[Pharmacists graduated in the first twenty years on the medical faculty of Hungarian Royal University].

The present paper, summarizing the results of original archival researches, gives a survey on the beginnings of the pharmaceutical education in Hungary at the end of the 18th century. While analysing the documents the author calls our attention to some stubborn errors and mistakes of the former historical literature as well. The paper-based on the data of the promotional book-presents a list including names, nationality and religion of those 170 students of pharmacy, who completed their studies during the first 20 years of pharmaceutical education in Hungary. Comparing the dates of tirocinial and those of university examinations respectively, the author proves that sometimes even 40 or 59 years old, respected pharmacists were forced to take their exams at the university. Having made a comparison between the register of students and that of promotions the author concludes that until 1788 the studies took three months or a year only in theory, for candidates actually did not attend university courses at all. In the case when one failed, a short preparation for a make-up exam was also available. Data prove, that the requirements of the royal decree, a centrally made regulation, called Normativum Sanitatis - in spite of the difficulties caused e.g. by the lack of handbooks - could be more or less responded. (The circumstances of the courses are going to be analysed in a further paper.)