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THE AU STEAL A SIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
SALE AND USE OF POISONS ACT 1876. 
The following appeared in the Government Gazette of the 8th October, 1886:— 
PROCLAMATION 
By His Excellency Sir Henry Brougham Loch, Knight Commander of the 
Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief 
in and over the Colony of Victoria and its dependencies, &c., &c., &c. 
Whereas by The Sale and Use of Poisoiis Act 1876 it was amongst other 
things enacted that the several articles mentioned in the First Schedule thereto 
should be deemed poisons within the meaning of the said Act ; and, on the 
recommendation of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, the Governor in Council 
might, by proclamation duly published in the Government Gazette , from time 
to time declare ttiat any other article specified in such proclamation should be 
deemed a poison within the meaning of the said Act ; and whereas the said 
Pharmacy Board of Victoria have recommended to the Governor in Council that 
a Proclamation be issued declaring that the articles hereunder specified be 
deemed to be poisons within the meaning of the above recited Act : Now there- 
fore I, the Governor of Victoria, with the advice of the Executive Council, do 
by this my Proclamation declare that the undermentioned articles shall be 
deemed to be poisons within the meaning of the said Act, that is to say : — 
Carbolic Acid. 
Chloride of Antimony. 
Barium, Salts of. 
Zinc Chloride. 
Creosote. 
Elaterium. 
Elaterine. 
Nux Vomica. 
Nitro-glycerine (medicinal). 
Digitalis, and its preparations. 
Phosphorus (except red amorphous). 
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Colony at Melbourne, this fourth 
day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 
and eighty-six, and in the fiftieth of Her Majesty’s reign. 
(L.8.) 
HENRY B. LOCH. 
By his Excellency’s Command, 
God save the Queen ! 
ALFRED DEAKIN, 
Chief Secretary. 
It is reported that the owner of a patent medicine, living in New York, has 
recently contracted with a printer for supplying him with 40,000,000 pamphlets 
of 32 pages, and 400,000,000 circulars of four pages each. The price to be paid 
is 800,000 dollars. 
Artificial Noses. — A rhinoplastic conference has taken place in Berlin, under 
the auspices of the Empress. The rhinoplastic art consists in the fabrication of 
new noses, and the reparation and amendment of inferior and damaged noses. 
In cases where the original organ has been mutilated it has been the custom to 
model it from the flesh removed from some part of the body which furnishes 
the necessary material. These newly-fashioned noses, lacking the cartilaginous 
foundation, tremble and oscilate at every movement. A professor has now dis- 
covered a way out of the difficulty. 
The sale of “hopein,” or any of it s preparations, including “ hope in beer,” 
has been strictly forbidden in Austria. It is not allowed to be kept in stock in 
the pharmacy, or even supplied upon the order of a medical man. 
