REPORT ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, &C. 
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Apothecaries have been fulfilled. Secondly, the suggestions 
offered by the witnesses respecting medical education. 
Thirdly^ we shall examine those charges and insinuations 
which have been made against the Edinburgh School, and in 
conclusion, we shall show that we had good grounds for 
making those assertions regarding the incorporation, and se- 
veral of its influential members, which we felt it our duty to do 
at the commencement. 
I. In what manner has the Society of Apothecaries exer- 
cised those privileges and fulfilled those duties which were 
entrusted to it by the charter of James I. and the act of 
1815? The duties of the society may be classed under four 
heads. I. To examine the medicinal articles kept by apothe- 
caries. 2. To prosecute unqualified practitioners. 3. To pre- 
scribe the course of education to be followed by all those in- 
tending to apply for a license. 4. To examine all candidates. 
5. To keep at the Hall a supply of pure articles used by 
apothecaries. We shall now inquire how each of those du- 
ties have been fulfilled. 
Examination of Apothecaries^ shops. The following ex- 
tracts will show how this is conducted. "How is the visita- 
tion of apothecaries' shops by the wardens of your society, in 
company with the censors of the College of Physicians, con- 
ducted ? The physicians call upon the Society of Apotheca- 
ries twice a year, I think it is, to send their wardens to assist 
them in the examination of the shops. Is the day fixed? 
The day is fixed; it is in the summer and the autumn of the 
year. Is it pretty well known before hand on what day the 
visit will take place? Yes, it is, but there has been some 
alteration made lately; one of the examinations is postponed 
to a later period of the year; they were very nearly together. 
About what period of the year is it? I think it is this very 
month, (June.) In short, both have taken place in this very 
month, but upon the last examination it was thought better to 
postpone the second examination till towards the end of the 
year. How many shops are generally visited in a day? I 
dare say from forty to fifty. I was on these examinations 
