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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Tooth Powders. — The following is recommended by a correspondent of the 
Dental Record for the use of persons with sensitive or painful teeth, or tender 
and spongy gums : — 
Calc, phosph. prsecip. 
Cretse prsecip. 
Pulv. sacchar. lact. 
Cocainse hydrochlor. 
Eugenol 
... Sij. 
... 3j. 
... 3j. 
... grs.ij. 
. . . n^xvi. 
Dissolve the cocaine in a little alcohol, mix it with the eugenol, and add this 
solution to the calcium phosphate previously warmed, mix well, and add the 
other ingredients, stirring the whole in a mortar until the powder is homo- 
geneous. 
THE PHARMACY BOARD OF VICTORIA QUARTERLY 
EXAMINATIONS. 
The following were the questions : — 
Preliminary Examination — 1st December, 1886. 
Time allowed, three hours. 
Latin. — Translation and Grammar ; Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book I. 
(1) Translate closely and literally — ( a ) Flumen est Arar, quod per fines 
Aeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis 
in utram partem fluat judicari non possit . Id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribus 
junctis transibant. Ubi per exploratores Caesar certior f actus est tres jam 
partes copiarum Helvetios id flumen transduxisse quartam vero partem citra 
flumen Ararim reliquam esse, de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus e castris 
profectus ad earn partem pervenit quae nondum flumen transierat . ( b ) Dum ea 
conquiruntur et conferuntur, nocte intermissa circiter hominum milia vi ejus 
pagi, qui Verbigeuus appellatur, sive timore perterriti ne armis traditis snpplicio 
afficerentur, sive spe salutis inducti quod in tanta multitudine dediticiorum suam 
fugam aut occultari aut omnino ignorari posse existimarent , prima nocte e castris 
Helvetiorum egressi ad Rhenum finesque Germanorum contenderunt. 
(2) Parse the italicised words in the above. 
(3) Answer carefully the following questions on the above extracts : — 
(a) State and illustrate the rule for the agreement of the relative pronoun. 
(b) What synonyms for “ flumen” do you know ? How do you distinguish 
them? (c) Why is “fluat” subjunctive? (d) What is the exact force of the 
imperfect “ transibant” ? (c) What does the participle “ profectus” agree with ? 
Is the meaning of the perfect participles of deponent verbs active or passive ? 
( f ) Explain the force of the conjunctive particles sive . . . sive. (g) What 
does the participle “ egressi” agree with ? Is it active or passive in meaning ? 
(4) Decline substantive scelus, pronoun alter, adjective major. 
(5) Give principal parts and meanings of — peto, praebeo, queror, rumpo, 
ulciscor, venio, volvo. 
(6) Write out in full — Present subjunctive active of affligo. Future 
indicative active of comperio. Past imperfect subjunctive active of aedifico. 
Present indicative passive of nutrio. 
(7) Translate into Latin — (a) When he had given this answer, he went 
away, (b) Caesar found out that these things were true, (c) At dawn of day, 
the top of the mountain was held by Labienus. 
English. — Grammar and Composition. 
(1) Give the full analysis of the following sentence: — “Besides, I do not 
find that the consuls had ever a negative voice in the passing of a law.” 
