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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
proposed to be submitted by Victoria have been offered for discussion in all 
the colonies interested, and that every effort has been made by this colony to 
induce the others to add any matters which might seem of importance to 
them. When I add that the delegates of the various bodies will all meet on 
an equal footing, elect their own chairman, and do their business in the manner 
which may seem best to the majority, I think any pharmacists who may now 
seriously consider the matter for the first time, or who may have been mis- 
led by the hysterical effusions penned by newspaper correspondents, will agree 
with me that the Conference will be as free from any undue influence on the 
part of Victoria as it would if held in New South Wales, Tasmania, or New 
Zealand. — I am, &c., 
H. T. TOMPSITT. 
ANALYSIS OF HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINES. 
To the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, 
Sie, — The subject of analysis having had controversy in the daily papers, and 
seeing a report by Mr. Johnson on the analysis of some homoeopathic preparations, 
would you grant me space in your valued journal to inquire if Mr. Johnson, 
or any other subscriber, will favour me with an outline of a process for the 
analysis of these infinitesimals. I have failed to discover even traces of the 
supposed remedies, and have been led to suppose that the analysis of these 
quack remedies (P) was an impossibility, and was therefore considerably surprised 
to find Mr. Johnson certifying to the purity, and guaranteeing the strength, of 
the nostrums in question. — I am, sir, yours, &c., 
F. M. S. 
Richmond, 9th August, 1886. 
To the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy . 
Sie, — Can you inform me through your columns if a pharmaceutical chemist, 
holding all the certificates of the Pharmacy Board, would be compelled to 
pass the examinations in the same subjects before the Medical Board supposing 
he intended to study for his degree as doctor. — Yours truly, 
PHARMACIST. 
[The only certificate accepted in the medical course would be that of 
practical pharmacy. — Ed. A. J. P.] 
To the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy . 
Sie, — So much publicity having been given to the effects of an opiate adminis- 
tered to the late Mrs. Hicks, it may interest your readers to know the contents. 
The extreme simplicity of the dose will be at once seen : — be Chloral hydrat., 
gr x. ; potass, bromid., grx. ; chlorodyne, npvii. ; aquae, ad^ss. ; n\j F. Haust. Only 
one dose was given. 
WILLIAM STEPHENS. 
Brighton, 11th August, 1886. 
The irritating poison contained in the hairs of different species of the 
nettle is generally regarded to be formic acid in the free state. Professor G. 
Haberlandt, of Gratz, in an essay recently presented to the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, at Vienna, has shown that the irritation is produced by a 
poison, which is dissolved in the cell sap, and the behaviour of which proves 
it to be related tc the formless ferments or enzymes. 
