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in Portugal regulate the exercise of the profession. According
to those laws no one can practice the profession of dentistry
without passing an examination in the medical schools of Lisbon,
Coimbra or Oporto.
There are no obligatory courses for dental surgeons, but there
is required of them the following:
a. Certificate of examination in the French and English
languages.
b. Certificate of being over twenty-one years old.
c. Anatomy.
d. Pathology (external) and Physiology.
e. Chemistry and Operative Surgery.
Of Portuguese dentists, properly speaking, there is only one;
but during the winter, in which season foreign visitors most
abound, an English dentist visits the islands for two or three
months.

MOZAMBIQUE.

(PORTUGUESE COLONY.)

Area, 300,000 square miles. Population, 1,500,000.
Capital, Mozambique.
The Swedish-Norwegian Consul at Mozambique has kindly
informed us in a letter, dated Laurenco Marques, June 6, 1893,
that:
There are no dentists practicing in the entire Province of
Mozambique, and no laws exist regulating the practice.

NATAL.

(BRITISH COLONY.)
Area 21,150 square miles. Population, 543,913.
The following letter covers all information attainable on the
subject of dentistry, of to-day, in Natal:
" Colonial Secretary's Office, Natal, February 15, 1893.
"Herman Lennmalm, Esq., D. D. S., Rockford, 111., U. S. A.
"Sir: With reference to your letter of the 27th of December last, ad-