ASSISTANT APOTHECARIES (SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION) ġ S.L.458.01 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 458.01
THE ASSISTANT APOTHECARIES (SUBJECTS OF 
EXAMINATION) REGULATIONS 
17th March, 1922
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 60 of 1922.
Title.
Apothecaries (Subjects of Examination) Regulations.
Subjects of 
examination.
2. The subjects of examination for assistant apothecaries shall
be as follows:
( a ) Latin names, words and simple directions in general
use in pharmacy; the several symbols (used in
prescriptions), their meaning, use and the relative
proportion, the measures they represent and bear to
one another either by weight or capacity;
( b ) the various drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia and an
accurate account, in technical terms, of their
appearance, taste and odour; their dose and
incompatibility;
( c ) the official preparations of these drugs; their
composition, appearance, dose and the proportional
quantities of the ingredients of the more important
ones;
( d ) poisons: their names, characters, dangerous doses and
the antidotes or other remedial measures to be adopted
in cases of poisoning;
( e ) prescriptions: reading, measuring, weighing,
compounding, labelling in a neat and distinct hand.
