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ble of exercising the functions of an assistant in a shop, and also 
answerable for the prescriptions prepared by him ; and by way 
of a check he must always sign his name to the label of the pre- 
scription. 
(The apprentice or scholar is not answerable, and in conse- 
quence not allowed to prepare any prescriptions, he may sell in- 
nocent medicines only, as elder and chamomile flowers, juniper- 
berry, gummi acacise, &c.) 
Pharmaceutical Institution. — After serving as an Assistant 
in a shop for three years, and producing a testimonial of the fact, 
he may now enter as Pupil at the Pharmaceutical Institution 
(JPharmaceutiska Institutet) in Stockholm, and there attend the 
lectures which are read in Botany, Materia Medica, and Phar- 
maceutical Chemistry, from the beginning of October to the end 
of May, with a few weeks vacations at Christmas. At the same 
time he must work two days a week in the operations of the labo- 
ratory. 
The fees for the lectures and the course in the laboratory are 
together about £1. The pupil has free admission to the lectures 
in Zoology, Botany, Materia Medica, and Chemistry, at the 
Boyal Caroline Institution (Konglig CarolinsJca Institutet,} and 
to the excursions of the Assistant Professor of Botany, which 
take place during the summer months, May, June, July, and 
August, in the environs of Stockholm. 
After finishing the course in the laboratory, the duration of 
which depends upon the capacity of the pupil, he may request a 
private trial (tentamen) by the Professors in the prescribed 
branches of science, viz., Botany, Zoology, Materia Medica, The- 
oretical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Toxicology. 
If he can present in the Collegium Medicum a certificate from 
the Professors, of their satisfaction with the trial, a day will be 
appointed for examination, which is conducted by two Professors 
at the Boyal Caroline Institution, and two of the Apothecaries 
in Stockholm before a member of the Collegium Medicum. Dur- 
ing the examination, whoever wishes, is allowed to be present, 
and all the questions are registered in a book kept for that pur- 
pose, and a note made whether or not the answers are correct. 
And the examiners express the merits of the candidates by the 
