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THE AU STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Materia Medic a (Oral). — Examiner, Mr. Field. 
About one hundred samples of roots, herbs, powders, resins, gums, etc., were 
said out on a table. Examiners selected one and asked what it was. When 
recognised, then further questions were put as to whether a good sample, uses, 
preparation, and, if flower, root, or herb, asked the order of the plant to which 
it belonged. Recognised Aconite, Ipecacuanha, Jalape, Arnica, and Mezerium 
Roots, Podophyllin, Opium, Stramonium, etc. 
Practical Dispensing. — Examiner, Mr. C. F. Yeo. 
A prescription was ordered to be dispensed. Mixture, and dozen pills, the 
latter containing ^ grain Perchloride of Mercury in each pill. To finish and 
write directions in a proper manner. Then autograph prescription-reading was gone 
through, and criticisms. The prescriptions given were badly written. One 
contained Si Aqua Lauro Cerasi to a dose. Two other prescriptions contained 
incompatibilities. 
Botany (Oral.) — Examiner, Dr. J. Clement Ellison. 
A quantity of branches, leaves, flowers, roots, bulbs, etc., were laid out on 
the table. Here is a flower, is it a perfect one ? Describe all the organs of this 
flower and its functions. Here is a branch ; what order of plants does it belong 
to ? Here is another ; what order ? Here is a flower ; what order ? and so on 
through eight orders. Asked the name of a bulb (showing it). Asked the name 
of a tuber (showing it). What is the difference between them ? What does a 
tuber contain ? Why does it contain starch, etc. ? What is a petaloid and a 
sessile leaf? Inquired the forms of various leaves, and a few other questions on 
elementary botany. [Note. — None of the plants, etc., exhibited had anything 
whatever to do with Materia Medica.] 
[We since learn by telegram that three out of the twenty candidates have 
passed.] 
At the Brisbane Police Court, on 20th ult., Dr. J. Clement Ellison was 
charged, on summons, with the manslaughter of a child named Ernst Homann. 
Evidence was given that the doctor had attended the deceased for the purpose of 
performing an operation for stone in the bladder. As the child was being put 
under the influence of chloroform, the mother of the child called out to Dr. 
Ellison that his horse, which had been left in front of the scene of the occur- 
rence in charge of a boy, was shying, and expressing a fear that some of the 
children would be hurt. Dr. Ellison then left the deceased, dropping, so it 
was stated, the towel used in the administration of the chloroform upon the 
child’s face. On the return of the accused to the invalid’s room it was found 
that the deceased was dead, the cause of death being stated as failure of the 
heart, due to chloroform. Every means was taken to restore animation, but 
without effect. The accused was committed for trial, but has since been dis- 
charged, the Attorney-General not having found a true bill. Dr. Ellison has 
written to the Queensland press explaining that, the street being very narrow, 
and the buggy light, he knew that the vehicle was liable to be overturned in a 
moment ; “ and,” he continues, “ as my own little son was in the buggy, and a 
lot of little children were close around, I knew that, if such a thing did take 
place, a very serious accident, with, perhaps, loss of life, would result. Suppos- 
ing some such accident was taking place,” explains the doctor, “ I threw down 
the towel, intending to suspend the inhalation until after the accident had been 
seen to.” The Daily Observer (Q.) severely comments upon the action of the 
Attorney-General in first instituting the proceedings against Dr. Ellison, and then 
abandoning further prosecution. Says our contemporary : — “ Either Dr. Ellison 
