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lectures and demonstrations be given, consisting of one lecture and two demon- 
strations per week, for which a fee of £2 2s. for a five months’ course, and 
£3 3s. for the season be charged, the society providing the necessary materials. 
It was resolved that Mr. Joseph Ince be requested to undertake the duties for 
the ensuing year at a salary of £50, in addition to the fees. 
At the same meeting the registrar reported that one Thomas Williams, 
of Bristol, having made a statutory declaration that he was in business 
before the passing of the Pharmacy Act 1868, and this declaration having been 
duly supported, his name had been placed on the register. Better late than 
never ! 
From the accounts presented at the fifty-fourth annual general meeting of 
the British Medical Association, in August last, it appears that the journal of 
the Association costs about £2000 a year in excess of the receipts on account 
of advertisements and sales. The president, Dr. Withers Moore, devoted a 
considerable portion of his address to the consideration of the question “ Is it 
for the good of the human race, considered as progressive, that women should 
be trained and admitted to compete with men in the ways and walks of life, 
from which heretofore they have been excluded by feeling and usage, as being 
unsuited to their sex?” This question Dr. Moore answered emphatically in the 
negative. 
In the section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, at the annual meeting of 
the British Medical Association, Dr. Lauder Brunton claimed that there had 
been considerable progress made in that department. On looking back twenty 
years and noticing the advance of pharmacology since Crum Brown and Frazer’s 
experiments directed it into a new path, he felt warranted in expressing the hope 
that twenty years more would make it possible to so ascertain the condition of 
patients that, either by the modification of a single remedy, or by the proper 
admixture of remedies, or by suitable changes in the diet or surroundings, a 
desired action might be ensured. 
Case of Antidotes for Poisons. — At the meeting of the Chicago Medical 
Society, Dr. G. W. Webster exhibited a convenient case of antidotes for poisons, 
with stomach tube. He said that in his limited experience in the treatment of 
patients who had taken poison, either accidentally or otherwise, he had often 
found it difficult to procure the proper antidotes quickly enough and in suitable 
form. It was this that led him to devise this case, intending at the time to have 
only one made for his own use. The case itself contains a pamphlet concerning 
poisons and their antidotes, a stomach tube, and the following drugs : — Ether, 
ammonium carbonate, nitrate of amyl, apomorphia, sulphate of atropine, brandy, 
camphor, animal charcoal, chloral hydrate, chloroform, digitaline, dialyzed iron, 
sulphate of iron, tincture of chloride of iron, mucilage, calcined magnesia, 
■ulphate of morphine, iodide of potassium, liquor potassae, acetate of strychnine, 
chloride of sodium, sulphuric acid, tannic acid, sulphate of zinc. The atropine, 
morphine, apomorphine, strychnine, and digitaline have been made up in 
compressed tablets and combined with soda, so that they can be given hypoder- 
mically. 
At a recent meeting of the Council of the Montreal Pharmaceutical Society, 
the following officers were elected President, S. Lachance; first vice-president, 
J. A. Harte ; second vice-president, P. Mathie ; treasurer, A. Manson ; assistant- 
treasurer, secretary, and registrar, Wm. Ahern. 
Mr. A. H. Mason, F.C.S., read a paper on “Pharmaceutical Ethics” at a 
recent meeting of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, from which we quote the 
following:— “ The British Pharmacopoeia requires that certain potent medicines 
should be standardised, and prepared by a certain method— one of the most 
