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Lunger, thirst, sleep, and fatigue, and that they used it when working in the 
silver mines on such occasions as they were allowed to raise ore for their own 
benefit. This shrub was the identical cocaine. For the past twelve years I have 
been in the constant habit of using Erythroxylon Coca, always taking it 15 drops 
in a wineglass with two tea-spoons of water before going a journey or under- 
taking any unusual exertion, and as I am now 82 years of age, it has, at least, 
not done me much harm. I also repeat the dose on completing my work. But 
the great object I have in view in asking for your notice of the subject is, that 
cocaine is said to be a grand panacea for sea-sickness. This, if true, would 
indeed be a great blessing to travelling mankind, and make it indeed a wonder. 
It is said to deaden the nerves of the stomach and thus aid in keeping off the 
mal de mer .” 
Lettebs have been received in Melbourne from Mr. H. Bocke, who arrived 
in London on the 26th April. 
Mr. Albert Andrews, of Beaufort, is, we understand, negotiating for the 
purchase of a large suburban business. 
Messrs. Bocke, Tompsitt and Co. are the successful tenderers for supplying 
the G-overnment for the year 1886-7 with medicines, photo-lithographic materials, 
and dye stuffs. 
Mr. J. Warrington, who for some years past has carried on business at 
Echuca, died on the 10th inst. The death of Mr. Thomas Lidwell Smith, of 
Bushworth, is also recorded. 
The Nagambie Times of the 4-th June devotes some space to a description of 
the extensive alterations and additions made by Mr. S. H. Henshall to his 
branch pharmacy at ^Nagambie. 
Mr. Carl Gadcke has disposed of his pharmacy at No. 9 Brunswick-street, 
Fitzroy East, to Messrs. Max and S. Pincus, who purpose making extensive altera- 
tions. Mr. Gadcke goes to Germany for a year’s holiday. 
Mr. W. J. Wakins, of Messrs. Evans, Lescher, and Webb, is now travelling 
in Queensland, and will leave Townsville about the 1st of August, for Hong 
Bong, from whence he will make an extended tour through the Eastern 
world. 
Mr. H. Guthiel, pharmacist, of Swanston-street, Melbourne, has been vic- 
timised to the extent of £40 by a person calling himself Lord Mounteagle, alias 
John M‘Bree. There were a number of other charges of a similar nature against 
the accused, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. 
A eire was discovered at 10 o’clock on the morning of the 30th May on 
the premises occupied by Mrs. Davies, chemist and druggist. The origin of the 
fire was sought for, and found in the fact that the concentrated rays of the sun 
acting upon one of the large glass bottles, or carboys, of coloured water in the 
window, formed a lens powerful enough to set on fire some bath gloves, &c. 
Mr. J. S. Bice, dentist, of Collins-street east, Melbourne, has been officially 
requested, through the Consul-General of the United States in Melbourne, by 
the president of the department of oral surgery of the International Medical 
Congress to prepare an essay on “The Peculiarities of the Teeth, and their 
Variations of Decay and Diseases, in the Australian Climate.” The Congress 
meets at Washington, U.S.A., in 1887. 
The Quarterly Supper of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia was held 
at the Maison Doree on Thursday, 10th inst. The vice-president, Mr. Brinsmead, 
was in the chair ; and the attendance was exceedingly poor. Mr. A. H. 
