THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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A medical journal characterises “ beef, iron, and wine ” as a “ fashionable 
tipple” and a “ popular abomination.” 
The Journal de Medicine says the acridity of potassium iodide is completely 
masked when administered in gooseberry syrup. 
Dr. J. Milton Bowers, a physician of some standing in San Francisco, has 
been found guilty of the murder of his wife by poison. 
Recent experiments show that the normal power of taste will recognise the 
bitter of quinine when in solution in 152,000 parts of water. 
Mlle. Klumpke is the first lady student who has competed successfully 
for post of hospital house-surgeon in the examinations held at Paris. 
A death certificate returned to the proper authorities by a Cincinnati 
physician gives the cause of death as follows : — “ She dide with Liver dease 
and New Monei.” 
A recent law enacted in Georgia, U.S.A., requires all preparations of 
morphine to be dispensed in scarlet paper, with a scarlet label having the name 
of the contents in white letters. 
The Materia Medica of China requires thirty-eight huge volumes, named 
Pan-Tso, to describe it. It presents 11,896 formulas, and includes over 1900 
substances of supposed medicinal value. 
The sum of £2130 13s. 9d. has been subscribed for the benefit of the 
family of the late Mr. Henry Watts, F.R.S., editor of the journal of the 
Chemical Society. After the deduction of the expenses, £2094 remains, and has 
been invested. 
An official notification has recently been issued in the district of Potsdam, 
Prussia, ordering that the directions affixed to medicines for internal use shall 
be written on white paper ; while those for medicines for external use are to be 
written on bright red paper. 
The Druggists’ Circular states that Henry Ward Beecher’s son, who was 
recently appointed collector at Portland, Oregon, seized £9000 worth of opium 
which was being smuggled past the Custom-house officers as furs. Of the 
amount, it is said that he will receive £5000. 
The Sultan of Turkey has sent a scientific mission to Paris for the purpose 
of studying the anti-rabic method of M. Pasteur. It is also the bearer of the 
decoration of the Medjidie to the illustrious savant , together with a donation of 
£400 from the Sultan’s private purse towards the Pasteur Hospital. 
The American bogus diploma has, it appears, received considerable patronage 
in Germany, it being stated that in Berlin alone there are upwards of 3000 
gentlemen, “ Doctors” of Medicine, Law, or Philosophy, who are using it. The 
authorities are about to take action against these useful members of society. 
A Descriptive Title for a Pharmacist. — Some misunderstanding exists 
amongst the public as to the signification of “ chemist” and “ apothecary.” A 
suggestion has been made by a German, who objects to the word “ apotheker” 
as of foreign origin, that the Teutonic pharmacist should be styled “ Gesundheits- 
wiederherstellungsmittelzusammenmischungskundiger.” 
In a case heard before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, in the City of London Court, 
recently, the defendant sent a doctor’s certificate that he was suffering from 
illness, and could not attend. Said his Honour : — “ From this certificate I can 
see that a little sulphur and treacle would cure the patient in twenty-four hours. 
If the doctor does not know that, send him to me, and I will instruct him.” 
A Russian journal tells a story of a Polish physician, who, wishing a 
patient to be dry-cupped in eighteen places, wrote the order with the number 
