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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
the letter, but the spirit of the Pharmacy Act, there need be little fear for 
the future. Let every registered chemist and druggist who was eligible join 
the Pharmaceutical Society, and take an active interest in the election and 
the acts of its Council. Let every registered chemist in future decline to take 
as an apprentice any youth who was not a fit and proper person to be trained 
for the business, and when he had taken him, use his moral influence to induce 
such apprentice to undergo a systematic course of instruction in some competent 
school of pharmacy, instead of wasting the greater part of his time, and then 
try to 4 cram’ in three months knowledge the acquisition of which ought fairly to 
have taken as many years. If chemists would do this they would probably fulfil the 
objects of the Pharmaceutical Society, and would, for a certainty, secure the 
elevation of pharmacy throughout this country.” 
At a meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, on 
6th October, a letter was read from the Agent-General of New Zealand, 
enclosing a copy of a letter from the registrar of the Pharmacy Board of New 
Zealand, stating that, as the law stands, persons holding the certificates of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland cannot be registered in New Zealand without 
passing the examination of the Pharmaceutical Society of that colony. 
At a recent meeting of the (London) Chemists* Assistants’ Association an 
interesting discussion took place on pharmaceutical education and examination. 
Mr. T. S. Dymond, the vice-president, speaking of the Pharmaceutical Society, 
said that never for years had the attendance at the lectures been so poor. 
There was, he contended, only one thing that could save the society, viz., a system 
of compulsory education — the establishment of a curriculum ; and he concluded 
by moving a resolution, which was eventually carried nem. con. : — “ That this 
association is of opinion that a compulsory course of education en rapport with 
the examination is a trustworthy test of qualification.” 
In the course of his address at the annual meeting of the North of 
England Pharmaceutical Association, the president (Mr. N. H. Martin), while 
referring to the importance of the educational question, read a paragraph from 
a paper, written by the late Jacob Bell, on “The Constitution of the Phar- 
maceutical Society,” which may profitably be reproduced at the present time 
(the italics are our own) : — “ The ultimate objects contemplated in this society 
are, the union of the chemists and druggists into one ostensible, recognised, 
and independent body, the protection of their general interests, and the advance- 
ment of the art and science of pharmacy. They consider that their own interest, 
as well as the safety and welfare of the public, demands that no person shall 
become an apprentice in their business who has not had an adequate funda- 
mental education ; and that no person shall dispense medicines who has not 
undergone an examination as a test of his competence to perform that important 
office.” 
M. Houde ( Repertoire , August,) directs attention to the properties of 
Thuja occidental is, which has long been used by homoeopaths in the treatment 
of syphilitic growths and warts. He states that it is now given in France 
with equal success by allopaths, in doses of thirty drops of the fluid extract, 
night and morning. 
Salicylate of Cocaine in Asthma. — Prof. Mosler, of Griefswald, recounts 
in the Deutsche Med. Woch. (No. 11, 1886), a number of cases of asthma 
which were cured by the hypodermic administration of salicylate of cocaine. 
Bromide of ammonium, given in the ordinary doses together with the injections, 
appeared to intensify their usefulness. The paroxysms were in nearly every 
instance lessened and shortened, if not entirely removed. 
