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on the husband the necessity of telegraphing to Dr. Sutherland in the event 
of the placenta not coming away by morning. He, the witness, had been 
practising for upwards of forty years, and the case in question was a difficult 
one. He had been formerly proceeded against for practising as a medical man 
and fined. Dr. Sutherland, of Dunolly, give his opinion that death had 
resulted through maltreatment. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that 
the death of the woman was occasioned by maltreatment on the part of Alex. 
Dick Cox ; and that person was thereupon committed for trial at Sandhurst, 
bail being allowed in two sureties of £100 each, and his own recognisance of 
£200. In regard to this case it may be mentioned that the conviction obtained 
against Cox referred to in his evidence was obtained at the instance of the 
Pharmacy Board, as lately as 20th November last, when the accused was 
fined for an infringement of the 25th section of the Pharmacy Act, “ for 
practising medicine and surgery other than in accordance with the rights and 
privileges enjoyed by chemists and druggists in their open shops.” 
POISONING OASES. 
Charlotte Blanchard, aged 31, was admitted into the Melbourne Hospital 
on the 22nd April, suffering from laudanum poisoning. She had taken the drug 
in mistake for her medicine. 
The city coroner held an inquest on Friday, 16th April, on the body of 
Charles W. Morgan, aged 29, a solicitor, who resided at St. Arnaud. The 
deceased was taken ill at the Elephant and Castle Hotel, Bourke-street east. 
It appeared to those persons who saw him there that his hand was paralysed. 
Dr. Peel was sent for and prescribed medicine for him, a dose of: which was to 
be given to him every two hours. The first dose was administered to the 
deceased by a fellow-lodger, who went back two hours later to give him 
another, but found him dead and the medicine bottle empty. The jury found 
that death resulted through Morgan having taken a poisonous dose of chloral, 
but there was not sufficient evidence to show whether or not he took it with a 
view to committing suicide. 
We have received the Catalogue of Exhibits in the Victorian Court of the 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Necessarily there is little to be said concerning 
such a publication, except as regards its arrangement and printing. In these 
respects the volume, which numbers 208 pages, offers only material for compli- 
ment, and the contents indicate that Victoria is worthily represented. 
First Progress Report, with the minutes of evidence, of the Royal Com- 
mission on Vegetable Products. 
The A ii. sir align ^Miedical Journal and the Australasian J\£edical Gazette for 
April, both excellent numbers, and containing a large quantity of matter interest- 
ing to the medical profession. 
Annual Report, 1885, of the Ballarat School of Mines. 
Journal de Medecine de Paris. 
The British and Colonial Druggist, from the proprietors. 
The following donations to the Library have been received -.—From Mr. 
p 0 tts — “Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” by J. Mitchell Bruce, M.D. ; and 
“The Commercial Handbook of Chemical Analysis,’ by “Normanby. From 
the editor, Mr. Graham Mitchell, F.R.C.V.S.— The Australasian Veterinary 
Journal . 
