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PHARMACY IN SPAIN. 
tion for their mutual protection, and the exercise of charity 
to each other. 
The privilege granted them orders that all apothecaries 
are to use uniform weights ; it prohibits the sale, by those 
who have not been received by the College, of all distilled 
waters, excepting those of orange-flowers, rose, &c, and 
contains minute details as to the conditions of admission and 
other rules which we cannot enter upon. 
In 1512, at a general meeting of Apothecaries, it was 
enacted that no one could be received until he had practised 
for eight years, instead of six, which was the former law ; 
and rules were established relative to the theoretical and 
practical examinations the candidates were to undergo. In 
1601, the College published the Farmacopea Valentina,o{ 
which there was a new edition in 1629. The College of 
Barcelona existed in 1352, and published a Pharmacopoeia 
m 1535. 
The fourth epoch of Pharmacy, which includes the pre- 
sent century, contains less unknown details than those pre- 
ceding, but nevertheless deserves notice, especially in rela- 
tion to pharmaceutical legislation, which was rendered much 
more perfect. 
Carbonell's work translated into French*, was at this 
period an interesting event in the history of Pharmacy ; but 
many other '^works of some interest appeared at the same 
time. 
Although the details relating to the history of pharmaceu- 
tical literature, with reference to the period anterior to our 
century, are full of interest, yet those which relate to the 
present century leave much to be desired. 
We will content ourselves with referring to two instances 
illustrative of this : the works of Pelletier are noticed in so 
incomplete a manner that it would be difficult to form any 
idea of them ; the names of Serrullas and Robiquet are not 
even found amidst those who have advanced French Phar- 
macy in our time. We must frankly say that this portion 
of the work is not nearly equal to the previous parts. 
