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acquisition of professional knowledge, he acquaints the 
pharmaceutic commissioner, that he wishes to be examined, 
and is accordingly examined for two several days, and for 
more than two hours each day. The examination is rigidly 
confined to the physical and natural sciences, but is in these 
exceedingly strict. 
In chemistry, in botany, in the natural history of drugs, 
and in the mode of preparing and compounding them, a 
degree of accurate knowledge is required which might prove 
very inconvenient to demand from many of our most admired 
teachers. If the candidate be approved of, he receives his 
license to hold a shop; his business then is, to try whether he 
can get one. 
While the student has been thus reading for his degree in 
pharmacy, he generally attends the lectures of the professors 
to the philosophical faculty, and becomes, on the termination 
of his studies, Doctor in Philosophy. The majority of the 
leading apothecaries, whose acquaintance I was so fortunate 
as to make, are Doctors in Philosophy. In fact, the apothecary 
is as usually Doctor in Philosophy, as the physician Doctor in 
Medicine; the doctorate of the medicinal faculty being only a 
nominal degree, and quite distinct from the license to practise 
medicine. It is on this account, that persons who are rejected 
here, or in England, obtain doctorship in Germany so easily; 
but if they applied for a license to practise medicine, or to 
act as an apothecary, the result would give them an idea of an 
examination completely new. 
Our subject, who is now Apothecary and Doctor in Philoso- 
phy, wishes to get a shop and commence business. A shop 
can be obtained, however, only by one or two means, opening 
a new one, or purchasing one already established; both of 
these methods are restricted in a very remarkable manner. 
The government, having compelled the student to a course of 
education requiring so considerable an outlay of time and 
money, is bound to provide that he can obtain a compensating 
return; and this is effected in a manner very well worthy of 
imitation. 
