S.L. 458.1 Art. 2Subjects of examination.

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.