THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
231 
THE REDWOOD TESTIMONIAL FUND. 
The following amounts have been received by Mr. Shillinglaw since the last issue 
of this journal : — 
Amount already acknowledged ... ... ... £20 14 0 
Messrs. Chas. Pleasance, Melbourne ... ... ... 0 10 6 
Alex. Fowler, Launceston ... ... ... 110 
T. P. Palmer, Ballarat ... ... ... 0 10 6 
Tbos. Longstaff: ... ... ... ... 0 10 6 
J. W. Scott 0 10 6 
A. Andrews, Beaufort ... ... ... 0 10 6 
W. M. Rowley, Melbourne ... ... ... 0 10 6 
A “ GENUINE ” QUACK. 
Under this heading the British and Colonial Druggist publishes the following 
illustration of the methods adopted by the “ quack ” fraternity in the old country. 
Should any of our readers have had any experience of a similar character in 
the colonies we should be glad to receive particulars : — 
To the Editor of the British and Colonial Druggist. 
Sir, — Herewith I beg to enclose a specimen of genuine quackery. The 
credulous customer wished me to dispense the medicines, as he “ thought it 
important to have them prepared according to the directions/’ and was much 
surprised on finding I declined his request. — Yours faithfully, 
R. Goodwin Mumbray. 
Richmond Road, 5th April, 1886. 
Mr. Mumbray sends us a small pamphlet of the gratuitous- advice-to-the- 
afflicted style, the writer of which, a certain F. Nichol, who dates from Dalston, 
London, E., is indebted for his wonderful cure to an Italian physician whom 
he met casually in Madrid. He claims, of course, to be actuated by philan- 
thropic motives in his proceedings, furnishes free what are facetiously called 
“ prescriptions,” and if chemists are not able to dispense them, he will supply 
the valuable remedies at 10s. per lot. The usual audacious statements are made 
respecting habitual substitution by chemists, and the uselessness of submitting 
the prescriptions to them, the reasons for which are obvious. Here are the 
prescriptions which F. Nichol says have been in several cases dispensed by 
chemists, with the result that analysis revealed what they furnished to be “nearly 
useless, several of the chief ingredients being entirely omitted, and other 
thoroughly useless and worthless drugs substituted.” 
Prescription. 
For the radical cure of all forms of Nervous and Physical Debility, Weak- 
ness, Loss of Memory, Indigestion, Restless Sleep, disturbed by Unhappy Dreams, 
Palpitation of the Heart on the least excitement, Pimples on the Face and 
Shoulders, &c., &c. 
Pareira Brava, half an ounce. 
Hydrastis Can, one ounce. 
Peruvian Bark Calisaya, one ounce. 
Bromide Potassium, one ounce. 
Carbonate Lithia, two drachms. 
Mode of Preparing. 
Put half an ounce of Pareira Brava to two ounces of boiling water, let it 
stand for two hours, then add of finely-powdered Hydrastis Can one ounce, mix 
well, and reduce to the consistency of Syrup by evaporation ; put one ounce 
