CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938 — Page 43

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it discharges them. Reserve materials, their nature, mode of dis- position, and the manner in which they are utilised in the plant. The manner in which plants grow, and the conditions necessary for the growth of a plant. The manner in which plants respond to external stimuli, e.g. light, gravity, etc. Sexual and asexual repro-

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PART II.

SYLLABUS FOR THE CHEMIST & DRUGGIST QUALIFYING EXAMINATION.

Pharmacognosy.

AN ORAL AND WRITTEN EXAMINATION.

To recognise specimens of the drugs mentioned in the British Pharmacopoeia.

To be acquainted with their botanical, zoological, and geographical sources, commercial varieties, and the natural orders to which they belong.

To name the chief active constituents of official drugs, and to know the proportion present in good samples of them.

To possess a knowledge of qualitative Pharmacopoeial tests applied to crude drugs or their official preparations.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

A WRITTEN AND PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.

The candidate will be required to have a general knowledge of the preparation, principal properties, and reactions of the following:-

Hydrocyanic acid, cyanides, ferrocyanides, ferricyanides, oxalic acid, methyl and ethyl alcohols, acetone, formic and acetic aldehydes and acids, chloral hydrate, chloroform, iodoform, ether, ethyl acetate, acetamide, olein, oleic acids, soaps, glycerine, lactic acid, citric and tartaric acids, sucrose, dextrose, lactose, starch, urea, simple

urethanes and ureides and salicin.

Benzene, phenol, picric acid, phenolphthalein, nitro-benzene, aniline, acetanilide, benzoic acid, salicylic acid, acetyl-salicylic acid, salol, gallic acid, tannic acid.

A general knowledge of the adulterations and contaminations which may occur in the elements and inorganic compounds included in the British Pharmacopoeia, and such of the organic compounds mentioned above as are included in the British Pharmacopoeia, and the methods by which the purity of these substances is determined.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION.

The candidate will be required to:-

Identify by chemical tests the following organic compounds :- Cyanides, oxalates, acetates, tartrates, citrates, benzoates, salicylates, starch, sucrose, dextrose, lactose, salicin, cocaine, quinine, morphine, strychnine, and their salts: methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, acetone, formaldehyde, glycerine, chloroform, phenol.