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medical department 171 twelve months' Practical Anatomy twelve Surgery or what is preferred six months' Surgery and six months' Military Surgery eight months' Clinical Surgery twelve months' Practice of Physic or six months' Practice of Physic and six months' General Pathology eight months' Clinical Lectures-on the same twelve months' Chemistry six months' Practical Chemistry three Months' Botany four months' Materia Medica three months' Practical Pharmacy or Apprenticeship five months' Natural History five months' Midwifery five months' Natural Philosophy Candidates who have had an University education and have the degree of or as well as that of will be preferred but liberal education and competent knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages are indispensably requisite in every candidate and the greater the attainments of the candidates in various branches of science in addition to competent profes- sional knowledge the more eligible will they subsequently be deemed for pro- motion in the service for selections to fill up vacancies will he guided more by reference to such acquirements than to mere seniority Before promotion from the rank of Assistant-Surgeon to any higher rank every gentleman must be prepared for such other examination as may be ordered before hoard of medical officers Section XXVII regulations oe the medical department oe the navy No person will be admitted as an Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy who shall not produce certificate from one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England Edinburgh or Dublin or from the faculty of Physicians or Surgeons of Glasgow of his fitness for that office nor as Surgeon unless he shall produce diploma or certificate from one of the said Royal Colleges or faculties founded on an examination to be passsed subsequently to his ap- pointment of Assistant Surgeon as to the candidate's fitness for the situa- tion of Surgeon in the Navy and in every case the candidate producing such certificate or diploma shall also undergo further examination before the Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy touching his qualifi- cations in all the necessary branches and points of medicine and surgery for each of the steps in the Naval Medical Service Candidates will further be required to produce proof of having received preliminary classical educa- tion and that they possess in particular competent knowledge of Latin also that they are of good moral character the certificate of which must be signed by the clergyman of the parish or by magistrate of the district That they have served an apprenticeship or have been engaged for not less than six months in Practical Pharmacy That their age is not less than twenty years nor more than twenty-four and that they are unmarried That they have actually attended hospital in London Edinburgh Dublin