opiates  or  stimulants  to  excess,  every  druggist  or  apothecary 
should  discourage  such  practice. 
9th.  No  apprentice  to  the  business  of  apothecary  should  be 
taken  for  a  less  term  than  four  years,  unless  he  has  already 
served  a  portion  of  that  time  in  an  establishment  of  good  char- 
acter. Apprentices  should  invariably  be  entered  as  matriculants 
in  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  and  commence  attendance  on  its  lec- 
tures at  least  two  years  before  the  expiration  of  their  term  of 
apprenticeship ;  and  as  the  progress  of  our  profession  in  the 
scale  of  scientific  attainment  must  depend  mainly  upon  those 
who  are  yet  to  enter  it — it  is  recommended  that  those  applicants 
who  have  had  the  advantage  of  a  good  preliminary  education, 
including  the  Latin  language,  should  be  preferred* 
