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November,  191 7.  J 
the  French  Army. 
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Under  this  law  the  pharmaceutical  cadre  is  composed  of : 
1  Pharmacist-Inspector,  with  rank  of  General  of  a  brigade. 
4  Pharmacist  Principals,  1st  Class,  with  rank  of  Colonel. 
5  Pharmacist  Principals,  2d   Class,   with   rank   of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel. 
30  Pharmacist-Majors,  1st  Class,  with  rank  of  Chief  of  a  Battalion. 
45  Pharmacist-Majors,  2d  Class,  with  rank  of  Captain. 
20  Pharmacist  Aide-Majors,  1st  Class,  with  rank  of  Lieutenant. 
10  Pharmacist  Aide-Majors,  2d  Class,  with  rank  of  Second-Lieu- 
tenant. 
This  total  of  115  was  soon  seen  to  be  insufficient,  as  was  shown 
by  the  sanitary  service  in  Morocco.  When  the  necessity  arose,  the 
reserve  pharmaceutical  corps  was  to  be  mobilized.  In  191 4  this 
reserve  force  numbered  1,229  and,  in  the  territorial  army,  1,020,  a 
total  reserve  corps  of  2,249. 
The  pharmaceutical  corps  in  the  French  army  is  recruited  in 
part  from  students  of  pharmacy  who  enter  the  army  sanitary  service 
and  continue  their  studies  while  in  the  army,  and  in  part  from 
pharmacist  graduates  who  hold  first-class  diplomas.  The  under- 
graduate who  enlists  in  this  service  must  establish  that  he  is  a  citi- 
zen of  France  either  by  birth  or  by  naturalization,  that  he  is  over  18 
years  and  less  than  23  years  of  age,  must  have  passed  the  prelimi- 
nary scholastic  examination  and  have  his  fitness  for  military  service 
certified  to.  As  a  student  he  is  allowed  an  annual  pension,  while 
attending  the  school  of  applied  medicine  and  pharmacy,  of  1,000 
francs  which,  it  is  stipulated,  is  allowed  on  condition  that  he  com- 
plies with  the  rules  of  the  school  and  passes  the  examination  for 
admission  to  the  service,  otherwise  it  must  be  refunded  to  the 
war  department. 
The  examination  for  the  first  year  studies  of  the  military 
pharmacy  student,  covers  a  composition  on  some  question  of  physics 
or  elementary  inorganic  chemistry;  the  preparation  of  one  or  more 
medicinal  formulas  included  in  the  Codex,  with  an  examination  on 
these  preparations ;  the  compounding  of  prescriptions ;  the  deter- 
mination of  fifteen  plants  or  parts  of  plants  pertaining  to  materia 
medica  and  ten  chemical  medicaments  or  galenicals  and  examina- 
tions on  these. 
The  examination  at  the  end  of  the  second  year  includes  the  fol- 
lowing: a  composition  upon  an  inorganic  or  an  organic  chemical 
