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liable to prosecution for illegitimate practice/’ The good sense of 
pharmacists may be relied upon in deciding as to the cases for which 
they should, or should not, prescribe, but it will be news to our friends in 
New South Wales, as it is to ourselves, that in prescribing for cases such as 
are here enumerated they render themselves liable to prosecution, and we 
confess to no little curiosity as to the statute in which this liability has been 
allowed so long to lie entombed. But to conclude. Pharmacists, as we have 
said, make no pretensions to medical qualifications to which they have no 
right, and any interference with present practice is to be deprecated, not 
so much on their account as on that of the general public, who would, we 
believe, keenly resent being compelled to obtain medical advice on every trilling 
ailment for which the experience of a chemist qualifies him to prescribe. 
Dr. Tarrant’s bill goes quite as far as experience has shown to be necessary 
for the public welfare, and we trust ere long to find physicians and pharma- 
cists in New South Wales heartily united in one common object, the detection 
and exposure of those lying quacks and charlatans against whom the bill is 
specially directed. 
cm Idvitislj Rlcctingsu 
At the meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 
held on 5th May, the report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee was 
received, recommending that nitro-glycerine and its medical preparations should 
be included in Part I. of the Schedule of Poisons. The recommendation was 
adopted by the meeting, it being reported that a communication had been 
received from the Privy Council stating that the propriety of introducing a new 
Poisons Bill was under consideration, and that the recommendations of the 
Council would be dealt with when the bill was drafted. The report of the April 
examinations (England and Wales) showed that only 86 candidates had passed 
out of 205 who presented themselves. In Scotland 23 passed, out of 66 
candidates. Among the donations to the library is mentioned the Pharma- 
ceutical Register for 1885, presented by the Pharmacy Board of Victoria. 
The Chemists and Druggists’ Trade Association held its general meeting on 
18th May, when the Association completed the tenth year of its existence. The 
annual report is not of a satisfactory character, for, while it is shown that the 
Association has done good work in the defence of members who had been 
subjected to prosecutions, the register only numbers 3034 names, and even that 
very moderate strength is declining. It is stated that the number of outstanding- 
subscription is so large as to give cause for fear that it will soon be impossible 
to carry on the work of the Association on the present financial basis, the 
subscription being almost nominal. That less than a third of the chemists and 
druggists of Great Britain should be among the Association’s nominal supporters 
is, in itself, discouraging enough ; but we are further told that only about two 
in every three of these are fully financial. 
At a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (5th May), the president 
referred to the fact that frequent inquiries had been addressed to the Council 
by licentiates of the society, as to whether they were eligible to practise in the- 
various colonies. Information upon this point had been sought, but the only 
certain answer presented was to the effect that the society’s license was not 
recognised in New South Wales. It was reported that 4 out of 11 candidates 
had failed at the preliminary examination, and only 2 out of 9 candidates had 
passed the science examination. The receipt was acknowledged of the am.Ufil 
report of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia. 
