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THE AH STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Pharmacy Board of Queensland from the Pharmaceutical Register of Queensland, and if 
he is the holder of a license under this Act, the license shall cancelled, and he shall be 
disqualified from holding a license under this Act for five years from the date of the 
conviction.” 
Mr. A. Mead, lately of Rockhampton, has returned after a long illness of some 
months in Wooloongong, N.S.W. He has purchased the business lately managed by Mr. 
J. Power, of Warwick, and it should turn out a good “spec.” 
Very few chemists were down from the country to the Exhibition held this month. 
Of late years I have noticed several exhibits from chemists who used to compete in the 
manufacture of perfumery and other lines, but this year there was not a single, exhibit. 
Mr. Cardell, of Roma, who has been enjoying himself in the southern colonies during 
the last two months, has returned, looking very much the better of his trip. He. is 
leaving for home this week. Mr. Beichman, lately of Melbourne, has been managing 
the business during his absence. 
I hear that Mr. W. Lale, of Bowen, who at the beginning of the year started, for 
England, is about to return, after having a “ good time” of it. Mr. Lale will, I believe, 
be entitled to claim that he was the sole representative of Queensland pharmacy at 
the Exhibition. 
Mr. Corsan, lately assistant with Mr. Cormack, has gone to Townsville to assist in 
Messrs. Atkinson and Powell’s new shop. By-the-way, I am told that this shop is one of 
the best of its kind in the colony. 
Mr. Thomas, who left Sydney a short time ago for the Croydon goldfields, has 
returned, evidently thinking the place not good enough. I hear that Mr. Wragge is 
about building a shop on the field. He thinks something will come of it shortly. 
Mr. Comley, of Normanton, is about leaving. I do not know who his successor is. 
I notice by the papers that Mr. Hurworth, of Winton, has assigned his estate. His 
business is being managed by Mr. Harris. 
It is reported that Mr. Power, lately of Warwick, is about opening a shop in New 
Farm Valley, but this is not authenticated. 
I would warn assistants in the southern colonies against leaving situations, and 
coming to this colony with the hope of securing employment. There are now several 
assistants about town who would be glad to take even a junior’s position. The fact 
is that business during the last year has been so bad, owing to drought and other 
causes, that the proprietors are now doing without assistants. As mentioned in my last 
letter, however, after the late rains, there is every prospect of good business being 
done at no distant date. I have heard privately that several assistants are on the way 
out from England. 
mth Ahsivaxts* 
Toxicity of Effete Matter. — In an article dealing with this subject the 
British and Colonial Druggist of 10th July writes “ Quite recently M. 
Bouchard has endeavoured to ascertain what variations normally occur in the 
toxic power of urine in healthy subjects at different periods of the day. The 24 
hours being divided into three equal periods, of which the first is devoted to sleep, 
the relative toxicity of the urine in these periods was found to be in the proportion 
of 3, 7, and 5 respectively, irrespective of the influence of food. If meals identical 
in substance and quantity be taken at the beginning of each of these periods 
then the urotoxic power was represented by the figures 3, 7.5, and 5.5. Normal 
feeding, therefore, causes no remarkable differences to show themselves, but, as 
might be expected, a notable result accrues under the reverse conditions. Fasting at 
once induces an increment in toxicity in sleep-urine of no less than 50 per 
cent. — i.e., the normal 3 becomes 4.5. Hence the urine of a man forced to live 
by the oxidation of his own animal substance is far more poisonous than if 
he be properly fed.” 
Chemical Antiseptics. — We extract the following from a paper recently 
read by R. G. Eides, M.D., of Brooklyn, before the New York State 
Pharmacy Association : — “ If a choice must be made between chemical 
antiseptics, there is no reason why we should confine ourselves exclusively to 
either salicylic or boric acid. These two acids are now “all the rage,” and 
whoever advocates anything else is considered cranky. Benzoic acid, hydro- 
naphthole, mercuric chloride, and other non-irritating substances have been 
