Calendar: 1856-1857 Page 193

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 193 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 ranlc every gentleman must be prepared for such other examination as may be ordered before board of medical officers VII regulations ογ the medical department op 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 and 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 passed subsequently to his ap- pointment of Assistant Surgeon as to his fitness for the situation of Sur- geon in the Navy and in every case the candidate producing such certifi- cate or diploma shall also undergo further examination 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 eduea- 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-six That they have actually attended hospital in London Edinburgh Dublin Glasgow Aber- deen Manchester or Bristol for 18 months subsequently to the age of eighteen in which the average number of patients is not less than 100 That they have been engaged in actual dissections of the human body twelve months the certificate of which from the teacher must state the number ot subjects or parts dissected by the candidate That they have attended lectures &c on the following subjects at established schools of eminence by physicians or surgeons of the recognised Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in the United Kingdom for periods not less than hereinunder stated observing however that such lectures will not be admitted if the teacher shall lecture on more than one branch of science or if the lectures on anatomy surgery and medicine he not attended during three distinct winter sessions of six months each Anatomy or General Anatomy 12 months and Comparative Anatomy months 18 months Surgery or General Surgery 12 months and Military Surgery months 18 Theory and Practice of Medicine 18 Ν