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A curious case came before the council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Ireland on 7th July, xl Mr. Lennan, who had been duly admitted a pharmaceutical 
chemist in August, 1885, wrote stating that on the occasion of a fire which, 
occurred on his premises on 11th May last his certificate had been very much 
injured and defaced, and requesting the council to forward him a new certificate. 
It was found impossible to comply with the request, as a new certificate would 
not be valid without the signatures of the examiners who examined the 
applicant, and they were now out of office ; and the registrar was accordingly 
instructed to send Mr. Lennan a letter, stating that he had passed the final 
examination, and was a duly registered pharmaceutical chemist. 
Holes from If o relent 3om*mtls. 
An American contemporary states that a bill now before the Ohio (U.S.A.) 
Legislature proposes to restrict the sale, not only of simple poisons, but also of 
patent and proprietary medicines containing poisons, to registered pharmacists. 
“Paracelsus,” in the British and Colonial Druggist , writes: — “ M. Kunckel 
tells the French Academy that the foetid secretion of the house-bug resides in 
the sternal thoracic glands of the developed, and the dorsal abdominal glands of 
the immature insect. I do not know who — in the absence of the Teutonic race 
— would undertake such unsavoury science, so we must be duly grateful.” 
A correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph is responsible for trans- 
mitting a story to the effect that the medical officer of Tiree, the inhabitants of 
which island are just now in antagonism to the authorities on the Crofter Ques- 
tion, has received from an enterprising druggist a circular, in which he says 
“ In case of civil war in Tiree, I beg respectfully to solicit your esteemed order 
for lint, bandages, &c.” 
The Pharmaceutical Journal has a note dealing with the subject of 
“cream ices,” from which we extract the following: — The Lancet mentions 
that within a fortnight twenty to thirty persons have been treated at St. 
Thomas’ Hospital, all of whom had eaten ices obtained from one particular 
shop. Most of them were suffering from signs of irritant poisoning, and our 
contemporary considers it probable that these were due to carbolic acid * 
employed as a preservative of the materials used in making the ices. But it 
seems remarkable, to say the least, that sufficient carbolic acid should be 
ingested to cause illness, or even death, without giving more evidence of its 
presence than has yet been recognised. The British Medical Journal considers 
it most probable that the materials had undergone some peculiar decomposition, 
leading to the formation of a poison of the nature of a ptomaine, before they 
were submitted to the freezing process. A similar theory found favour in the 
Vienna and Brooklyn cases, and it finds confirmation in an announcement just 
to hand that such a poisonous substance has been separated by Professor Vo 
C. Vaughan from a sample of noxious ice cream. This compound is said to 
be due to the action of a “germ” that occurs occasionally in milk, and to be 
identical with the poisonous compound named “ tyrot oxicon,” which the same 
chemist separated from cheese of a brand that had caused considerable illness 
in Michigan. 
From the Pharmaceutical Journal we learn that the Municipal Council of Paris 
has recently adopted a series of regulations for the organisation of a pharma- 
ceutical night service in the city. At present the arrangement would appear to 
be a voluntary one on the part of the pharmacists taking part in it, a list of 
whom will be kept at the neighbouring police offices. A person desiring in 
the night to obtain medicine on the prescription of a medical man will 
