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post ; and as one stands in tlie stalls of the chapel, one’s hand involuntarily 
rests on a bolus. Perhaps, however, this is unintentional. 4 If you leave out 
a wart or a scar I won’t pay you a shilling,’ Cromwell is reported to have 
said to Cooper when drawing his portrait. Now, the late Mr. Holloway, among 
his other virtues, was credited with a similar sort of truthfulness. Can the 
pills on his college have been the result of an injunction to his architect?” 
A rumoub. has reached me from more than one quarter, writes 44 Paracelsus 
in the P. and C. Druggist — but the degree of credence to be attached to it I 
cannot assess— to the effect that artificial quinine may be obtained by the 
reaction of salicylic acid upon the product of a certain animal secretion. If 
there be anything in this, we ought to discover how to make quinine in our own 
bodies by judicious administration of the acid, and thus get the benefit of the 
alkaloid in its nascent condition. 
The Lancet states that Naphthalin is recommended by Dr. Coriander, of 
Samarkand, as a valuable and economical remedy for worms, both taenia and 
ascarides. He gives children of from one to three years of age 2 or 3 grains 
twice a day. In the case of adults he gives from 20 to 80 grains a day in 
powder, with sugar. 
In chronicling the death, on 5th August, of Philo Carpenter, who is claimed 
as the first person having a drug store in Chicago, the (New York) Pharma- 
ceutical Record writes : — 44 None of the statements we have seen give the date ©f 
his location there, but his birthplace was Savoy, Mass., in 1805, and in 1828 we 
hear of him as a drug clerk in Troy. His location in Chicago dates somewhere 
about 1830. With an excellent reputation in business, both as a druggist and 
merchant, he rapidly prospered. Investments in real estate made him a wealthy 
citizen; and, identified with temperance, education, anti-slavery, and religious 
liberty, he was honoured and beloved through his long and useful life/' 
At a recent meeting of the Council of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, 
the position under the Ontario Pharmacy Act of medical men keeping branch 
stores formed a subject of discussion. It was complained that, although it was a 
straining of the law for a doctor to keep open a drug store, other than that 
necessary for the supply of medicines to his patients, there were some cases 
in which medical men opened branch shops, and placed these under the 
management of unqualified persons. It was finally decided to bring a test 
ea$e before the law courts. 
At the annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, in 
September, the association expressed itself in favour of having formulae printed 
upon all patent medicine wrappers, and of urging the members of the American 
Medical Association to stop prescribing nostrums of unknown composition. It 
was announced that the commisioner of agriculture had expressed his readiness 
to do experimental work in connection with the cultivation of medicinal plante, 
and a committee was appointed to draw up a list of those considered most 
desirable. 
At a meeting of the Council qf the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland on 
1st September, a letter was read from Mr. George L. M‘Cormack, of Monkstown, 
urging the Council to establish a School of Pharmacy for the better training of 
pharmaceutical students. The writer urged that instead of asking members of the 
Society to contribute £1000, they should begin in a moderate way with a room, 
benches, bottles, &c., at a cost of about £60. If the cost could not be provided 
in any other way Government should be petitioned for the money. During the 
