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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Mr. Edson leaves us in a few days for Europe, having moved his business 
to-day into a new store he has just built, and which, when completed, promises 
to be the handsomest in the city. No doubt when in Europe he will see many 
novelties that he will be able to procure for his pharmacy, and so not only 
render it perhaps the most commodious, but may be the most elegant. 
At the inquest on Mr. A. it. Woollett, chemist, Green Island, Otago, 
whose death was reported in our last issue, the evidence of the wife was to 
the effect that the deceased had gone upstairs to sleep during the night, and 
mixed himself a dose of chloral-hydrate and morphia. He did not seem to 
know what he was doing with pain, and took the medicine in a frequent and 
reckless manner. She took the bottle from him, as he was then ill, and sent 
for a doctor. The medical evidence showed that death was caused by an over- 
dose of morphia and chloral-hydrate. A verdict to that effect was given. 
At a recent meeting of the Council of the Auckland University College it 
was decided to take immediate steps to establish a medical school in connection 
with the University. Dr. Mackellar was appointed lecturer in anatomy, and 
£50 was granted to procure anatomical specimens. It is expected that the 
year’s course of study at the medical school will count when the medical 
student goes home to the British universities to complete his medical education. 
The present step is made by way of experiment, and if successful it will be 
continued. The lectures of the professors of chemistry and biology will also be 
made available for the students of the medical school. 
At an inquest held recently at Newmarket on the body of Mary Ann 
Askew, wife of a blacksmith named Bichard Askew, it appeared from the 
evidence that, within the last few months domestic troubles having prevented 
her from obtaining sleep, she had fallen into the habit of taking laudanum for 
relief. On the 26th ult. her husband found her insensible, and, suspecting the 
cause, sent for Dr. Coom, who injected brandy and sulphuric ether. After 
some hours she was aroused so far as to open her eyes, but she soon relapsed 
into coma, and died on Saturday, 27th March. The jury returned a verdict of 
“Death by misadventure from an overdose of laudanum.” 
Alfred Wood, a chemist, of Green Island, Otago, New Zealand, was found 
dead in his bed on Thursday morning, the 11th March, supposed to be from an 
overdose of morphia, taken to procure sleep while suffering from neuralgia. 
He was a married man, with a family. 
PHARMACY BOARD. 
A meeting of the Pharmacy Board of Queensland was held at Brisbane on 
Tuesday, the 30th March, 1886. 
Present — Dr. Hill, Messrs. Edward Taylor, J. H. Fitzgibbon, and C. H. F. 
Yeo. The president (Mr. Edward Taylor) in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Board have not met since the 5th of January last, in consequence 
of any further action respecting the regulations being at a standstill owing to 
the absence of the Premier at the Federal Council in Tasmania, the greater part 
of the time was taken up with ordinary routine business, reading the outgoing and 
incoming correspondence, &e., which would not be of much interest to your readers. 
The secretary intimated that the Pharmaceutical List for 1885 had been 
forwarded to the G-overnment Printer, and subsequently published in the Govern- 
ment Gazette. 
