THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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POISONING CASES. 
A man named David Cutter, thirty-nine, residing at the corner of Spencer 
and Dudley streets, attempted to commit suicide on the 10th March by drinking 
the contents of a 2oz. bottle of laudanum. 
An inquiry was held at South Melbourne, on the 27th March, by Dr. Youl, 
concerning the death of Albert Ruby Boyes, a chemist’s assistant, aged 27. The 
deceased had been drinking to excess lately, and was expostulated with by his 
employer on the evening of the 24th March. Mr. Charles Pearson, a builder, living 
at Albert Park, said that he met the deceased near his home on Friday, and, seeing 
that he was not sober, asked him to go in and sleep. The deceased agreed to do so, 
and took about a teaspoonful of a powder, which he said would take off the effects of 
the drink. After he had been sleeping a short time he began to breathe heavily, 
and to assume a peculiar colour, and as he could not be roused Dr. W. C. Sparrow 
was called in, and found him just dead. The symptoms were those of morphia 
poisoning. The verdict of the jury was that Boyes died from the effects of a dose 
of morphia, taken by himself whilst intoxicated. 
OBITUARY. 
DEATH OF MR. HENRY SUGDEN EVANS. 
The news of the death of Mr. Henry Sugden Evans, which took place at Canada 
in February last, will be received with regret. The deceased gentleman was 
formerly connected with a well-known house in Liverpool, and it was while 
located in that city that he first especially earned the goodwill of pharmacists, 
being a prominent worker among them and one of the founders, and for many 
years a prominent member, of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association. He was 
successively member of the council, vice-president, and president of the Phar- 
maceutical Society. Proceeding to America on business connected with his firm, 
he was for some time settled there, and in 1884 he accepted the position of 
Chief Public Analyst of Canada. Mr. Evans was a valued and frequent con- 
tributor to the scientific literature of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association and 
the British Pharmaceutical Conference. At the general meeting of the Liverpool 
Chemists’ Association, held on 25th February last, the Association’s indebtedness 
to Mr. Evans was very feelingly referred to, most complimentary reference 
being made not more to the deceased’s scientific abilities than to his charm of 
manner and kindly disposition. 
Me. W. J. Watkins (Messrs. Evans, Lescher and Webb) is at present in Melbourne. 
Mr. William Mercer, of Daylesford, has been enjoying a well-earned 
holiday in the metropolis. 
Mr. Theodore Ernst has purchased the business of Mr. Carl Gadcke, at 381 
Brunswick-street, Fitzroy. 
We have received from the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain a 
copy of the “ Register ” for the year 1886. 
Mr. N. Puttman will shortly open a new pharmacy at Albury, and is now- 
engaged, we are informed, in fitting up the premises. 
