150 
THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
not be sold to any person unknown to tlie seller unless introduced by some 
person known to him; and on every such sale the seller shall, before delivery, 
make or cause to be made an entry of the date, name and address of the pur- 
chaser, name and quantity of poison sold, and the purpose for which it is stated 
to be required, to which entry the signature of the purchaser and introducer 
shall be affixed. In the case of poisons ordered by letter or telegram, the letter 
or telegram must be affixed to the entry in lieu of signatures, the person 
delivering poisons so ordered to make and sign a memo, opposite such entry, 
setting forth the date when, and the person or post-office to whom or through 
which the said article was delivered or transmitted ; and if the poison was 
delivered to any person, the receiver to sign such memorandum. The Act 
provides that the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any apprentice or 
servant shall be deemed the seller; “but the provisions of this section, which 
are solely applicable to poisons” (A) “or which require that the label shall 
contain the name and address of the seller, shall not apply to articles to be 
exported from Western Australia by wholesale dealers, nor to sales by wholesale 
to retail dealers in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing. Nor shall any of 
the provisions of this section apply to any medicine supplied by a duly qualified 
medical practitioner to his patients ; nor apply to any article when forming part 
of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed by a person licensed under this 
Act, provided such medicine be labelled in the manner aforesaid with the name 
and address of the seller, and the ingredients thereof be entered with the name 
of the person to whom it is sold or delivered in a book to be kept by the 
seller for that purpose.” 
The Governor may, from time to time, by notice published in the 
Government Gazette , declare any article in such notice named a poison within 
the meaning of this Act ; and after a lapse of one month from such publication 
the article so named shall be so deemed. 
A West Australian statute, “The Medical Ordinance 1869,” expressly 
exempts chemists and druggists from being compelled to register themselves 
under that Act. 
NOTES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
At a late meeting of the Midland Counties’ Chemists’ Association Mr. W. Elliott, 
L.D.S., F.C.S., read a paper, “The Hygiene of the Mouth and Teeth.” The 
essayist recommended the employment of carbolic and benzoic acids as antiseptics, 
and spoke unfavourably of salicylic acid and thymol. Charcoal, camphor, pumice, 
and Armenian bole were objected to on account of their causing brittleness. Mr. 
Elliott recommended carbonate of sodium and borax as additions to tooth 
powders and washes ; and concluded by advising against the use of astringents, 
and agreeing with Prof. Milles, of Berlin, as to the value of a weak solution of 
mercuric chloride as a wash for preserving the teeth, and purifying the mouth by 
preventing the development of micro-organisms. 
In a paper recently presented at a meeting of the Chemical Society, Dr. 
Griffiths demonstrated the remarkable effect of sulphate of iron upon leguminous 
and root-crops. A plot of potatoes undressed yielded three tons ; dressed with 
artificial manure, a similar plot gave six and a half tons; another similar plot 
treated with artificial manure and sulphate of iron gave eight and a half tons. 
The new Pharmacopoeia would appear to have been regarded with small favour 
by the Sheffield Pharmaceutical Society, since a motion expressing approval of 
the efforts of the compilers failed to find a seconder. 
