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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
At the April meeting of the Sydney Hospital Board Dr. M. S. O’Connor 
was elected honorary surgeon in the place of Dr. Woodward, and Dr. Ashwell 
was re-elected honorary physician of the institution. 
A box of opium was seized by the tide surveyor on Wednesday, the 28th 
April, on board the steamer Wbosung , which arrived from Hong Kong on 
Monday, 26th April. 
“ Medical Certificates.” — Says the Town and Country Journal : — “In the case 
of Johanna Griffin, or Griffith, heard in the Newtown Police Court on Saturday,. 
Mr. Fitzgerald, who appeared for the defence as an act of charity, handed to 
the Bench, among other documents, two papers which the unfortunate woman 
called ‘ medical certificates,’ to show that her husband was ill and unable to work. 
Both documents were marked as exhibits in the case. This is how they read : — 
No. 1, from a ‘botanic oculist’: ‘19th January, 1886. I hearby certifie that 
John Griffith is suffering with granulation under his eyelids, warts, and also he 
is suffering from a bad stomack his liver and his kidneys is diseased and his 
whole body is full up of matter which is turning into water and the cause of all 
this is from the bad state of stomck and liver and kidneys.’ No. 2, from an 
‘oculist’: ‘15 Novr, 1885. This is to certify that Mr. John Griffiths as bin under 
my treatment for three months suffering from desees of the kydnis and optic 
nerve and unable for to follow hes wark.’ ” 
The receipt ot £15,000, portion of the late Mrs. Roberts’ legacy to the 
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, was acknowledged at a late meeting of 
the directors of that institution. It was reported that 37 children had been 
admitted into the Catherine Hayes Hospital during April, and 22 discharged. 
The Grenfell Hospital fund benefited to the extent of £63 by the local sports 
of Easter Monday. 
The disease known as “ Cumberland ” is reported to have overcome numbers* 
of cattle in the neighbourhood of Patterson. 
The annual meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society is advertised to take' 
place at the Board of Pharmacy’s office, Phillip-street, on the 10th of June 
next. Three members of Council and two auditors are to be elected, and it is 
generally thought that there is every probability of there being a brisk competi- 
tion for the vacant positions, and Messrs. Mayne, Donald, Melhuish, Sadler, 
and Kebblewhite are among the announced candidates. Members are cautioned 
that their subscriptions must be paid up before they record their votes. No 
steps have been taken to secure the representation of the country members, 
and the fact that members can only vote by being present at the annual meeting 
is a matter that is to be regretted. 
Evidently there is a good time coming for the pharmacists of New South 
Wales, and in spite of the depression of trade there seems to be a desire 
among pharmacists to unite in advancing pharmacy in our midst. The 
pharmacists’ picnic was followed by a cricket match — Wholesale v. Retail — 
which was followed by a contest between the two wholesale houses. This was 
succeeded by the establishment of a Druggists’ Trade Association, and to-night, 
13th May, there is to be held the junior pharmacists’ ball, which is to be 
followed by a pharmacists’ fishing party to Broken Bay. At all the gatherings 
the greatest harmony has prevailed, and, with the exception of a few unpleasant 
reflections made by a gentleman suffering from that unpleasant complaint which 
has been named Vietoriaphobia, all these gatherings are likely to prove a great 
power in promoting harmony and good feeling in the trade. 
In spite ot the prognostications ot the Victoriaphobists, there is a very 
general feeling of friendship in the minds ot pharmacists in this colony towards 
the Society in Victoria, and regret is often expressed that a less arbitrary line 
