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Regulations Respecting the Education and Examination of
Candidates for the Diploma in Dental Surgery and
Dentistry Granted by the Dental Board of Examiners
under Sub-section "E" of Section 5, of "The Dent-
ists Act, 1884."
1. Candidates shall (except in cases hereinafter providedfor)
produce evidence showing that they have completed the follow-
ing educational course:
(a) Of having been engaged during a period of four years
in the acquirement of professional knowledge, and in
obtaining a practical familiarity with the details of
Mechanical Dentistry under the instruction of a com-
petent practitioner.
(&) Matriculation at the University of Tasmania or the
passage of some examination recognized by the Uni-
versity as equivalent thereto, such matriculation or ex-
amination to include passing in English, Latin, and
Arithmetic, as compulsory subjects. And in one of the
following optional subjects, Greek, French, German, or
other modern language, Botany, Zoology, Elementary
Chemistry, Elementary Mechanics.
(c) Attendance at a recognized dental hospital or in the
Dental Department of a recognized general hospital, the
practice of dental surgery during the period of not less
than two years.
(d) Attendance at a recognized school or schools upon the
following courses of lectures and demonstrations, deliv-
ered by lecturers or teachers recognized by the Dental
Board of Examiners, namely:
(1) One course of not less than twenty lectures upon
General Anatomy.
(2) One course of not less than twenty lectures upon
General Physiology.

(3) One course of demonstrations on Anatomy by dissec-
tions (chiefly of the head and neck).
{4) One course of not less than twelve lectures on Gen-
eral Surgery.
(5) One course of not less than twelve lectures on Gen-
eral Pathology.
Of having performed dissections at
(6) a recognized
school during not less than twelve months.