68 PHARMACY IN SWEDEN. 
interfering in the Pharmaceutical trade, have secured for the 
Apothecaries or Dispensing Chemists (ApotheTcare) a sufficient 
competence. 
That the attention of the Swedish Government for a long time 
has been directed to Pharmacy is plain, from a royal resolution 
passed in the year 1663, which commands the publication of a 
Pharmacopoeia (Pharmakope) and a price list of medicines 
[Medicinal Taxa.) The first Pharmacopoeia was published some 
years afterwards (1686), under the name of "Pharmacopoeia 
Galenochymica," and about the same time a price list of medi- 
cines. 
The first edition of Pharmacopoeia Svecica was published in 
1775, and new editions according to the progress of science from 
that time to 1845, which is the sixth and last edition. The Swedish 
Pharmacopoeia is written only in Latin. 
Collegium Medicum. — The superintendence and inspection of 
the Pharmaceutical as well as of the Medical establishments in 
Sweden are committed to the charge of a Collegium Medicum 
{JKonglig Sundhets Collegium,) whose members (Medicinal Had) 
are nominated by the King ; and every candidate for this office 
must be a Doctor of medicine, whose degree has been obtained 
by passing an examination. 
Apprenticeship. — Any youth who may w T ish to enter as appren- 
tice in an Apothecary's shop, must be fifteen years of age, and 
ought to have gone through a school-course of History, Geogra- 
phy, Mathematics, Latin, and Modern Languages. 
Assistant, or Pharmacia Studiosus. — The Apothecary 
must announce the name of the apprentice for regietration in the 
Collegium Medicum, and provide for his instruction in Botany, 
Chemistry, and Pharmacy during the apprenticeship, which lasts 
from three to four years ; and after which time the student is 
authorized to pass an examination in Botany, Chemistry, Phar- 
macy, Latin, and Modern Languages. This examination must 
be passed in Stockholm, in the Apothecaries' Society (Apothe- 
kare Societeten), and in the country before the official Physician 
of the province, together with the Apothecary who is the master 
of the apprentice. After this examination his oath is taken in 
compliance with the law and the official Pharmaceutical regula- 
tions, and he is now declared "Pharmacise jStudiosus," andcapa- 
