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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 207 also undergo further examination touching his qualifications 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 education 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 Aberdeen 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 of 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 be 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 Clinical Lectures on Surgery Clinical Lectures on Medicine Chemistry or Lectures on Chemistry months and Prac- tical Chemistry months Materia Medica Midwifery Botany VIII REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE APPOINTMENT 01 ASSISTANT-SURGEON IN THE SERVICE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY All natural born subjects of Her Majesty between 22 and 28 years of age and of sound bodily health may be candidates for admission into the service of the East India Company as Assistant-Surgeons They must subscribe and send in to Dr Scott the Physician to the Hon East India Company 10 days before the period fixed for each examination declara- tion to the following effect