462  Pharmaceutical  Corps  in  U.  S.  Army.    { Am6 JtX"rP?9 ™' 
of  the  Surgeon  General,  formulas  for  nonofficial  preparations, 
reagents,  and  tests  used  in  the  Army  Medical  Department,  and  all 
formulas  so  published  shall  be  authoritative  in  the  Army  Medical 
Department ;  to  recommend  alternates  or  substitutes  for  proprietary, 
expensive,  rare,  or  unobtainable  drugs  or  preparations ;  to  prepare 
specifications  and  estimates  for  Army  medical  supplies ;  to  pass 
upon  requisitions  for  supplies ;  to  provide  regulations  for  the  storage, 
safeguarding,  and  preservation  of  Army  medical  supplies,  and  the 
distribution  and  issuing  of  such  supplies ;  to  see  that  accounts  of  the 
receipts  and  disbursements  of  all  supplies  are  properly  kept,  with 
special  records  of  the  purchases  and  disposition  of  spirituous  liquors 
and  habit-forming  drugs ;  to  have  inspections  made  of  the  medical 
supplies,  and  recommend  appropriate  disposition  of  condemned,  de- 
teriorated, or  unreliable  supplies ;  to  preserve  the  files,  correspond- 
ence, and  official  records  of  the  corps ;  to  prepare  a  syllabus  cover- 
ing a  systematic  course  of  professional  study  to  be  followed  by 
members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Corps ;  to  cooperate  in  the  profes- 
sional examinations  of  applicants  for  enlistment  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical sendee,  or  for  promotion  within  the  corps  ;  to  recommend 
transfer  of  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Corps  and  promotion  for 
service  or  special  recognition  for  distinguished  service.  He  shall 
outline  a  course  of  instruction  for  pharmacists  if  an  Army  pharma- 
cist training  school  is  established 
In  the  absence  of  the  pharmacist  director  a  deputv  pharmacist 
director  shall  be  named  as  acting  pharmacist  director.  The  various 
duties  specified  above  as  within  the  province  of  the  pharmacist  di- 
rector, with  the  approval  of  the  Surgeon  General,  may  be  distrib- 
uted or  assigned  to  the  deputy  pharmacist  directors. 
The  deputy  pharmacist  directors  shall  be  pharmacists  of  unques- 
tioned professional  repute  who  are  graduates  of  reputable  schools 
of  pharmacy  and  have  had  not  less  than  five  years  pharmaceutical 
experience. 
Any  American  citizen,  graduate  of  a  reputable  school  of  phar- 
macy, of  good  moral  character  and  between  twenty-one  years  and 
forty-five  years  of  age,  both  inclusive,  who  can  pass  the  usual  phys- 
ical examination  required  for  appointment  in  the  Medical  Corps 
and  the  professional  examinations,  which  shall  include  tests  of  skill 
in  practical  pharmacy  and  of  proficiency  in  the  usual  subjects  of  a 
standard  school  of  pharmacy  course,  may  be  appointed  as  a  pharma- 
cist in  the  Pharmaceutical  Corps. 
