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PHARMACEUTICAL  LEGISLATION. 
to  the  regulations  of  the  Federal  Medical  Council.  The  censure  *'bad" 
or  "  insufficient "  makes  a  repetition  of  the  examination  necessary  after  at 
least  six  months  ;  failing  to  pass  after  two  postponements  (three  exami- 
nations) is  regarded  as  a  definitive  rejection. 
I  57.  Immediately  after  the  final  examination,  the  final  censure  on  the 
entire  State's  examination  is  determined,  and  the  chairman  reports  the 
entire  proceedings,  including  the  documents  of  application  and  admission, 
to  the  Federal  Medical  Council. 
§  58.  Based  upon  the  successful  passing  of  the  States  examination,  the 
federal  medical  council  issues  to  the  candidate  the  certificate  of  qualifi- 
cation (approbation)  requisite  for  the  conducting  of  the  apothecary  busi- 
ness. 
D.   The  district  Apothecary. 
I  59.  The  examination  for  eligibility  as  district  apothecary  (Pharma- 
ceutische  Physikats  Priifung)  takes  place  before  a  chemist,  a  botanist 
and  an  apothecary,  who  are  members  of  the  states  examination  com- 
mission. 
§  60.  Approbated  pharmacists,  having  conducted  an  officine  in  Northern 
Germany  for  two  years,  may  apply  for  this  examination,  which  consists 
\  61.  A,  in  a  treatise  on  some  subject  from  the  department  of  pharma- 
ceutical administration  ;  b,  in  an  essay  upon  a  theme  of  forensic  analysis  ; 
c,  in  a  forensic  analysis  with  quantitative  determination  of  the  poison 
and  an  argumentative  report;  d,  in  the  determination  of  one  or  more 
substances  by  means  of  the  microscope  ;  e,  in  a  verbal  examination  on 
subjects  from  the  same  branches. 
§  62  refers  to  the  keeping  of  minutes,  the  censuring  on  each  branch  in 
the  same  manner  as  in  ^  55,  and  to  the  final  censure,  which  is  to  be 
"  passed,"  or  "  not  passed,"  the  former  only  if  the  examination  of  neither 
branch  was  rated  "  bad  "  or  "  insufficient." 
I  63.  The  repetition  of  the  examination  on  one  of  the  branches  is  in- 
admissible. A  re-examination  can  take  place  after  the  lapse  of  at  least 
a  year. 
The  passing  of  this  last  examination  makes  the  pharmacist 
eligible  into  the  various  administrative  bureaus.  The  district 
apothecary  (Physikats  Apotheker)  is  elected  for  five  years,  by 
the  apothecaries  of  the  larger  counties  (Kreise),  or  of  several 
smaller  counties  ;  the  government  (Regierungs)  apothecary  is 
appointed  for  a  province  ;  the  federal  medical  council  (Bundes 
Medicinalbehbrde),  subordinate  to  the  federal  chancellory,  con- 
sists of  physicians  and  pharmacists,  with  a  lavi^yer  as  chairman ; 
strictly  pharmaceutical  affairs  are  decided  by  the  pharmacists, 
and  medical  questions  by  the  physicians  only. 
