THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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the very best European makes, it having been carefully prepared of full 
strength, while it is also credited with the absence of copper or other metallic 
contaminations, and with the possession of good keeping qualities. In common 
with the other beverages now * on view * at South Kensington, it may be 
sampled and tasted at the Australian bar, which seems likely to prove a most 
popular corner of the Exhibition.” 
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At the Collingwcod Police Court, last month, James Mason and James 
M‘Carty were charged with selling adulterated milk. An analysis of the 
samples showed that at least 13 per cent, of water had been added. The 
Bench inflicted fines of £20, with £3 3s. costs, in each case. 
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A child belonging to Mr. MTntyre, confectioner, of Bridge-street, Ballarat, 
had a narrow escape from being poisoned on the 27th August, having somehow 
got hold of cockroach powder and swallowed it. Shortly afterwards the child 
was taken ill, and was taken to the hospital, where the stomach-pump was used 
successfully. 
On the afternoon of the 27th August the Eev. C. Thomson, of Winder- 
mere, drank about an ounce of laudanum in mistake for cough mixture. The 
unfortunate mistake was, of course, immediately discovered, and Drs. Radcliffe 
and Harvey were immediately summoned from Ballarat, and shortly after arrival 
relief was afforded the rev. gentleman. 
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The death is announced of Mr. James S. Kirk, the well-known American 
manufacturer of soap. 
A Geeman apothecary was recently condemned to six months* imprisonment 
for selling tartar emetic as an emetic to a man with a fatty heart, who died 
from its effects. 
An American doctor has been giving frozen milk to patients whose stomachs 
did not tolerate ice-cream, and reports highly of its use in fevers. 
The oil factory of Messrs. Marchand Freres, Dunkirk, France, was recently 
destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to £80,000, and 500 workmen were thrown 
out of employment. 
At Walsall, England, recently, a chemist’s assistant named Mills, who had 
been drinking rather too freely, took a dose of prussic acid to sober himself. 
He was found dead in bed. 
The death of two children sixteen months old, at Sheffield, accelerated, if 
not caused, by an overdose of antimony contained in a Steadman’s powder,” has 
brought into prominence the fact that there are three manufacturers of powders 
whose names are very apt to be confounded viz., Steadman, of Sheffield ; 
Steedman, of Walworth; and Stedman, of Hoxton. In the present case the 
jury expressed their opinion that the instructions on the labels as to the dose or 
quantity to be given were inadequate, and that tue vendors should be cautioned 
as to the selling them in the future. , 
The Australian Medical Journal for August contains a list of the scale of 
fees adopted by the Medical Society of Victoria. 
