GUIDE TO THE EXAMINATIONS OF THE APOTHECARIES' SOCIETY, OF LONDON. WITH EXAMINATION QUESTIONS; TABLES ON MEDICINE, MATERIA MEDICA, LONDON: BAILLIERE, TINDALL & COX, DUBLIN: FANNIN & CO., GRAFTON STREET. EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN & STEWART, SOUTH BRIDGE. PREFACE. I HAVE heard the L.S.A. Diploma described by a wellknown member of the profession as "the Medical qualification of the practitioners of England." To prove that such a designation is not altogether unmerited, I need only mention two facts: (1). According to the statistics recently before the British Medical Council, 420 candidates have presented themselves during the past 12 months for the First and Second Professional Examinations. Probably an even larger number were examined at the "Preliminary in Arts." (2.) On turning to the "Medical Directory" for 1882, section London, I find that out of the first 145 names, 68 hold the Medical Diploma of this Society; and that of the first 126 names (under "Provincial") commencing with the letter L, 77 are thus licensed. To summarize, out of 271 names-taken hap-hazard-145 (or considerably more than half) have the L.S.A. qualifi cation. These figures, together with the fact that no "Guide" to the examinations of this Board has been published for some years, will, I consider, sufficiently explain the raison d'être of this book. September, 1882. W. E. D. |