candidate? What are the advan- 

 tages and defects of this method ? 



12. To what extent is it customary for 

 Pharmacy Boards to require Candidates 

 to demonstrate by practical work their 

 fitness for Registration ? Is it possible 

 under existing circumstances to greatly 

 extend the principle of practical exami- 

 nations ? 



13. Where experience is a requirement 

 for graduation or registration, should a 

 distinction be made between experience 

 gained in a city pharmacy and that ob- 

 tained in a country drug store, and what 

 should be the ground of such a distinction 

 when made ? Also, to what extent, if 

 any, should menial service in a drug 

 store, unconnected with compounding, 

 be taken as experience ? 



14. What Pharmacy Boards and what 

 Institutions teaching pharmacy make any 



of the above-named distinctions as to 

 what constitutes , "experience in a drug 

 store?" 



Section on Scientific Papers.— 1895. 



LIST OF QUERIES. 



i. Is the thin green Wild Cherry Bark 

 really more valuable therapeutically than 

 the older and thicker brown barks? Make 

 comparative assays. 



2. Do all the well known brands of 

 Quinine Sulphate conform to the tests of 

 the U. S. P., 1890? 



3. Devise a method of assaying Digi- 

 talis that yields the true amount of the 

 one or more active principles of the 

 drug. 



4. Separate, purify and describe the 

 various active ingredients of digitalis. 



5. Is English Digitalis as superior to 

 the German as the difference in price 

 would indicate ? 



6 What percentage of the U. S P. 

 pepsins of the market come up to the 

 pharmacopoeia requirements ? 



7. Determiue in case of such drugs as 

 can be secured whether they yield prod- 

 ucts of greater value therapeutically 

 when percolated in the fre.sh than in the 

 dry state. 



8. Compare all the well-known meth- 

 ods of assaying Belladonna leaves, Bel- 

 ladonna root and Henbane leaves, apply- 

 ing titration by volumetric acid solution 

 to each, and determine which method 

 extracts the most alkaloid from the 

 drug. 



9. Do the same for Coca leaves and 

 Ipecac Root. 



10 Determine the relative values of 

 Western and Southern Senega. 



11. What is the quality of Calcium 

 Sulphide dispensed by pharmacists ? 



12. In what cases can Acetic Acid be 

 advantageously substituted for alcohol 

 in the exhaustion of the drug ? 



