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A T the British Pharmaceutical Conference, held at Nottingham on July 24-27, the President, Prof. H. G. Greenish, delivered an address on “Pharmacognosy and the Pharmaceutical Curriculum.” Pharmacognosy, he said, was a field of knowledge that the pharmacist was peculiarly fitted to cultivate, but he would not be able to do so satisfactorily unless he had received a sound preliminary education and had been subsequently trained in chemistry, botany, physics, and elementary zoology. The entrance examination to pharmacy should, he thought, be raised to the level of matriculation, and the training in the sciences upon which pharmacognosy is based should follow and not precede the practical training in the pharmacy which is necessary before the student can present himself for the Qualifying Examination. Dealing with the course of instruction in botany, this, he thought, should be adapted to the object the student had in view, special attention being paid to anatomy, morphology, physiology, and systematic botany.
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Pharmaceutical Education and Research. Nature 110, 233 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110233a0
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