These images show pages of the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy's examination questions for obtaining a license as a pharmacist. The three sections of the examinations are labeled Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Chemistry. The examination given in 1889 contains several questions about medicinal plants and their habitats. The examination given in Fort Scott in 1902 shows questions on converting measurements using both the apothecary system and the metric system, suggesting an increasing level of modern scientific methods in the field of pharmacy. Funds to underwrite the digitization of these examination questions, Board of Pharmacy Reports (Item #218637), and the Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations (Item #214924) were provided by the Jere Matchett Memorial Fund. This donation also funded the scanning of photographs of drug stores across Kansas to include them in Kansas Memory.
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